Celestial Reviews 242 - December 13, 1997

Note:  If you requested proofreading help recently but did not receive 
it, please contact me again.  I am afraid I accidentally threw out a 
request with some spam that I was discarding.

Second Note:  There are several interesting discussions currently on 
a.s.s.d., if you can find them amidst all the spam.  One perennial theme 
is "why does Celeste allow anonymous guest reviews?"  The answer is 
because I believe I can get better reviews from certain reviewer/authors 
if I do it this way.

When a reviewer uses a "second pseudonym" to post a review, that simply 
forces you (the reader) to accept that review in isolation from any 
other information about the person who wrote that review.  In practice, 
that means that with Mike Hunt and Kim, an author can look at a review 
and say, "Big shit! She can't do any better herself!"  With Piper or 
Fiddler, on the other hand, you are forced to deal with the content of 
the review.

I personally enjoy the reviews of all four of the reviewers mentioned in 
the preceding paragraph.  There are obviously advantages and 
disadvantages to doing it either way.  The strongest advantage that I 
have noticed to using "real" names for reviews is that it's easier for 
reviewers to develop a relationship with reviewers whose work they 
recognize.  I think that's a real benefit.

The best reason NOT to use a "real" name is that this may interfere with 
the reviewer's own writing.  I know I personally am hesitant to post my 
own stories here (as if I had time to write any!), because I have the 
feeling of undue pressure.  I have seen my own story (Virtuous Reality) 
unfairly ripped simply because somebody was pissed that I gave his story 
an unfavorable review.  My feeling in this regard is personal, but it is 
not unique.  I think lots of sensible people - but not all of them - 
would feel a pressure arising from the inconsistency of roles.

Third note:  Occasionally somebody sends me an "obviously good" 
suggestion about how to improve Celestial Reviews.  They suggest that I 
"should be open to growth."  Actually, it's exceptionally obvious to me 
that I have grown during the two and a half years I have been writing 
these reviews.  But the point I want to make here is that sometimes I do 
things the way I do them for a good reason.  A certain amount of 
stability is good and necessary.  Changes HAVE occurred, and I do 
appreciate your suggestions.  However, I cannot respond to each of you 
individually.  I need to spend most of my time doing these reviews 
rather than talking about them.  Which is what I'll do now - that and 
learn how to spell "waist" correctly.

Final note: Remember: even though someone else may be posting my reviews 
for me, my e-mail address is still Celeste801@aol.com.

- Celeste

      "Lucky Mower" by Reaven (sex with lawnboy) 9.5, 9.5, 9.5
      "Pierced" by Sexy Grrl (piercing) 10, 9, 9
      "The Talent Contest" by Lisa Cohn (amateur sex ed) 8, 10, 10
      "Mr Miller's Dream" by Youngset (old man/young girl) 8, 7, 7
      "An Unforgettable Evening" by Gary Ray (bdsm) 10, 10, 10

Celestial Christmas Contest:

      "Fantasies" by BitSlinger (sexual fantasies) 9, 10, 10
      "Christmas Carole" by MrSpraycan (femdom office sex) 10, 10, 10
      "Snowbound" by Ann Douglas (older man/younger woman)
            10, 10, 10
      "The Curiosity Shop" by Sven the Elder (Christmas shopping 
            quickie) 10, 10, 10

 Guest Reviews: 

      "One Fine Weekend" by Mr. G. Reaper (loosening up) 7.5, 9.5, 10
      "Front Window" by losgud (neighborly sex) 9, 9, 9
      "Let's All Nap Now, Please!" by losgud (romantic quickie) 
            10, 10, 9
      "It's Only a Dream " by Unknown Author (ghastly ghostly sex) 
            4, 1, 1

Reposted Reviews:

    * "My Bedroom" by WA Emmerson (casual sex) 7, 3, 3
    * "Cousin Tanda" by Unknown Author (youthful frolic with 
            a cousin) 9.5, 9, 9
    * "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon (female dominance)
            10, 10, 10
    * "Forever Faithful" by J Boswell (office romance) 8, 6, 5
    * "Snowbound" by A. Van Peebles (lustful longings for
             a lovely little lady) 10, 10, 10

* = Repost of previous review (because the story has recently been
      reposted)

"Lucky Mower" by Reaven (reposted by Erostory 
<erostory@anon.nymserver.com>).  Fantasies about yardboys are apparently 
as ubiquitous and American as apple pie.  As near as I can figure, 
nearly every non-Amish American boy who mows a lawn wants to get into 
the pants of the middle-aged divorcee or young widow who pays for his 
services.  The lustful feelings are reciprocal: nearly all women, 
including some nuns, have apparently lusted after the muscular kid with 
the tight ass who mows the lawn and pulls the weeds.  The Coke guy on 
the commercial last year was nothing more than a glorified yardboy.

