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