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"Honeymoon" by Parker (Slavery/sm) 10, 5, 3
* "Honeymoon" by Parker. {This is one of the first reviews I ever wrote - back in CR 4. I have reread the story and the review, and I still stand by this review. I have modified it only by changing my former rating of 3 to the current tripartate rating of 10, 5, 3.} After giving the preceding three stories high ratings, I sat down at my computer to read my first Parker story. This one is about a man who gives his beautiful young wife a surprise gift for their honeymoon - her former English professor as a sex slave. Needless to say, she had been a prissy but sexy bitch (so far that sounds accurate), and so she probably deserved this reduction to chattel servitude. They humiliate her in various ways while they satisfy their sexual urges. The story also gives a description of this alleged slave trade. If this really happens, it's a bunch of crap. I'm trying not to be a prude. I see the point in and actually enjoyed the voyeurism in deirdre's "Couch." I also gave a high rating to "Run," which had an sm/slavery twist; but it didn't dwell on how much fun it would be to degrade someone. In "Dreamwalk" the neighbor dominates the man who narrates the story; but it's actually a nice kind of domination - she actually likes the guy. I'm not trying to be unfriendly; and I realize there are valid differences in lifestyles and interests. But when somebody writes a story that describes how interesting it would be to turn a passerby into a degraded specimen of a human being (granted, she was already an English teacher), am I being a bigot to say that this is really kind of sick and to worry about the mental health of people who enjoy this kind of garbage? I would appreciate serious comments, not flames. I'm really trying to understand. Here's the crux of the question: If Jeffrey Dahmers wrote a grammatically correct, clear, detailed description of how he drilled holes into the heads of his victims while they were still alive and then had sex with them before he killed and ate them, am I supposed to accept this as a "lifestyle choice"? And if I found my husband jacking off while he was reading this description after Dahmers published it on a.s.s., would I be paranoid to think he had a serious problem? Ratings for "Honeymoon" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 5 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3 |