Message-ID: <8173eli$9802061105@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: <URL:http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8173.txt> From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com Subject: The Annex Reviews, 2/6/98 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.d,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: <12edfd3d.34dab737@aol.com> X-Is-Review: yes Random notes: As ever I have been working hard to bring you good web sites to enjoy. My criteria have changed slightly. The foremost is the site must contain erotic fiction--whether the owner is an author, collector, or archiver--or dispense sexual information in an entertaining way. That is why I've included a few publisher's sites even though they are commercial, because my primary mission is to put people in touch with literature they might enjoy reading. What I will NOT support are commercial sites where you must pay a fee to access the stories, or where a few pathetic stories are included as bait in a site otherwise devoted to sex toys, jpegs you must pay to download, "live one-on-one" cybersex videos, or Mistress So-and-so the Dominatrix. (About those dominatrixes. I realize someone's looks may not have much of bearing on how well they flog someone, but Jeez, couldn't these women hire a professional photographer and stylist? Real estate agents do, and what are these dominas doing on the web if not selling sex? I am getting so tired of seeing wierd camera angles, saggy jowls, and oddly placed lamps and plants in their personality shots.) This leads me to another disturbing trend. Spam has crept onto the websites. Access a site in Geocities and you may get up to a half-dozen annoying messages you must click on to get rid of. Even worse are those sites with visual sex spam. It's bad enough to be bombarded with tripe like HOT TEEN SUPERMODELS WANT TO SUCK YOUR COCK in the newsgroups; now we are forced to look at it as well. One memorable banner featured a simpering blonde (who had the services of a professional photo stylist, unlike the dominatrixes) whispering sweet nothings to an erect dick without a body attached, the whole flanked by two fuzzy pictures of lava lamps. What the hell do lava lamps have to do with a cocksucking teen model? Again, I find such spam really, really annoying. Porn stories are inert constructions; they must be read to have their crassness unlocked. Just sitting there, they're inoffensive. But visual spam is always in your face, whether you enjoy seeing the acts or not. It's an unasked-for intrusion. While I realize it sponsors some author and archiver sites, I would rather the ads be more discrete. In a lighter vein, anyone who I've ever given an A+ story rating to is eligible to display my special award on their website, if they have one. Created just in time for Valentine's Day, this lovely facsimile of a box of luscious chocolates may be seen on my website (http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh) as a black and white gif to prevent unauthorized swiping. The official award is in 256 color, and it is quite gorgeous. You have to email me for it; it doesn't come automatically. Lastly, I want to tell everyone about a neat new CD I came across, "Shaken and Stirred--the Tim Arnold James Bond Project." It features cover tunes of 007 movie theme songs by Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, Aimee Mann, and others, with the lush orchestrations and big, brassy horns we all know and love. I predict the kitschy cover of "Diamonds are Forever" sung by David McCalmont to hit the top ten lipsyncing charts in drag revues across the country. The stories: The Succubus Tale, Part 1, by Sthethya (M/F horror) First Musing, by Micboisme (F/F Star Trek, slash) The Minimalist, BronwenSM (M/F humor) The Pursuit, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 Graywolf (M/F teen, oral) Out of this World 1, 2, 3, Spoonbender (M/F BDSM, ponygirl) The Boxvan, Spoonbender (M/F BDSM) The Factory, Spoonbender (M/F, nc, sex slavery) The Succubus Tale [B] When posted: 1/29/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Sthethya Address: succubus17412@level7.hades.org This story was "Part the First" of a new horror/historical series about the adventures of a succubus, a female demon who seduces men in their dreams in order to drink their sperm. But before becoming a succubus the narrator was a mortal woman in 13th century Rome, and the story details her upbringing. As this was a pious time, most of it focuses on sin and secret lust and hiding one's masturbating hands from the village priests, which is hard to do because even at the tender age of eleven as she is explosively orgasmic. I expect more sinful sex acts will be detailed in later