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From: Celeste801@aol.com
Subject: Celestial Reviews 173 - April 16
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Celestial Reviews 173 - April 16, 1997
Note: I'm finally catching up on some stories that I received at a time when
I was experiencing technical difficulties. If I review your story, you may
want to repost it, so that readers can find it more easily. If you have
trouble finding a story, try www.dejanews.com. Also, if you sent me a story
and I failed to review it, send me a reminder. I probably still have the
story, but I need you to nudge me to dig it out.
Second Note: Remember: even though someone else may be posting my stories for
me, my e-mail address is still Celeste801@aol.com.
- Celeste
"Chocolate Kisses" by Ashley (chocolate incest) 9, 7, 7
"My Birthday Present" by Insomnia (strip search & threesome)
9, 9, 9
"The O'Stikkit Inn" by Mike Hunt (sex in the swimming pool)
10, 10, 10
"The One-Room Schoolhouse in the Middle of the Prairie" by
Anonymous (double whammy) 10, 9, 10
"Box Office" by CobaltJade (sex slavery) 10, 10, 10
"A Summer Romance" by Jim Fix (emerging adolescence)
10, 10, 10
"Twins" by IRA (pregnancy) 9, 8, 8
"Susan" by DaVinci (one nighter) 7, 8, 8
"Down by the Tracks" by Dulcinea (outdoor sex) 10, 10, 10
"Mowing the Lawn" by OddManOut Anywhere (applied sex
education) 10, 9, 9
"For Her" by Unknown Author (very hot mf sex) 10, 10, 10
"Moments of Gold" by Rayv and Jvstin (meeting the cyberlover)
9, 9, 9
"The Last Man on Earth" by Night Writer (science fiction)
10, 9, 9
* "Slippery When Wet" by SueNH (boiling hot jacuzzi sex)
10, 10, 10
* "At the Pool" by Mark Aster (swimming pool sex)
10, 10, 10
* "Brenda's Conquest" by Tom Bombadil (emerging
adolescence & romance) 10, 10, 10
* = Repost of a previous review (because the story has
recently been reposted)
"Chocolate Kisses" by Ashley (ashley@cythera.com). The story is supposed to
be a narrative by a 16-year-old, describing her sexual experiences with her
father. The old guy has bought her a candy cock, so that she can practice
giving head without using her teeth. Ashley tells how she gets turned on
while playing with her phallus and her father, and she also describes some of
the things she imagines while she does her thing. It's an interesting and
somewhat sexy story, but it just doesn't quite ring true.
Ratings for "Chocolate Kisses"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7
"My Birthday Present" by Insomnia (insomnia@bigfoot.com). For his birthday
present the girlfriend allows the narrator to strip search herself and her
friend. The activities get pretty hot and result in threeway action that
includes anal sex. Not a bad story!
Ratings for "My Birthday Present"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"The O'Stikkit Inn" by Mike Hunt (M1KE HUNT@aol.com). I'll bet you wouldn't
notice this on your own; so I'll tell you. If you read the title " O'Stikkit
Inn" by Mike Hunt out loud, it could be mistaken for an imperative sentence
giving directions during foreplay. Imagine that.
This is a VERY hot story. As an example of sex in the swimming pool, it
rivals "Slippery When Wet" by SueNH. As I said in my review of Sue's story,
I can't do it justice by trying to summarize it - It's about a man and a
woman who meet a guy in the bar and then get into the hotel's swimming pool
after closing time. Read the story for the rest. As I said, it's really hot
stuff.
Ratings for "The O'Stikkit Inn"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"The One-Room Schoolhouse in the Middle of the Prairie" by Anonymous.
Jim Harbo is a student having a sex fantasy about his
teacher, Keesha Jackson. Or maybe Keesha Jackson is a student having a sex
fantasy about her teacher, Jim Harbo. Or maybe Jim Harbo is a teacher having
a sex fantasy about his student, Keesha Jackson. Whatever.... Somebody
either in real life or in fantasy life is a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse
with a sexually enticing student who needs to be punished and who enjoys the
spanking or does not enjoy the spanking - or at least someone is putting
something over on someone else and at least one person is getting sexually
aroused. Probably. This story is to be continued. Maybe.
