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CounterPunch
December
14, 2002
Caning Able:
a book review
by DR. SUSAN BLOCK
If you're aroused by the idea of naughty grown-up
schoolboys being taught a lesson in gender dynamics via hardcore
sadomasochistic sex by a troika of gorgeous powerful women--one
young black Amazon, one nubile blonde beauty and one lusty English
Lady of a certain age--then you'll be in heaven at Renforth Manor,
the Old School, Veddy Briddish setting for most of the nasty,
rollicking action of Stan Kent's witty, XXX-rated, feminist morality
tale, Caning
Able.
The moral of this sexy story is that
Women Rule, or at least are a bit better than equal in sex and
other business affairs in the modern world. But we don't get
to that moral until two of our heroines have been  severely spanked
and, yes, caned, as well as tied up, raped, molested, gangbanged,
blackmailed, drugged, diabolically exploited and forced to take
large male members in every luscious, quivering hole of their
bodies.
First we meet Miss Penelope Crumleigh,
the perfect embodiment of a perennial schoolboy fantasy: that
of the adorable, seemingly innocent, but really very wanton schoolteacher,
barely older than the unruly pupils she is charged with supervising,
being swept up into carnal activity beyond her control.
Next, hailing from the beaches of Barbados,
we encounter the tall, athletic, brilliant-as-she-is-beautiful,
ebony-skinned Ms. Jasmine Able, from whose name we get the book's
title. Her challenge is to turn Caning Able from a painful gerund
in which she is the passive object to an active adjective describing
herself as the cane-wielding subject.
Finally, we are graced with the appearance
of Lady Isabella Trent, the elegant older woman with the strongest
sex drive of all, who helps to bring this tall erotic tale to
a roaring wet climax.
The main setting for their amorous adventures
is a cloistered country retreat where corporations send their
stressed executives so that they might refresh their competitive
drives in a traditional private school (or, as the English say,
"public school") atmosphere, regressing them to a strict,
yet highly stimulated childhood. Here we encounter some male
characters almost as erotically vivid as the female, like the
sadistic Headmaster Jasper Rust, the hapless Head Boy (and Mama's
Boy) Alexander Trent, and the well-hung but well-meaning insurance
executive Percy Paseley.
Reminiscent of Anne Rice's Beauty books,
though rather heavier on the witticism and lighter on the mysticism,
Caning Able makes superb toilet reading, sure to satisfy a variety
of erotic interests, make you laugh and tone up your feminist
sensibilities as well.
Dr. Susan Block
is a sex educator, host of The Dr. Susan Block Show and author
of The 10 Commandments of Pleasure. Visit her website at http://www.drsusanblock.com.
If you'd like to contact Dr. Susan Block
with questions, comments or contributions, please email liberties@blockbooks.com
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