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 Studio: Third World Media
Director: Gia Darling
Cast: Gia Darling, Mistress Berlin, Mistress Julianm Mistress Nicolette, Mistress Gemini, Mistress Jeannine, Ms. J, Orion Cross, Luke Cross, Jesse, Enrique Currero
Portions of this review also appeared on Fleshbot
"You've no idea what you've gotten yourself into, do you?" asks Mistress Berlin, a female dominatrix palling around with transsexual diva Gia Darling, of hapless door-to-door salesman Julian when he dares to pitch her on insurance coverage in this economy. The scene opens Gia Darling Will Kick Your Ass!, a BDSM/tranny/pegging twist on classic lighthearted porn romps.
My personal belief is that no man is ever truly surprised when the woman he's with reveals herself to be a transsexual, dominatrix, or Mormon, so Mistress Berlin's question is part of the elegant dance between domme and sub, like French Court face-saving protocol. Of course he knows he's about to get beaten savagely, but the savvy domme also knows to pretend he just fell into her clutches.
"I don't need insurance," the glorious Berlin says. "I just need a little bitch."
And that's what Julian becomes. Berlin humiliates and flogs him, and submits him to harsh questioning.
 "What kind of man lets this happen to him?" she asks, already knowing the answer.
At this point I did not know what would happen. I hoped Berlin would, by some act of Providence, become naked and oiled, and that my phone would ring and I'd be called in to save the scene for straight porn fans everywhere. But I also enjoyed listening to her well-informed ad libs, and I anticipated the reveal when Darling emerged with her man-junk all a'dangle.
 The most inevitable (and as any drama critic would tell you) and therefore the most satisfying line comes from Julian:
"That's not a pussy."
What follows is replicated in the rest of the movie's five scenes: hot dominatrix fucks luckless interloper with a strap-on as he blows Gia Darling or other transsexual helper, then he is allowed to jerk himself off. Dominatrices keep their clothes on but the trannies do not. The sub,missives are tarted up in skirts and panties, leather and chains.
There is a lot of eye candy for the straight audience, but no money shots in the way we normally expect them. Still, as a snapshot of the growing tranny/sissy/domme threesome subniche, the power play and (especially in Berlin's case) the dialogue are really fun.
Darling as director and performer knows to let her dommes take the lead roles in this movie, and I'm sure purists of this genre will appreciate the authentic hierarchy.
 Labels: bdsm, fetish, gia darling, mistress Berlin, third world media, transsexual
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 Studio: Madison Young
Director: Madison Young
Cast: Madison Young, Daniel, Selina Raven, James Mogul, Raina Degre, Luke Degre
Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot
Red-haired Madison Young tells white lies in purple rooms. Why? Because she loves too much; she is too eager to please. Always going the extra mile in her stripper duties, Young fibs to favorite customer (Daniel) when he asks her to go to an SM party with him after her shift.
"I'm also a professional dominatrix," she lies.
This is the cloud that hangs over "Undone"; will Young's fib be found out?
At the SM club a group of bored enthusiasts lament the lack of quality slaves when Young and Daniel walk in. Daniel disappears. The others fall on her immediately, pawing at the young Young like a pack of dogs. SM dogs.
 Whether she is discovered or not, Young is pegged for a newbie submissive right off. She is pressed into service as a bootlicker and all-around "expulsions of desire". Because of her lies.
She is made to alternate between the fake cock of Selina Raven and James Mogul's real one. She is used, abused, and discarded.
Undone is another great short from Young. I only have one problem:
 The power exchange of SM movies adds an element of drama not found in standard porn films. For this reason "Undone" could have gone without Young's voiceover, which overexplained what was a fairly obvious (if no less tasty) plot. "This turned me on with great pleasure," we learn.
 Like Young's other recent short movie, Writers and Rockstars, Undone takes advantage of the taut playground that is Madison Young, and that is enough; we can see the ironic freedom one achieves through bondage, and we can see her "secret smile" - we don't need to hear about it.