Ratings for "The One-Room Schoolhouse"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Box Office" by CobaltJade (cobaltjade@aol.com). I try to set aside my
personal preferences when I review these stories. In the present case, I
would NOT like to experience the activities that this woman experiences, but
I have to admit that this is a well-written creative story. In a weird way I
enjoyed the story very much.
The story is about sex slavery. The woman enjoys bdsm games, and she
volunteers to be sold into slavery. She gets more than she bargained for.
The title is a perfect description of her final role in the story. I
promise you that you'll be unable to guess the meaning of this title until
you get to the very end of the story.
Ratings for "Box Office"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"A Summer Romance" by Jim Fix (emerging adolescence). This was actually
posted as two separate stories: "A Summer Romance Part 1" and "Summer Romance
Revisited." I shall review these as a single story, and I advise you to read
both parts together.
Paul (a bright student going into his sophomore year in high school) and his
Mom have been living together since her messy divorce from his Dad two years
ago. Paul and his mother have always showed mutual affection, but during a
stay at some relatives' mountain cabin they realize that their attraction has
a physical and sexual component. With his mature consent, Mom decides to
treat Paul as a lover, and their life together becomes happier. They each
contribute to the other's intellectual and personal growth, as well as to
each other's sexual happiness.
The second half of the story moves more rapidly than the first half. Life
changes; Paul goes to college; Mom gets a new job; their love affair comes to
an end; Mom remarries; and Paul falls in love. This is a very good story.
I think society's general taboo against incest is reasonable; that is, it
makes sense to have an initial reaction that incestuous relations should be
avoided. In general, incestuous relationships are likely to be coercive and
exploitive, even though the participants may be unaware that something bad is
happening. Nevertheless, it also makes sense to consider the possibility
that such relationships could be productive and growth-producing. This
author has gone to great lengths to build a good story around a set of
circumstances in which a mother/son sexual relationship is not only harmless
but also beautiful.
You can skip the rest of this review if moral reasoning doesn't interest you,
but I am going to discuss morality for a few paragraphs. Religions generally
condemn incest, and I (Celeste) am an active participant in the Catholic
religion, whose leaders condemn incest. How do I reconcile these views? Why
don't I either condemn incest or stop being a Catholic Christian?
The answer lies in proportionalist moral reasoning, which says that when
there is a conflict between moral outcomes or goals, decisions must be based
on proportionate consequences. An action that might objectively be
undesirable (immoral) is permitted only if it leads to benefits (called
values) that outweigh its ill effects (called disvalues). The Catholic
Church and other religions have used this kind of reasoning for centuries
(for example, with regard to the "just war theory") but the Church leaders
are not exactly progressive with regard to sexual morality.
The main alternative to proportionalist reasoning in the Christian religions
is natural law reasoning. Here's the difference. Assume that there is a
soldier who has his army's secret plans in a pouch attached to his belt.
When he is in danger of being caught, is it morally permissible for the
soldier to ignite an explosive that will destroy the plans but also kill
himself? Moral reasoning based on the natural law says yes - because the
soldier would be destroying the plans directly and himself only indirectly.
In other words, this is not really suicide. Proportionalist reasoning would
also say yes - but because the value of saving the entire army outweighs the
disvalue of the soldier killing himself. In other words, this is suicide, but
it's justified.
Changing the situation slightly, what if the soldier had memorized the plans
instead of having them in a pouch? Can the soldier kill himself if he
suspects that his captors will get the secrets from him? Natural law
reasoning would say no - because he would be killing himself directly and
destroying the secrets only indirectly. This would be suicide, and nothing
can justify suicide. Proportionalist reasoning would still say yes - again
because the value of saving the entire army outweighs the disvalue of the
soldier killing himself. Again, this is suicide, but it's justified. My
opinion is that the natural law conclusion is just plain goofy.
