"A Tale of New Eden: Tomiko" by Unknown Author. As I explained in a an issue of CR in early January, I felt the beginning of a new year would be a good time to re-align or re-calibrate my rating system. I didn't want to become excessively harsh, but too many stories were getting straight 10s. Since I try to select stories that sound interesting, I'm not surprised that I get a lot of high ratings; but I have been pleased in recent weeks to note a nice sprinkling of 8s and 7s in my ratings - and even lower numbers for weaker stories. So when I hit two straight 10s to start this issue, I figured I'd read a couple of sex slavery stories: they're usually pretty inane, I figured, and one of them should snap my streak. No way! Mercedes was excellent, and so is this one. I guess I had better look for an incestuous wife-swapping story!

Tomiko is a young woman who is a member of a Utopian harem. Her only goal is to serve her master, who is apparently an insatiable sex machine, copulating with dozens of beautiful women each day and having others fondle his genitals, feed him grapes, and wipe his ass between the more specifically orgasmic love-making sessions. The preceding sentence summarizes the story, but the author makes it sound a little more interesting.

One of the interesting things about Utopian stories is that if we violate just one of their assumptions, we would often have an anti-Utopian story. For example, this story assumes no jealousy among the members of the harem: if we simply insert the possibility of jealousy we might have hell rather than heaven in the harem. But "a woman's tits should exceed a man's grasp - else what's a heaven for?"