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Celestial Reviews 156 - February 8, 1997
Note: I am again experiencing difficulties with my database management
program. If anyone out there is an expert at Microsoft Works 4.0 on the
Macintosh, I'd like to hear from you. I have been getting messages that say
that there is "no translator available" to import my file - when it shouldn't
need a translator at all. Not having access to my database of previous
reviews has seriously impeded my ability to do these reviews. If anyone can
help me, I'm eager to listen to advice.
- Celeste
"Julia" by daVinci (sex with the prof) 10, 9, 9
"Rocking my Canoe" by Rachel Taylor (outdoor sex)
10, 9, 9
"An Affair To Remember" by Huggy Bear (one-night stand)
9, 9, 9
"'E' is for Eyeliner" by Dulcinea (romance) 9, 9, 9
"Home Sweet Home" by Webby (miscellaneous) 6, 5, 4
* "Strip Chess" by Delta (gambling for sex) 10, 10, 10
* "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon (female dominance)
10, 10, 10
* = Repost of a previous review (because the story has recently
been reposted).
"Julia" by daVinci (rmbte1@ix.netcom.com). Professor Mitchell is a
scholarly, mild-mannered, intellectual; but Julia has a fantastic ass and is
pouring out her problems to him. And so when she begins grinding her pussy
against the prof's crotch, we can assume that the discussion is going to be
more than academic, especially since the whole conversation is taking place
in front of the fireplace in his house, which is 90 minutes away from the
campus. It's going to be difficult for Julia to build a case for harassment!
The description of the sexual action is very hot and well written. This is
part 1 of a story by a new author, who wants to know if he/she should post
part 2. That would be all right with me.
Ratings for "Julia"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Rocking my Canoe" by Rachel Taylor (MCG@bartra.demon.co.uk). This Merrill,
Castle & Gray story deals with two couples who go for a short canoe trip in
the wilderness. The women decide to go topless, and everyone gets turned on.
After everyone settles down for a nap, the narrator is awakened by a gentle
presence fondling her body. At first she is determined to find out who it
is, but then she decides to just relax and enjoy it.
Ratings for "Rocking my Canoe"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"An Affair To Remember" by Huggy Bear (Backdrop Club: archives@backdrop.com)
This is listed as AFFAIR.THB in the Backdrop Archives. A woman goes on a
business trip; the man seated next to her on the plane flirts with her, has
dinner with her, and then makes love to her. We see the woman's emotions as
she goes through this pleasant seduction. This is a very good story about a
very common theme.
Ratings for "An Affair To Remember"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"'E' is for Eyeliner" by Dulcinea (ImDulcinea@aol.com). With eyeliner pencil
in hand, the man is plotting revenge. His wife had previously drawn a
mustache on him with the pencil while he slept, and now he is contemplating
what part of her body to use for his retaliatory artwork. Contemplating the
possibilities gets him turned on, and he eventually decides that it would be
more fun just to wake her up and make love to her.
Ratings for "'E' is for Eyeliner"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Home Sweet Home" by Webby (webby@adiewebster.demon.co.uk). This is a fairly
long series of loosely related stories. Some parts are fairly clear (for
example, a woman moves in with another woman and begins to explore her
sexuality with her flatmate); others are largely incoherent (for example, a
lot of pissing, beating, and humiliating without any apparent purpose).
One of the story's main flaws was some faulty grammar. To a certain extent,
the grammar gives the story an aura of homeyness that increases its appeal;
but some of the errors are just plain distracting. Combined with the
incoherence of the plot, these errors result in a series of interesting ideas
that are badly organized and difficult to follow. I think this author may
have a reasonable plot here - or even several reasonable plots; but I
wouldn't recommend reading this story until the author puts it into better
order.
Ratings for "Home Sweet Home"
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4
* "Strip Chess" by Delta. This is one of my favorite ever stories. Some
people resist downloading stories that are nine parts long, but this one is
worth it. A group of college kids get together for an evening of fun, and
someone suggests playing strip poker. Knowing she has no chance at the card
game, one of the girls suggests strip chess instead, with the winner getting
the body of the loser. (The observers make side bets and do things to
distract the players). The only bad part about this story is that I had
serious problems with my concentration the next time I tried to play chess.
Really! You don't have to know chess to love this story, but the chess will
make sense to good chess players. And the sex fantasies make sense to good
sex players.
Ratings for "Strip Chess"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "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
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