This proportionalist reasoning is not all that complicated, and it makes
perfect sense. Common sense tells me that it would be unfortunate for the
soldier to be put in either situation, but I don't think he would be
"sinning" in either case if he took his life to save his army. On the other
hand, the soldier should consider other factors - such as how well he can
withstand torture, the likelihood that the enemy will get the information
from someone else, the actual value of the information, etc. All this
information would enter into the soldier's moral reasoning to determine
whether there is a proportional reason for taking his own life in either
case.
Applied to an issue like incest, proportionalism means that we should weigh
the possible values to be gained from incest (such as the possibility of a
mutually fulfilling relationship that is a natural extension of an existing
spontaneous relationship and which would release two people's tensions while
getting them ready for other relationships) against the disvalues associated
with that action (such as restricting the child from more age-appropriate
relationships, giving birth to children that are likely to have genetic
defects, and societal retribution). In most cases in real life, the
disvalues would far outweigh the values; but in this story the values
outweigh the losses. This reasoning is different from the traditional, more
legalistic approaches, which focuses on whether the action is natural or
unnatural - prohibited by a rule or not prohibited; but this type of
reasoning is neither excessively complex nor illogical.
There is no reason to believe that Jesus would reject proportionalist
reasoning. There IS reason to believe that in most cases in real life the
disvalues will outweigh the values, and so society's general ban on
incestuous activities makes sense - as long the taboo itself does not
introduce more problems than it solves. In terms of moral reasoning, what
this story has done has been to create a situation in which the values
demonstrably outweigh the disvalues.
My personal reasoning is also different from that of hedonism, which
essentially says if it feels good and hurts nobody, go ahead and do it. Both
hedonism and traditional religions offer valid insights into incestuous
behavior; proportionalism offers another angle.
So there! I hope this discussion makes as much sense to you as it does to
me. I do NOT believe that it is necessary that every story describe purely
moral behavior, but I do think it is good occasionally to discuss a story in
its moral context.
Ratings for "A Summer Romance"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Twins" by IRA (Fun@Americanstyle.com). This story imitates a clinical case
study written by a marriage counselor. The woman had insipid sex with her
husband, then hot sex with the (African American) delivery man. When the
woman gives birth to twins, her husband becomes suspicious since one baby is
white and the other black. The doctor tells them that perhaps this is
because they each had an ancestor who might have been black. The man accepts
this reasoning, and thereafter he works harder at his marriage. They live
happily ever after.
This story suggests that the skin color of the black baby is essentially a
matter of a double recessive gene, like eye color. It just doesn't work that
way. Other than that significant mistake, this is a nice story.
Ratings for "Twins"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"Susan" by DaVinci (rmbte1@ix.netcom.com). Rick meets Susan, discusses
literature and art with her, then takes her home to her house. Susan really
needs her confidence boosted, and Rick helps out in several ways, mostly by
fucking her brains out. Some of the grammatical structure is awkward, but
this is a pretty good story.
Ratings for "Susan"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"Baywatch Story 1: Caroline Holden" by SJ Bedden (sjb@easynett.co.uk).
"Baywatch" is an exciting television show that suffers from unfair criticism
from what a great American leader referred to as "an effete corps of
intellectual snobs." Each week (or every day on cable) the brave men and
women of Baywatch save lives and bring joy and happiness to the small corner
of the world known as Venice Beach. Jay Leno recently noted that scientists
have discovered salt water on one of the moons of Jupiter. Said Leno, "If
salt water is a prerequisite for intelligent life, then how do you explain
Baywatch?" Actually, Leno was suffering from a logical fallacy known as the
undistributed middle or some such thing; but the point here is that one
should not hastily conclude that these sexy babes are all airheads or that
David Hasselhof can't sing.
This story approaches the Bay heroes and heroines in the same spirit: "They
all had perfect bodies, and from their tight swimsuits I could tell that they
were pretty well endowed elsewhere too." Just ponder that sentence! By
contemplating the swimsuit of, say, Pamela Anderson, it is possible to
determine that Pamela is pretty well endowed "elsewhere" too. Where else
could that "elsewhere" be, except in the mind or the soul? Anyway, once I
knew the narrator of this story would "were" a similar swimsuit, I knew I was
in for more than mere sexual titillation. Nevertheless, I went on with the
story.
