Witty, bawdy, and highly titillating, Seven Against Georgia skewers prudish legislation of sexuality by allowing seven flamboyant Spanish gay men to counter sodomy laws by sending their sexual histories and fantasies directly to the head of Georgia's police force. Adopting such over-the-top noms de guerre as Herr Betty Honey and Pamela Poodle, the "ladies" of Seven Against Georgia attack sexual repression with hilarious results. Whether it's Miss Balcony's very special relationship with the man who delivers her morning baguette (and who boasts a similar-sized baton himself), or Herr Betty Honey's passion for a man with a great love of first-communion dresses, Colette Miss Coco's comparative study of the sex she's known in her round-the-world business travels, or Miss Madelon's ode to a man (or, better, several men) in uniform, the testimonials in Seven Against Georgia provide a sparkling entertainment that can be opened at any point and read with great enjoyment. Collectively they make for a delightful and erotic praise to the individual right to pleasure in all its forms.
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Mendicutti pays creative tribute to the power of erotic fantasy in these interlocking stories, which feature seven gay Spanish men who construct elaborate sexual scenarios to defy Georgia's blue laws. The central conceit is paper-thin; in order to protest anti-sodomy regulation in the U.S. state of Georgia, the author's seven flamboyant drag queens take on elaborate noms de guerre and mail cassette tapes describing their sexual adventures to an anonymous Georgia police chief. Food fetishes are the main sexual course for "Miss Balcony" and her paramour, a baker who uses his baguette as a way to bring the couple to climax. Uniforms surface as the primary preoccupation for Miss Madelon, who ends up in a three-way tryst with a pair of soldiers, one Spanish and the other Portuguese. Another character named Pamela Poodle provides an elaborate tour of sexual fantasies based on the attractions offered by famous silver screen actors, while Colette La Coco conducts a far-flung tour of places that lend themselves to semi-public, risqu‚ sex in airports and other prominent travel destinations around the world. Mendicutti proves to be a ribald, accomplished storyteller, and his colorful cast of characters provide more than enough flash to embellish the titillating tales. But the structure is boilerplate; once Mendicutti establishes his basic motif, the characters become interchangeable, and the relentless focus on over-the-top sex scenes is monotonous. Moreover, the author does nothing with the conceit involving the police chief once he uses it to set the literary stage. Mendicutti makes his point about the endlessly creative variations humans will employ to get around repressive sexual laws, but as a work of erotic fiction this book is a bit limp.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Charming, in an unexpected way!,
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This review is from: Seven Against Georgia: Erotic Fiction (A Black cat book) (Paperback)
This is a very odd concept. The prologue is narrated by a tape recorder named Miss Bocaccio ("I am a portable tape recorder, battery-powered, made by a Japanese manufacturer of somewhat questionable quality, brought in through Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, and sold on the black market during the Mae West days. But I turned out fabulous.") being bitchy about an answering machine named Mercurio ("abominable play-back quality and an altogether typical, passive machine, even though she thinks she is sooo macho.").
Their owner, Madelon ("whose alias is an homage to another legendary dame with a predilection for the military profession"), along with Herr Betty Honey, Colette la Coco ("well-traveled executive of many tongues", Finita Languedoc (a/k/a Miss Luxe), Pamela Poodle ("also known as Miss Walking Disaster") and Veronica Switchblade ("theoretical expert in the art of theater and light comedy"), have been summoned to the home of Miss Balcony, who is distraught over the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick (now happily overturned), upholding anti-sodomy laws. They decide to tape record their stories of sex and desire, and send them to the head of the state of Georgia's police force. WHY these seven flamboyant Spanish gay men should be so exercised about the laws in the U.S. is unexplained, but who cares? This is really a funny book ( you've got to love it when Miss Bocaccio says she "quivers like a vibrator in an all-girls' school"!), and erotic, too. Learn where Miss Balcony got her name, an unexpected use for baguettes, which airport men's rooms are frequented by the cognoscenti, and more. Perhaps the Chief of Police sent the tape on to the Supreme Court, thus resulting in Lawrence v. Texas?
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