Forced catch-up

A while ago I read Richard Mason's History of a Pleasure-Seeker (2011). Don't remember much about it now, but the library is calling it back, so I had to get something down...I think it wasn't as good as the pretty cover had caused me to hope? Decent evocation of a time and place (Amsterdam, 1907), but too self-consciously concerned with sex, is my vague recollection.