Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded X-Story-Submission: From: Celeste801@aol.com Subject: Celestial Reviews 156 - Feb 8 X-Is-Review: yes Celestial Reviews 156 - February 8, 1997 Note: I am again experiencing difficulties with my database management program. If anyone out there is an expert at Microsoft Works 4.0 on the Macintosh, I'd like to hear from you. I have been getting messages that say that there is "no translator available" to import my file - when it shouldn't need a translator at all. Not having access to my database of previous reviews has seriously impeded my ability to do these reviews. If anyone can help me, I'm eager to listen to advice. - Celeste "Julia" by daVinci (sex with the prof) 10, 9, 9 "Rocking my Canoe" by Rachel Taylor (outdoor sex) 10, 9, 9 "An Affair To Remember" by Huggy Bear (one-night stand) 9, 9, 9 "'E' is for Eyeliner" by Dulcinea (romance) 9, 9, 9 "Home Sweet Home" by Webby (miscellaneous) 6, 5, 4 * "Strip Chess" by Delta (gambling for sex) 10, 10, 10 * "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon (female dominance) 10, 10, 10 * = Repost of a previous review (because the story has recently been reposted). "Julia" by daVinci (rmbte1@ix.netcom.com). Professor Mitchell is a scholarly, mild-mannered, intellectual; but Julia has a fantastic ass and is pouring out her problems to him. And so when she begins grinding her pussy against the prof's crotch, we can assume that the discussion is going to be more than academic, especially since the whole conversation is taking place in front of the fireplace in his house, which is 90 minutes away from the campus. It's going to be difficult for Julia to build a case for harassment! The description of the sexual action is very hot and well written. This is part 1 of a story by a new author, who wants to know if he/she should post part 2. That would be all right with me. Ratings for "Julia" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "Rocking my Canoe" by Rachel Taylor (MCG@bartra.demon.co.uk). This Merrill, Castle & Gray story deals with two couples who go for a short canoe trip in the wilderness. The women decide to go topless, and everyone gets turned on. After everyone settles down for a nap, the narrator is awakened by a gentle presence fondling her body. At first she is determined to find out who it is, but then she decides to just relax and enjoy it. Ratings for "Rocking my Canoe" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "An Affair To Remember" by Huggy Bear (Backdrop Club: archives@backdrop.com) This is listed as AFFAIR.THB in the Backdrop Archives. A woman goes on a business trip; the man seated next to her on the plane flirts with her, has dinner with her, and then makes love to her. We see the woman's emotions as she goes through this pleasant seduction. This is a very good story about a very common theme. Ratings for "An Affair To Remember" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "'E' is for Eyeliner" by Dulcinea (ImDulcinea@aol.com). With eyeliner pencil in hand, the man is plotting revenge. His wife had previously drawn a mustache on him with the pencil while he slept, and now he is contemplating what part of her body to use for his retaliatory artwork. Contemplating the possibilities gets him turned on, and he eventually decides that it would be more fun just to wake her up and make love to her. Ratings for "'E' is for Eyeliner" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "Home Sweet Home" by Webby (webby@adiewebster.demon.co.uk). This is a fairly long series of loosely related stories. Some parts are fairly clear (for example, a woman moves in with another woman and begins to explore her sexuality with her flatmate); others are largely incoherent (for example, a lot of pissing, beating, and humiliating without any apparent purpose). One of the story's main flaws was some faulty grammar. To a certain extent, the grammar gives the story an aura of homeyness that increases its appeal; but some of the errors are just plain distracting. Combined with the incoherence of the plot, these errors result in a series of interesting ideas that are badly organized and difficult to follow. I think this author may have a reasonable plot here - or even several reasonable plots; but I wouldn't recommend reading this story until the author puts it into better order. Ratings for "Home Sweet Home" Athena (technical quality): 6 Venus (plot & character): 5 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4 * "Strip Chess" by Delta. This is one of my favorite ever stories. Some people resist downloading stories that are nine parts long, but this one is worth it. A group of college kids get together for an evening of fun, and someone suggests playing strip poker. Knowing she has no chance at the card game, one of the girls suggests strip chess instead, with the winner getting the body of the loser. (The observers make side bets and do things to distract the players). The only bad part about this story is that I had serious problems with my concentration the next time I tried to play chess. Really! You don't have to know chess to love this story, but the chess will make sense to good chess players. And the sex fantasies make sense to good sex players. Ratings for "Strip Chess" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 * "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon. Paula is the guardian for her ten-year-old nephew, the child of her deceased sister. Since she generally requires Cal to appear naked in her presence, we might suspect that she is a dirty old woman. Not true! Paula's every desire toward Cal is indeed maternal, even her long-established insistence on his naked humility. It is all for his own good. She has always known in her heart that a worshipful man is a happy man; and an adored and well-served woman is happier still. All she wants for her sweet nephew is as much happiness as a life of early sorrow can still afford. We learn several important Hidden Truths from the Feminist Catechism - a few things that make one go "Hmmmm." For example, why does it feel good for a boy to have his penis become hard? Answer: Because the erection shows that the nearby female has power over him, and it's good to be honest and respectful in that way. We also witness a detailed description of circumcision - that sacrament (best conferred when young girls are holding the boy's legs apart) which is designed to humiliate and shame a young boy and to enable him to find his place in the world designed for women. After his circumcision, young Cal became popular with the local girls, many of whom had been present at his gala circumcision and who had told their friends that here was a lad who was willing to become obediently naked for instructional or conversational purposes. They could ask him questions about his boy things and even touch them if they wanted. His aunt didn't mind at all, and nobody even knew whether he did. Nobody asked him. Nobody really cared. The girls who heard all this said it was incredible but they'd believe it when they saw it. Cal had many visitors. The censors might be suspicious of this story - thinking, for example, that there is something unseemly in the idea of an 11-year-old girl gazing at and touching the newly circumcised penis of a 6-year-old boy. That would be the perception of a person with a filthy mind; most readers of this story will easily see that this is simply an example of a lower-order member of the species offering his genitalia as an educational tool for a young member of the Super Race. For, as every British schoolgirl knows (with apologies to Thomas Babington Macaulay), "The battle of the sexes is lost before it even begins. Ladies just happen to enjoy being reminded of this fact." Like most of Estragon's writing, this story is a fictionalized version of a feminist philosophical tract. Some readers will find the ideas a bit exaggerated or even bizarre. "Who could ever believe crap like this?" they'll say. Well, my old Aunt Emma, for one. I escaped from her clutches long ago (I think). She's dead now and can no longer reach me (I hope). But she had these weird ideas about religion that ran exactly parallel to Aunt Paula's sexual theories. Aunt Emma's books did not emphasize physical circumcision or sexual humiliation - just spiritual versions of the same themes. I haven't looked at the "Imitation of Christ" lately - and I doubt that it's high on the reading list of most a.s.s. readers - but my recollection is that it seriously argues that humans become more perfect by becoming better slaves of God. My point is that if otherwise sensible people have been known to apply this dominance/slavery theory to the relationship between God and humankind, it should hardly be surprising to see it applied to the relationship between men and women. Estragon writes extremely well, and this is another good story. Every time I sit down at my computer to review one of Estragon's stories, I say to myself, "This female dominance stuff is nonsense. I want men to be my equals, not my slaves." Then, as I read the outlandish but interesting events in the story, I find myself realizing that there's a huge kernel of truth behind what Estragon is saying. Ratings for "Travels with Aunt Paula" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 -- Story Submission: Submission criteria: Archive site: (Not active yet)