Message-ID: <15519eli$9809220542@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: <URL:http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/15519.txt> From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com Subject: The Annex Reviews, 9/21/98 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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: <205de7d0.36068905@aol.com> X-Is-Review: yes See below for LADY CYRRH's reaction to the Starr Report! The stories: The Starr Report, by Kenneth Starr and staff (M/F, oral, political) The Court of President Jezebel: Gerrold's First Day, by Akhenaten (M/F, rape, snuff, SF) The Court of President Jezebel: Story Three, by Akhenaten (M/M, F/F, rape, snuff, SF) Misty Red Elk, by William Will Willie Bill (M/F Native American sex) Theatre of the Flesh, Parts 1, 2 and 3, by Harry Tasker (M/F/F, voyeur, infed) My Fair Laddie, by Davis Trell (M/M/b, crossdress) Vincent Goes to the Movies, by YLeeCoyote (B/b spank) Maid to Serve Sri Lankans, by Lebny (Femdom, scat) Website Review: The Hall of Statuary The Starr Report [B] Where posted: Various Internet sites When released: 9/11/98 Author: Kenneth Starr and staff This report, widely available on the Internet and in bookstores, depicts the political fallout from the President's affair with a young White House intern named Monica Lewinsky. As if you didn't know that. It was by turns pathetic, sinister, enraging, and touching, but, unfortunately, not sexy. It was clear to me the author has a logical, analytical mind, but such qualities aren't much help in describing steamy sexual encounters in the Oval office and various bathrooms. Consensus: If you're a powerful man having an embarrassing affair, don't ejaculate. And if you're a young woman having an affair with a powerful man, don't get emotionally attached, and understand that he owes you NOTHING, though if you whine a bit you may receive a cushy job. The Court of President Jezebel: Gerrold's First Day [A/A-] The Court of President Jezebel: Story Three [B+] Where posted: ASS, ASSM When posted: 9/13/98 Author: Akhenaten Address: AmenhotepIV@usa.net Website: http://members.tripod.com/~AmenhotepIV It's the year 2098 and America, and by extension the world, is ruled by the military and sexual dictatorship of President Jezebel, a depraved female sybarite who wears rings through each nipple and a diamond in her clit. Slavery is rampant and legal, and Senators too have to demonstrate their sexual talents in order to ascend to Congress. From this rather juicy background come these stories, which are part snuff, part slave, and part combat, almost a futuristic Rollerball version of Ravensword's catfighting sagas. In "Gerrold's First Day," Senator Gerrold has to demonstrate his loyalty to the President by raping, torturing and killing a virgin slave girl, all the while controlled by a barbaric cock ring/ball ring setup to control his erection and monitor his arousal. In "Story Three", which is tamer if not as grippingly written, the victims are slaves, two men and two dildo-wearing women, who fight flesh-to-flesh for the amusement of Congress, the winner impaling the loser in the ass. The losing couple are then strapped to the rack, maneuvered so the man penetrates the woman, and electrocuted to death when they reach simultaneous orgasm. These stories are not pretty as they deal with death and torture, but as they are fairly well-written, creative variations that deliver the goods, I gave them the grades I did. There also seemed to be a sly note of humor involved as well, with congressional pages, presidents, and senators acting like extras from a sadistic Italian horror film, which may or may not be reflective of this country's current presidential crisis. At least I thought it was funny. Misty Red Elk [A] Where posted: ASS When posted: 9/17/98 Author: William Will Willie Bill Address: LIBERTYES@prodigy.net This story seemed to be the prologue and first chapter of a novel in the comparatively underused genre of Native American porn. Misty is a young Indian girl of the Comanche tribe, and this first chapter describes her early sex life. There's lots of passionate M/F fucking and ethnographic details like: "Since marriage was not a sacred rite, to break the vows was not a sacrilege. A woman's husband might loan her to a guest for the night, make her a pawn at the gaming board, or put her up for sale. A woman could negotiate, through an older woman, for her own purchase by a man she desired. Regardless of their marital status, men and women could fuck each other whenever they pleased, it was not the business of either husbands or wives how much love was made to their mates. Sex was good!" Yes, I definitely think sex is good too, though I wouldn't want my husband to tell me to fuck a fat white muskrat-pelt trader or some old toothless chief who can't get it up. Regardless, this was an interesting story, and if there's more chapters with more of a plot, as I sense there is (it's the Wild West, of course) it's probably worth your time. Theatre of the Flesh, Parts 1, 2 and 3 [A] Where posted: ASS, ASSM When posted: 9/11/98 Author: Harry Tasker Address: harry-tasker@harry-tasker.demon.co.uk Uptight though innately sensual Louise goes with her husband Chris to a sex show in Amsterdam (of "Sex, Drugs and Democracy" fame--this documentary is highly recommended if you can find it) where they make the acquaintance of a Frenchman and his wife. When the performance begins the French couple start fondling each other, to Louise's chagrin and disgust, but