Anyway, Mrs. Anderson is a 42-year-old divorcee - a DWF, as she might 
call herself in the personal ads.  Dan is a 16-year-old HWT (horny white 
teenager) who mows her lawn - literally at first and metaphorically 
later.

The deal is that Mrs. A decides that just for one day, Dan can do 
anything he wants with her body.  And that's just what he does for the 
next 24 hours.  He comes fast the first time, but pretty soon he is 
listening to lectures from Mrs. A and searching through books and 
magazines for interesting positions.

This is an interesting enactment of the Great American Fantasy.

Incidentally, my favorite variation on this theme is "Charly the Yard 
Guy" by Michael K. Smith, in which Charly is a yardgirl.

Ratings for "Lucky Mower"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5

"Pierced" by Sexy Grrl (bigsexygrrl@hotmail.com).  It was only 
after I had read this story that I discovered that it is actually 
Chapter 3 in a series called "The Education of a Princess."  I 
have not read the other chapters.

Aside from my earrings, I have never been pierced myself - largely 
because I have surmised that it would be very much like what this 
story describes.  I suppose someday one of my daughters will 
decide to get pierced, and I think I can handle that.  But I 
suspect that day is far in the future.  Tonight we were watching a 
TV show in which a cute young lady had her belly-button pierced, 
and the local adult suggested that she connect her halter top to 
the belly-ring, so that he bare midriff would be at least 
partially covered.  They roared with laughter.  On the other hand, 
they looked interested when the same young lady boasted of having 
had sex in the torch of the statue of liberty.

Anyway, in the story the woman gets pierced, and it hurts like 
hell.  But she does it for Her Guy, who enjoys seeing her in pain, 
because then he knows she really loves him.  Of course, she enjoys 
the pain, because it is a way to show her love for him.  Barf 
city!  I'd consider this to be really sick, except that I had a 
nun in the fourth grade who quoted St. Theresa to us by saying "If 
you suffer a lot, that's because God loves you."  So I guess what 
I am saying is either this notion is not completely crazy or maybe 
that nun was.

The motivation of the main character is not clear to me, but this 
story was still interesting.  That's the right word: the story 
wasn't sexy to me, just interesting.

Ratings for "Pierced"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

"The Talent Contest" by Lisa Cohn. For the past 27 years Johnson Roberts 
School has held its annual talent contest for all students aged 12 to 
14. In the weeks and months preceding the event there is a flurry of 
activity with youngsters organizing and practicing their presentations. 
There have been several calls for the contest to be scrapped as grades 
fall during this period. However, the event survives as "part of the 
overall socialization and education of the child at Johnson Roberts 
School". This is the story of three 12 year old girls - Megan, Beth and 
Sam - and their first appearance in the contest which ultimately leads 
them to find hidden talents none of them ever dreamed they had.  That's 
because Big Brother Tim offers to help, and he becomes a Benignly 
Benevolent Big Brother.

The story is a bit slow in developing, but eventually the young girls 
and older boy get down to Serious Show and Tell - starting with 
observation of bodies and an errant cumshot, then licking, porn magazine 
analysis, and blowjobs.

I never did anything this explicit as a kid.  I don't even WISH I had 
done it.  I'll do what I can to keep my kids from doing it.  But it 
certainly does sound like fun!

One word of advice.  If you have an orgy with your loved one(s) and feel 
concerned that subsequent visitors to the area of emboinkment will 
notice the musky aroma of sex in the air, do NOT smoke a cigarette to 
throw the visitors off track.  As the surgeon general will assure you, 
this can cause cancer, birth defects, and all kinds of other evil side 
effects.  Instead, simply burn some popcorn.  It works even better and 
has no negative side effects.  My teenage daughters could never figure 
out how my husband and I could be so klutzy as to burn popcorn as often 
as we did.

