Two weeks in Tangier Book

I read through the stories in this volume without being intrigued overall.
I think I enjoyed reading Penny Birch's "Tie and Tease" or" In for a Penny" more so than this title, precisely because the scenes in T&T were so over the top.
The encounters described here are quotidian, by comparison, and thus predictable, after the first couple of stories: "Girl has rude thoughts, can't help herself, and ends up getting what she desires/deserves." Pretty straightforward, no role reversals, no outlandish situations, and hardly any humor at all. (#9 "Proper in Public" & #10 "Consequences" are the exceptions.)
The common thread uniting the stories of this volume is Percy Ottershaw: In the beginning he's barely a teenager at school, and each successive story is told from the point of view of the girls, then the women -and sometimes girls again- who fall under his spell (they tend to end up 'nodding dumbly' in his presence), up to the last segment where Percy and his guest "Penny" review his past exploits on the occasion of his 65th birthay.
Although Percy acts as a catalyst in each of these encounters, transforming the girl's/woman's 'desires' to suit his 'needs', there is not much that changes in Percy himself, from youth to maturity. His tastes remain constant, as he explains in the final story. When Penny asks him which girl was the 'rudest' Percy has no answer...It's the common denominator of "tight white cotton" knickers that matters most to him, more than any particular encounter or conquest.