gradually she starts becoming aroused. The acts on stage (a greased dancer humping a giant black leather dildo, and a three- way between a redhead, a black man, and a white man) stimulate her further, and she joins in the fun, giving the Frenchman a handjob and his wife a taste of his cum. Her husband, amazingly, doesn't realize what she's doing. The French couple invite her to go back to the hotel with them, and she accepts while hubby still has his eyes glued on stage. I found this a well-written story about a married couple's efforts to spice up their union and one of those shy-wife-discovers- she's-a-sex-bomb ones, so if you like either category, it's sure to please. It was also literary and elegant enough to please people who would like to read something hot but don't like "hard" porn. My Fair Laddie [A] Where posted: ASSG, ASSGM Author: Davis Trell Address: davistrell@aol.com As the title suggests, this story is a gay role-reversal of the musical "My Fair Lady." In Edwardian England a young man and his lover hire a cockney-talking street urchin to be the young man's "bride," for if he doesn't marry he won't receive the material privileges of his class. Why didn't they hire a female urchin? Well, it is a gay story. The three share a honeymoon together and everything ends happily. The story was well-written, with lots of intimate details about Edwardian life. (I postulate that Mr. Trell may be antique dealer in his other life.) The ending seemed tacked-on and sketchy, as if written in haste. But what came before was very entertaining. Vincent Goes to the Movies [B+] Where posted: ASS, ASSM When posted: 9/1/98 Author: YLeeCoyote Address: YLeeCoyote@juno.com The hero of the title sneaks out at night to go to, guess what, the movies! (The particular movie was not given.) He stays out longer than expected and has to walk home alone by a park given to criminal activity. The young teen is soon set upon by several older boys who spank him and then fuck him. At home, he has to endure a spanking from his father. This story was too sketchy for literary porn, as a lot of things were left unsaid, and not vivid and detailed enough for stroke porn, as again a lot of things were left unsaid, particularly the intensity of the victim's physical reactions. If anything, it read like a children's story in the style of "Madeline" where one line is repeated at the end of every paragraph: "Vincent was young and brave and fearless." Otherwise the writing was OK, but it really needed more of a plot. Maid to Serve Sri Lankans [C] Where posted: ASS, ASSM, ASF (alt.sex.femdom) When posted: 8/29/98 Author: Lebny Address: lebny@hotmail.com Damika is from the slums of Colombo, the capitol city of Sri Lanka, working her way up in the world by being a maid to a rich man named Martin. Unfortunately, Martin has a bitchy girlfriend named Susan who abuses her. One day Martin comes upon Damika crying and comforts her, leading him to throw Susan out on her ass. Damika gets a taste of self-esteem and the power that comes with having a man be attentive to her. She finds out that Martin is a sub male who enjoys being dominated and steps into his former girlfriend's shoes. In a matter of time she is dressing him up in her old maid's costume and forcing him to use his tongue as a wad of toilet paper. I can truthfully say that as a reviewer I don't "get" femdom stories; the concept of females forcing men to act like submissive females is completely inexplicable to me. Therefore, I grade such stories on how well and vividly they are written and how plausible they make the events sound (keep in mind the fact that any man would WANT to be dressed in a french maid's outfit with a big bow over his butt is very implausible to me.) This particular story was not well written. It jumped all over the place and did not give any insight into either the mindset of the maid or the rich guy, though I imagine femdom addicts night want to read about the exploitive upper class rich guy getting the role reversal he deserves. Website Review: The Hall of Statuary Site owner: Argoforg Address: http://members.tripod.com/~ArgoForg/ Reviewed: 9/19/98 There's a special subgenre of sex stories dedicated to the concept of sex with statues or, more accurately, people turned into statues as a result of sex or even as a substitute for sex. This site, owned by statuephile (or agalmatophiliac) ArgoForg, is dedicated exclusively to this concept and features pictures, stories, a message board, a shared story called "Golden Paradise," links, a guide to freeze scenes in comics and cartoons, and comments from Argo assuring perusers they're really not as weird as they think they are. As a concept, it's sort of hard to explain the appeal of statuephication as a fetish, but I'm going to take a stab of it and say that, in most of these stories, being statuephied is an analog for orgasm because you're held motionless, helpless, and sometimes mindless in the grip of a pleasurable sensation greater than yourself. Since statuephication most often happens to beautiful women, there's the added plus of having people admire you as an art object. If you've been preserved contorted in the throes of orgasm (as in many of the stories) you have an added value as a piece of sculptural porn that arouses others, so there is an exhibitionistic aspect as well. On the other hand, some of these stories were quite grim in the manner of horror fiction. Instead of being admired objects of art, the poor victims are sexually frustrated for eternity or smelted down into slag. As