Celestial Reviews 83 - May 11, 1996

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I myself achieve a satisfactory degree of anonymity by simply using the 
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I'm pretty my daughter Chelsea and my friend Tipper don't even know 
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Second note:  More recently, I have discovered that I can cross-post by 
simply replying to a previous message that has been cross-posted to 
both a.s.s. and a.s.s.d.  This is easier for me, and it “saves 
bandwidth.”  Temporarily I have been posting twice, since I am not 
certain this new method will work.  The “experimental” version is 
identical to the regular version, but is labeled <test>.  If this test 
appears to be successful (as I think it is), I plan to stop posting the 
slower, less efficient way and to go with this newer method.  If this 
will pose problems to anyone, please let me know.

To repeat, here’s what I did:  (1) I used my AOL service to find an 
article that was cross-posted to both a.s.s. and a.s.s.d.; (2) I 
selected “Reply to Group”; (3) when the message box appeared, I 
inserted my new title (Celestial Reviews 83) and my review; and then 
(4) I clicked the button that sent the reply (which was my article).  
This showed up fine in my service, but I cannot be certain what it 
looks like elsewhere.  In the future, I’ll simply find my old review in 
a.s.s.d. (because there are fewer entries there and it is easier to 
find), and then I’ll post my new reviews by replying to the old one.  
Again, if this will pose problems to anyone, please let me know.

Actually, it’s easier to cross-dress than to cross-post with AOL.

- Celeste

      “Coercion” or “Never Too Late To Start” by
            Wollstonecraft (forced sex) 10, 10, 10
      “Sue's First Threesome” by Paul Penrose (Threeway
            sex) 6, 5, 5
      “Explorer Delight” by Xtec (mini-orgy) 6, 5, 5
      “Yardboy” by Boptop99 (sex with the kid next door)
            5, 5, 5
      “One of Those Days” by Delta (mind control) 10, 9.5, 9.5
      “Delurk and a Story” by Karen C01 (sex slavery) 9, 8, 8
      “Reasons” by Wollstonecraft (pregnancy & wandering)
            10, 10, 10
      “Butterflies for Dinner” by Martha (dream fantasy)
            9.5, 8, 6
      “Tennis” by Jon Hallmark (athletic & sexual training) 
            10, 9.5, 9.5
      “Temptation” by  D.A. Ignatius (seducing one’s husband) 
            10, 10, 10

“Coercion” or “Never Too Late To Start” by Wollstonecraft 
(an285729@anon.penet.fi).  The woman’s husband is impotent.  She has 
been working with a man to whom she is attracted, and she is certain 
the attraction is reciprocal. She’d love to have his baby, but nothing 
is likely to come of the relationship.  Then one night a burglar breaks 
into their workplace and forces them to have sex while he watches.  
Actually, this plot sounds kind of lame the way I tell it; but I 
thoroughly enjoyed this story.

Ratings for “Coercion”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
“Sue's First Threesome” by Paul Penrose (ppenrose@citilink.com).  Sue 
and Her Guy are recent high school graduates in love.  They want to 
spice up their sex life, and so they invite the waiter at a bar to join 
them at their favorite make-out spot.  The story doesn’t have much of a 
plot - at least not yet; the writer just describes things as they come 
into his head.  If you want to read about a girl getting real wet while 
her boyfriend fucks her and watches a stranger join in, then I guess 
you might enjoy this story.

Ratings for “Sue's First Threesome”
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
 
“Explorer Delight” by Xtec (xtec@aol.com).  The man has received a 
military promotion, and he and his wife are having a big party to 
celebrate.  The woman gets drunk, and one of her husband’s friends asks 
her if she would like to drive his Explorer, since she and her husband 
are interested in purchasing one.  After a short test-drive, he invites 
her to the barracks to see the Explorer Video.  When he goes to take a 
leak, he slips a sex video into the VCR; and of course they fuck their 
brains out when he returns from the john.  She is quite impressed with 
his virility, which she attributes to the fact that he is Hispanic.  
The author doesn’t tell us the ethnic background of the woman or her 
husband; but we can infer that she is herself neither Hispanic nor 
black.  (Why would a black woman be impressed by the size of a Hispanic 
cock?)  My guess is that she and her husband are both Italian or maybe 
Scottish.

On the way home she gives James (the Hispanic guy) a blow job in the 
Explorer (hence, the title, I think).  He even promises to fuck her in 
the ass the next time.  Actually, the woman was pretty drunk, and maybe 
this was really a black stud story.  I even suspect that was a Bronco, 
not an Explorer.  This guy doesn’t sound like any Hispanic guy I’ve 
ever known!