Some of the details in this story are as surprising as they are stimulating.
For example, within only a few hours CJ is able to find out the phone number
of the narrator, whose bushy hairs jut out prominently beyond the red fabric
of the sides of her swimming suit.
The story contains many revealing details, such as the fact that the typical
lifeguard has at least a 10-inch cock but is surprised to discover this
(unless that was a bad pronoun reference). Also, female lifeguards sometimes
give head to male lifeguards while they drive their vehicles across crowded
beaches, but no one gets hurt, usually - at least not unless they hit a bump
and her teeth snap shut or something like that.
Instead of saving lives, in today's episode Caroline lies on the beach and
sleeps until Ryan comes down from the tower and rubs suntan lotion on her
while she grinds her ass into his erection. Actually, I guess they WERE
saving lives - at least she wasn't giving head in a moving vehicle on a
crowded beach anymore! When Ryan takes a break, the three studs on the beach
come up to Caroline and ask if they can please have sex with her. She
replies, ""You guys are asking to fuck me, just like that. Do I look like
some kind of slut or what?" Then she has sex with them. Afterwards, the
boys are knackered and lie on the floor panting. That's a British
expression, I think: in America we refer to the sandy area where lifeguards
have sex as a "beach."
In spite of its clever use of technical terms like "big cock," "juicy spunk,"
and even "thick white cum," the story lacks realism and what technical people
refer to as a "plot." However, this story certainly does have a lot of
pointless sex in a quasi-literate context, and so this might appeal to some
Baywatch enthusiasts or to people who are interested in getting vicarious sex
without having to think too much. There's a second episode, entitled "
Baywatch story 2: Gena's Story," but I think I'll skip that one.
This review sounds like it was written by an envious English teacher.
Ratings for "Baywatch Story"
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
"Down by the Tracks" by Dulcinea (ImDulcinea@aol.com). The picnic has been
romantic, and who said sex needed to intrude on every romantic venture?
Well, the guidelines of this newsgroup, for one! Since she loves trains,
they have been having a picnic near the train tracks. About the time the
train is scheduled to pass, the husband begins to make love to his wife and
manages to climax just as the train is passing ten feet away on the other
side of the bushes. The earth DID move! It turns out she likes boats too.
Ratings for "Down by the Tracks"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Mowing the Lawn" by OddManOut Anywhere (oddman0ut@hotmail.com). The guy
hates to mow the lawn. When his own lawnmower breaks down, he borrows his
neighbors'. When he returns it, he discovers that the neighbors' sexy
17-year-old daughter is down in the dumps because no boys find her
attractive. She's a track star and is in great shape, but she's shy and
sexually inexperienced. Drawing on his own expertise from 20 years earlier,
he gives her some really good advice, explaining that the boys actually find
her extremely attractive but are reluctant to risk talking to her for fear of
rejection. She appreciates the advice and then asks him to help her learn to
kiss and make out. He complies - after all, they did loan him the lawnmower.
Katie learns the basic skills of sexual foreplay, and Brad doesn't hate to
mow the lawn anymore.
Ratings for "Mowing the Lawn"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"For Her" by Unknown Author (THC Archives). This was reposted as "Looker 1"
by the THC Archives. It's not a full story - just a brief interlude about
two people in love, fucking each other's brains out. It's extremely hot and
well written - kind of like Dulcinea in heat. If anyone knows anything about
the identity of this author, I would certainly like to hear from you.
There's also a "Looker 2 (Night Breezes )" and "Looker 3 (Role Reversal),"
which I plan to review soon.
Ratings for "For Her"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Moments of Gold" by Rayv and Jvstin (jvstin@admin.con2.com). Elizabeth and
Jason have won a contest that took two people who have corresponded by e-mail
but not in real life and sent them BOTH on a trip together in London. They
have already hit it off nicely in cyberspace, and they find that they are
even more compatible in person, as they act out their sexual fantasies in
London. This is a very good story - probably the sort of thing that many
readers of this newsgroup incorporate into their own fantasy lives.
