Ben Fruance goes up to Oxford to read classics, and is sucked into the society of Spartans, a cult of female domination specialising in the cruel punishment of innocent males by bare-bottom flogging and the humiliation of enforced cross-dressing. When Ben is sent by the Spartan dominatrixes to their Greek island to toil as a naked slave under their whips, or with his young skirted body used to satisfy their most lustful and decadent desires, he at last understands that no male is ever innocent.