Labels: bdsm, daniel, fetish, James Mogul, Luke Degre, madison young, Raina Degre, redheads, Selina Raven
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Writers And Rockstars
 Studio: Madison Bound
Director: Madison Young
Cast: Madison Young, Daniel
"Musicians have sex like they play music," Madison Young said. "Some are slow and plodding, some are kind of emo, some are hard and fast, and some should just stay in their bedrooms and play by themselves.
"I've been with a lot of musicians," she said.
Reading from her poem "Writers And Rockstars," Young hooks up with one of the latter for a backstage quickie with a little gagging, a little flogging, some candle wax, and a lot of the impressionable skin of Madison Young.
I've been to poetry slams and Madison Young is unlike any standup poetess I've ever met.
Written and directed by Young and spanning the length of three songs by the band Casual Lust, Writers And Rockstars is impeccably shot, though it skimps just a little on the sort of lingering shots one might expect from a standard porn movie. But it compensates by presenting Young as a woman who really loves what is happening to her.
Her partner is Daniel, and we get the idea that the two have stolen away between band sets. He manhandles the petite Young and she loves it. He sticks his fist in her mouth, he smacks her pussy, whips her with a belt, and finally drips wax on her. He comes on her back, then needs to get back to his gig.
She lets him go with her blessing, utterly pleased to have been used so roughly. This is a couples' movie I can really stand behind.
 But Writers And Rockstars spoils a couple of things: anyone who sees it will think that his neighborhood salacious poetess likes sex. And this joyful, fast-moving scene makes a lot of porn look like just porn.
The Young/Daniel scene was shot in 2007 ("I guess he'd be the emo one," Young said). Other scenes featuring the types of musicians Young has known will appear this spring.
Labels: bdsm, daniel, fetish, madison young, san francisco
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 Studio: Jewel De'Nyle/Sinsation
Director: Jewel De'Nyle
Cast: Jewel De'Nyle, Shelly Martinez
Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot
In the opening credits of her first movie in four years, director/performer Jewel De'Nyle sends mixed messages. Giving the camera a double-barreled finger she says, "Fuck off." She expands on this later by saying, "I'll break you and make you mine.Now fuck off, bitch." Does she want us to watch the goddamn movie or not?
De'Nyle (who, in case you didn't know, is daughter to MILF-come-lately DeBella) is just as juicy and dirty as fans remember her, and her niche sensibilities are assured. With partner Shelly Martinez, De'Nyle executes several Bettie Page-style maneuvers before more or less going off the deep end with a sword.
But whereas Page was depicted as a real innocent in "The Notorious Bettie Page," no one could accuse De'Nyle of being wholesome. It's hard to imagine Page demanding we look at her "fat fucking pussy", for example. Still, De'Nyle channels the possibility of Page as nasty as you might want her to be.
The ladies tackle a good deal of the fetish curriculum like spanking and smoking, with long shots of the two of them just standing there and breathing. For consumers intent on watching patiently, this sort of material is gold. For the rest of us, these more stationary scenes alternate with more traditional action.
What is most satisfying is that both De'Nyle and Martinez aren't playing at being rough with each other, and neither is a shrinking emaciated thing; their bodies absorb the abuse.
Martinez has a great face for this. A pro wrestler (she was ECW's Ariel and is now Selinas with Total Nonstop Action), she plays to the camera expertly, and the veteran De'Nyle has the mugging down as well.
 While it is sad that there isn't a guy in there (like, for example, me) to add variety, De'Nyle and Martinez do hit all their marks with aplomb. Just don't give up on Jewel when she tells you to fuck off.
Labels: bdsm, fetish, Jewel De'Nyle, Shelly Martinez
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 Studio: Bleu Productions
Director: Maria Beatty
Cast: Michelle Aston, Amber Rayne
Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot
Michelle Aston takes a very long break from her latest art installation to go and snatch the cutest petite skateboardist, Amber Rayne, from the playground down the block.
Still wet behind the ears, Amber is led blindfolded inside Michelle's loft space and with enthusiasm she very quickly transforms Amber into her latest "art piece" turning her into her sextoy.
