Path: newsfeed.direct.ca!op.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: celeste801@aol.com (Celeste801) Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.d Subject: Celestial Reviews 114 - Sept 4 Date: 4 Sep 1996 09:25:53 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 415 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <50k011$pdq@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: celeste801@aol.com (Celeste801) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Status: N Celestial Reviews 114 - Sept 4, 1996 Note: The big news this week has been that the owner of the most popular anonymous server in Finland has stopped offering that service. As I understand it, the cancellation of that service was not directly related to the sort of stories that anyone was posting to this newsgroup. But I don't want to discuss the reasons for the closing. Several readers have asked, "What can we do now?" Here are some possible answers: 1. Consider the possibility that you may not really need that much anonymity. Unless your actual name appears in your e-mail address, you may already be as anonymous as you need to be. If your concern is that someone else may both (a) know your address and (b) see that address associated with a dirty story, consider simply using two separate addresses: one for a.s.s. posting and another for your regular work. A very large number of people who correspond with me do exactly this. This process is especially easy on AOL, since that service automatically supplies users with multiple e-mail addresses. 2. Consider using one of the following services. I know nothing about any of these. I am simply repeating what a responsible person told me. If you want more information about any of these, you'll have to find it from a source other than me. Anyway, here are some anonymous remailers that may adequately replace the anon.petet.fi service: http://www.penet.fi/>Penetic Page
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
http://www.well.com/user/abacard/remail.html
http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~galactus/remailers/index.html
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/ghio-remailer-help.html
http://www.replay.com/remailer/replay.html
http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~galactus/remailers/alpha.html
http://www.replay.com/people/usura/
http://www.ee.siue.edu/~avankla/mix.help.html
http://idiom.com/~wcs/pamphlet.html
http://www.jpunix.com/
http://www.obscura.com/files/Authors/Loki/www
I assume you can get information by checking these Web pages and looking
for soomething like a FAQ.
- Celeste
"Morningsong" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (wake-up call)
10, 10, 10
"Paint" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (old boyfriend)
10, 10, 10
"Tanya Fills In" by Mark Aster (sex fantasy) 10, 9, 9
*"Do You Want It?" by Mark Aster (voyeurism and sex
in the outdoors) 10, 10, 10
"Father Dowling: I Am Heartily Sorry" by Uncle Mike
(sitcom parody) 10, 10, 10
"Bobbi Sue's Adventures" by Bobbi Sue (sluttish
exhibitionism) 9.5, 9.5, 9.5
"15 Minutes of Fame" by Grimalkin (sex in a public place)
3, 8, 8
*"Debby's Dark Lust" by Vic S. (race fetish & fantasy)
9.5, 10, 10
"Ripping and Tearing" by Mr. B. (catfight & threesome)
7, 7, 8
* = Repost of a previous review (because the story has recently
been reposted).
"Morningsong" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (moh2@midway.uchicago.edu). The lover
is sleeping soundly, and the narrator is going to wake him up by gently
maneuvering around him and stimulating his cock. Normally I don't like
second-person ("you") stories, but this author does it very well. There
is even a surprise ending to this very short story.
Ratings for "Morningsong"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Paint" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (moh2@midway.uchicago.edu). When a favorite
author writes a very short story like "Morningsong," I am inclined to
declare a bonus week and do a second story. So here goes.
A young woman is helping her best friend paint an apartment. Her former
boyfriend, who is now dating the best friend, is helping too. It is a
sweltering hot day. When the best friend goes out for more paint, the
other two go for an unscheduled quickie.
Ratings for "Paint"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Tanya Fills In" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com). If you have followed
the Allen Sisters saga through the 44 or so stories that Mark Aster has
posted, you have met a lot of Pat and Julie's friends. Let's see.
There's Kayla, Suzy, Robin, Tracey, Chrissy and even Chrissy's Mom, and,
of course, Aunt Kate. Some have had exotic names, like Midori and Alani.
My own favorite has been Aurora Drake. In fact, the next time Our Hero
needs a break, I hope Aurora Drake fills in for him.
At any rate, Our Hero, who usually writes a weekly story, is on hiatus
this week; and so Tanya is filling in. It never occurred to me that
fictional characters needed vacations, but apparently they do. The last
time we met Tanya, Our Hero was stroking in and out of her from behind,
while she held on for dear life to the railing of the Phelps Avenue bridge
and tried not to scream. There was also a beautiful but unnamed woman
doing herself on a rock down below the bridge, and the women's eyes met
just as they both came. What scares me is that when I tried to look this
story up in my database, I got the title right on my first try, even
though there's no mention of Tanya or a bridge or anything in the title.
I'll repost the review of that story - "Do You Want It?" - in the hope
that the author will repost it for its topical interest.
