Message-ID: <385.repost$980811050607@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: <URL:http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/14101.txt> From: <LadyCyrrh@aol.com> Subject: The Annex Reviews, 8/9/98 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Path: qz!not-for-mail Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: <usenet-approval@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded <story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Story-Submission: <story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Original-Message-ID: <9f5c9155.35ce19a0@aol.com> X-Is-Review: yes Rubbermaid really DOES make life easier! As I haven't done a theme review in a while, I thought I'd celebrate my comeback with a selection of stories dedicated to that most misunderstood and maligned of fetishes, rubber. Not just the stretchy black stuff, but latex, spandex, and saran wrap as well. Happily, net writers have obliged me with a prime selection of these tales. In case you don't understand why some folks are so hot on rubber/latex/spandex, know this: A. It's very tight and hugs your body, showing off your curves. B. It's very hot and you sweat in it. Heat is a turn-on. C. It tends to immobilize you, a must for bondage fans. D. It's visually appealing. It comes in a wide range of colors, can be shiny or matte, and gives the effect of a second skin that does not have the intrinsic flaws of one's own (cellulite, zits, hair.) E. It gives it wearer a "high-tech" fetish look ranging from a plastic figurine to a robot, enabling them to act (or be acted upon) as sexual objects without the messiness of human nature getting in the way. After all, robots and plastic dolls don't eat, sweat or breath. While these points may not make the average person a rubber fan, they do explain its appeal...and hence the reason people write these stories. Incidentally, pop star Michael Jackson used to call his "special friends" (prepubescent boys he groomed at his Neverland Ranch) Rubba. Some speculate it was because he used to rub his body against theirs. But who knows...? The stories: Rubber Gallery, by K. Valery (rubber and art) The Story of Sarah, by Anonymous (rubber and medical experimentation) Binding Agreement, by Anonymous (rubber, latex, plastic and bondage) Plastic Wrapped in New Jersey, by Polaroid (plastic wrap and BDSM) Mannequin, by Fool (plastic and mannequins) Rubber Gallery [A-] The Story of Sarah [A-] Binding Agreement [A-] Where posted: ASS, ASSB, ASSM When posted: 7/24/98 Author: K. Valery, Anonymous, Anonymous Poster: Red Sandhog Poster address: sandhog@netcene.net The following three stories were posted by Red Sandhog, apparently to elicit similar material for a website he or she is putting together. All three shared certain things in common. First off, I think it's safe to say the only reason these stories were written is to describe how a willing victim (usually female) is embalmed in rubber, latex or plastic and the sexual ecstasy that follows. Not that plot and characterization weren't there; they were, and were in fact handled better than in many ASS stories. But the emphasis was definitely on the fetish and the tools that go along with that fetish. Things got creative when the authors tried to supply rationales for the embalment. In "Rubber Gallery," for example, the victim- to-be answers an ad for a model. She winds up participating in a piece of German performance art where she, and 11 other girls, are denuded, catheterized, coated with black latex, then posed in an art gallery where they become fetish sculptures-for-hire. (The story states she got about 800 DM--deutsch marks--for this; I don't know what the current exchange rate is, but I think she was underpaid.) Meanwhile, in "The Story of Sarah," the victim is a volunteer guinea pig in a medical experiment. She's put in a rubber suit, then a rubber body bag that is filled with oil, THEN a tank that is filled with wax, THEN the wax tank is coated with latex...and by that time it's clear the phony "doctor" and "nurse" running the experiment have nefarious intentions in mind. If rubber stories have a first cousin it's the medical story, going by the many catheterizations and enemas the victims suffer. They have to, for how can one be encased in black rubber without tubes for evacuation and feeding? The last of the batch, "Binding Agreement" was lighter in tone than the others, and also the most wild. The victim is Bonda O'Tightly, a bondage nut who ticks off her bondage school employer and winds up being a toy in a variety of very strange, meticulously detailed scenes...such as being made into the clapper of a giant bell, or a living Barbie Doll imprisoned in clear plastic. The story was silly enough to be one of Lord Shon's or S. Sneakly's pieces, though the subject matter was not. I had the feeling the author kept things light for fear of being taken as too much of a weirdo. All three of these stories delivered the rubber goods without making too many mistakes, which gives them an A-. How well you like them depends on how much you're into the fetish; if you're not, the stories may bore you, though their sheer creativity may redeem them for some non-bondos. Plastic Wrapped in New Jersey [B+/B] Where posted: SSBB, ASSB, SSS When posted: 7/27/98 Author: Polaroid Address: the_polaroid@hotmail.com People write sex stories and post them for many different reasons...the fun of it, the challenge, or maybe to impress a lover. In this author's case, it was to find a lover: "As always, if you have suggestions for stories, or comments (like its effects upon you, words of praise, pleas to meet, etc.) email me." He even gives his business license (he's a dom.) And what of a name like "Polaroid" that carries with it all those oh-so-naughty implications? The fact a story is structured as a glorified personals ad makes it difficult to grade; it's like critiquing someone's shopping list, because it was never really meant to work as a story at all. That said, there's a lot of hot, if overly wordy, bondage action, as the dom spanks, then wraps his sub in transparent plastic so she can't get away. He then does other things to her: "Now, I’m going to clip your breasts. I’m going to do it...fast. Be prepared. You shiver," all of it in second person voice that goes on and on and on without a break (I could imagine actor/professor Ben Stein doing the voice-over.) If you're not into these acts, you'd get bored very quickly; if you are, you'd still get bored, but there's enough good stuff in here to do the mental fast-forward thing. The New Acquisition [A] Author: Fool Available from: The Hall of Statuary Address: http://members.tripod.com/~ArgoForg/index.htm Sex stories in the mannequin vein, as this one was, can be considered a wandering love child between robot sex stories and rubber stories. The former because the sex is with a simulacra of a human than a human; the latter because fetishistic emphasis is given to the sex object's form: plastic. How shiny it is. How smooth and poreless. How...excuse me. Anyway, like the Red Sandhog stories reviewed above, the authors are very creative about how they get the protagonists to turn into/have sex with mannequins and statues. This gives the stories more plot than most ASS fiction, and that plot usually belongs in the science fiction, fantasy or horror fields. This story came from The Hall of Statuary website, a site devoted to Agala-something (the word means those who love statues.) I'll be reviewing the site at a later date. This story was a well done example of its type, and also worked as horror in the Stephen King mode. Sylvia, a call girl, sees a mannequin in a department store that looks like one of her old friends. Later she services a client and is busted, but the cops are phonies. They actually work for G.Limited, the company that creates these lifelike mannequins, and Sylvia is their next victim. The mannequinization process occurs by immersion in a strange fluid, then a heat treatment that turns flesh into plastic; in the manner of the Star Trek TV series it's described in technobabble, but who cares? The important point of the story, as all statue- lovers know, is that the poor girl is turned into a perpetually horny inanimate object subject to all sorts of abuse. With no chance of a climax, yet. Later poor horny Sylvia is put on display in the store, then is packed in a crate and shipped to a center where she'll be "trained"--that is, brainwashed to accept her mannequinhood and take joy in the fact she's now L-14 (her serial number) and exists only to serve men. Before you get your panties in a bunch about it, this *is* a sexual fantasy; it's written to work as metaphor rather than anything anyone might do in real life, though whether it works for, only you can be the judge of that. Comments to: ladycyrrh@aol.com Website---> http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh -- +----------------' Story submission `-+-' Moderator contact `--------------+ | <story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us> | <story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us> | | Archive site +----------------------+--------------------+ Newsgroup FAQ | <http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/>----<http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/faq.html>