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Celestial Reviews 89 - June 1, 1996

Note: See the section labeled "Clitorides" at the end of this issue for
some valuable information.

Second Note:  I'm going to have to skip an issue.  The school year is
ending, and that means I have to do things quickly at work.  The next
issue (CR 90) will be posted on or about June 8.  It's OK to keep sending
stories and correspondence.  I just won't be able to respond quite as
quickly as usual.

- Celeste

      "Pansanjan Falls" by Steve S621 (wife watching in
            exotic places) 9, 10, 10
      "Night in Vosgraad" by Marawuti (magic, sorcery, and
            very hot sex) 10, 10, 10
      "A Dark and Stormy Night" by Ann Douglas  (lesbian 
            romance & emerging adolescence) 10, 10, 10
      "Sally's Surrender" by Kid Dynamite (bdsm & humiliation)
            10, 10, 10
      "Peach Pit After Hours" by Roger P. Tipe (gang rape)
           9.5, 9, 8

"Pansanjan Falls" by Steve S621 (sschaf19@mail.idt.net).  This is a
continuation of "Fun on the Beach," to which I gave a brief review in CR
88.  In this episode, the husband has gone back to work in Taipei and
Laurie has stayed behind in Manila.  The first day she getur fingers her
asshole and pussy while the other has oral sex with her through the
face-hole in the massage table.  Interesting idea!  

Then she heads on a tourist bus for Pansanjan Falls.  The final leg of the
trip is by canoe, and the riders are packed in very tightly.  Laurie is
seated in front of a nice, handsome, black sailor who is planning to take
pictures of the Falls.  You may think you can guess what happens next - as
Laurie's cute little ass is pushed back into Eddie's rapidly hardening
cock; but it gets even better than that!

You might think this would upset the husband; but au contraire, mon frere!
 He enjoys hearing about it, largely because his head is buried in her
cunt when he hears most of the details.  Alas, the husband is
pussy-whipped - a term which (surprisingly) does not appear in my Random
House Unabridged Dictionary; but he's happy in his uxorious state. 
Whatever pulls your trigger!

The story has a number of slightly annoying grammar errors.  In addition,
the author uses no quotation marks around quotes; and this practice
sometimes becomes seriously confusing.  Finally, we have an interesting
usage error:  When Alan saw Jackie in the bar, he "waived."  This means
that he gave up a right or to forgo an opportunity - as when a person
waives his right to an attorney.  Alan would have had better chances with
Laurie if he had waved.  {Whatever happened to Jackie and her Bloopers on
a.s.s.d.?  I loved reading the mistakes she found in our stories.}

In spite of these irritations, this was a really good story.  I myself am
not into spouse watching, dominating my husband, and male/male contact; so
I pressed my mental delete key for those parts when I mentally rehearsed
this while making love to my husband last night.  Even with those
deletions, it was a stimulating experience.  Whatever pops your popcorn!

Ratings for "Pansanjan Falls"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Night in Vosgraad" by Marawuti (marawuti@teleport.com).  This is a story
of magic and sorcery, of elves and demons, of intrigue and revenge.  Wulf
is essentially a nice person, a sort of kind-hearted soldier of fortune. A
pair of shape-changing assassin beasts have been assigned to kill him; but
he has a beautiful woman who is a skilled warrior as his ally.  I hope you
can see the potential in a story in which the evil beasts can change into
the persona of two of Wulf's favorite females in order to throw him off
guard.  The sex is wild and graphic and includes many scenarios in
addition to the one to which I have alluded.

I am not a connoisseur of this sorcery stories.  However, I did enjoy this
one.  What this author does that some others neglect is to offer
explanations for some of the behaviors that would be meaningless to naive
outsiders.  He does this in such a way as to avoid interfering with the
flow of the story; and I suspect that veteran readers of this type of
stories are not bored by this repetition of what they already know.  This
is a very effective technique.  I'll watch for more Wulf stories, which
are archived at http://www.teleport.com/~marawuti.

Ratings for "Night in Vosgraad"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 

"A Dark and Stormy Night" by Ann Douglas.  This author has written several
stories about women's first sexual experiences with another woman.  I am
over 40 years old and have still never made physical love to another
woman, and I have no plans of ever doing so.  Nevertheless, I found this
story, which describes an evening when two teenagers who have been
long-time girlfriends first make physical love to each other, to be both
romantic and arousing.  