chapters. This story wasn't bad, but as a melding of porn and historical fiction it could have been handled more intelligently. A young girl living in the 13th century probably wouldn't know the words for orgasm, sperm, and masturbate; and because the age of first menses was higher back then (because of poor nutrition, amidst other things) she wouldn't have been multiorgasmic at age eleven, either. However, the story was interesting enough to stand out from the run-of-the-mill, and if you like to read about sperm-sucking demonesses, this series is for you. First Musing [B] When posted: 1/18/98 Where posted: ASCEM (alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated) Author: Micboisme Address: micboisme@aol.com Last fall Star Trek: Voyager introduced a new character to the series, a sexy ex-Borg named Seven of Nine (or 7/9 for short). It took a while for stories about her to get going, but now they're here. Naturally, they've focused on the palpable sexual tension between 7/9 and Captain Janeway, which even my straight friends have remarked on. In this story 7/9 is suddenly compelled to go to the Captain's quarters. It's not explained why, but I think the author meant to show she was in the grip of new feelings of lust and isn't sure what to make of them. The two women have sex slash-style, which means they blow on each other's genitals a lot: "Incredibly enough, because of her experience with the Borg, she had access to several thousand appropriate female to female copulating positions. That information had always been low priority. Now.. now her mind worked at great speeds as she 'accessed' those images in her mind and replayed them over and over." The writing was technically solid but I was never sure of which woman's head I was in. For a slash story, which is almost exclusively visual by virtue of its boob-tube origins, this a big no-no as it made things very confusing. On the plus side, the sex was nice and the emotional reactions of the characters in line with those of the characters in the show. I would have wanted some real Star Trek adventures thrown in, too, but you can't have everything. The Minimalist [A-] When posted: 1/28/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Bronwen Address: bronwen@anon.nymserver.com A flamboyant, untasteful English clotheshorse with a yen for men is attracted to a good-looking tasteful guy out of the pages of GQ magazine one night in a pub. The problem is, he already has a sophisticated foreign girlfriend. The narrator senses things are not well with the couple and she's right: when the Italian chick dumps the guy one night, she swoops in and nabs him. For a few weeks she chortles over prize, then discovers why the old girlfriend dumped him. He's a minimalist, from his wardrobe to his personal possessions, and never does more than the minimal amount in bed. either. I am an admirer of Bronwen's work, especially the sublime beauty of "The Offering" and Ripe" and the smartass, gleeful satire of "Sam's Bad Day" (which received a 1997 Cyrrheal Award) but as a reader I felt this story was not among her best. She seems to be metastatizing into a cross between Mike Hunt and fellow Brit Suzie Sleaze. This piece was more anecdote than story, and though a cute idea that expresses a tart reality, it took a while for the plot to get going, and things never resolved themselves. I expected the narrator to eventually give the guy what he deserved, and when no concluding incident took place, I was left feeling cheated after all the buildup that was given. Another problem I had with the story is with the narrator. While Bronwen may be nice as person, I wouldn't want to be friends with this character she's created. She seems like a conniving Cosmo girl who's trying to one-up the reader sexually, like the swingers in the Lord Malinov story "Bulls" were doing a few weeks back, and as my lovers do not number into 3 figures (nor do I go automatically ga-ga for clothes, coquettery, and cocks) I'm totally outclassed as far as competing with her goes. I couldn't identify with her, either, to share in her sexual adventures, which is the point of first person stories like this. So what is the point of reading the story? The broad humor and charm, for one thing, but the insights I expected weren't there. The Pursuit, Parts 1, 2, 3 [A-] When posted: 1/24/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Greywolf Address: Greywolf46@juno.com A widowed rancher in his late 30s experiences an attraction to the sexy 16-year-old friend of his daughter. She feels the same about him and decides he's the one to take her virginity. When the girls are having a sleepover one night she sneaks down to seduce him in his rustic study (lamplight and animal skins on the