I wonder how the famous "Judy's Jewels" would read if the main

character's names were changed from Peter and Judy to Jethro

and Elly May.

I haven’t really thought much about assigning well-known characters from the movies or TV series to "Judy’s Jewels." It’s an interesting concept.

Jethro and Elly Mae would probably work, but it just doesn’t click for me. They just aren’t the characters I envision when I read the story. If my memory of the series serves me, Jethro and Elly are brother and sister, but there was nothing to indicate that they had incestuous feelings for each other. Elly Mae seems to naïve and honest to pull off a trick like this. It’s not the kind of thing that would pop into her mind. Jethro is just a good-natured dumb ox. The psychological subtleties of castration would be wasted on Jethro. Neutering Jethro would be too much like neutering the family dog. He wouldn’t fully comprehend what had happened to him. He would just become different and live with it, not thinking much more about it.

Judy, on the other hand, has a devious, sexually playful personality, and an uncanny understanding of male sexual motivations, well beyond her tender years. Judy probably began plotting Peter’s castration that night she gave him his first wank job in the car (if not before). She probably recognized a certain dependency in Peter’s personality that would make him a good candidate for being snookered into becoming her eunuch. Her familiarity with the castration of bulls and cocker spaniels - and the resulting change in temperament - no doubt planted a seed in her mischievous little heart that caused her to develop a desire for her own neutered human pet. Judy reveled in the fact that she could use her innocent feminine charms to lure a man to his sexual demise (i.e. the hired hand).

Poor Peter. He should have seen what was coming. And at some level of his consciousness he surely suspected, but he was too mesmerized by his beautiful voluptuous cousin to think about it. He allowed her to lead him into this lighthearted, teasing sexual frolic until all possibility of breaking away was relinquished and he was completely at Judy’s mercy. Peter’s attitude toward Judy was practically worshipful.

The fact that Peter and Judy were cousins lent just enough incest taboo to the story to give it some kinky undertones in that area. However, it also lent a certain warmth to the story and their relationship. Peter knew he wouldn’t be thrown out in the cold after it was over. He knew if Judy castrated him he would become her servant/pet, and that in spite of the loss of his manhood, that idea was not at all unattractive to him.

"Judy’s Jewels" is a simple little story, but it remains the most erotic short story I’ve ever read. Something about the theme is utterly fascinating.

Farrell

While on the subject of TV series characters getting involved in a consensual castration, I think I would have to give my vote to Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on "X-Files" Mulder and Scully do seem to have a latent sexual interest in each other that has to be constantly suppressed in the interest of professionalism. They are both attracted to each other, but are forced to keep their relationship completely platonic. This subtle romantic undercurrent runs throughout the series. Eventually the characters do develop a deep feeling for each other above and beyond the natural sexual attraction.

I can envision an episode (maybe they are in a lonely single hotel room with Mulder sleeping of the floor) that triggers a conversation about some couple they know where the man was castrated - perhaps by accident. Scully gets a gleam in her eye and mentions - in jest - how that would simplify their sleeping arrangements. They laugh, but both drift off to sleep in deep thought - staring at the ceiling pensively. As absurd as the idea seems at the moment, neither can help thinking, "what if?"

Months pass. There are many more nights of "inconvenient" sleeping arrangements and moments of frustrated romance that can never be expressed. Time and again they have proved their dedication to each other by risking their lives. They are very close, but sexually frustrated. The subject of castration comes up again, less frivolous this time. Mulder keeps bringing it up - suddenly can’t get his mind off it. Scully is infatuated and turned on by the idea. They discuss details of how they would go about it - still pretending to be speculating and not serious. Finally, one fateful night, they admit that is what they both want. Scully is certainly qualified to perform the operation on her partner. She may invite a couple of her friends to be present at the operation/ceremony. No one else has to know. Finally they go through with it and live happily ever after as eunuch and mistress.

I don’t watch much television anymore, so I’m not familiar with many characters that may be quite popular. Mulder and Scully are just two that came to mind.

Farrell

Thanks for the replies, Farrell.

First off, Jetho and Elly May were cousins. Their surnames were Bodine and Clampet respectively.

I just kind of liked the idea of them in the main roles because of the whole backwoods hick nature of the story. Judy speaks with quite a hayseed accent. But other than that, yeah I guess it would be kind of a stretch to imagine our beloved Jethro and Elly May being kinky and devious.

All this talk about sexy TV characters reminds me of that Three's Company show. I could see John Ritter and Suzanne Somers in the starring roles of Judy's Jewels. And did you know that the premise for the show was copied from a British show called Man About The House? In the original, it was also part of the premise that the Ritter Character was always on the make for the Joyce DeWitt character. Not real hot and heavy, but every now and then he would make a move. Which sort of shows that American TV shows require that the male leads be figuratively castrated.

And I also welcome this opportunity to get up on my high horse about the orignal outhor of Judy' Jewels, Richard Lovel. I spent a few months last year belonging to a Yahoo eGroup called "The Peter Files", that was moderated by Lovel. In the original story, entitled "Betting The Ranch", Judy only threatens, but doesn't go through with the castration. I think that that ending has much to recommend it. I'm half tempted to post it to the archive so that others can see the contrast and judge for themselves. Anyway, Lovel's quite a talented man, but he stopped writing stories some time ago. Nowadays he spends most of his time trying to find people to watch him jerk off on webcam. To each his own.

I just discovered a tremendously erotic femdom castration story over at Pink Flamingo. Its a book called "A Gift From James" by Chris Bellows. It includes a wonderful mix of trickery and haughty dominance on the part of the catratrixes. And it convincingly portrays them as having a natural, and cultivated lust for dominating and castrating men. Since its a novelette, there's a lot of B&D and S&M that I don't enjoy. But its easy enough to skip over. I guess that's one of the big plusses for Judy's Jewels, its focused solely on castration and doesn't carry a lot of excess baggage. Chris Bellows does write very well and with great economy, I hasten to add. Anyway, the four pages of the castration sequence (the poor shlub, James, is told that he is only going to get a vasectomy) are just exquisite. I'm tempted to type them in and post them to the Archive, but to do so would seem like rank ingratitude to Pink Flamingo and Chris Bellows. Maybe a couple years down the road.

Great read. Mean it too.