Love Instructor

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Love Instructor
Author(s):	A.T. Bush
Date(s):	1984
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Love Instructor is a K/S story by A.T. Bush.

It was published in the print zine As I Do Thee #1.

Summary

"Young Jim Kirk is sent to a academy for sexual instructions."

Reactions and Reviews

I don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t feel alive. I’m guessing that it is because she uses the indirect approach. You could assume that Kirk is telling Spock about his experiences with several love instructors, but would he use the third person?

I really enjoyed this story. It isn't often that I've run across stories of an inexperienced Kirk, let alone a twelve year old one! This is a story that starts out with some humorous exchange between James and his brother Sam. Neither one of them is of adult age, yet each speaks as if they are. They are discussing the love instructors and the Love Institute and which one is the best. The story continues with various instructors and their areas of expertise discussed as James is instructed in each of these areas. I will not go into each of these areas now, but the theme of this story has a lot of merit. The ending of this story has Kirk and Spock discussing Pon Farr and the merits of Kirk's prior love making instructions that will help them during this time. There is a lot to be said for this type of instruction to be available today. It appears that in the later part of the 23rd century we have wised up enough to indoctrinate our children in all forms of education.

Two other stories deserve special mention for their unusual theme. "Love Instructor" by A.T. Bush and "Secrets" by Jo Scott-Ross both deal with the extremely controversial issue of teenage sexuality. It took courage to write them, and an equal amount of courage to publish them especially since the position they take in favor of sexual self-determination for adolescents can be misinterpreted. Some readers would complain that these aren't really K/S stories. They both deal primarily with one of our heroes. This is a type of story that was prevalent in the zine, OUT OF BOUNDS. Frankly, I have always liked the unusual aspects that OUT OF BOUNDS stories tended to explore and I am glad to find that kind of tale In AIDT. These stories by AT. Bush and Jo-Scott Ross are both well wrttten; but of the two, it is 'Love Instructor' that is the most imaginative. It boldly goes where no one has dared to go before. To my knowledge, no one has ever written about adolescents being taught sexual techniques by 'love instructors'. It's positively audacious. "Love Instructor" also has a mystical twist at the end that I definitely appreciated.

A.T. Bush has departed from her usual style to chronicle a pubescent Kirk's exploits with his many Love Instructors (a concept first mooted by Gene Roddenberry in ST:TMP). I appreciate what she was aiming at and the descriptions were certainly erotic, but for me it wasn't K/S even if there was a little thrown in at the end.