Clean Sheets Reader Comments
May 2000 Comments
http://lochai.com/palmsex
Lochai
5/29/00 12:54 PM
I love the site. I am also looking for submissions for PalmSex. A site I just opened for authors to get their writings out there on the Palm Pilot platform. This is also a great way to drive more visitors to your wonderful site.
Lochai
palmsex@lochai.com
5/29/00 12:47 PM
"Two Obsessions" made us both very, very hot. Interesting to discover new buttons and then pushing them in and out . . .
Mark
5/28/00 5:47 PM
I enjoyed the story Two Obsessions,
by Daniel James Cabrillo very much. He has a warm, sexy rhythm to his writing that excited the nerve endings.
I understand why he likes writing erotica best. It's my favourite genre too.
Please Daniel, keep writing! *VBS*
*Warm Hugs*
Laura
Laura Dee
claws4@hotmail.com
5/28/00 9:19 AM
this site is truely beautiful!
thank you, i enjoyed your site.
carol
carol3y@yahoo.com
5/28/00 5:32 AM
Very pretty survey with the fireworks!!
I like being able to see what other people say.
Sara
sgoldstin@aol.com
5/27/00 10:33 AM
Oh yes... kissing fish and merpeople and hidden pearls... this is a beautiful story.
Chris
5/25/00 12:03 PM
Renee Carter Hall's "Riptide" is sweetly lyrical and touching to read.
BillG
wrgvt@aol.com
5/25/00 11:29 AM
'How to Look at Girls' was an exceptional article. I've always loved to watch women, but being a married woman doesn't make it easy to find someone who feels the same to share these feelings with.
Shaw's descriptions and tips had a certain eloquence, and definite eroticism. Most of them I've put into practice, though timing their body and eye movements hadn't occured to me. I'll have to try that. Overall, left me with a pleasant tingle and a smile on my face. Nice work.
Fade
5/24/00 9:56 PM
I just took that fun survey and I have to ask: what's a "pansexual"? Do we have them here in Ohio? -:)-
JG
5/24/00 11:52 AM
Very nice story "Riptide," so romantic. Lovely survey story, also, and I like the pointed poem!
Sandra
5/24/00 10:25 AM
I'm surprised at the poor quality of that story. You'd need a much better writer than that to ever attempt any story of a fatality during a BDSM scene. It's not funny.
Just in response to Sara G.'s comment regarding the Viscera review; while it might be kinder to the book to give it to a horror reader to review, I think it's more appropriate for an erotica magazine to ask someone who mostly reads erotica to review it. That seems more likely to give our audience a sense of whether it would interest them -- the book might well get a very different review in a horror magazine. I hope that makes sense.
- Mary Anne
Mary Anne Mohanraj
editor@cleansheets.com
5/22/00 9:54 AM
I'm glad to see others complain about the 'When" story here.
I'm as kinky as the next person, if not more so, and that
story is offensively bad.
To: RKB & readers:re "My Vibrator, Myself".
Now that I have reached 50 years in age and can look back at my different lovers, I am more amazed than ever at the confusion between men and women concerning true sexual fulfillment. Thanks to the Net, I've been able to talk to so many women about sexual issues, and the story is so often the same; men and women just don't communicate well enough. I'm flabbergasted at the number of women who believe that their husbands 'just wouldn't allow' them to have a vibrator, for fear of being replaced by the more intense sensations. Allow?...please! Just re-read this story, if you must...but the truth is so easy to understand. The center of your sexuality resides within you, yourself. All a partner can do is find it and pleasure you with it, and if you don't already know where it is or how intense it can be, its a hit-or-miss proposition for anyone else. If you want the best possible sex, test your own limits. You'll be a better guide for a partner who's real joy is taking you there. Yes, its got to be a powerful feeling to be able to find your 'new' spots to drive yourself up a wall or two, but lets face it...sometimes, in the afterglow, there's nothing like a pair of warm arms and some waiting kisses to cap off the experience. I find that an appreciation of my lovers' masturbatory experiences always adds to the effects of a vibrator. I have to know what 'pushes your buttons"! Men: let your lovers show you what they want...what they need...and let them lay back and enjoy it. Get into it...enjoy her responses, her taste...learn to appreciate the animal inside her. Women; show your men. Just think of all the other things you could be doing with your hands while he pleases you so intensly! It seems like with all the shared information and dialog today about sex, that we are getting better at understanding each other. Now, break down those walls and let each other in to those private little mental chambers. Make your fantasies come true. That's how to become fulfilled. I'm sure that regulars to e-zines like this are already well aware of what I say. But, to the timid or the novice, I can't say it enough...do it and talk about it. One key to a woman's ability to pleasure another woman is that so much is already understood, but believe me, it can all be learned. Just remember that everyone's different. Each lover is another learning experience, (or each time with the same lover) and every possibility...vibrators most definitely included...should be explored. Life is short, people...and unfortunately, our sex lives, even shorter. Don't waste time. Seek to understand.