Ratings for "Moments of Gold"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"The Last Man on Earth" by Night Writer (A+ Story). Not only has there been
a nuclear cataclysm, but there has also been a Plague, which has destroyed
all the men on the earth - all but one, that is. Now that man has returned
to Estrogen City, where he has been captured by Arachne and her leader Mrs.
Ippy. The world is ruled by lesbians. Will the heterosexual forces arise
and come to John's assistance and somehow restore sex between men and women
to its rightful and lustful place in the World Order? Will John Doe make a
contribution to repopulating the entire world with males? Stay tuned for
next week's exciting adventure.
Although I would have liked a more completely developed plot, this was still
a good story. I suspect that somewhere in cyberspace there are other
episodes of "The Last man on Earth."
I don't want to ruin the ending, but Mrs. Ippy is a closet heterosexual.
Ratings for "The Last Man on Earth"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "Slippery When Wet" by SueNH. This was one of the first stories I
reviewed. It sort of got me started in this business. Here's the original
review. I hope Sue reposts the story so that you can read it.
I was going to read this story late at night and write the review right away,
but after a story like that I have to take a break and visit my husband.
He's going to wake up with one hot mouth around his cock! This was a truly
erotic story. I can't do it justice by trying to summarize it - It's about a
girl and a guy who get into the fitness center jacuzzi after closing time.
Read the story for the details.
The only part that I didn't like at first was when they let the three college
kids join them in the jacuzzi. Actually, I liked that part too; but except
for that part, I'd be ecstatic for a chance to do exactly what the two of
them did. Sue has one of the best disclaimer's of all the a.s.s. writers:
"Reading and writing these stories should be acts of fantasy, and I hope that
you can keep your notions of real and fantasy life separate in your mind. I
know I can." And so can I!
Ratings for "Slippery When Wet"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "At the Pool" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com). Sometimes I suspect that
the plots for some of these stories are not very realistic. Take this one,
for example. Do you think that a guy in his middle twenties would really go
to a swimming pool and relax with his pregnant girlfriend at his side and
lust after a high school girl with shapely tits and a nice ass and legs that
won't quit who is serving her community as a lifeguard? And if the couple
did go to the pool together and if the guy really did feel horny whenever he
looked at the lifeguard and if he did express his fantasies about this young
lady to his girlfriend, do you think she would really find it interesting to
borrow the lifeguard's swimsuit and arrange to be alone in the pool with the
guy after closing time? And even if she did do this, do you think the guy
would actually get really turned on by the fantasy of making it with this
cute little lass while he was really driving his throbbing cock underwater
into the pulsating pussy of the lady who will bear his child? Do you find
this as repulsive as I do? And anyway, how could you get the girl to loan
you her swimsuit and let you into the pool - except, perhaps, by telling her
what you plan to do and telling her that she can watch.
Ratings for "At the Pool
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Brenda's Conquest" by Tom Bombadil (stbush@iglou.com). This is a story
about an older man who falls in love with a 13-year-old girl with whom he has
been familiar since she was nine. In addition, the girl's 11-year-old sister
develops a sexual relationship with his own 17-year-old sister. There's a
lot more to the story than this, but I am not going to go into the details
here. All I'll say here is that it's a rich, well-developed story that
presents a reasonable perspective on the problems as well as of the joys of
such a relationship.
The author himself refers to this as a "pedophile love story."
Interestingly, my on-line dictionary does not define pedophile or
pedophilia. It goes straight from pedometer to peduncle. Go figure.
However, my on-line encyclopedia does have an article on the topic, which
says this:
"Pedophilia is a psychosexual disorder characterized by a sexual desire for
and sexual acts with prepubescent children. Onset of the disorder can occur
from adolescence through old age, and it occurs predominantly in males.
About two-thirds of pedophiliacs are attracted to children of the opposite
sex. Based on evidence from criminal court records, pedophiles usually know
the children that they abuse. Most pedophiles resort to deception rather
than force. Although much is known about pedophilia, pedophiles themselves
are difficult to treat and recidivism rates are high."