Ratings for "The Talent Contest"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Mr Miller's Dream" by Youngset (youngset@aol.com).  Sean is 18.  Kira 
is 16.  Kira is black; but her father is white and so is her mother.  Go 
figure.  Stranger things have happened.  Mr. Miller is 61.  Mr. Miller 
lusts for the cute little ass and sexy exuberance of the lithe and 
luscious, lovely and lascivious, little lass.  So Mr. Miller concocts a 
plan with Sean to get Kira to fuck with him while she really thinks she 
is screwing somebody else.

At this point I discovered that I was reading Part 1 of who knows how 
many parts.  This is not a bad idea for a plot, but it's a bit clumsy so 
far.  Unfortunately, the author will just go ahead and finish it without 
fixing these clumsy parts.  That's unfortunate, but that's the way it is 
with these serial postings.  However, this story has potential, because 
it already contains some good stuff.

Ratings for "Mr Miller's Dream"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

"An Unforgettable Evening" by Gary Ray (csangha@hooked.net). The man and 
woman are in love - deeply in love.  Tonight he is going to pop the 
question:  "Do you love me enough to trust me?" "Yes!" she replies.  And 
out come the handcuffs, the blindfold, and an accomplice named Dominick.  
"Wait a minute!" says I. "This is bullshit!" "Wait a minute!" says she. 
"This is bullshit!" But they persist, and we come to a surprise ending.

I don't exactly recommend what this guy does - too much could go wrong.  
But then I personally reject cybersex for the same reason, and a lot of 
you enjoy that activity.  Anyway, this is an excellent story.

This author ends his disclaimer with "Do I have hope as an erotica 
writer?"  Hmmm...  Is the pope Catholic?  Does the bear shit in the 
woods?  Do teenage nympho queens want big cocks up their asses?

Ratings for "An Unforgettable Evening"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

Fantasies" by BitSlinger (bitslinger@hotmail.com).  I believe this is 
this author's first story.  It's also an entry in my Celestial Christmas 
story contest.  I am happy to have stimulated the author to enter upon a 
promising writing career.

The basic plot is that the wife has become interested in fulfilling her 
husband's fantasies; but he's reluctant to share them, because he's 
afraid he'll scare her off.  Most recently she has noticed his interest 
in a sexy little elf at the mall, and so tonight she has seduced him in 
an elf costume.  Eventually she manages to pry some fantasies out of 
him, and she rewards him by acting them out with him and enjoying them 
herself.

The fantasies are actually pretty tame by a.s.s. standards, but I 
enjoyed them.  Except for a few occasional flaws in verb tenses, the 
author shows a good sense of timing in his integration of the fantasies 
and the real-time sexual activity.  I look forward to seeing more 
stories by this author.

Ratings for "Fantasies"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Christmas Carole" by MrSpraycan (mrspraycan@mailanon.com).  Several 
years ago my husband treated me very romantically and fucked me under 
the Christmas tree after the kids went to bed.  As he did so, he played 
a tape with the song "Here We Go a' Caroling."  Unlike the woman in the 
previous review, I did not have to ask him about his fantasies.  You 
see, I had three very close friends - all very sexy, one of whom had one 
the Nurse Goodbody award in nursing school.  That may help explain the 
title, but not the plot of this story.

The time is 1941. Pearl Harbor has just been bombed shortly before the 
Christmas party, and the United States is going to change its economy to 
a war footing.  History books tells us that women will move into the 
workplace and never move out; it's the start of the sexual revolution in 
America.  Carole is a woman in a male-dominated environment who has 
ideas about becoming a significant person in her company. Pat O'Reilly 
is the abstemious, Scrooge-like part owner of the company, who thinks 
he's big stuff around women.  By the end of the story we can see how 
Carole is going to move up the corporate ladder.

I have read several stories by MrSpraycan, and this one is not in the 
author's usual raunchy style.  Nevertheless, it's a really good story 
that I think you'll enjoy.

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

"Snowbound" by Ann Douglas (annd@pop.tiac.net). This is the second 
excellent story that I have reviewed with this title. I am reposting the 
review of the other, and I hope the author will repost the story.

When Ann Douglas moved to her new home and announced her retirement, I 
suspected she would miss us and would return to her writing shortly.  I 
was right, and I am glad.  This is a really good story.  Of course, I 
had the same feelings about Delta; but so far Delta has remained in 
obscure retirement.  I guess maybe that's what happens when your spouse 
becomes vice president of a major industrialized nation.