Right now there numerous "abstinence" commercials on American television,
stating that it is a good idea to remain celibate until marriage.  I think
it's possible and even sensible to agree with the abstinence philosophy
and to like this story.

When I was a 17-year-old, I was still a virgin and I think all of my best
friends were too.  I played a lot of sports - largely, I think, because my
parents wanted me to keep my mind off sex.  My close friends and I became
really good athletes and developed interesting personalities without
having to worry about making love to one another.  This worked well, and
if I could by wishing grant a lifestyle to other teenagers, that's what I
would wish for them.  I suppose there are lots of other happy people in
the world who took a different course of action, but I'm glad my friends
and I acted the way we did.  On the other hand, it really is fun to think
back about things that could have happened; and this story is a good
start.

I have contended in several previous reviews that I think almost all women
could be happy having sex with another woman.  {If getting my pussy eaten
by a guy is sexy, why wouldn't it be equally sexy to have a woman's lips
locking onto my clitoris?}  I was thoroughly refuted by several a.s.s,
readers.  Still, I think I personally would have enjoyed the activities
described in this story.  I think there's a huge tendency to over-label
people as "gay" or "straight."  This unnecessary labeling causes
17-year-old girls to decide that they "are" lesbians just because they
feel more strongly attracted to a sensitive female friend than to the
immature males of the same age who seem to be interested in nothing but
making crude remarks and getting into girls' pants.  It also causes people
to be afraid to show their honest emotions for fear of labeling
themselves.  This same thought pattern causes people not to enjoy a good
story like this because the girls' behavior is thought to be "wrong" in a
way different from a boy and girl of the same age engaging in similar
behavior.  There's no reason to restrict life choices so narrowly.  My
advice is to loosen up, enjoy life, and keep your options open.  And by
all means read this story.

The author makes numerous grammatical and usage errors that are probably
the result of poor proofreading.  The last time I gave a high rating to an
Ann Douglas story, a reader chided me for missing errors like these.  I
checked, and he was right; there were numerous mistakes that I had
ignored.  The reason I didn't dock her for these mistakes was because they
didn't bother me at all.  I would appreciate it if Ann would clean up her
grammar; but an occasional "it's" instead of "its" is no big deal.  Since
I was locked into the meaning of the story, I didn't even notice these
mistakes in the previous story.  I suspect that the present story has
fewer errors, but I am not going to bother to check.  The story was well
written.

This treatment of the emerging sexuality of two teenage girls was both
sensitive and sexy.  I strongly recommend it.

Ratings for "A Dark and Stormy Night"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 

"Sally's Surrender" by Kid Dynamite (an109288@anon.penet.fi).  One might
expect something silly and immature from an author using the name "Kid
Dynamite."  Not so.  This is a cleverly constructed, complex story that
comes across very clearly.  As the author points out in the prologue, not
many real human beings don't and shouldn't act this way.  It would be a
horrible world if they did.

The author uses a highly effective technique of switching viewpoints among
several protagonists as he tells his tale: Sally, her mother, her
stepfather, the woman from the Society, her husband, the dirty old man who
teaches art at the Academy, and others.  With each change of perspective
we see the story unfolding as that person alone would have seen it.

At times the action becomes very slow-paced.  I read page after page of
the art teacher trying to get a look at the top of Sally's panties and
practically shooting his load when he got there.  But art teachers are
often like that, I suppose.

The basic story line is that Sally is an extremely attractive and naive
18-year-old who has been home-schooled and taught to give automatic
respect to authority by draconian and puritanical parents.  Well, not too
puritanical; they're heavily into bdsm and into swinging.  In fact, they
have applied to join the Society of Silk, a bizarre but selective group of
swingers and sado-masochists whose tentacles reach deep into the Academy,
where Sally is blossoming into a grownup woman.  Surprisingly enough, the
Dean of the Academy is also the Mistress of the Society!  This is a
coincidence.  Really.

So as we near the midpoint of the story, we have young, innocent Sally,
sitting in the office of the Dean of the Academy, accused by a teacher of
wearing no underpants to school that day - an act in which she has engaged
to please her art teacher, who is a benign but disgusting pervert who
would probably die to sniff her used tampons - about to be judged by the
Mistress of a secret Society of depraved sex offenders to which her own
parents belong. It is at this point that the author points out that she's
lucky she doesn't have serious problems, like drugs or booze. Right!

