Loving Sander is a 1996 novel by Joseph Geraci. Will, an American photography scholar in his early 30s, is working in the Netherlands and befriends a ten-year-old boy called Sander, the son of friends in the photography and art world in Amsterdam. Over the next two years, the openly paedophile Will has an intense sexual relationship with the boy.
Plot summary
Sander’s parents have recently split up and Will makes friends with both of them to maintain access to Sander. The sex starts one day when he is staying with the eleven-year-old Sander and his mother Marijke on the island of Texel. Will takes advantage of the vulnerable and troubled boy, though the boy appears to be a willing participant. Will has oral sex with the boy. Marijke has a pretty good idea that Will is having sex with her son but seems unwilling to do anything about it.
Sander is a willing and enthusiastic participant in the sexual games, even offering his friend Michiel to Will. At the end of the book, Will and Sander have professed their love for each other, but the end of the relationship draws ever closer as Sander enters puberty and starts to want his independence from Will.
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