What Ann exemplifies here is her ability to write a complete story - one 
with numerous details that at to the impact of the overall story rather 
than distracting us.  Her stories are not complete in the way that 
novels are complete: they are more like good weekly TV episodes - lots 
of interesting details with everything falling into place at the end.  
In addition, Ann has the ability to treat her characters with a respect, 
dignity, and honest sexiness that makes them really appeal to me.

Ilyssia is snowbound on Christmas eve at O'Hare airport.  She meets the 
father of one of her best friends.  She's 24, single, and sexually 
aggressive; he's 42, divorced, and hasn't been with a woman since his 
wife left him a year ago.  They are forced to share a room, and they 
fuck beautifully.  But the story is much more than a May/December 
emboinkment.  It includes serious and sensitive concerns about who will 
sleep where, real evidence of the value of both sexual experience and 
spontaneity, and the value of waiting - plus a literal cold shower.  
This is an absolutely delightful story.

Minor grammar lessons:

(1) When you quote someone and follow the quote with "he said" or the 
equivalent, use a comma in place of the period at the end of the quoted 
sentence.  On the other hand, if the sentence ended with a question mark 
or explanation point, just leave them there.

"I knew I should have taken the flight out yesterday," Ilyssia thought.
"Wanna fuck?" Ilyssia asked.
"I'm gonna come!" Ilyssia shouted as her pulsating cuntlips continued to 
caress his gyrating cock.

(2) Use "lay" (not "laid") for the past tense of lie, meaning to 
recline.

They lay (not laid)  there for about fifteen minutes, just enjoying the 
comfort of each other's body.

(3) When two or more words form a single modifier and precede a noun, 
join them with a hyphen.  If the words come after the noun, omit the 
hyphen.  This rule is often violated with impunity, but it's good to 
watch for cases where the omission causes confusion.

My well-fucked pussy tingled with delight.
My pussy was well fucked and tingled with delight.

They had a last-minute gangbang before the end of gym class.
They had a quick gang bang at the last minute before the end of gym 
class.

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

"The Curiosity Shop" by Sven the Elder (sven@brass-neck.demon.co.uk).  
If I were writing clever one-liners to entice people to read this story, 
I would say, "Sven has gone Christmas shopping, but he finds a surprise 
present for himself!"  The surprise present is the lovely and vivacious 
Jo, whose full name is too long to print here and whose husband is away 
while his wife must play.  This is a delightful little story that will 
take your mind off the burdens of last-minute Christmas shopping.

Rarely do Americans find a woman who hunkers down and lets a man find 
her centre.  Apparently that sort of thing is fairly common on the 
Island. It sounds like a custom worth exporting.

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

"One Fine Weekend" by Mr. G. Reaper (MrReaper@DeathsDoor.com).  Guest 
review by Sven the Elder.

"My fantasy weekend started off in a very shity way." So starts this 
tale of derring do! The story revolves around a weekend with the 
'outlaws' - sorry, in-laws - and the happenings of the weekend. That it 
involves the conversion of a semi-religious fanatic to the ways of a sex 
maniac makes this a very hot story. It should be read with great care 
and the aid of a set of welders gloves and goggles. From that you may 
take it that this was one fantasy I enjoyed - in spades! 

Fantasy named, fantasy it is and fantasy it will remain as I think of it 
tonight. If I follow Kim's fairly outrageous line (kisses Kim <grin>) I 
would say it made me wet. Well you know what I mean....... Mr Reaper 
prefaces his story with an apology for a lack of proofing, or even spell 
checking. For once, even though it was apparent, I refuse to let it 
spoil the prose. It will cost a point or so though. Celeste advises that 
an 8 is normal, anything higher denotes special usage of the language; 
so I must give a 7.5, other than that - I like!! Read and enjoy - I did

Ratings for  One fine Weekend
Technical quality:  7.5
Plot & character:  9.5
Sven (appeal to reviewer):  10

"Front Window" by losgud (losgud@hotmail.com). Guest review by Mark 
Aster (myfrthal@aol.com).

This is a nice sweet sexy story, perhaps a little long, with a few rough 
spots in the writing.  But recommended to "MF cons" fans of all ages.  
Lots of nice fucking.

