Bisexual movies are a '90s trend. "We're not talking standard porn bisexuality (two girls, one guy)," writes Michael Louis Albo of HEVG, "but two guys and one girl. The primary audience seems to be closeted gay dudes too afraid to rent a tape like Butt-Fucked Blonde Beach Buddies and vindictive girlfriends trying to get back at you for making them watch those lesbians films you like so much. Films like Intropic's Switch Hitters 3 and Catalina Video's End of Innocence are typical of the genre. Not much of interest for heterosexual male porn fans, but at least you'll get a chance to see stars like Danielle and Samantha Strong in non-traditional roles."
"A lot of these fetishes - spanking, whipping, humiliation - are a variation of some sort of childhood experience," says Dr. Susan Block, a sex therapist and host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show. "Perhaps the submissive player in a domination scene was often sick as a child, thus he associates all loving acts with pain, because when he felt pain, nurses and his mother took care of him. On the other hand, wanting to dominate sexually may be a desire to get control over something in your life or over a person who may seem unattainable. It's a universal feeling, the desire to have power over someone." (Hustler)
A ruby welt rises on Kym Wilde's naked ass. It seems a harmless blemish at first, but then it bubbles under the strain of a leather whip in the hand of P.J. Sparxx. While the birds in the nearby Hollywood Hills sing an afternoon serenade, the leather strap lashes again into Wylde's previously white flesh. Slaaap! "Do you like that, bitch? barks Sparxx.
"Yes, Mistress," Wilde says. The domineering blonde grabs a handful of Wilde's brunnette mane and hurls her headfirst into a swimming pool.
Wilde surfaces, gasping for air.
"Get the fuck out of there!" Sparxx demands, politely assisting her by pulling Kym's goose-bumped nipples until her breasts look ready to pop. Back on dry land, Sparxx drags victim along the textured cement deck. Purple bruises emerge on Wilde's knees.
The scene shifts to a shower, where Wylde, according to her mistress's orders, holds out her meaty tongue for Sparxx to suck like a stiff cock. When Wilde pulls away, Sparxx gives her slave an open-handed slap across the face. "You're a good bitch," Sparxx beams. (Hustler's summary of Kym Wilde's Sessions #1 from Redboard Video.)
"There's been times when I've been beaten so much, I got light-headed and felt high," says Wilde. "I've passed out twice after a serious whipping. I just lose all sense of where I am. That's exciting to me."
Wilde says you should be careful playing these games at home. "These movies and acts aren't for everyone. It's important to know your limits," she says, rubbing white cream into her red butt between takes.
"I happen to like bizarre stuff. I just did a movie called Ocean View, where I was suspended horizontally from the ceiling with my legs spread. Candles burned underneath me; so I had to keep arching my back so the candles wouldn't burn me. Finally [the dominant partner] burned my underwear off and dripped candle wax all over my pussy. That was incredibly erotic.
"I would love to make bondage movies that also have explicit sex," Wilde says. But that would bring down on producers and distributors of the product a hail of lawsuits.
"By law, bondage tapes can show no penetration or cum-shots," explains E.Z. Ryder, marketing director for Bon-Vue Productions. "In Europe, anything goes. Bondage scenes can show sex, urination, anything. But in America, anything approaching rape, urination, or bondage and sex together is illegal."
Petite porn powerhouse Tami Monroe has been told to strip. Standing on an apartment rooftop, the diminutive slave removes her bikini top and slips out of her bottoms. A mangy male dominator spreads her legs to ensure the pussy remains open, and ties each ankle to stanchions. Once his prey is secured, the man takes liberties with Monroe's titties, giving each a painful slap before moving to her splayed cunt. (Hustler)
"You better be good," he mutters, running his grimy, biker fingernails along the pussy's pristine lips, "or else I'll leave you up here forever."
With that, he leaves.
