Celestial Reviews 170 - April 5, 1997

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      "Young Hot Passions" by Sleazy Liz (emerging adolescence)
            10, 10, 10
      "Finding My Baseball Cards" by Frederick T. (voyeurism)
            9, 8, 8
      "April's First" by Uther Pendragon (sexy memories & romance)
            10, 10, 10
      "Watching You Watching Me" by Gregarious (mutual voyeurism)
            10, 10, 10
      "The Beach" by Robert Lee Ayers (romance on the beach) 
            10, 10, 10
      "The Skier" by Mike Hunt (medical relief) 10, 10, 10
      "On The Beach" by Ellen Hayes (ff adolescent romance) 10, 10, 10
      "Art Appreciation" by Taria (self stimulation) 10, 6, 8
      "The Pause that Refreshes" by Jvstin (sex during a blackout)
             10, 8, 9
      "Me, My Mistress, Hale-Bopp and Weak Knees..." by Voyager7 
            (D&s with a comet or something) 6, 4, 4
      "Birthday Present" by OddManOut Anywhere (sex slavery)
            10, 10, 10

"Young Hot Passions" by Sleazy Liz.  This story was posted as 
"bcousins.txt" by someone else as part of a set of stories by Boswell, 
and so I suspect that Sleazy Liz may be a pseudonym for Jay Boswell, 
since this is listed as "part of his collection."

Rick has known his cousin Janine since they were both three years old.  
Now they are both 14 and are giving a new meaning to the term "kissing 
cousins."  They rehash old times when they used to play "doctor" and 
"house," while they would explore each other's bodies.  This is very hot 
stuff.  It's good to read about a couple of cousins who get along so 
well with each other.

Ratings for "Young Hot Passions"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Finding My Baseball Cards" by Frederick T. 
(an19164@anon.nymserver.com).  Back in 1959, before the morals of 
American children had degenerated to their present status, this little 
feller goes to his friend's house to get the baseball cards that he had 
left there the day before.  His friend's mom greets him at the door and 
says his friend isn't home.  No problem; the kid climbs in the window; 
but instead of finding his baseball cards, he finds the mom doing a 
threeway with Sis and her boyfriend.  I didn't know they did things like 
that back in prehistoric times!

Ratings for "Finding My Baseball Cards"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

"April's First" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx.net).  I had trouble 
finding Part 2 to this story; and I eventually went ahead and read parts 
1 and 3.  I concluded that there was no Part 2; it was an April Fool's 
joke.  Get it?  The title is April's First, and the story was posted on 
April 1, so....

Anyway, the real action takes place in Part 2, which doesn't exist.  
Nevertheless, Parts 1 and 3 tell a very interesting story about April 
before and after her First Time.  This story actually describes two very 
interesting and healthy relationships in the life of a 16-year-old girl: 
her romantic relationship with her boyfriend and her sibling 
relationship with her older sister.  Both are well developed, and both 
help make this a sexy story.

Ratings for "April's First"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Watching You Watching Me" by Gregarious (gregarious@poboxes.com).  The 
woman moves from Texas to Boston to be with her lover, and she finds the 
winter to be a real burden.  Then one day he comes home with tickets to 
Costa Rica.  Anything would be better than two more weeks of gray snow, 
but the delights of Central America are amplified by the presence of 
another couple.  First the woman shows off her amorous abilities on the 
plane in the presence of the other couple.  Then she discovers that they 
are in the same resort, and she spies on them while they make love.  All 
this leads to hot sex with her own lover.  It's very sexy stuff!

Ratings for "Watching You Watching Me"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"The Beach" by Robert Lee Ayers (rlayers@erols.com).  Sandy has been 
having a tough day at the office.  A call from John at the end of the 
day gives her the strength to wrap it up.  After work she joins her 
lover on a deserted beach at McCallaster Cove.  There the have a quiet 
dinner and fuck each other's brains out.  

I really like this romantic stuff.  This is the first post by a new 
author.  A lot of new authors post stories that they wrote for someone 
else, and they neglect to make the story interesting to a wider 
audience.  This author does not make that mistake; instead he took care 
to draw me into the story. I hope this author posts more stories of this 
quality.