The story ABOUT Tanya was better than this one BY Tanya; but that's
largely because the other was a hard act to follow. In this one Tanya
gets naked while she talks about her preferences in stories and then
describes a story about her fucking a stranger while she waits for Pat or
Julie. Have these people no sense of morality?
Ratings for "Tanya Fills In"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
*"Do You Want It?" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com). I've been lurking at
my computer, ready to pounce on this author as soon as he makes a mistake.
He patiently sends me each of his stories shortly before he posts it, and
I eagerly devour each one - expecting that the string of good stories will
have to end. After all, his plots are largely similar: hot sex between or
among two or more friends or strangers of the same or different gender,
usually with one or more persons watching and having sex while the
featured couple or menage do their thing. That storyline eventually has
to get boring, doesn't it?
Well, not yet. Maybe it's because my computer was down for the last week
or so, but I found this story to be one of Mark's most erotic ever.
I live my real life in an interestingly boring world where I have not yet
and probably will never will utter the sentence, "Do you want it?" under
circumstances quite the same as those depicted in this story. Mark Aster
writes about an imaginary world where there are no sexually transmitted
diseases and where casual sex is not likely to ruin some of the best
things in life - in short, a world where recreational sex is almost always
the wonderful fun that it is on the best occasions in my real life.
I would LIKE to live in Mark's world; and I do live there in my
imagination. If I did live there and if I came upon a really cute guy
watching a really sexy girl masturbate, I'd look him straight in the eye
and shock his socks off by asking him, "Do you want it?" Then I'd
casually remove whatever clothing would obscure and impede his access to
my ass and pussy, and I'd lean on the bridge in front of him, so that I
could watch the lady do her work and so that he would have to look past me
to see her. I'd let him fondle, kiss, penetrate, and generally do
wonderful things to my anatomy. I'd let my pussy muscles return the favor
without distracting me even a moment from the interesting object of our
mutual admiration; and when the young lady that originally attracted his
interest would eventually look up, I'd lock eyes with her and let her know
across the distance that I was every bit as happy as she was As a final
touch that the author did not think of, I'd wink when I managed to time my
climax with hers.
I don't live in Mark's imaginary world, but my husband has his Sports
Illustrated swimsuit calendar near my computer. While I read Mark's story
after school this afternoon, I found myself glancing at that calendar; and
Miss April and I managed to merge Mark's world with my own in a way that
made me very happy. As I'm writing this review, Miss April is still
there, and I'm getting horny again; and as soon as I finish this sentence,
I'm going to head for the bedroom, summarize this story to my husband, and
see if he wants it.
It's now morning; and he did want it - twice! That's a total of five
raging orgasms in less than 24 hours from one story! I suggest you read
it.
It's now late afternoon. I made it through the day with all those sexy
people in the teachers' lounge without giving way to my lust. As I
glanced back over this story before writing the next review, I realized
that there's one more idea that I wanted to mention. I have on several
occasions commented on interracial sex. I think it's wonderful that
people want to make love to people of other races; but I have expressed
concern that so many of the newsgroup stories focus on people of one race
humiliating those of another. Or Black men are often described as
possessing animalistic qualities that make them distinctly different from
their white counterparts. The present story handled interracial sex
wonderfully. The woman who was masturbating while reading her book was a
Black woman. There was no implication that there was anything abnormal
about the woman - in the author's imaginary world all sensible people are
sexy and sensuous and give pleasure to themselves and to others. But
neither the woman's personality nor the color of her skin was irrelevant;
rather these factors were treated as a natural part of a hot story.
Skin color is not invisible. I like my own skin. I love to run my
fingers over it, especially when I'm turned on; and I hate its blemishes -
although my husband claims these make me more attractive. My skin happens
to be white and my hair happens to be dark and my eyes brown. These are
very sexy skin, hair, and eyes; and so were those of the woman in the
story and of the model on the calendar. It's beautiful and natural to
take all of these things into consideration when telling or reading a
story about sexy people. What I am trying to say is that an unexpected
extra of this story is that the author managed to introduce race in such a
natural way that it simply became a realistic, natural part of what I
would normally notice in a sexy setting. I really liked the way he
handled that detail.
Ratings for "Do You Want It?"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Father Dowling: I Am Heartily Sorry" by Uncle Mike
(fr582@cleveland.Freenet.Edu). I have never watched an entire episode of
"Father Dowling." I may be wrong, but I had the impression that it had
something to do with a priest and nun working together to solve crimes;
but this story has no detective work in it. Since I know so little, I
won't try to comment any further than that on how well this story works as
a parody.
The story focuses on Father Prestwick, who is hearing confessions. Most
of the penitents are old ladies and children, whose "sins" are boring; but
then in comes Mrs. Klimaszewski, the woman in her early 30's who wears no
bra and whose husband is out of town and who confesses her sins of
masturbating and getting it on with the newspaper boy. Since that session
has already turned him on, Father feels predisposed to prod