Celestial Reviews 17 - Sept 6, 1995

Note:  I went out of town for Labor Day, and so I have only a few 
reviews this week.  More will be coming on Saturday.

      "Aerobics Is Good for Your Sex Life" by Wyvern (Sex &
           Aerobics) 10
      "Love at First Byte" by Steve Black (Cyberlove & romance)
            8
      "Catherine" by Erica (sex with the dorm mom) 5

"Aerobics Is Good for Your Sex Life" by Wyvern (an6445@anon.penet.fi).  
This story was reposted as part of the collection from the "Vault," 
under the title aerobics.sty.  However, I have had terrible luck 
getting complete stories from that series, and so I cannot recommend 
getting other stories from that source.  Maybe that service will 
improve.  It sounds like a good idea.  Here's a review of the one story 
I did download.

Imagine that you are an overweight, middle-aged man who has decided to 
get his act together by doing some exercise before his heart stops 
functioning completely.  I know this will be a stretch for most male 
readers of these reviews, who are almost unanimously young, virile, and 
amorous hunks.  But for the sake of discussion, assume that you were 
such a person and you signed up for aerobics at the local YMCA and the 
cute young aerobics instructor made you an offer you couldn't resist.  
To wit, as the lawyers say: if the party of the first part would meet 
his weight goals by a designated date, that party would be invited to 
the rustic cabin of the party of the second part for a weekend of fun 
and frolic as a reward for his good behavior.  Not a bad idea!  
Needless to say, the protagonist meets his goals and becomes a 
veritable stud.  Let's hear it for positive reinforcement!  The author 
presents the story very well, and the sex (which he refers to as 
vanilla) is actually pretty hot.  I thoroughly enjoyed this story.  
Maybe YMCA's would be a lot more popular if they had more programs of 
this kind. (Rating: 10)

"Love at First Byte" by Steve Black (c621097@showme.missouri.edu)..  
This is the first story posted by this author.  It's not perfect, but 
it's a good first attempt.  The gist of the story is that the guy has a 
bit of a falling out with his girlfriend, who lives too far away for 
any regular contact or intimacy In the absence of his girlfriend, he 
becomes extremely attracted to an older, more experienced woman through 
an Internet newsgroup.  The sex via Internet is extremely well done.  
The sex via direct contact is somewhat less vivid or less creative - it 
somehow takes too long to develop.  I enjoy descriptions of sex that is 
based on a combination of lust and relationship rather than merely one 
or the other of these factors; and this story has both.  But somehow 
this story takes a little too long to develop.  

I assume this author, like most others will just go along and write new 
stories - and I hope he does.  But someday, I hope he comes back to 
this one and tries to give it a final polishing.  The current version 
of the story contains a combination of feelings and rationalizing; and 
the balance goes a little too far toward the side of the rational.  
Another problem is that the dialogue just doesn't quite sound 
realistic.  Don't let this scare you off.  If you like romance, it's 
still a pretty good story.  I hope a lot of you read it and drop the 
author a line.  You possibly have better insights than I can offer him.  
(Rating: 8)

"Catherine" by Erica (eyaro@aol.com).  What we have here is a story 
about a frumpy. middle-aged lady, who loses her job and moves in with a 
bunch of college kids as a sort of maid and dorm mom.  She warms up to 
them and turns into their private slut.  As a result, her health and 
psychological attitude improve; and her beautiful, radiant true self 
emerges.  Around Christmas, she gives herself to the guys for a month 
as a sort of holiday present.  (It's not really clear how this "gift" 
differs from the status quo that would have prevailed in the absence of 
this gift, except that she went naked around the house a little more 
often.) At one point during Yuletide, she even acted like a filthy 
whore - imagine that!  But the guys treated her with respect, sometimes 
inviting as many as ten of their friends over to fuck her on an evening 
after she had finished up with the guys themselves.  Indeed, they 
respected her so much that they didn't even make her wipe the cum from 
one of them off before she had sex with another.  The guys never pushed 
sex on her when she didn't want it - although it's not clear that there 
ever were any times when she didn't want it.  I don't know what it is 
that confused me about this story.  Maybe it was the run-on sentences.

If you enjoy reading about pointless sex or believe that becoming a 
relentless slut could actually enhance a woman's self image, this one's 
for you.  It kinda reminds me of the story about the guy who met an 
ugly old woman, who was living under a bridge.  He said to her, "You're 
the ugliest bitch I've ever seen!"  She replied, "I'm a witch.  I'll 
grant you three wishes, if you'll eat my cunt."  The guy figured she 
was ugly as sin, but for three wishes - why not?  In spite of the awful 
stench emanating from her cunt, her ate her out for a full ten minutes, 
until she came in a roaring orgasm.  Then she rolled to the side and 
just laughed quietly.  The guy asked her what she was laughing about.  
She replied, "Aren't you a little old to believe in witches?"

Well, if my story's a 6, this one is no more than a 5.  If you give 
mine a lower rating, adjust this story's rating accordingly.  (Rating: 
5)