"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night" is based on Native American traditions and involves sexuality. Coyote insists, "It's this whole flute-player business . . . It's riddled with sexual innuendo, don't you see?

[Kokopelli is] a fertility symbol now, very mythopoetic and all, but it wasn't always that way," later adding that "they didn't call him Koke the Poke for nothing." Sophie asks, "What are you [Coyote] saying? That all I have to do is have sex here, and I get to leave?" She does not like the idea at all. Yet, Coyote often nudges her about having sex.

There is nothing in all this that most young adults have not heard about already, and Sophie's determination to be the one who chooses the occasions when (and with whom) she will have sex, in spite of the seductiveness of the flute music and Coyote, is something to be admired...