most of these writers seem to be men, there's a sadistic "Perils of Penelope Pitstop" factor at work here as well in that the female victim is made into a helpless object to be owned and abused/treasured by the male. Her personhood is taken away but not her looks, so she is not as hurt as, say, she would be as if beaten or disfigured. (On another statue site--not this one--there was a survey about this very question, in which the male webmaster asked his male readers the appeal of "freezing" the gal they love. Surprisingly, most would do it simply to see the shocked/surprised/frightened expressions on the gal's faces as they were rendered motionless. Oh, those naughty little boy games of freeze tag!) That said, there were about 100 stories here spread over five well- organized pages from a variety of authors. Statue stories lend themselves to cross-breeding quite well, so there were science fiction statue stories, fantasy statue stories, gothic horror statue stories, historical statue stories, mind control statue stories, and superhero statue stories, with the said transformations occurring by science, magic, supernatural curses, or nefarious supervillains armed with strange devices. All of this added to the creative fun. Likewise, the medium of the statues varies too, from the ever-popular stone (marble and granite being the perennial favorites) to metal (gold and chrome, for the chic high-tech look) to plaster (shades of Dr. Frank N. Furter and the Medusa Ray) to wax, glass, plastic, even, in one story, peppermint candy. Argoforg has coded the stories by different color diamonds to represent the substance involved (yellow for gold, icy blue for ice, etc.) and arranged them in neat tables. Each story page is preceded by sage advice to readers and writers, attractively laid out on a black background with touches of brighter colors for text. The overall writing ranged from amateurish to excellent, averaging out to an A in spite of not a few clunkers (which I'll be polite by not mentioning). Seasoned writers like Dmuk and Nova can be considered the Cadillac and Mercedes Benz of the statuephile world, each contributing a number of stories, while prolific upcomers like Fool and Cobalt Jade may correspond to Lexus and Acura. Though you knew what you would get in each story--someone becoming a statue--the means were quite different. Many stories have the victims being models, as befits their final art object status. In Fool's "Merchandise" (A+) for example, the victims are transformed at the height of orgasm into works of art by G. Limited for auction to the highest bidder. In the "Perils of Penelope T. Hose" series by Vincent Jarrod (A-) the paralyzed heroine is first almost coated with a pearlizing shellac, then is imprisoned in a giant nylon stocking to be transformed into a lingerie mannequin, revealing a pantyhose fetish as well. "Video Manipulation" by Gangnet (B+) has a claw-her-way-to-the-top model transformed into stone by being hypnotized into watching video footage of herself being transformed into stone, via the magic of special effects. The latter story had about the longest transformation scene on the site, which led me to lower the grade as it made the story drag; but it was still very well-written. In other stories the victims are superheroines. CMQ has written a whole series (A/A-) about the plucky gals of Fem-Fantastique who, amazingly, always wind up being transformed into something else in the course of their adventures, with wit and luck saving the day, of course. This series is particularly interesting because the stories started out in a light, cartoony mode and turned progressively darker and more sexual, culminating in "Overexposed" in which one Fem-Fantastique gal (who has been gradually "coming out" as a lesbian) is mind- controlled by a villain's "erotica ray" to stimulate her partners- in-crimefighting to orgasm, then transform them into various substances through the agency of the story's villain. Things eventually turn out all right, but the errant superheroine and her partner need heavy counseling to deal with their subsequent emotional problems. Other stories have historic and mythic roots. Not surprising considering the distinguished lineage of statue stories, which stretches back to ancient Greece and the legend of Pygmalion and Galatea. In "The Touch" by ASL and Dmuk (A+) King Midas reveals what it was really like having the "golden touch": when applied to women, it causes them to become eternally orgasming golden statues. Cobalt Jade's "The Gorgon's Kiss" (A+) also set in ancient Greece, depicts the encounter between a world-weary Amazon and a girl who may or may not be Medusa, with tragic consequences. The artwork on the site, mostly stone and metal female nudes, varied in quality. Some it clearly came from fashion magazine spreads or high-tech advertisements. On the other hand, some of it was embarrassingly amateurish. A few appear to be the work of a Photoshop neophyte who used various filters on scanned porno-mag cuties to simulate their transformation into other material. The captions on these were teeth-gritting as well: "When Bob told Anna he wanted her to be his golden doll, she didn't understand he meant for real!" I don't know who made these monstrosities, but they really don't belong with the higher caliber artwork. If you get sexually stimulated hearing the old song "Freeze Frame" by the J. Geils band, this site is for you. Interface: A+ Content: A+ Will I visit again: Yes. 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>