Message-ID: <18969eli$9901220344@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: <URL:http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year99/18969.txt> From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com Subject: The 1998 Cyrrheal Awards 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: <512e6652.369705ee@aol.com> The 1998 Cyrrheal Awards and State of the Art Neterotica Address 1998, I feel, has been something of a watershed year for the net and net erotica in particular. In sum, everyone's surfing. Go into any household with a computer, internet connection, and a young male in residence and you're likely to find BODACIOUS BABES - XXX and HOT YOUNG PUSSY jpegs left carelessly all over the workspace. Go into any house with a young female, and chances are she's either reading or writing sexually explicit X-Files, Star Trek, or other fanfic. Or knows of places to find it. How the world has changed in a year. On the plus side, there is more neterotica available and the sites are increasingly better organized and designed as the creators receive access to web building and photoimaging software. Not only are people sharing their stories, but their lifestyles as well, and, especially in the BDSM and gay communities, cataloging and indexing sources of supplies, services, and organizations for these groups. On the down side, there's also a lot of dreck (German for garbage) mainly poorly designed commercial sites. Also on the down side, certain providers, such as Geocities and Tripod, have been cracking down viciously on sites they believe violates their terms of contract. How they can shut down a site for porn while overlooking while allowing fanfic ones--which in many cases feature more explicit sex--to operate is beyond me. Perhaps this is the reason for the large amount of growth erotic fanfic has experienced in 1998, which sites featuring everything from Ripley of "Aliens" fame to the Thundercats. Little has changed in the ASS newsgroups, with spam still being the major annoyance. Celeste decided to call it quits, but it remains to be seen if writers can take up the reviewing slack. I hope everything works out. Advice from one's peers is the most useful of all. In sum, this year has been a most enjoyable one for me, especially in investigating new websites to share with you all. My hobby overfloweth my mind of smut. Take care, and keep writing, reviewing, and reading the speculative fiction of the greatest circus on the net. Lady Cyrrh The 1998 Cyrrheal Awards Best Gay Male Teen: Touring with Hanson, by Dean Lidster Best Cybersex: Girl Talk, by AssMaster McStuff Best Interethnic Romance: Korean Dry-Cleaning Lady, by Richard Rivers Best Humor: Tape 1, by Asparrow; Kiko 1, 2 3 by Lord Shon (tie) Best Fantasy (straight): Jungle Moons, Anthony Pryor-Brown Best Fantasy (gay): Quest, by Marc Tremaine Best SF/Mystery: Double Blind, by The Sandman Best Incest: Tempest, by Emerson Laken Palmer Best Wifeslut/BDSM: Wife's Training, by Tezzezar Best War (straight): Duty, by Uther Pendragon Best War (gay): Death and the Veteran, Ruthless Best Trek: Seven Sins, by David Blackstone; Merry Christmas Baby, by The Enigmatic Big Miss Sunbeam (tie) Best Corporate Sex: Restricted Lift, by Godiva Best Halloween: Trick or Treat, Saucy Wench Best Sex Story in which the Conventions of Sex Stories are Turned on Their Ear: Unmasked, Jordan Shelbourne Special Comic Lover's Award: The Adventures of Ultra Woman and Mega Girl, Ann Douglas Twisted Sister Award for Outstanding Bizarreness: Spoonbender The Toys "R" Us Award for most humorous use of adult novelty items: Novelty Store, by Blue Words The James Bondage Award for oustanding spy parody: Natasha and the Android, Nikos Rovani The Don't Eat Those Mushrooms!!! Award for Incoherent Weirdness: Serpentina, by Anonymous The Stop Wasting Our Precious Reading Time Award: The Stone of the Phalanx, by Enterprise1701 -- +----------------' 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>