So that's what happened. I had to read the boxcover after I watched the movie to find out.
This girl/girl BDSM flick from New York-based studio Bleu Productions had such a low budget that the plot couldn't even fit in the movie. Regardless, who needs a plot when single-minded lesbians are slapping the hell out of each other?
Tattooed and mohawked Michelle Aston is especially well cast as a masterful domme and Amber Rayne, who in any other situation is a take-charge kind of performer, has no choice but to play the doe-eyed sub.
While a hastily-shot montage of skateboarders precedes the film, and a skateboard is actually used to roll a bound Rayne around, the title is misleading; Rayne doesn't look like a sk8rgrrl. But then again, compared with Aston, Mongol hordes would look as if they were plucked from a playground.
What is satisfying about this movie is that it wastes no time, yet Aston and Rayne do develop a relationship through it. There is kissing and embracing in between the serious ass-smacking, nipple clamping, and strap-on action.
I say serious because Aston and Rayne know what they are doing. The movie is not about people pretending to engage in these activities. And Beatty directs in natural light, choosing loving shots of Rayne and Aston, unposed and balletic.
But Skateboard Kink Freak is not a feel-good, Up with People lesbian BDSM movie. The soundtrack, by Belgian metalcore band Caldera, is anything but chirpy. I fear lesbian BDSM afficianadas will watch this film and want to kidnap Amber Rayne so that they can don gloves like Aston did and slap Rayne's ass with abandon. I know I did. Does that make me a lesbian?
Labels: amber rayne, bdsm, bleu productions, fetish, michelle aston
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 Studio: Julie Simone Productions
Director: Julie Simone
Cast: Gia Paloma, Julie Simone, Master Liam, Krissy, Lystra
Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot
Gia Paloma is an aspiring actress of the sweater kitten variety, content with reading script sides at home until she is summoned to an audition in L.A.'s mysterious warehouse district. She tints her hair and dresses in such a way that her cleavage appears to be the knees of a fetally-posed Renoir model. The X-Files mood music and ticking clock in the soundtrack bode ill for our heroine, who is shoved to the ground after appearing in front of her auditor. So much for the Hollywood dream.
In another part of the warehouse, naked cage candy Lystra is asked by Julie Simone and Master Liam if she is hungry. She nods. Frankly, I thought something else would happen than Simone whipping out her strap-on. You know, like one of those tasty Trader Joe's chicken pot pies. But that shows how out of the loop I am with the way I keep my caged naked Asians.
"You're not worthy of sucking Liam's cock yet;" Lystra is told, "you have to suck on my plastic one first."
(Even the plastic cock appears to have an angry bite mark on the top of it; this is a bit of dildonic verisimilitude I can do without.)
We pan out to reveal the similarly caged and naked Krissy, whom Liam flogs about the feet and buttocks. Flogging Krissy is not the first thing I would do in similar circumstances, but hey, this is Hollywood. Simone gives the strap-on treatment to Krissy as well, considering the latter is not deserving of Liam's cock, either.
 Why they are undeserving I'm not sure. It may have something to do with the expense involved in dressing Liam like "Violator"-era Depeche Mode.
Nothing revealed thus far is too different from the way most reality shows are cast, but I was still intrigued to see what would happen with Paloma.
When we see Paloma again, she is bound and gagged. She is toyed with by the casting directors and, in a nice twist, the script she was reading earlier makes a comeback. We're not sure if she gets the part, but Liam finally gets to do something other than flog people.
I first saw this movie at a bar with the jukebox drowning out the sound. When I received a screener copy, the note attached read "Watch this accompanied by Cheap Trick" (Simone goes against type by being a dominatrix with a sense of humor).
But I should have taken that advice. Audition's sound is pretty poor, and a viewer would be much better served by putting on mood music of his or her choice (aside from "The Flame").
The sound quality also takes away from the effectiveness of the movie - the movie didn't turn out any differently than I'd expected when I saw it with the dialogue restored. Simone and company cast extremely well from several different body types; you can see why these actresses were considered for the role.