Tom
t10251950@hotmail.com
5/21/00 4:46 AM
Maryanne, if you don't like horror, it would be kinder to pass "Viscera" along to someone with an appreciation of the genre to review it. It's difficult to get anything out of a review when the reviewer is on the edge of being sick all the way through.
Sara G.
5/20/00 10:22 PM
An excellent story, a bit forced at first, but after faltering a bit, some nice imagery. It falls apart a bit at the end, a bit more exploration should probably have gone into the Domme's feelings (regret possibly?)11It probably should not be one link off the top of the site though, possibly in a (hardcore/prone to upset) section? The ending I'm sure will turn most people right off the particular story, and possibly right off the site. I for one don't mind it one bit, but many others will.
Cayne
5/20/00 8:16 PM
Re "When" - that's an awful story. (A woman in hter "late twenties" is not "in her prime" you should note!) The whole thing doesn't make any sense. The woman is stupid, the kid is stupid, and none of it is even vaguely sexy. I kept reading because I thought maygbe she was going to really recruit him for the Marines or something. Very dumb.
Genie
5/20/00 7:12 AM
RE: "When."
This boils down to a basic concept - accidents do happen. Power given is real, and the responsibility of that power is very real. It is important that while we are sex-positive, we also remain sexually responsible. I see "When" as both a sex fantasy and a cautionary tale. In the literary tradition, it is about the "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" idea, in my opinion.
Kit clearly has become infected with domme's hubris in a big way, that is her downfall in this piece. Ultimately the death of her play partner is not something she is seeking as far as I can read, it is something that happens as an accident.
The question remains, is it erotic? Well, speaking as a person who has been on both sides of the lash, as it were, I find it erotic from both a dominant and a submissive standpoint. The fact that the accident happens at the end adds something to the story, not subtracts from it, and brings an element of reality into something that is otherwise fantasy.
People don't realize what goes into being a dominant. You have to believe you are God in a way, and that belief takes you outside of yourself into dangerous territory. One is not an accomplished Dom without having had the experience of coming out of "topspace" - that is to say, being taken out of the headspace of dominance - and realizing that you have brought harm to your submissive. That is what safeword is for, although safewords are extremely fallible.
As a dom your job is to "First do no harm" ( just like a doctor's oath). Unfortunately, if you are going to play on the edge and indulge your deepest fantasies you are going into a danger zone and it is likely someone is going to get hurt, if not physically, then emotionally. This is why I feel that dominants should be mentored or otherwise taught by other dominants, why I feel no kinky person should play in a vacuum, and why I feel that community is very important. There are endless books written on the subject. This poor guy probably never understood what he was getting into, and this dominant sounds like someone who got into it as a result of military training, not as a result of mentoring with a domme who knew the ropes.
In closing, I think "When" is a striking story. Please don't give me marshmallows in this fiction space, I'm willing to go out on a limb and risk being squicked if more realistic, interesting, and exciting stories like this one are a result.
P.S.: I don't think the submissive in this story is underage. Young, yes, but not underage.
Gwydion McCarthy
gwydion@writeme.com
5/19/00 11:50 AM
That story 'When" makes Hustler magazine seem literary. And classier.
Kevin
5/19/00 11:30 AM
Thank you for your comments regarding "When". You've raised some complex issues, which we will attempt to address in the upcoming editorial. We appreciate your response; it's important to us to know how our readers respond to what we publish.