Since she has never been unfaithful before, the woman is a bit nervous 
about telling her husband about this incident; but everything turns out 
fine, because a sexy chick of undetermined ethnic ancestry is leaving 
her husband’s bed just as she gets home.  She is sort of surprised that 
they had sex without the Explorer Video to stimulate them, but she and 
her husband have a great time relating their mutual experiences and 
fucking one last time before they fall happily asleep.

Ratings for “Explorer Delight”
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
 
“Yardboy” by Boptop99 (boptop99@aol.com).  Kathy is 38.  Years, not DD.  
Of course, she may also be a 38DD, but we don’t know that.  Justin is 
15.  Also years, not inches.  Nobody has a 15 incher - not unless you 
measure the circumference lengthwise.  Then even Pee Wee Herman would 
make the cut, so to speak.  Anyway, Kathy’s husband has recently dumped 
her for a younger woman - a bimbo who lacked the depth of character 
that Kathy will display in this story.  Justin is a yardboy who looks 
like a Greek god or at least like that stud from the Coke commercial.  
Three months of celibacy has been too much for Kathy, and so she 
decides to jump Justin’s bones.

Actually, I’ve oversimplified.  Kathy is much more complex and ethical 
than that.  First she goes to her bedroom and masturbates; but then 
Adonis (Justin) comes knocking on her door.  What’s a girl to do?  I 
mean, all those characters in Greek tragedies and in Shakespeare and in 
Thomas Hardy and in Days of Our Lives - they all try to resist Fate; 
and what good does it ever do?  “Listen, Justin, my hair's all wet,'' 
she calls. "I don't want to come down to the kitchen.  Come upstairs to 
my room and we'll talk about what you can do for me around the house 
today.'' What, indeed!

“Ohhh, Mrs. Andrew, you feel so nice!”  That’s “nice,” not “nicely.”  
It’s important grammatical niceties like that which enable a good 
author to let  the reader know who is doing the feeling and who is 
being felt.  Later, Kathy spreads her legs for Justin, her eyes fiery 
with lust.  That’s right - “fiery.”  If you’re going to read this 
story, you might as well learn something.  The inversion of letters 
when “fire” becomes “fiery” is an example of metathesis - or so one of 
my professors told us one day while I was quietly masturbating in the 
back of the classroom during a really boring lecture.  Now that I think 
about it, maybe the eager lips of a 15-year-old Adonis on my clit would 
have felt nicer than my fingers at that time. 

If I don’t find a really good story soon, I’m going to have to jump 
somebody’s bones myself!

Ratings for “Yardboy”
Athena (technical quality): 5
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
 
“One of Those Days” by Delta (an248969@anon.penet.fi).  I feel honored.  
Delta read my review of "Turn of the Cards" by RC, in which I compared 
that author’s work to Deirdre’s mind control stories. Delta pointed out 
to me that what Deirdre does well is to _not_ allow the reader to get a 
clear grasp of what is going on.  Never does Deirdre tell how the mind 
control is being achieved.  We can _guess_, but we never know. Deirdre 
does give subtle clues which point in certain directions; but the story 
can never actually be figured out - and that is the strength of writers 
like Deirdre and Sherwood Anderson.

Once an author unveils a mechanism, be it hypnosis, a mind control 
machine, or simply the power of personality, the reader is open to 
skepticism. Deirdre, by dint of not explaining anything, avoids this.  
Her stories are very short; usually they are more vignettes than 
stories.  They start in the middle, and they usually end in the middle, 
too.

When reading many of Deirdre's stories, the reader is held by the same 
fascination as a person watching a train wreck.  A “weak” character, by 
taking the easy path, becomes entangled in something which a show of 
will would have prevented. We think how easily such a thing could 
happen, all the while being repelled by the thought, yet fascinated as 
the character spirals downwards into the trap to which s/he has opened 
her/himself.

The other thing about Deirdre's stories is that they often focus on 
“anal delights” which are still a bit taboo, and this raises the ante 
somewhat.  Delta suggested that perhaps the anal aspect is a draw for 
me personally.  Perhaps I have misled my readers.  I DO enjoy anal sex; 
but it’s not as if I take it up the ass every night.  The fact that 
other people consider it to be a special taboo or a distinctive form of 
humiliation probably adds to the intimacy I share with my husband 
during our relatively rare but highly pleasant anal activities.