 I hope Gia gets the part, though. She seemed to want it more.
Labels: bdsm, fetish, gia paloma, julie simone
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 Studio: Bondage Orgasms (.com)
Director: Natali Demore
Cast: Natali Demore, Ashley Renee, Eden Wells, Harmony Rose, Natalie Minx, Katja Kassin
Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot
The best pornography has always reflected the time in which it was created. How else would you describe why America's obsession with not shaving its pubes was so well-represented in 70's porn?
Our current healthcare crisis is given a frank look, therefore, in Natali Demore's Medical Pain Sluts, in which women (the "Sluts" of the title) are subjected to and inflict "Medical Pain".
The first vignette sets the scene. "Institutional Fraud" features Katja Kassin and Demore discussing how they defrauded both the penal and psychiatric industries by faking insanity to avoid jailtime. Luckily, they are thwarted by USA PATRIOT Act technology, as their conversation is monitored by Harmony, who looks positively Amazonian compared to the two barefoot scofflaws in her BDSM heels.
Harmony imposes a number of punishments on her wards, including the novel approach of smacking Katja every time Natali does something bad.
"Legs Open; This is for your own good" announces Demore in the next scene, "Multiple Personality Disorder", in which she is the nurse charged with helping Ashley Renee decide if she likes girls or boys.
The scenarios are darkly humorous, and sexy. Girl-on-Girl cruelty has more of a ring of truth about it because it seems like Friday night at the Saddle Ranch.
Diminutive director/star Demore told me that she "discovered" liking to bind, gag, and torture people, and that she was good at it. The femdom model is still not the first picture that comes to mind when people think of dominatrices, however.
"I think we have the element of surprise," she said.
Demore appears on top and on bottom in the final two scenes, first forcibly extracting information from Natalie Minx and then, in "Hypersexuality Aversion Treatment", finding herself on the business end of clamps and clothespins.
This video is furnished with the essentials: a room, a mattress, some mood lighting, and a nurse costume. It also features some fun gadgets, electrodes, and whirring things. That it is made by women who play with the archetype of the naughty nurse, improvising funny lines while putting their victims through the paces of rigorous punishment and training scenes, makes for viewing that is less bleak than hardcore BDSM fare that's all leather and dungeons.
Labels: bdsm, bondage orgasms, dvd, fetish, natali demore
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Perfection
 Studio: Uber Ego
Director: Paige White
Cast: Madison Young, Richard Stoutheart, Hunter Rhodes
Like I should have been able to do with a crappy Linksys wireless router I bought at Best Buy last month, Hunter Rhodes is underwhelmed with the performance of slave Madison Young, whom he purchased at one of those fly-by-night Bay Area slave auctions you see nowadays, and leads the pouty and insouciant thing to trainer Richard Stoutheart.
"Look at my boots," Rhodes says, horrified. "I've been walking around with dirty boots."
You must understand that everyone in San Francisco lives in a leatherclad BDSM relationship, if not with each other, then at least with traffic on the 101, so exchanges like this are as commonplace up there as Middle-Americans' disputes over corn silage.
Rhodes drops off Young and Stoutheart immediately leads her to a training room where, like a drill sergeant, he demands she not look him in the eye and that she "toe the line". He asks why she has been so disobedient.
 "Because I'm a bad girl," she says, sullen.
The response to that very porny remark would determine whether or not I shut off the movie.
"What a bullshit thing to say," I said to the screen. "You'd better take it out on her."
"That's crap," Stoutheart said, and hoisted up the chains. Whew.
 Still, Young continues to maintain her hauteur to the point that Stoutheart clips off her clothes so that she won't look pretty (this doesn't work - she looks even better). He demands she kneel. She kneels, but her knees extend over the line. He demands she apologize. She does so, but he isn't convinced of her sincerity.
"I'm sorry Line," she snarks.
What is authentic about the exchange is that she is "topping from the bottom" and will need to be broken in order for her to be "of any use to (her) master".
By the time her labia are hung with clips and 13 clothespins affixed to various other parts, she seems like she is traveling the road to humility.