Mary Anne Mohanraj
editor@cleansheets.com
5/19/00 11:24 AM
Gag me on the Marine story. If I wanted to read a story about the murder of a minor during a sexual encounter, I'd check the news.
JGB
5/19/00 5:26 AM
I agree. Non-consensual sex-writing is not sexy. It's childish, created only for the 'thrill.' There's nothing consensual about murder or rape related to erotica. This story is an insult to legitimate BDSM, to dominatrices, and probably even to the Marines, not to mention it's poorly written. I'm disappointed in Clean Sheets.
Joy
5/19/00 5:02 AM
All right--I have a big problem with "When." A story where the underage sub dies at the end strikes me as more dark and disturbing than this site needs. Dark and disturbing has its place in literature, but not on a sex-positive site.
By the same token, I notice several readers objecting to "Submission" on the grounds that it seemed non-consensual. Since the woman seemed to know the rules and had been shown the cane and strap, I read it as an acting out of fantasy--preliminary negotiations omitted in the story, but assumed to have taken place. As for discipline and intercourse not mixing, whose rules are those? Not mine! I thought Submission was a hot story, if intense--but "When" went a little too far. OK, for my taste way too far!
Safira
5/18/00 7:25 PM
Re "When" , or the story that actually includes the line "...bubbled in her lower intestines." It's trash. Don't you folks run a "sex-positive" site?
MB
5/18/00 1:57 PM
Dear Mary Anne
Thank you, and please convey my sincere thanks to Debra Boxer for her creative and supportive review of the Desires anthology, and my story "The Valentine" in particular. What can I say? You're both...Valentine sweethearts.
best wishes for your great magazine
Count of Shadows
Count of Shadows
Masterly1@hotmail.com
5/17/00 4:57 PM
The words brought to life the passion of two men...the passion for one woman...but more important...the underlying commonality of two men.. that find the sort of intimacy that mimicks that of two women finding on a chance meeting that they connect spiritually and soulfully...I have always loved to imagine the men connecting as women do...thank you
Camie
Camie
CamieRose@aol.com
5/13/00 7:51 AM
"Two Obsessions" is wonderful! Very sexy, very poetic, very hot.
MJS
5/12/00 4:09 PM
I thought "Two Obessions" was an excellent story. The story got me very excited. I loved how he wound the story around seeing his wife have a passionate encounter with a man who desired her. The way he threw the other man's wife in the story was very erotic. I really enjoyed this story.
Cortlandt Drake
cortlandt.drake@atomicliving.com
5/10/00 7:08 PM
I would like to add male perspective on My vibrator. GREAT JOB!
I am a 64 year old RN, married for 33 years. Our sex life was going downhill so I decided to get a small vibrator to spice things up. This alows her to control stimulation to the clit and has really improved the quality and quantity of sex for both of us, so you men, don't be afraid to add good vibrations to your bedroom.
This article gives us males some insight on what the ladies experience.
Roger Solie
rbsolie@theriver.com
5/8/00 11:31 AM
Re: Debra Hyde's editorial on Scarleteen.
I was very favorably disposed toward the overall message of this editorial. However, I found it unfortunate (and sadly unproductive) that, rather than sticking to the matter at hand (Scarleteen's value, and the importance of supporting it), Hyde chooses to take the opportunity to go after fundamentalists in general.
In particular, "It's my fondest hope that for every email Heather gets from a fundamentalist, she'll see banner of support and Oxygen will receive a pro-sex education letter" implies that any e-mail Heather might get from a fundamentalist will of necessity be negative and against sex-education. The implication is that it's impossible to take the Bible at its word and still respect the work Heather does.
Maybe it's just me, but I find that attitude to be pretty offensive. Not to mention entirely incorrect.
Making broad generalizations about those perceived to be on the other side is not especially productive. It's likely only to drive away those who might otherwise agree with you.
Shmuel
shmuel@england.com
5/5/00 9:18 AM
On 'How To Girl Watch' -- lovely pointers. Ah yes, the girls in their summer dresses. My my my.
Very nice 'zine you have here.
John
5/5/00 9:10 AM
I like the Big Big Love stuff. Fat positive and sex positive. Nice. Does cleansheets have any more of that kind of writing on here?
Jenn-erous
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5/5/00 8:37 AM
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