Message-ID: <22991asstr$951675002@assm.asstr-mirror.org> From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <42.2257849.25e9ffab@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} The Annex Reviews, 2/27/00 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:10:02 -0500 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail X-Is-Review: yes Approved: Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation X-Story-Submission: X-Moderator-ID: IceAltar, kelly, english The Annex Reviews, 2/27/00 by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com) Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh OR http://home.aol.com/ladycyrrh The stories: Dark Damsel II: Betrayals (Echo): F/F, BDSM, superhero Bernadette Unchained, Chapter 1 (Aquillae): M/F, oral, slave, SF Creampie Fluffer (Creampie Eater): F/M, M/M, bi, gang, femdom Amber in a Box (MrBondskin): M/F, BDSM, scat, watersports All Young Actors Now Must Show Their Cocks (Kemer): M/M, parody, celeb. Book Review: The Male Body, by Susan Bordo Dark Damsel II: Betrayals [A+] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 1/29/00 Author: Echo Author address: echo@nym.alias.net Superhero stories with original characters are hard to find. Sure, there's plenty of Batgirl and X-Men tales out there if you know where to look. But comparatively fewer writers feel compelled to give life to their own creations. Dark Damsel is one such creation, and seems to have been modeled on Batgirl, or perhaps one of those 1940s heroines who always seem to be related to someone in the police force. (Unlike many superheroines, her undoubtedly tight lycra costume is never described.) Dark Damsel -- DD -- foils a robbery at the art museum, putting away several members of the Organization, a criminal syndicate. This earns her the wrath of its Colleen O'Brien, its Chairman. The story is also Colleen's, and follows her humiliation as she is punished for the failed heist by a sanctioned rape witnessed by her peers on the board, ministered by Royale, the woman she thought was her closest ally: [Royale] unclasped her wrap-around skirt and revealed to the board that she was wearing a harness. She pulled open a drawer on the commode, picked up an dildo attachment, realistic down to its hanging balls, and attached it. Lubing it liberally--there were certain standards to be maintained--she looked at Colleen's inviting ass and smiled grimly. Not only that, but the plastic balls have a vibrator unit hidden inside and the whole act is taped, ensuring that Colleen receives unwilling enjoyment from the degradation, and looks like it on camera, too. The whole humiliation episode is one of the best I've seen, as much for the psychological games played as the physical, and is worth any trouble you might have in digging it up. After the rape Colleen is stripped of her title, and Royale decrees that if Colleen fails to capture DD to become her personal sex slave, Royale will demote Colleen to that position to serve in her stead. Needless to say, this makes for an exciting set-up to the rest of the story. Good writing, sexy thrills, catfights, vengeance, humiliation...all anyone could ever want. Bernadette Unchained, Chapter 1 [A+] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 2/9/00 Author: Aquillae Author address: Aquillae@excite.com Teenage Bernadette sneaks out of the plantation manse one night to admire the black, nude body of a slave named Ja'Har, who has been manacled in the barn for punishment. Her combined lust and skittishness, and Ja'Har's arousal, makes for arousing reading in itself: Her heart began to beat faster. She swallowed hard. Her ears rung with the pulsating beat of her blood. Lightly she bit her lower lip as she tried to steal her nerves. After hesitating slightly she moved her right hand forward toward the thick shaft. Ja'Har glanced down to watch her hand's movements. She moved her hand underneath it. She swallowed hard again. Then, with her dark green eyes fixed on his great length, she placed her thin white fingers against the dark black flesh of his cock. The width of him kept her from wrapping her fingers completely around him. The heat and hardness of him took her by surprise. She squeezed him lightly but firmly causing Ja'Har to moan and roll his head back. The wetness at the slit increased. And soon a small droplet fell to the floor. The rest of the encounter shows the same mixture of delicacy and animal heat. Afterwards, in teenage hopefulness Bernadette frees the slave from his chains so he can deflower her. But Ja'Har has other plans. He tricks her and strings her up instead, taking her virginity, and afterwards notes grimly: [The] scene of her father finding his pride and joy chained and naked like one of his disobedient slaves with her virtue stolen...stolen by him, a man bought for a price. At price far less than the blood that now dripped to the ground from between her legs. He leaned forward and kissed her on the lips. But the author plays yet another trick on us, as Ja'Har frees his victim to act as his guide to the plantation house, which he intends to raid for clothing and supplies for his escape. But both are betrayed and kidnapped by a third party, who I'll keep a surprise. It's only in this last section that I discovered the story was an SF one set on a colony planet, as prior to this it read like the pre-Civil War south. Aside from that nit (if Ja'Har is an alien, he should be delineated as such much earlier in the story) I enjoyed the chapter a lot. A female-centered coming-of-age story, but a deeply sexual one. Creampie Fluffer [A] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 1/9/00 Author: Creampie Eater Author address: CreampieEater@excite.com Today I learned a new term. It is "Creampie" and refers to a woman's vagina filled with fresh cum. I think it's kind of appealing, ranking up there with "Mr. Willy" for the silliness factor. The author of this story thinks so, too, because it's all about his love of creampies and the relationship with his Domme, Nathalie, who is his main source of them. In the course of their shenanigans she suggests a special adventure to him: "You are going to be a fluffer at a gangbang. I am going to arrange to have maybe six men come over and fuck me repeatedly while you watch. You are going to fluff them, and then