In the present story, the "pedophile" doesn't actually do what my
encyclopedia says pedophiles do; he simply develops a consensual relationship
with a thirteen-year-old whom he has known for several years. You will note
that although the author himself describes this as a pedophile love story, I
myself have referred to it as a story of emerging adolescence and romance.
Nonetheless, it is important to realize that this story deals with a topic
that sets of alarms in the minds of people who are concerned about children
being harmed by pornography on the Internet. As a teacher in an American
public school, I am supposed to call to the attention of the legal
authorities behavior that is typically labeled pedophilia, if I become aware
of it. That's the rules, folks; and I could get into trouble for not
following them. I hasten to add that I am NOT a member of the Thought
Police. I work with a large number of troubled adolescents, and I HAVE
worked with the authorities in cases that they refer to as pedophilia. In no
case that I have witnessed has the relationship been like that described in
this story. Every case I have ever seen has revealed children who had their
lives screwed up by an exploitive adult.
The notion of falling in love with an innocent and precocious young person is
intuitively appealing. This story idealizes that intuitive appeal.
It seems reasonable that society can differentiate between exploitive sex
with children (which is vividly described in Michael K. Smith's
"Remembering") and emotionally sensitive relationships like those described
in this story. It is my own belief that most children are best advised to
reach a reasonable level of maturity before becoming sexually active and that
many adults who become sexually active with children are likely to be
satisfying their own (perhaps unconscious) needs rather than being helpful to
the children. In addition, a very large number of psychologists seem to
agree with my belief, and the laws of most countries in Western society
support my position.
On the other hand, stories like this one are realistic presentations of
emotions and feelings. My hope is that reasonable people can set aside their
biases, read this as the good story it is, and perhaps let the insights they
get from this story influence their thinking about the issues involved. Many
people will read this story to get some good ideas on how to seduce little
kids or will reject it out of hand because it is about something that is
immoral. Both groups will waste a perfectly good story.
This story raises a simple question: is it possible to write a story in which
an adult has sexual relations with a young adolescent in a way that would be
approved by reasonable, socially responsible people? I think this story
(along with several others, including Randu's "Double Trouble" and Santo
Romeo's "Martha Jane") demonstrate that the answer is yes. The related (and
more volatile) question is can this happen in real life? The answer
certainly must be yes, it CAN happen. The crucial question is DOES it
happen? Or are all adults who do this sexual perverts, as most laws seem to
suggest?
As I have said earlier, literally all the young children whom I have known to
have experienced sex with an adult were severely exploited. It may not
always be accurate to call their partners perverts; "sick" or "dysfunctional"
may be better words for some of them. But - and this is an important BUT -
kids who have had perfectly adaptive - even wonderful - relationships like
those described in this story would have no incentive to come forth and talk
to me about it. In fact, if they did so, the adults whom they loved would
possibly suffer dire consequences. I seriously doubt that all adult-child
sexual relationships are as destructive as some child advocacy people would
have us believe; but I also think that most real-life adult-child sexual
relationships are exploitive.
I cannot conclude without mentioning one important issue. I think we need to
let kids be kids. In recent years movies and TV shows (especially the soaps)
have combined with peer pressure to urge kids to rush into adulthood way too
fast. An important part of the mother's logic in this story was that if
Brenda didn't have sexual relations with Richard, she'd be having sex with
someone else real soon. To the extent that her insight is accurate, her
decision to permit sex with Richard may be valid. But might it not be better
to find a way to encourage kids to grow up before they have sexual relations?
As I understand it, something like 25-40% of kids in the Western world don't
have sex until they are at least 18 years old. Granted, a bunch of these
people have major hang-ups; but statistically they're OK people. If I may
use myself as a case study, I think I really do all right sexually, even
though I had a full childhood before I began my active sex life; and I THINK
the same can be said of my daughters. Sexuality isn't the only area in which
we tend to push kids too fast; I constantly see parents trying to push
preschoolers into academic programs when they should be playing games or
reading Little Red Riding Hood. Ooops! {For an explanation of this Ooops,
see the review of "The Better To...." later in this issue.} Let's let kids
be kids!
I like stories that raise thought-provoking questions in interesting
contexts. This story does exactly that.
Ratings for "Brenda's Conquest"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
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