Under the glare of the summer sun, Monroe squirms for ten minutes of solo torture. When her dominator finally returns to untie her, she laps his stained boots like a grateful puppy. (Summary of Tami Monroe Tied at Home.)
Bondage and discipline tapes have their own subgenres - roping videos such as the Bound and Gagged series from Redboard Video, where young half-naked girls are tied to radiators or bound squirming in the open trunks of automobiles.
"I don't think movies incite violence," says director Roger Thornhill. "Violence is a major part of our life, and movies reflect that."
"I don't shoot videos with any intention to incite rape or violence - I'm addressing fantasies. I think of myself as a very caring person."
Almost everyone thinks of themselves as very caring persons, even pornographers who tie up young naked women and whip the hell out of them on camera so thousands of male voyeurs can jack off.
Thornhill's next production features girls bound and gagged in trash dumpsters - another major theme in our society. I just saw several naked girls tied up in my trash dumpster, so I emptied my food rubbish over them. They screamed with ecstasy and experienced multiple orgasms as rotting banana peels caressed their breasts. Boys from the ninth grade of Beverly Hills High School stood around the dumpster and jacked off over the girls as Action News helicopters captured the action live for viewers around the world. As the sun set behind me in rotting hues of orange, I wearily walked nine paces home to my word processor and resumed writing this book.
"To some people, S&M is like Hannibal the Cannibal," laughs Goddess Sondra. She's a beautiful blonde dominant who writes regularly for HEVG. "The men I deal with are upstanding and productive members of society. This is simply a form of escapism that takes care of some deep-rooted lustful needs of being controlled. It's a form of letting go."
"Most men don't hate women," says Dr. Block, "they just don't understand them. Men fight, but you don't see many women fighting physically; so when a man sees this on a tape, he goes, 'A Ha,' they're just like us."
HEVG: "Without belaboring the obvious, there's something inherently erotic about two beautiful naked girls beating the shit out of each other."
"These videos play on a fantasy of two women going at it physically like they do intellectually in real life," explains Ken Kirk, president of Napali Video.
"Tao Productions produces a line of spanking vids for the viewer craving hand-to-cheek control. What male executive hasn't fantasized about bending an insolent secretary over his knee, pulling up her tight skirt, pulling down her frilly panties and giving her ass cheeks a new reason to take dictation seriously? Spanked Secretaries (Tao) satisfies that urge. (AFW)
"Platinum Video offers a series of ticklers like Tickling Part I, in which three sorority girls pull off each others' sweaters and shorts and proceed to menage-a-tcikle each other mercilessly to the point of peeing their panties.
"Messy Fun Video offers a full line of "splosh tapes," in which pretty girls in high heels and lingeries subject themselves to a variety of viscuous liquids, from sloppy dirt to creamy food to colorful paints. Mud has never seemed so appealing as when it drips from a woman's butt crack.
"Along the same lines as relief therapy, is relaxation treatment designed to appeal to the discriminating viewer wanting to forget the pressures of adulthood by reverting to infancy. Phantom of the Diaper shows a man regressing out of his business suit and into a diaper and bonnet. While he drools like a baby, his "Mommy" tends to his needs, powdering, diapering and putting the big baby to bed in his crib." (Hustler)
"Fetishists are very specific in their wants," explains Palmer Lawrence Jr. of Platinum Video, which specializes in spanking, cat fighting, enema, foot worship and tickling shows. "Some people like either long toenails or short. Some like them painted, some not. We have people who want bald-headed women. One guy has written every six months for four years - he likes [women wearing] moccasins."
Foot fans may want The Agony of D'Feet (Sorel Productions), where Mistress Leah LeFleur crushes everything from cream puffs to light bulbs to men's bare chests with a tall pair of spiked heels.
"Don't be afraid to try something new," advises Redboard Video Director Thornhill.
