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* "Nice Girl" by Of 2 minds (case study of
dysfunctional personality) 10
* "Nice Girl" by Of 2 minds (of2minds@aol.com). About once a month (apparently in relation to phases of the moon or the pitching rotation of the Texas Rangers - I'm sure it has nothing to do with PMS), I get this wild urge to abandon my role as a sexy English teacher and smut critic and move into my other personality as a pop psychologist. This story triggered my psychosis. Hence the schizophrenic double rating in the list preceding these reviews. If you read this story because you're horny (or want to get that way) and need some good action, this is a story about a guy who invites his old roommate to spend the night and then wakes up in the middle of the night and finds his roomie fucking the brains out of his supposedly faithful wife, who is loving every minute of it. There's a whole genre of sex stories that focus on wife watching, and large numbers of happily married family men (and a smaller number of equally sane and stable women) get off on this sort of thing. I don't. If my husband were such a weakling that he got his kicks out of watching me do it with someone else, I wouldn't respect him. Likewise, I wouldn't respect myself if I had such a weak personality that I would marry a guy who would be my caretaker until I could get an occasional romp in the sack with a real man. My husband doesn't own me, but we have this deal that's based on these things called vows that we take seriously. My personal feelings are so strong that I simply don't turn on to fantasies about spouse watching. (Note that I am not saying *you* are wrong to enjoy this genre. All I'm saying is that this kind of story does not appeal as a turn-on to me - and there are a lot of other people like me.) So, if I rate this for its potential as a wife-watching story designed to turn people on, I'd give it about a 6. It's a decent story of that genre, but I think there's room for improvement. (But I hasten to add that a person who is a connoisseur of this genre may give this story a different rating.) This reminds me: A couple of weeks ago I reviewed "The Top Ten Lies of Usenet Porn." I hope that author reposts that exceedingly clever list and that others add to it once in a while. If I recall correctly, one of those lies was "When a guy comes upon his best friend fucking his wife's brains out, the natural reaction is to either applaud or join in." < year? What if *my own* students do so? Should I be proud to have influenced them or upset because they're reading this review in the first place? What if some poor kid turns in a paper analyzing "The Great Gatsby" in terms similar to mine, and the teacher recognizes the connection? That would mean they're both reading this newsgroup. Oh, my!>> So now my alter ego kicks in, and I'll reexamine the story as a brief psychological case study. Although it's obvious to me that about 90% of the people reading this newsgroup are looking fore sexual titillation, a case study about sexual behavior would still belong on a.s.s. It's actually possible that sexually oriented people are willing to think about sex as well as have fun with it. The woman in this case study has been involved in an abusive relationship with her father as a child. (Note: the "abuse" is badly stated by the author - perhaps because he felt uncomfortable with it. I think it would have been better to simply remain ambiguous about the specific nature of the abuse, but to imply that it had happened. I really doubt that the "abuse" described by the author would lead to such a severe dysfunction - unless that abuse were merely the tip of a larger iceberg.) During the intercourse with the roommate she calls out her father's name and her husband's name. What we have now is a case study of a dysfunctional person, who is managing to cope pretty well with the dysfunction. I mean, she has this scar on her personality, and yet she has managed to lead a pretty normal life under the protection or safety provided by her husband, who is also using her to meet some needs of his own. Had this pervert of a roommate not shown up, she would have continued her pleasant existence; and even after her session with him, it seems possible that she is going to return to near normalcy. Perhaps she has even grown as a result of the roommate experience. I would like to know a little more about the woman's background in order to consider this an excellent case study; but it's already pretty good. It seems safe to assume that lots of normal people in real life have similar "dysfunctions" but are considered functional because they handle them well. It is also worth noting that certain personality disorders can actually become strengths - for example, the maniacal preoccupation with specific activities can often be a handicap; but such single-mindedness can become a strength under the right circumstances. The trick, as Clint Eastwood says, is to know your limitations. An extension of this reasoning is that if it is possible that activity like that described in the story is not necessarily destructive to personalities and relationships, then a fortiori *fantasizing* about such activities would be even less likely to be destructive. Enough psychobabble! Go figure! (Rating: 6 as wife watching; 10 as a case study.) |