Rogue Review No. 515 - May 13, 2000

NOTICE: If you are easily offended, not of the 
required legal age, or material of an erotic nature 
is illegal where you are, then do not read what 
follows.

TITLE: The Stripping Games Trilogy
AUTHOR: The Frog
LENGTH: 24,000 words
MAIN CHARACTER: Male
COMBINATION(S): Twosome (1 Female, 1 Male)
ORIENTATION(S): Heterosexual (Female, Male)
RELATIONSHIP(S): Friends
KINK(S): Exhibitionism
         Voyeurism
SETTING(S): Home
CAUTION(S): --

SUMMARY: Mike and Nina play a variety of stripping games 
with their friends, Jack, Lee, Phyllis, and Doug.

COMMENTARY: This story is quite delicious, in my opinion. It 
is rather light in the "actual sex" department, but also 
rather heavy in the "exhibitionism" and "voyeurism" 
departments. This may turn some of you off. This may have 
biased me somewhat towards this story. Still, I have to 
believe that a story that can get me as aroused as this one 
did when for the most part the action consists of characters 
taking their clothes off in the course of a game, has to be 
much better than average.

There is one thing that struck me as a bit weird. The story 
is narrated by Mike, but there are moments when the author 
let's the reader know what the other characters are 
thinking. I don't think that this is a bad thing, but it 
caught me by surprise the first time it happened. There are 
also a few typographical errors, but considering the length 
of the story there are not that many percentage wise.

I feel obliged to mention that there is something in this 
story that made me wince when I read it. I am referring to 
the manner in which the main character sometimes 
characterizes the only non-white character in the story, 
Lee, who happens to be Korean American. It doesn't happen 
all that frequently. It makes Mike look rather naive. I can 
see how some people might read more into his comments than 
that, but I honestly don't think that Mike would knowingly 
think or say such things if he realized that some readers 
would find them offensive. In other words, I can find no 
evidence to indicate that Mike is anything other than 
uninformed.

One recommendation: should you decide to read this story, 
read it in three separate sittings. This should give you the 
opportunity to enjoy each part on its own. This is how I 
read the story and I think it was the right thing to do. 
Each of the three parts is a complete segment of the larger 
story.

Even though this story is narrated by a male character, I 
think that it should appeal to both men and women.

LINK(S): The Stripping Games Trilogy

         Part 1: Strip Poker
                 - http://assm.asstr.org/Year2000/24061

         Part 2: Screw Your Neighbor
                 - http://assm.asstr.org/Year2000/24062

         Part 3: Strip or Dare
                 - http://assm.asstr.org/Year2000/24070