Those who get off on insects raping and murdering women have to satisfy themselves R-rated movies. In Galaxy of Terror, a crew travels to another planet where they're caught by an alien who's able to read their minds and use their worst fears to kill them. One of the women on the crew, played by Taafee O'COnnell, despises insects so the alien kills her by turning into a giant worm and fucking her to death. "I remember the worm tearing off her clothes, wrapping around her, and then something went inside of her from below," writes N. Smith in rame newsgroup. The movie also starred Erin Moran from Happy Days who dies with her clothes on, squeezed until she explodes. In Horror Planet, an alien abducts Judy Geeson, pinns her naked onto a light tabkel, injects her and then has another big-worm looking alien impregnate her. An alien insect in Forbidden World impales June Chadwick from crotch to shoulder and giant cicadas rape Kitty Moffat and Bebe Besch in The Beast WIthin.
AFW: "With Bizarre Video, the name says it all. This New York-based specialty manufacturer is to adult entertainment what Disney is to children and families. And like their Hollywood equivalent, Bizarre just keeps growing.
"Nobody covers Fetish erotica like Bizarre Video, with more than 500 titles from directors like F.J. Lincoln, Henri Pachard, Sir Gino Colbert, Chi Chi LaRue..."
"Fetish tapes are getting hotter and more interesting," notes David Aaron Clark. "The cultural craze for S/M has resulted in an influx of fresh, attractive on-screen talent... But while qualty has suddenly become an issue... things have yet to reach critical mass - there are still no equivalents to the Greg Darks, the Andrew Blakes, the John Leslies who are responsible for the low-profit, high-profile flagship features invested in by straight porn companies. There's still no single tape a fan can point to as the pinnacle of the genre... For every Ernest Greene who brings passion, versimilitude and a legitimate connection to the underground fetish scene to his bondage opuses, there's a bored porn hack who's just moonlighting..." (AFW 97)
"I suspect," writes Dr. Stoller, "that many men see women's bodies as having only the external anatomy of femaleness; women's erotic desires, these men think - you can see it in heterosexual pornography for men - are the same as men's (in some depictions, nsatiably so): as if real-life females, thoug crazily unpredictable, are eroticaly male in the soul. So, for instance, breasts are...phalluses-on-another-place, and if a woman does not cooperate... she is teasing, frigid or snotty, not erotically different. Women's pornography dreams of the opposite: men who are male women. The tough cowboy-soldier-sheik ends up, by the power of tenderness in a good woman (schoolmarm, nurse, fair-skinned slave), amenable to giving up...masculinity.
"Perversion is far more common in men than in women," writes Dr. Robert Stoller. "Women practice almost none of the official diagnoses." Stoller doubts that this is merely a counting error - that women's perversions are hidden from researchers. He also doubts that women are less perverse because of society's repression.
Stoller traces many of these male-female differences to testosterone - or whatever we call the interplay of brain and endocrine organs. From puberty on, boys are more driven by their erotic physiology than girls, which helps account for the "raging energy spent by young men in sports, violent crimes, car accidents and warriorhood."
Listening to patients in analysis, Stoller heard the urgency of most men's stiff cocks which contrasted with most women's greater capacity, even when excited, to wait. "For men - the younger the more so - engorgement dominates engagement."
Creating fetishes is normal for males but not for females. Though women can admit to gazing on men's parts and can be turned on to pornography, Stoller believed that a man's personality is a more reliable erotic stimulant for women than is a woman's personality for most men. "Men's pornography - heterosexual, homosexual, transvestic, whatever - does not depict relationships, does not focus on affection and love."
Men worry more about sex performance. "In almost all cultures of which I have heard, the definitions of masculinity tend in a macho direction, wherein manliness is the fear of being feminine and is expressed by the capacity to be cruel, uncommitted, physically dangerous, untender, and uninterested in the woman (whole person) into whose reproductive organs - a complex land of mystery and miasma - the man is expected to plunge."