 Young is caged, flogged, marked, investigated, and humiliated. What is refreshing is that the progression to "good slave" is documented and believable. There are still plenty of moments when the viewer thinks she might relapse, or isn't feeling it. By the end we are convinced.
It's worth pointing out that at no time while Young is hanging up there does Stoutheart whip it out and avail himself of his pupil. But he has explained that he is but "an extension of (her) master" and what is truly hardcore about this film is that it errs on the side of documentary.
 If Perfection's concept were in the hands of a mainstream porn company thinking that a slave training movie might be a good idea to populate a niche market, Young's sly remarks would be taken at face value rather than punished for being insincere and, of course, she would be fucked in her chains.
The latter possibility would have been pretty damn hot, of course, but not only does that sort of content violate most distributors' restrictions (penetration while bound) but it, more importantly, would compromise the authenticity of this very real BDSM lifestyle exchange.
 Young is returned to Rhodes and is penitent. His boots still aren't exactly shiny, but she has tried, and relationships are all about compromise.
I am hoping that, once he gets her home, he will have her do practical things rather than just to kneel when told and to stand in certain places in addition to shining his shoes now and then. If she were my slave, I would definitely have her drive over the Bay Bridge, because that commute sucks.
Labels: "uber ego", bdsm, dvd, fetish
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Trouble x 2
 Studio: Slave Labor Productions
Director: Paige White
Cast: Lorelei Lee, Bella, Paige White, Hunter Rhodes
I used to watch a lot of BDSM videos as part of my job and, once I didn't have to review them, I stopped. My problem with them was less production value (fetish videos tend to have an air of San Francisco about them, and one expects a homeless guy to show up and pass out at any minute, which is great the first few times, and certainly a welcome departure, but a worn-out novelty very quickly) than attitude; people seemed to be playing at being dommes and subs rather than just taking care of business.
Porn is about theatre, of course, but I don't like it when the theatricality overwhelms the action without bothering at least to compensate with production values and a real sense of purpose.
Trouble x 2 is very simple, and this was a relief. Lorelei Lee and Bella are in a heap of trouble. The movie starts with them naked (and no high heels) against a brick wall in a warehouse. Paige White, a petite and no-nonsense domme with an accent out of the Great Plains, leads each by a nipple to adjoining tables. Trouble x 2 is about these two women being put through the paces by a pair of cool and collected pros (White is joined by her partner, Hunter Rhodes, later in the session).
About the women: Lee and Bella speak very little. They really are expected to be objects, but there is nothing that makes the viewer feel what is happening is non-consensual. Further, White is not cruel. She isn't delighting in the action for the sake of the camera. Instead, the ritual is reduced to its essence without any fanfare. Each woman is collared, gagged, tied, clamped, and repeatedly tweaked (also snapped with rubber bands). There is no commentary other than that of White and Rhodes and the inevitable yelping of the subjects.
Each mark shows up on the pale skin of Lee and Bella in frank detail. Lee spends the first part of the movie with her left leg bent back; she and Bella are roped and trussed together, sometimes by their pinky toes. They are stood up, knelt down, spanked, flogged, braided, and sharply counseled not to laugh - because sometimes we laugh - and they look great.
 This movie plays like a taciturn chef's cooking show with very hot ingredients. It is by the numbers and empirical. As one can only make an omelette after breaking eggs (unless it's a vegan banana omelette), it is understood that only by tying the women can you then hope to snap them with office elastics.
It seems counterintuitive, based only on what passes for fetish porn, that a dude doesn't show up to come on their faces, just to satisfy convention. But Paige White is the real deal, and the viewer must be content with the fantasy that the two subjects are now primed to come over his house later.
 The final scene involves Bella, wandering around in a blindfold, finally being given permission to come via a strap-on tethered to the mouth of Lee. Then they are placed back in their cage, and the lights go out. I hope the cleaning staff didn't freak out when they came by later.
Labels: bdsm, dvd, fetish, reviews, wgl
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Studio: Third World Media