To say too much about the plot would be to spoil the surprise. Basically 
your typical guy meets the new neighbors, and gets to have hot sex with 
the sweet young great-assed wife.  Twice. With the promise of lots more 
to come.  I thought there was a bit too much setup: we didn't really 
need the furniture rearrangement, nor the cat (although the cat does 
enable one wonderful double-entendre line that it WOULD have been a pity 
to lose).  I don't really care what a large amount of urine he had to 
get rid of that morning (the urine has nothing to do with the sex).  And 
the whole obscene-phone-caller thing seemed sort of unnecessary.  But 
excellent use of panties!  Also that lovely thin dress.

The writing is generally very good, sweet and evocative.  A few typos 
and odd turns of phrase: "Her eyes were like those of a doe's" should be 
either "like those of a doe" or (better) "like a doe's".  The thrill 
that's described as "vicarious" isn't vicarious in any sense I can think 
of.  There a little dialog about "usually" that I found 
incomprehensible.  But those are nits.  Slightly more serious IMHO is a 
bit of Stupid Exclamations During Sex Syndrome (SEDSS): why does she 
have to yell things like "That's it baby, _use_ that fuck finger" and 
"Go, baby, _go!_  Fuck me now!"?  Except during sex, she talks like a 
normal person; why the trite cheap-porn-movie sex-talk? On the other 
hand, I realize that some people find that kind of talk very sexy, so 
Your Mileage May Vary.

Definitely Recommended.

Ratings for "Front Window"
Techical stuff: 9 (quite good when it's good, some oopses)
Plot and Character: 9
Overall Appeal to Mark: 9

"Let's All Nap Now, Please!" by losgud (losgud@hotmail.com). Guest 
review by Kim.

I expect some of you are waiting for some sort of comment about the 
fallout from my last review. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but it's all 
been settled, and I'll say no more about it. So with that out of the 
way... onward.

I have reviewed some losgud stories before and they've always hit the 
spot. So the question is will this one?

It's a short story for a start. Only a matter of a few minutes reading. 
Basically it's the musings of a frustrated husband and father waiting 
for a covert bit of lovemaking with his wife during one of the brief 
afternoon naps of his small son.

Due to the cramped living conditions of his city apartment they have to 
time their clinches to coincide with the offspring's sleeping routine. 
The problem being that he is now reaching an age where his afternoon 
naps are less certain than they used to be.

Ordered to get in bed by his wife, the man sits and waits for her to 
return after having settled the boy. Soon they go at it like tigers and 
copulate for all their worth. Having got round one out of the way they 
are about to go for round two when...

I expect all you RL parents can guess the rest.

It seems as if Losgud was aiming for the territory that is usually the 
exclusive domain of Uther Pendragon. And he does it very well, I might 
add. Not brilliantly arousing by any means, but pleasing and gentle for 
all that. Uplifting and amusing seems about right.

On a different note, to answer a question posed by Losgud on ASSD, I 
personally prefer to see the asterisk used to denote *emboldening*, 
rather than the under_score, but I have no valid or rational reason for 
doing so. Losgud uses the under_score. Each to their own <shrug>.

{Celestial comment:  I personally use either CAPS or _underscore_  for 
EMBOLDENING, because the *asterisks* appear to my spellcheck as 
WILDCARDS and slow up the proofreading process.  I prefer that my guest 
reviewers do the same.}

Ratings for "Let's All Nap Now, Please!"
Athena (technical quality): 10 (Very clever writing)
Venus (plot & character): 10 (Highly believable)
Kim (appeal to reviewer): 9 (I liked it, rather than loved it)

"It's Only a Dream " by Unknown Author. Guest review by David Rills.

Maybe it's me but I just couldn't get into this story of female 
masturbation come to ghostly fulfillment.  The submission is about a 
woman returning from a disappointing "Blind Date".  Lying in her bed, 
she begins to masturbate, falls asleep and is visited by a robe clad 
stranger who makes love to her.  There's no plot and the sexual 
descriptions aren't very good.  To make things worse, the author makes 
numerous spelling  errors.  My advice: SKIP THIS ONE !