Sally's problems get much worse; but I'll let you read the story to find
out about that.

The one thing I would do (besides writing a completely different story)
would be to vary the style within the segments that take the perspective
of each separate protagonist.  As it is, the author uses a very simple
style that suits Sally but is not really appropriate for all the others. 
The ideas are appropriate, but the way they are expressed is not.

In his prologue the author states that he thinks this story is a vast
improvement over his previous venture, "Lessons in Lust."  He's right
about that!  This is an excellent example of the misguided asshole genre
of literature, which Edgar Alan Poe exemplified so well in his "Telltale
Heart." People really enjoy trying to figure out what goes on inside the
mind of bizarre people.  Again, as the author points out in the prologue,
not many real human beings don't and shouldn't act this way.  It would be
a horrible world if they did.


In a way this was an uplifting story.  It made me happy to live in a world
of murderers, rapists, politicians, and lawyers.

Ratings for "Sally's Surrender"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 

"Peach Pit After Hours" by Roger P. Tipe (rogrtipe@ix.netcom.com).  Rocco
and his gang of thugs burst into the Peach Pit After Dark.  Rocco puts a
gun to Brenda's head and tells Val to hand over all the money, or he'll
blow Brenda's brains out.  Since Val doesn't like Brenda anyway, she
replies , "Fuck you!"  Not really wanting a murder rap, Rocco changes
tactics and announces that instead of killing Brenda he and the guys are
going to rape everyone unless Val turns over the money.  This is supposed
to scare Val, but instead it turns her on; and besides, she likes the
feeling of power and control that Rocco has given her over her sexy little
friends.  

So what we have here is a prolonged gang rape, with 30 or so scuzzy gang
members banging the Beverly whores.  Val herself escapes relatively
unscathed, but rumor has it that she'll get hers in the sequel.  I guess
as gang-rape stories go this was a pretty good one.  I think if I were a
90210 fan I might have caught some more of the allusions and enjoyed some
inside comments that I might have missed.

Ratings for "Peach Pit After Hours"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

CLITORIDES:  Last issue I discussed the derivation of the word
"masturbation."  In a previous issue I published my comments on the plural
of "clitoris."  A reader recently posted a challenge to my clitoric (or
clitoreal) commentary.  He stated that the plural was "clitorides."  He
also reminded me that the plural of "penis" is "penes."  Not so!

I rechecked my current (2nd) edition of the Random House Unabridged
Dictionary.  It lists no unusual plural for "clitoris."  When the
dictionary gives no unusual plural, the plural is assumed to be formed by
adding -es.  {That's the rule stated in the fine print.}  Frankly, this
surprised me when I first discovered it.  

Here's my guess about why "clitorides" is not the accepted English plural.
 Most "scientific" or "medical" words that end in -is form their plural by
changing -is to -es, as in "dialysis."  Note that this happens even in
many orignally Greek words (like "dialysis"), because they come through
the Late Latin.  Even though a group of early (or I assume, modern) Greek
girls might get together and play with their clitorides, modern
English-speakers play with their clitorises.  I assume it's possible that
some English-speakers actually do use "clitorides" - but probably not in
the height of sexual passion.  I find the Random House Unabridged
Dictionary is pretty authoritative - especially with regard to popular
sexual terms.

The Random House Unabridged Dictionary lists "penises" as the first plural
form of "penis" and "penes" as the second form.  Almost all females
reporting on the previous week's (or night's) sexual activities would
refer to the "penises" they had encountered.  If "penes" occurs at all
anymore, I suspect that it's in medical journals.

The fact that a word is declined a particular way in its original language
does not necessarily mean that it will invariably be declined that way
after it has been assimilated into a new language. For some reason
"testes" caught on as a plural in English, but "penes" did not. 
{Incidentally, there's a really interesting story about the semantic
relationship between "testes" and "testify"; but I'll let someone else
tell it.  Suffice it to say that ancient Romans did not have bibles on
which to place their right hands when giving sworn testimony in the forum.
 Get the picture?}

The litmus test here is that it would be a real social faux pas for a
female in mixed company to stand up and say, "We'll suck your penes if
you'll first stimulate our clitorides!" 

I may be wrong, of course, because I usually deal with very singular clits
and cocks.

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