Ratings for "The Beach"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"The Skier" by Mike Hunt (M1KE HUNT@aol.com).  It's probably a 
coincidence, but have you noticed that if you say this author's name 
quickly ten times, it sounds like you're discussing a part of the female 
anatomy?  This author claims to have a colleague named Mike Lit.  
Imagine that!

This story has an unusual plot.  A bunch of college guys go to a ski 
lodge with hopes of getting drunk and maybe getting laid.  Imagine that!  
Well. on the first day there Mike Hunt gets laid - laid UP, that is: two 
broken arms, one multiple, one a mild fracture; a cracked collarbone, 
plus a fractured leg and multiple cuts and contusions, abrasions, and 
possible internal injuries.  Bummer!  But all is not lost.  There is a 
nurse named Carole Anne; and Mike Hunt needs a bath. As the washcloth 
scurries about, up and down, in and out, Mike Hunt becomes horny.  
Actually, Mike Hunt becomes aroused.  But then, contrary to everything 
written in this newsgroup, the nurse whacks his dick sharply.  She says 
this is something they learned in nursing school to control men when 
they get aroused.  He tells her to go to hell.  This is an inauspicious 
beginning.  Mike Hunt is going to be lonely.

I don't want to go into all the details, but Nurse Carole Anne makes up 
for her unkind incursion.  Being in traction may not be all fun and 
games, but there are some advantages!  The author concludes with an 
assertion that " MIKE HUNT has more stories than you can, uh, shake a 
stick at."  I hope to see more of them.  This was very hot stuff!

Ratings for "The Skier"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"On The Beach" by Ellen Hayes (nobody@REPLAY.COM). Andrea is a teenager 
who has become stressed out because she has discovered that she feels a 
deep and mutual physical attraction for her close friend Darlene.  She 
doesn't want to be a lesbian!  Can't they just love each other and not 
be lesbians?  Well, yes, I certainly think so; but I've had this 
argument too many times to repeat it again.  This is another excellent 
story.  As the author adds in a postscript, "You can separate sex from 
teenage angst, but you can't separate angst from teenage sex."

Ratings for "On The Beach"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Life is Good!" by Uncle Fred (UncleFred@usinternet.com).  Goddammit!  I 
have a confession to make.  My husband has been out of town for two days 
and will be for one more.  I have been reading sex stories and putting 
my database in order.  I'm not sure that right now I need to read a 
series of seven stories where the "worst" one earns a rating of 9, 8, 8.  
Fortunately my husband will call later tonight, and phone sex at ten 
cents a minute isn't really a bad deal.

In this story, the man and wife have been happily married for 20 years 
or so, but they still plan sexy evenings together.  Their Friday evening 
is a good example of planned spontaneity.  In this case they warm up 
with oral sex and then go to anal sex the next night before an evening 
on the town.  This is sexy stuff. Life is Good!

Ratings for "Life is Good!"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Art Appreciation" by Taria. The woman is genuinely pissed off because 
she has been standing in the cold, waiting for her husband, who is late 
again.  When she discovers that she has been standing in front of an art 
gallery, she goes inside, where she discovers that the gallery is 
displaying the works of Andres - "Andres Presents the History of Sex," 
to be precise. The display turns her on and reminds her of a nearby sex 
shoppe, and she goes to that store and acquires some sextoys.  She takes 
the next day off and stays home and plays with herself, while her 
husband goes to work.  The self-stimulation is extremely erotic, but 
then the story just ends in the middle of nowhere.  To be continued, it 
says.  Now you tell me, says I.

Ratings for "Art Appreciation"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

"The Pause that Refreshes" by Jvstin (Jvstin@admin.con2.com).  As you 
may recall, in the summer of 1997 a terrorist strike knocked out, albeit 
temporarily, the entire power grid of the West Coast.  That stroke of 
fate left our hero stranded in an ATM booth with a voluptuous woman 
named Athena.  One needed electricity to open the door to that ATM 
booth, but one didn't need artificial current to do what needed to be 
done with the fair Athena.