Women fear men's physical strength and the paranoia that enhances it while men fear women's psychological strength and the patience that enhances it. Women do not fear they'll become less female if intimate with men, but men fear to merge with women because they believe it threatens their masculinity.
"Our first humiliator is a woman. I think that becomes unbearable to most males and bearable to most females."
From the age five on, men try to get the clothes off women, seeking total revelation. Yet, few men can bear the sight of the unadorned woman. "Every girl learns that what drives men wild is anticipation, not total access to flesh.
"To save themselves, men avert their full gaze and shift into aesthetics. We see this at its most efficient in pornography, with its arranging in advance the settings, lighting, and poses... The classic cowboy movie - the Great American Myth - has the hero struggling manfully against the schoolmarm who tries, by tenderness, to lasso - castrate - him into civility." (Observing the Erotic Imagination)
Romance novels are a form of women's pornography. Janet Daily has written about 100. Her technique is to use innuendo. "You say "his roaming hand" without saying where it's roaming. The reader's imagination will supply that. To go too far in print is not romantic."
When we accept another, we can be intimate with the person's body and personality. Perversion is the solution to a failure of intimacy. The nonperverse person does not fear intimacy, because he does not worry that merging will swallow up his identity. (Stoller)
"When I feel a little low, I buy women's underwear," writes Michael Segel in his 5/96 Esquire column "The Male Mind".
"Lost amidst a surfeit of sexy thingies, each one destined to trace a special rondure of breast, thigh, and buttock, I feel my spirits soar like the selvage of a skimpy silk chemise. Holding one up, I admire its filigreed trimmings and clever infrastrcture, and I picture its fit. Just so. I even get a perverse excitement from knowing the salesclerk is trying to suppress her doubts that my purchase will ever adorn a female body.
"A friend of mine buys his wife's footwear. His spouse prefers sensible walking shoes. He sees her in sandals with straps that climb halfway up her calves, snakeskin flats, glossy pumps. Decorum prohibits our discussing exactly when she wears these items, though we both know. He's willing to run a gauntlet of snickering saleswomen to have his way with their erotic life.
"Are he and I fetishistic? A little. We're aroused by dressing up our mates and, like most men, whose partiality makes them ass, leg, or tit men, would admit to a fondness for a particular zone of their bodies. On the spectrum we're well in from someone who snatches women's undies off clotheslines - and from Marla Maples former PR man, who was caught having a "sexual relationship" with a pair of her pumps.
"Fetishes are one category in a sexual syndrome know as paraphilia: a dependence on unusual, narrowly focused, or forbidden stimuli - to the exclusion of all others - to achieve arousal. There are many paraphilias, ranging from frotteurism (compulsively rubbing up against strangers) to acrotomophilia (an attraction to amputees). Their most striking feature is that they are an almost exclusively male phenomenon.
"Obsession with a fetish object distances - perhaps defends - a man from real involvement with a partner. What are the origins of such behavior? A toddler, tickling his erect penis, scans his surroundings and seizes upon a rubber ducky or his sister's Barbie. From where he sits, he also sees a lot of his mother's shoes and legs. Lacking a mature concept of sexuality, his little brain makes a logical enough association: Whatever boosts my erection must have sexual significance." (Esquire)
The spatial skills that males evolved as hunters and gatherers probably contributes to our dependence on visual stimuli for arousal. For the fetishist, visual foreplay lengthens this natural remove. As psychiatrist Robert Stoller observed, "A fetish is a story masquerading as an object" - but it's a story with no surprises. "Control over the highly nuanced plot is everything." For instance, to achieve arousal, some fetishists have to pay their partners - even their wives.
Fortunately, there is such a thing as will. We have choices, as was apparent to George Braque and Pablo Picasso. One afternoon, the two artists saw a pair of black lace undies in a French lingerie shop, and Braque promtply purchased them.
"Are they for your mistress?" asked Picasso, a legendary philanderer.
"No, for my wife," said Braque. "That's what makes them interesting."