"Back Door" by Vicki Tern (VickiTern@aol.com). When this author sent me this pre-publication copy of her story, she sent a cover letter, in which she also commented briefly on my discussion in CR 223 of the come/cum usage. She said, in part: "{This} means that your discrimination is original, and close enough to usage to be a genuine contribution to lexicography. Your codification is better than original, brilliant in fact." I mention this humbly in passing. I assure you that this sort of blatant ass-kissing can never turn my head, and it is mere coincidence that I happened to choose her story to review tonight rather than one of the other 157 stories in my queue. Likewise, her comments did not influence my ratings of her story in the least. I can't be bought - at least not that inexpensively!

How do Vicki Tern's characters get into these situations? Alvin has had a little too much to drink. He went upstairs to lie down, passed out, and then awakened to a pleasant sensation, which he eventually discovered was Dan, his well endowed host, fucking him in the ass. Alvin's wife is upset, but Dan's wife takes it all in stride and offers comfort. And by the next evening Alvin is pretty well along the way to becoming Allie, one of the three women who will share their asses with Dan and their affections with one another.

It sounds silly when I describe it, but the author makes it sound so plausible!

A basic assumption on a.s.s is that almost all women can enjoy getting it on with another woman. I am an almost obnoxiously happy heterosexual who has never had sex with another woman and probably never will, but I believe the assumption stated in the previous sentence is accurate. If all you're interested in is pleasure, what difference could it possibly make what gender is attached to the lips, fingers, tongue, or other accouterment that is bringing you to orgasm? I think the same logic applies to men: almost all men can enjoy getting it on with another man. If all you're interested in is pleasure, what difference could it possibly make what gender is attached to the lips, fingers, tongue, or other accouterment that is bringing you to orgasm? Don't you heterosexual men like it when a woman is rimming your asshole and plunges her finger into your anus right when you're about to come? Don't you sometimes wish that she would plunge it all the way in, just as you're coming, so that your spasms would not only shoot cum out of your penis but would also eject that tubelike projectile from your anus? What if the woman did this to you while you were blindfolded? And what if when the blindfold was removed you discovered that she was actually a man? Would the enjoyment you already experienced become any less?

This is not to say that everybody "is" or "should be" bisexual. It's just that almost all of us could probably enjoy homosexual as well as heterosexual activity if we had a mind to give it a fling. The fact that there are probably plenty of good reasons NOT to do so in real life doesn't mean that we shouldn't enjoy the fantasies.

Obviously, the difference lies in conditioning; and conditioning makes a real difference. The fact that heterosexual men are so strongly conditioned to object to homosexual contact apparently presents to men a more serious impediment to their enjoyment of homosexual activity than there is for women. And so men usually don't like stories with m/m contact.

I think this one may be an exception.