IN RESPONSE TO A COMMENT THAT SEEMS TO HAVE DISAPPEARED, HERE'S
a SLOPPY 1st DRAFT of the COMMENT I'm GONNA LEAVE at FICTIONMANIA:

Most dystopian fiction likes to hit you over the head with how evil the world it's set in is, but MORALITY LAWS makes you figure this out for yourself. Which makes sense if narrator herself had been conditioned and brainwashed to enjoy her new station in life. Or maybe she was just a pragmatist, but a story of this sort---that expects you to read between the lines to see the horrors and injustices of its odious “brave new world”---is rare and refreshing. And the horrors here were plentiful; like the bitter irony of a society that would use the word “morality” to justify grabbing kids out of high-school, stripping them of most of their rights as citizens and turning them into fuck-toys, commodities that help keep the government funded + the economy running. Like The Handmaids Tale, MORALITY LAWS was only a slight exaggeration of things that plague our world today: The warped attitudes towards sexuality; the deep rooted sexism, the misogyny and transphobia, and the way prostitutes are regarded as inferior by the very hypocrites who rely on them and by the police who so often harass them in order to feel righteous and manly, and then exploit them for sex. And compared to the grim tragic endings of so many dystopian novels, one that ends with the heroine triumphing to the extent she could under the circumstances she'd been handed is refreshing as well.

Rated XXX, this is much more a work of erotic fiction than in those amazing Julie O stories from the early 2000's like CHANGE OF COURSE and THE PROTECTOR stories (the stories that made me fall in love with transgender fiction and want to try my hand at it myself;); which might put some people off (I myself skimmed over some of the more repetative dirty parts); But it is about a prostitute who was programmed to love fucking and sucking, so while it might seem excessive it does make sense to the story. Just as Michele Nylons' stories can be both smutty and good fiction, this is a well-crafted story with a good plot and many of the same elements I loved about her earlier stories (good characters and dialogue; the camaraderie of Honey and her sister whores as sweet in its way as the camaraderie of the COEDS). I admit I prefer her less erotic stuff, but it does seem to be the direction Julie has been going in these last few postings, and seems to be a type of TG fiction she enjoys writing. She's given us an amazing body of PG and R rated work, and if her muse is taking her toward stories like MORALITY LAWS now I'm just glad she's writing again. Cuz there's nothing worse for a writer than not being able to...
~hugs, thanx for hearing me out. Veronica