you are going to eat the cum from me." She paused letting that sink in. "And," she said, pausing to make sure I knew it was significant, "all the guys will be bisexual. Any guy that wants your ass will get it." And they do, and the narrator is supremely satisfied. Although this story was well written, it wasn't as sexy as some bi stories that I've read -- the narrator's tone was a bit too matter of fact. Still, it was an interesting read about one of God's true gifts to dominant women, and if you like the idea of that, you'll like this. Amber in a Box [A-/A] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 2/8/00 Author: MrBondskin Author address: mrbondskin@aol.com A story like this, with nothing redeeming about it, can make you feel oddly good. Nothing new, but what there was, was well done. At a swank party rich dilettante Charles opens a box to reveal the nude, gagged, and manacled form of Amber, a teenage slave lent to him by her Master for extra "training." The story's first taut thrill comes from her shipping label, which has been pinned to her through the skin of her chest, and after that the sadism comes fast and furious with the addition of two Asian slave twins who are to act as maids/keepers to her: Tai and Kai had smallish breasts but their perky nipples were accented by gleaming silver on their nipples. Tai had both of her nipples pierced with small silver rings, while Kai had her dark nipples pierced with silver bars that ran horizontally. The contrasts were made in their clit rings as well. Tai had a bright ring piercing her clit, and Kai had the silver bar. This was evidently the method Charles used to tell the two apart. The twins try to give poor Amber relief by loosening her buttplug, but they are found out for it and bound on the stage floor, fated to be pissed on by Charles' snooty guests and shat on by their charge, who is has been hung dangling above them. The use of piss and shit in this story is relatively sophisticated and restrained compared to others I've read, but I warn you, there's a lot of it. Amber is later re-packed in her crate and sent home with a few extra modifications, including a 40 DD chest, about 30 piercings, and a couple of tattoos, as is common for these stories. So why do I like them? For the same reason bored fingers like to pick at drying scabs. All Young Actors Now Must Show Their Cocks [A-/A] Where posted: ASSGM When posted: 2/19/00 Author: Kemer Author address: kemer@aol.com This story was less of a story than an imaginary chronicle of the hottest movie trends of 2002, related in a style reminiscent of a Hollywood gossip magazine. Apparently Tinseltown's attitude toward male nudity has changed much in three years. Leo DeCaprio and Ewan MacGregor were in the forefront of the trend, but now up-and-coming actors such as Tyler Christopher and Richard Lee Jackson are baring it all in movies such as "The Struggle" and "Injustice Society". Soon every lithe, buffed piece of beefcake is expected to have on-screen hard-ons, then bondage and torture scenes, and finally anal sex, in such cinematic gems as "Dominated" and "Wrong Place." This story wasn't too promising in its first third, but soon I was admiring its cleverness and plausibility, such as the Gen-Y names of the young fresh faces (Erik Von Detton, for example.) Particularly amusing was how the nudie-star vehicles begin as mundane Hollywood fare and descend into the tackiest of gay fantasies such as "Punkboys." And no one bats an eye, not least of all the imaginary puff-piece writer. Read the book review below, and you'll see how sweet a revenge for Women and gays it could be. Book Review: The Male Body by Susan Bordo Farrar, Straus and Girrar, 1999 $25.99 Despite the cultural wave of gay male culture that has carried the 90s into the 00s, men's bodies -- nude bodies -- are still not as widely treated as erotic objects in the same way women's bodies are. Susan Bordo explores the reasons for this, and how it is changing, in her new book, which touches more on current popular culture and standards than the historical/intellectual treatment Camille Paglia has given it. As chapters progress we examine the cultural desire of male hardness (not just genital hardness, but a hard body and hard mind); the notion of the phallus and phallus worship, and the size of that phallus; and most fascinating of all, a re-examination of male roles in the movies of the 1950s. Like many cultural (and gender) critics these days, Bordo gives a lot of weight to the notion that movies, TV, etc. set cultural ideals for body shapes and gender roles; and looking at it this way, the decade was more radical than we thought. This argument, which takes up perhaps a third of the book, pivots on the portrayals of maleness in the work of Spencer Tracy, who exemplified the old guard, and Marlon Brando, femininely emotive yet malely animalistic, who exemplified the new. Brando went on to foster media portrayals ranging from James Dean all the way to Bob Dylan and today's blockbuster stars like Bruce Willis--but on the way his psychological radicalism was lost, and only the brutality of the action hero was retained. I don't quite buy that media portrayels have as much control over male -- and female -- sexual identity as Bordo seems to think, but it all makes for compelling reading, especially as Bordo notes that the "collective gaze" (that which the audience is meant to see on the screen) of 50s movies frankly drooled over the muscled physiques of their male stars (who were often whipped and scourged in the many biblical epics of the time) in a way that was forgotten by the media until the male nude Gucci and Calvin Klein print ads of today...not to mention the proclivity of newer actors like Ewan MacGregor to shed their clothes...which may make a scenario like the one of "All Young Actors Now Must Show Their Cocks" more likely than you'd think. ___________________________________________________ Comments to: ladycyrrh@aol.com Website---> http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ----- send stories to: | | FAQ: Moderator: | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Archive: Hosted by Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository | |, an entity supported entirely by donations. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+