Ratings for "It's Only a Dream"
Athena (technical quality): 4
Venus (plot & character): 1
David (appeal to reviewer): 1

* "My Bedroom" by WA Emmerson (chas@bladon.dnet.co.uk).  I have to 
admit that the main reason I reviewed this story was because the 
size of the cock caught my attention.  It was immense - "just over 
seventeen centimetres from the base to the top."  We Americans 
don't do centimetres, so I just assumed that this must be about 13 
inches, since that's the size of a typical immense cock here in 
the colonies.  I called the librarian and asked her the American 
equivalent 17 centimetres.  She told me it was 6.7 inches, and I 
said there must be some mistake.  She rechecked and said, "Nope, 
actually 6.6929 inches.  Why? What do you have that's 17 
centimetres long?"  I had to think fast, and so I said, "A British 
hotdog."  She said, "Those Brits should put more meat in their 
hotdogs."  If she only knew....

I made that story up.  The part about the librarian and the 
hotdog, that is.  Actually, I looked up the formula in the World 
Almanac and did the conversion on my calculator.  You can review 
and rate my story, if you wish.  But the guy in this story was 
really impressed with his 6.7 inch beaver cleaver.

Anyway, the guy with the 6.7 love muscle is going to go clubbing 
with four lady friends, and they are going to stay over the night 
with him in his flat, which is what the British call apartments or 
certain types of shoes.  I knew what the author was talking about 
right away, since this was not a foot fetish story.  Anyway, the 
guy has sex with one of the girls.  That's about it.  It's a 
really lame story - just a bunch of ideas thrown together without 
any concern for timing, plot, motivation, or any of those 
subtleties we might expect from a sex story.  My own story at the 
end of the first paragraph of this review was much better.  My 
guest reviewers are going to be glad that I kept this one for 
myself.  But then, I also kept all the Mandible stories for 
myself.

Ratings for "My Bedroom" 
Athena (technical quality): 7 
Venus (plot & character): 3 
Venus (appeal to reviewer): 3

* "Cousin Tanda" by Unknown Author (editor@spellbinder.bc.ca).  The 
guy has been staying on the farm with his cousin Tanda.  One 
morning she awakens him early and asks him to join her in some 
voyeurism.  By that I mean they watch some pigs copulate.  There 
may be something to the old theory of "Monkey see, monkey do," 
because immediately afterward Tanda asks him if he'd like to have a 
shot at it - with her, of course, not with a pig.  They do pretty 
well!

This is a short, but very good story.  It was presented as a sort of an 
advertisement for Lust So Stories, who have a web site at 
http://spellbinder.bc.ca/lss/.

Ratings for "Cousin Tanda"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

* "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon.  Paula is the guardian 
for her ten-year-old nephew, the child of her deceased sister.  
Since she generally requires Cal to appear naked in her presence, 
we might suspect that she is a dirty old woman.  Not true! Paula's 
every desire toward Cal is indeed maternal, even her long-
established insistence on his naked humility. It is all for his 
own good.  She has always known in her heart that a worshipful man 
is a happy man; and an adored and well-served woman is happier 
still. All she wants for her sweet nephew is as much happiness as 
a life of early sorrow can still afford. 

We learn several important Hidden Truths from the Feminist 
Catechism - a few things that make one go "Hmmmm."  For example, 
why does it feel good for a boy to have his penis become hard?  
Answer: Because the erection shows that the nearby female has 
power over him, and it's good to be honest and respectful in that 
way.  We also witness a detailed description of circumcision - 
that sacrament (best conferred when young girls are holding the 
boy's legs apart) which is designed to humiliate and shame a young 
boy and to enable him to find his place in the world designed for 
women. 

After his circumcision, young Cal became popular with the local 
girls, many of whom had been present at his gala circumcision and 
who had told their friends that here was a lad who was willing to 
become obediently naked for instructional or conversational 
purposes.  They could ask him questions about his boy things and 
even touch them if they wanted. His aunt didn't mind at all, and 
nobody even knew whether he did. Nobody asked him. Nobody really 
cared. The girls who heard all this said it was incredible but 
they'd believe it when they saw it. Cal had many visitors. 

The censors might be suspicious of this story - thinking, for 
example, that there is something unseemly in the idea of an 11-
year-old girl gazing at and touching the newly circumcised penis 
of a 6-year-old boy.  That would be the perception of a person 
with a filthy mind; most readers of this story will easily see 
that this is simply an example of a lower-order member of the 
species offering his genitalia as an educational tool for a young 
member of the Super Race.  For, as every British schoolgirl knows 
(with apologies to Thomas Babington Macaulay), "The battle of the 
sexes is lost before it even begins.  Ladies just happen to enjoy 
being reminded of this fact." 

