NATHALIE GASSEL'S NEW BOOK CELEBRATES THE SPLENDOUR OF MEGA-VOLTAGE MUSCLE LUST
By Wessex Man

 

 

        LONDON ... Yet another book from Belgian intellectual
bodybuilder Nathalie Gassel, the fourth since 2000, confirms her role as
the world's most candid commentator. No-one has matched her vigour
in print, albeit primarily in French at the moment. Nathalie, aged 40,
goes for the jugular with her pointed vocabulary.

         'Construction d'un Corps Pornographique',
published in Brussels by Collection Ah!, a distinguished literary
imprint, is in fact a somewhat misleading title. But as Jacques Sojcher,
the book's publisher and Nathalie's former philosophy tutor,
says very fairly ; "This is in any case the beginning of a
disrupting and moving work, the true birth of Nathalie Gassel."

          Sojcher's introduction says he first remembers Nathalie
as a timid almost mute student who was in process of transforming her
physique through bodybuilding.  "There was always the pas de deux
between her passion as an athlete and her determination to write."

          The book's photo selections define Nathalie's
focus. Here the author is shown up front displaying her physique and
personality: the androgynous bare-shouldered muscle woman with short
cropped hair, dense eyebrows and the predatory lips of Medusa.
She's also adorned with  two strings of conventional pearls and
matching ear studs. Her muscular chest is secured with a heavy duty
weather-proof brassiere.

          Nathalie's addiction to weights and combat sports is
starkly illustrated. In boxing gloves and barefoot she's stabbing
a  punch-bag with rib-cracking blows. You sense the executioner, or
perhaps prison corporal punishment officer, in the way she powers her
arms with the spring of her whole physique. Nathalie's profile in
the ring threatens K.O. in the first round.

           In the bodybuilding gym, her salle de musculation, she's
chosen another mood. Here she stands alone in an austere high ceiling
chamber filled with equipment. Her hands grasp an Olympic bar at thigh
level. Wide muscular shoulders and roused biceps amaze the beholder. And
the stress in her eyes, staring slightly upwards, suggest an intensive
isolation workout.

            The image of Nathalie's friend Renee Toney, recognised
as the world's most muscular female, will astound anyone
who's never seen her before. The chosen photo shows Renee, who
weighs about 200 lbs, at her most potent and primordial. Few men have
ever attained such ripe and detailed definition.

              Here Renee is strolling in the wings of a physique contest
with every muscle pumped and veined. Her Herculean [proportions are
enhanced by a fearsome questing glance, dark eyes, full lips.
Renee's magical 19" biceps must be unmatched in the history
of female physical culture. Imagine Charles Darwin's bearded
expression as she drops into his study to discuss evolution.

              The final photo, entitled Le Secretaire, shows a
brass-inlayed pulpit desk with its top open to reveal the contents.
Traditional fountain pens mingle with dildos attached to rubber hand
pumps.

             The booklet, running to some 100 pages, explores the essence
of Nathalie's sexual psychology. She explains the painful
challenges she faced as an androgynous spirit trapped in a female body.
She plumbs writers such as Yukio Mishima, Henri de Montherlant and
Nietzche to help explain her physical and erotic journey.

             "I found right away that several authors
 spontaneously shared this

susceptibility to a certain strand of sexual pleasure," she
writes.  "They enabled me to work towards my own freedom."  
These authors introduced her to herself and put her in the driver's
seat.  "With Mishima and Montherlant I was able to probe right into
the heart of sexual instincts. Thus I'd found kindred spirits  and
discovered my sexual family for the first time. At last !".

             Previously, Nathalie says, she'd felt she was living
in the dock among the accused, continuously obliged to play games of
pretence and camouflage. "I was smothered by femininity. My female
body was a straight-jacket round my soul. The books of these writers
allowed me to understand my own orientations, to come up for air and take
a few breaths of oxygen ...."

            But it was not easy to escape from permanent confrontation
with the conventional world, she adds.  Success only came when she took
up writing and serious weight training.

            Some of the chapters are perhaps over extended with
generalisations about lust and its mental processes. Nathalie's
vocabulary on this subject is enormous, but the text might grab more
readers if the details drew more from specific experiences.

             She's interesting when talking of the evolving
distinction between men and women.  Clearly going too far she states,
" Neither man or woman exist as such. In their place we have
tastes, diverse choices and multiple personalities."

               The abolition of the sexes has now taken place, she
argues.  "We can now explore our pleasures in bodies which are no
longer constrained by  suffocating psychological barriers from the
past."

               Nathalie's chapter on sexuality and female
bodybuilding is probably the most vivid ever written. She reveals the
muscle lust psychology in minute detail, evidently inspired by her own
sensibilities. Here she's both the courting admirer and the
muscular demonstrator. She's electrified by the female bodybuilder
curling her bold biceps. A moment later she's provoking similar
attention by seizing the dumb-bells herself.

 

          "One can say in a thousand ways how muscle, in its
hardness, produces erotic stimulation," she comments.

            In a nutshell Nathalie is a unique genius, living alone yet
desirable to many. She wonders what the Creator has bestowed on her.

 

See Nathalie's website: www.nathaliegassel.fr.fm

 

To order the book: http://www.amazon.fr