furniture, making good use of the West Texas location) and the two have oral sex first, then sex of a more conventional nature. I found this a well-done, romantic fantasy even though it was not as polished and stylized as the Bronwen piece. There was more heartfelt emotion to it, which was restful; no one was trying to wow me. I did find the switches of POV distracting, however, and suggest they be separated in the text by three spaces between paragraphs or a row of * * *s. The sex was hot and pretty real, though a 16-year-old willingly gulping cum was a bit of a stretch, but overall, I liked it and recommend it. (I always say I don't like stories about teenagers, but I always wind enjoying them anyway.) The Boxvan [A+] The Factory [A+] Out of This World, Parts 1, 2, 3 [A+] When posted: 1/26/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Theodore Spoonbender Address: Theodore@spoonbender.demon.co.uk Oh Jeez, I can hear you say. She's passing up wholesome porn and romantic erotica in favor of giving high grades to perverse BDSM **AGAIN**. Well, yes and no. These three are BDSM true, and BDSM of a extreme nature wherein hapless women are turned into sex objects. Not sex objects like those found in the pages of Playboy, but mindless, sexually exploited machines. They are also a rip-roaring good read, very imaginative and well-crafted. Though the impetus behind their writing may have been to give voice to personal, rather disturbing fantasies, the *result* may be read as horror, psychological drama, and fantastic fiction in the SF/fantasy mode...the BDSM acting as just another element in the story rather than the premise for it. They are also quite funny in a sadistic way. In "The Boxvan" a man and his wife play games of an increasingly kinky nature culminating in him chaining her, naked, inside a parked moving van with signs saying "I'm a slut, fuck me hard, use me, free cunt" posted outside. It's his intent to merely tease her with the danger, but he gets mugged, has a concussion, and when he gets out of the hospital, wife and moving van are gone, wife to a new life of sex slavery. A cautionary tale that both warns and arouses. Even Celeste would like it. "The Factory" was inspired by newspaper adverts that say "Hi I'm Lisa. I'm 19 and really horny. I can send you a pair of my used panties and a photoset for only $25." In this story, the panties are sewn by a sex slave kept captive in a box-like mechanism; as she completes each pair, she's fucked by a dildo until she comes on them, then they're sealed and placed inside an envelope for delivery. In her isolation she goes mad from the continual orgasms and thusly tells us this tale. A nastily grinning story, structured quite well. The last of the tales, the 3-part "Out of This World" series, takes ponygirls a bit further, giving them a high-tech spin on a planet that utilizes them on vehicles instead of engines--a cross between SF, a pony show, and Car and Driver magazine. The engine girls pedal rickshaw-like vehicles which ambitious studs drag race against each other: "I decided that we should increase the pace a little so I switched the butt plug to maximum voltage and minimum duration. This brought a small squeal from Leah, Bree just grunted as the voltage hit her. It was time for some nipple action so I flicked on the nipple volts to about half setting. We seemed to surge forward when the first pulse hit their tits and then we settled down to a new enhanced speed. I glanced back at their pumping legs, which pistoned smoothly. I was rather proud of these engines." This was one of the most detailed fetish fantasies I've read, the world imagined so thoroughly you wonder if a travel brochure hasn't been produced for it somewhere. If I had to classify these stories, it would be as transformation porn, like fellow Brit Richard Marnet's Supergirl story. Richard Calder, another Brit (this must be a style of literature inspired by too little sun) rode this genre to international fame in his nominally SF books "Dead Girls" and "Dead Boys" which feature a nanovirus that transforms normal girls into plasticized vampiric femme fatales. I'd give them an A-. Not because they were patently offensive, which is why Lady Cyrrh read them, but because they were patently phony...the author's pseudo- intellectualism and literary allusions did not for one minute disguise the fact they were porn masquerading as legitimate literature with something important to say. Then why, you ask, has Calder won publishing contracts while Marnet and Spoonbender are languishing in the newsgroups? Well, life is not fair. (If you're into transformation porn, check out the Mannequin Lover's Homepage, posted just now to my site.) 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>