Like most of Estragon's writing, this story is a fictionalized 
version of a feminist philosophical tract.  Some readers will find 
the ideas a bit exaggerated or even bizarre.  "Who could ever 
believe crap like this?" they'll say.  Well, my old Aunt Emma, for 
one.  I escaped from her clutches long ago (I think).  She's dead 
now and can no longer reach me (I hope).  But she had these weird 
ideas about religion that ran exactly parallel to Aunt Paula's 
sexual theories.  Aunt Emma's books did not emphasize physical 
circumcision or sexual humiliation - just spiritual versions of 
the same themes.  I haven't looked at the "Imitation of Christ" 
lately - and I doubt that it's high on the reading list of most 
a.s.s. readers - but my recollection is that it seriously argues 
that humans become more perfect by becoming better slaves of God.  
My point is that if otherwise sensible people have been known to 
apply this dominance/slavery theory to the relationship between 
God and humankind, it should hardly be surprising to see it 
applied to the relationship between men and women.

Estragon writes extremely well, and this is another good story.  
Every time I sit down at my computer to review one of Estragon's 
stories, I say to myself, "This female dominance stuff is 
nonsense.  I want men to be my equals, not my slaves."  Then, as I 
read the outlandish but interesting events in the story, I find 
myself realizing that there's a huge kernel of truth behind what 
Estragon is saying.

Ratings for "Travels with Aunt Paula" 
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Forever Faithful" by J Boswell.  Holy cow!  Could both Ann 
Landers and Dear Abby be wrong?  Both of those illustrious 
advisors adamantly insist that the "other woman" gets the short 
end of the stick {so to speak}.  But here we have a woman who 
accepts an invitation to become a mistress in exchange for an 
opportunity for professional advancement.  She has regular trysts 
with her gentleman friend three or four times a week. They feel 
quite affectionate towards each other; it's much more than just 
sex, and there's no need for a commitment. He's married, a 
wonderful lover, and safe, having had a vasectomy years ago.  
Everyone, including the spouses, is happy; and the woman becomes 
immensely successful in the business world!  I don't know - either 
Ann and Abby or the lady in this story must be living in a fantasy 
world.

Probably the most perverse thing in the affair occurred when the 
woman shared her wedding day with her lover, because she wanted it 
to be special for him, too.  I don't think Ann and Abby have ever 
dealt with that issue; but I'm pretty sure they'd agree it was 
perverse.  That occasion also entailed an example of either a 
seriously misplaced modifier or crossdressing: "Still in my veil, 
gown and heels, Robert threw my dress up over my back and knelt 
behind me, slowing pushing himself into my wet pussy."

After the prenuptial romp, Robert says, "Theresa, I love you all the 
more for this wedding treat you've given me. I've thought about what I 
want to do and decided that I don't want you to be a virgin anywhere in 
your body tonight."  Then he fucks her up her ass, in both nostrils, and 
in both ears.

The story wasn't bad; but it wasn't as hot as many of the better 
stories I've reviewed recently.  It was late when I wrote this 
review.  The story had potential, but was dragging; and so I made 
some of this stuff up.  Sorry, Boswell; you've written worse 
stories, but you've also written better.

Ratings for "Forever Faithful"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

* "Snowbound" by A. Van Peebles (an182636@anon.penet.fi).  Planes 
are grounded because of snow; and so the doctor's wife is stuck in 
a distant city, leaving him alone in charge of the slumber party 
for a boisterous band of fifteen-year-olds.  One of the girls (who 
happens to be his favorite) falls and sprains her ankle; and the 
old peter meter is on the rise as the doctor takes her to his 
bedroom and gives her first aid.  Afterwards, to avoid doing 
something "irretrievably stupid," he is faced with the choices of 
a cold shower or masturbation. He prescribes the latter for 
himself, but Allison is vividly in his mind as he jerks off in the 
bathroom.  The sex is hot here, even though it's all in his mind.  
While Doc shovels snow the next morning, the rest of the kids go 
sledding; but the injured Allison stays behind and offers him a 
massage to cure what ails his sore back.  He accepts the rubdown, 
but will he decline to roll over and let her "do the front"?  And 
what will happen when his wife eventually returns home?  You may 
be surprised!

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