Anyway, Delta has written a mind control story.  I cannot tell you much 
about it, because a major part of your enjoyment will flow from trying 
to figure out what is happening.  Read it and “enjoy” - as the story 
says in its concluding statement.

Ratings for “One of Those Days”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
 
“Delurk and a Story” by Karen C01 (karenc01@aol.com).  OK - It’s 
getting close to exam time; so here’s a test question for you aspiring 
doms and subs.  Assume the woman has been accepted as a probationary 
submissive by her dom of choice.  Assume also that he has met with her 
for breakfast and that he has instructed her to go to the bathroom, 
remove her bra and panties, and bring these items back to him.  Of 
course, this will mean that the woman will have to perform at work all 
day in a state of semi-nakedness with her hardened nipples pressing 
against the fabric of her blouse, arousing herself and everyone around 
her - but that’s not the test question.  The question is this: if while 
she is in the restroom stall removing the designated items the woman 
gets an inspiration to masturbate and thereby bestows on her dom a pair 
of panties that is soaked with the aroma of her cum juices, is this a 
good thing or a bad thing?

What scares me is that I knew the answer!

Those of you who are interested in sex slavery will enjoy this story 
more than I did.  It’s apparently the first in a series.

Ratings for “Delurk and a Story”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

“Reasons” or "You're a Real Contradiction, Ain't You?" by 
Wollstonecraft (an285729@anon.penet.fi). This story was inspired, in 
part, by an article in Psychology Today that outlined recent theories 
on the female orgasm.

Don and Kathy are in love and want to have a baby together.  As good 
luck would have it, they are married (to each other!), but as bad luck 
would have it, Don has to go out of town on business for a month just 
when Kathy knows she will be most fertile.  Can this happy marriage 
survive this trauma?  I know enough from watching “Days of Our Lives” 
to suspect that their marital bliss will be disrupted.  Stay tuned for 
the next paragraphs!

As soon as Don leaves, Kathy desperately misses him. To make matters 
worse, she has just stopped taking the pill; and so she is "more 
responsive," as her doctor, who displays Psychology Today along with 
Cosmopolitan and Readers Digest in his waiting room, put it.  So when 
she finds herself getting horny watching a sexy show on television, she 
reaches for the vibrator and responds happily to its stimulation.  As 
we fade to commercial, Kathy is recovering from the best orgasm she has 
had in the long week since Don has been absent.

But wait!  Something’s gone berserk on my mental TV screen.  People are 
humping, but that’s not Don and Kathy!  It’s not even Bo and Hope or 
John and Marlena and/of Kristen!  It’s a bunch of primitive tribesmen 
and women!  My mental TV screen has merged my soap opera with the 
Discovery Channel!  I am reminded of those days back in the library of 
my Catholic school when the boys used to read National Geographic so 
that they could see the Naked Natives of Namibia.  But I digress.  A 
primitive woman is describing her difficulties getting pregnant.  Not 
having a gynecologist or Psychology Today, she is acting on the theory 
that her infertility problem arises from the fact that her mating hole 
doesn't suck at her mate's skin staff the way other women’s do.  
Neither Doctor Ruth nor Psychology Today could put it more elegantly.

Now the story becomes a bit technical.  The woman belongs to a tribe of 
hunters and gatherers.  While she is out gathering and her several 
mates are elsewhere hunting, she is approached by a wanderer who is 
wandering and who fucks her in such a way as to make her mating hole 
suck quite vigorously at his skin staff.  Now the men in the tribe no 
longer satisfy her; and the woman begins to wander while she gathers, 
looking for her wandering man.  The Country Music Television channel is 
beginning to encroach on my already confused mental imagery!

My mental TV image is fixed.  I’m back with Kathy.  She still misses 
Don, but she has joined her friend Sandy; and the two of them are going 
to a hot night spot together.  So that they won’t have to stand around 
waiting in line to get in, Kathy is dressed to kill.  I’m back on the 
familiar turf of the American TV soap opera.  The dialogue in the bar 
is again familiar: "Waiting for your husband?"  The stranger’s voice is 
deep and smooth and sends shivers down Kathy’s spine. "No," she 
replies, aware that she might become a wanderer. "Waiting for me, then.  
Come dance with me."  I’m on well-known ground now - As she spirals 
toward eternal damnation, Kathy again and again says no but means yes 
and the stranger fucks her brains out repeatedly and they both cum 
ecstatically and she’s sure as hell going to be pregnant with this 
guy’s baby.  Poor Don!