Ratings for "The Pause that Refreshes"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

"Me, My Mistress, Hale-Bopp and Weak Knees..." by Voyager7 
(voyager7@ix.netcom.com).  It wasn't until I was nearly halfway through 
this story that I realized that Susan was a prostitute whom the narrator 
patronized.  I think my confusion occurred because of dramatic tension.  
A few lines later, I discovered that the narrator was a woman, but that 
was because of a grammar mistake {"Never in my life has another woman, 
told me to strip..."}.  When he is told to address her as Mistress or 
Mistress Susan, and she will address him as SLAVE, he "starts to rock n 
roll....<g>."  Shortly thereafter, the story ends with this question: " 
Do you wish me, to continue telling you about my adventure with Mistress 
Susan?  .....<g>"  <N>

I thought Hale-Bopp was a comet or something <g>.

Ratings for "Me, My Mistress, Hale-Bopp and Weak Knees..."
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 4
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4

"Birthday Present" by OddManOut Anywhere (oddman0ut@hotmail.com).  Jeff 
is a bit upset, because his girlfriend Monica has gone on an 
anthropological field trip instead of being with him on his birthday. To 
reduce his own misery, Jeff has decided to spend the evening of his 
birthday on an anthropological field trip of sorts - that is, he goes to 
a frat party, where a voluptuous blonde who is a student of animal 
husbandry or something hands him a note that says: "Happy Birthday!  I'm 
very sorry I wasn't able to be with you today.  However, I am giving you 
a present so that you won't miss me too much this week.  Your present is 
named Judy, and she is a good friend of mine from the swim team.  Judy 
has been instructed to sexually satisfy you in any way you wish, at any 
time between today and next Friday.  Upon your command, she will fuck 
you, give you blowjobs, and allow you to tie her up or do anything else 
to her that crosses your mind.  The only limitations on what you can do 
are:

1.  No permanent damage, of course.
2.  No unprotected sex.
3.  No bringing in other people.  This gift is for you alone.  I 
wouldn't want to fuck other guys for your birthday, so I don't see why 
my proxy should, either.

"Oh, shit!" says Jeff; "I can't do this.  It would be wrong!"  No; 
actually Jeff ignores the moral ambiguity of the situation and decides 
not to look a gift whore in the mouth.  Oh - and he decides to forgive 
Monica!

My immediate reaction was: What if this is a hoax?  I mean, how does 
Jeff really know that Monica is behind the alleged gift?  What if 
Swimmer (the name given to the slave/present) is just an itinerant sex 
maniac who wants to give him a week of unmitigated bliss?  In addition, 
I'm not a lawyer or a prostitute or anything like that, but isn't there 
a possibility of a bad precedent here?  Couldn't a spouse caught in the 
act simply claim, "Hey!  She told me she was a present from you!?"

Being a Master can be tough.  For example, what does a Master do when 
the slave wants to do the dishes but the master wants a blowjob?  Such 
conflicts are common and could result in violations of health codes in 
parts of Australia.  Jeff's predicament is further complicated by the 
fact that Swimmer is an excellent maid and cook: June Cleaver crossed 
with Pauline Reage.  I mean, this lady actually accepts rear entries 
while she cooks pancakes in the nude - generating as a by-product a 
small but delicious supply of syrup for the pancakes! In addition, while 
having a sex slave merely distracts a guy from doing research, it makes 
listening to a Statistics lecture damn near impossible!

There could be a TV series in this: "Touched by a Swimmer."  The show 
could be completely devoid of both plot and acting ability, except for 
attractive but insipid protagonists who mysteriously can do almost 
anything while they jiggle their tits and toss their hair from side to 
side and spectators ogle their cute little asses.  The show could convey 
educational tidbits like those in the story: edible underwear may be a 
novelty to see, but it is uncomfortable to wear, and it is awful to the 
taste.  Thumbs down!  Of course, the really "good parts" could not be 
shown on prime time television; these supplementary materials would have 
to be accessed via website or perhaps 900 chat lines.  This idea is so 
crazy, it just might work!

Sometimes I "disenjoy" stories that include sexual bondage.  I get my 
back up and assume that pain and degradation are bad.  But if the 
context is right - for example, if after the finale of the gangbang the 
target's entire body is coated in a mixture of sweat, cum, chocolate, 
and whipped cream, showing dark marks where the participants had poured 
the hot caramel, her blond hair matted to her skin and to itself by 
strings of semen, bruised around the thighs, butt, and breasts, where 
six men have pawed her continuously throughout the evening, and a huge 
smile on her face - well, then maybe bondage not so bad after all.

This was a creative, well written story.  I hope to see many more by 
this author.

Ratings for "Birthday Present"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

