It was so good, but it remained very awkward. It then occurred to him that Paulus might have some advice about this. Paulus had been one of the boys at the academy who’d told him about doing this, and assured him – he, Tibullus, had been very doubtful at the time – that it was something that people did quite normally, and was in no way perverted.
He was delicate in getting round to the subject when he saw Paulus next day, but as soon as he did Paulus said,
“Oh there’s a special chair for that nowadays. I’ve had one since the Spring, and I can tell you it’s exactly what you need. It’s called the love chair.”
“The love chair!”
“It’s a moving sort of thing, which allows your girl to get on top of you and then the back of the thing moves upwards, so the girl’s hoisted over you and you do e