I have to talk to the cable company.  We’re back on the Discovery 
Channel again.  The aboriginal woman has wandered and has found another 
man with a cock and stamina that legends are made of.  He rams her so 
solidly that she knows for certain that she is now with child. I have 
to talk to the cable company; I am getting the picture from the 
Discovery Channel but the soundtrack from the porn channel - all I hear 
is grunting; these people don’t even converse before or after mating.  
Once the guy gets her pregnant, the woman stops showing her old 
enthusiasm for sex and the man leaves her.  I sense a transition back 
to ordinary TV.

Back to normal!  Kathy is acutely aware that she has been unfaithful to 
Don; but she can take consolation in the fact that this is an American 
soap opera and she is now pregnant with someone else’s baby.  Maybe 
she’ll move to Salem or to Aramid.  She’s worried that Don will see the 
bruises that cover her body and suspect something has happened.  I 
respond mentally: “Cut the guilt trip, honey.  What do you think Donny 
Boy has been doing these past ten days?”  But there’s good luck: Don is 
going to be away for two weeks longer than planned; the bruises will 
heal, and he may never find out about Kathy’s infidelity.  All she has 
to do is lie a little and sleep with him.  Yeah; that always works on 
the soaps.  “But what about the baby?” you ask.  And what if Sandy 
realizes she is in love with Don and blackmails Kathy or seeks lesbian 
fulfillment?

That’s all I’m going to tell you.  You’ll have to read the story 
yourself to find out who has whose baby and the answers to your other 
questions.  My apologies to Wollstonecraft.  This really is a creative 
story.  As you can tell from the rating, I enjoyed it immensely.

I wonder what that article in Psychology Today really said.

Ratings for “Reasons”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character):  10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“Butterflies for Dinner” by Martha (an481005@anon.penet.fi).  This 
story was posted under the title “Dream Fantasy.”  It may be a close 
call, but I wouldn’t have done it that way.  I would have withheld the 
information that this is a dream fantasy (rather than reality) until 
the end.  If the reader knows it’s a dream, I don’t think the story is 
quite as interesting.

In addition, dreams have a value and meaning unique to the dreamer.  
It’s often difficult to explain them to someone else.  I have tried to 
write down my own dreams in the middle of the night so that I could 
tell them to my husband in the morning.  {I did this to counter the 
hostility I used to get when I woke him up to tell him about them 
immediately.  Apparently I’m sexy - but not THAT sexy!}  When I’d read 
my notes in the morning, I’d usually find they weren’t even all that 
interesting to me.

I have found some of Deirdre’s stories to read like good dream stories.  
They evoke the surrealistic sensation that “this must be happening but 
it can’t be happening.”  The present story is by no means awful; and I 
think it is plausible that a person having this dream would find it to 
be really exciting.  However, I wasn’t as excited by it as by my own 
dreams or by Deirdre’s bizarre reveries.

I hope this author writes some more, so that I can get a better sample 
of her writing.

Ratings for “Butterflies for Dinner”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6

“Tennis” by Jon Hallmark (an507138@anon.penet.fi).  When Alex Agassi 
plays tennis so well and looks over at the Lovely Lady applauding his 
efforts, have you ever wondered exactly how this Line of Inspiration 
works?  This story explains one theory.  It tells how a fine Mistress 
turned an average tennis player into a champion by using many of the 
techniques we have seen discussed in D/s stories right here on a.s.s.

Ratings for “Tennis”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5

“Temptation” by D.A. Ignatius (DarkNites) (jash@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu).  
“The CEO of Fieldbrook has to be at this charity ball.”  So says the 
husband.  But the wife of the CEO would rather ball the CEO than go to 
the ball.  Therefore,  she tempts him at home before they leave for the 
festivities.  He makes it to the ball and finds another beautiful woman 
coming on to him while he is at the podium - and he with his wife’s 
lipstick barely dry on his cock!  His wife wards off this predator and 
continues to flirt with her husband.  But has she gone too far? She 
doesn't care if they are married; there is a limit to what it is legal 
to do under the eyes of a hundred people.

A limit - but a very generous limit.  She is so relieved that at least 
this isn’t going to be a repeat of the Ladies Room Experience that she 
doesn't even mind when he tears off her panties and plunges into her in 
the room at the Regency.  Based on personal experience, I have no 
problem believing that this story is very, very plausible.

Ratings for “Temptation”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10


