Um, wow. Has anyone seen this recent release, and can you maybe tell me what's in it and what's up with the cover?
I've become very cautious about purchasing Evil Angel DVDs, because I've discovered the content is iffy for my admittedly vanilla tastes. It walks a fine line between a level of rawness that excites me and a level of roughness that turns me off. Buttman's Toy Stories is an example of one that was really perfect for me; The Fashionistas was too hard.
But the bullet hole graphics on the cover of Bang Bang She Male (along with the line "11 she-males get destroyed!!")... am I hypersensitive and humorless, or is that truly disturbing? An average of two transgendered people are murdered every month (2002 statistics). Some are memorialized here. I don't need all my porn to be sex-positive, but this cover imagery is extremely off-putting to me. To the point that I've even removed She-Male Domination Nation from my wish list, since I'm not sure what I'm getting into.
I have it, watched it, started to review it, but the weather has been too good to stay inside and finish the review. I have about 10 reviews I want to finish, but time is something I have little of, between fishing and working on the house.
But there are five scenes, two of which are mini gangbangs, where the group of she-males get rough with the guy. Then there's two, or is it three, one-on-one's in it. I don't know where Nacho came up with that line, but no she-males were harmed. And the content was quite good.
I will try to get some reviews done today/tonight... but I'd rather be fishing,
---BIGmike, going and going and going since MCMLXXX---
Thanks, BIGmike, I'll read the details of your review with interest when you've had a chance to submit it. I was pretty sure no she-males were actually harmed in the making of this movie. But the hints of violence on the cover still upset me.
I guess that could be true... but damn, M.B., you've seen just about every she-male flick ever released, so you're coming from a more enlightened view point than me,
I do agree that the Rogue Adventures are best, and I also have that review to do as well.
---BIGmike, going and going and going since MCMLXXX---
BIGmike, I'll be the first to admit I have a high standard when it comes to porn. Check out the first scene in Rogue Adventures #22, it's AWESOME! I usually don't like the shemale/female/male threesomes, but this scene seriously smokes. Shemale Victoria Ribeiro gets totally aggressive with a girl and guy. At one point she tells the guy that the girl belongs to her and that she'll do what she says, WOW! She then proceeds to throat fuck and screw the shit out of the girl going straight for her ass and ignoring her pussy. The whole time she's telling Joey how every day she wants more and more. She's very vocal in this scene (speaking english) and totally controls the action using the guy and girl for her pleasure and controlling most of the action. Near the end Victoria (the shemale) shoots a load on the girls face while the guy is fucking her. An amazing scene with rough action like throat fucking while holding the girls nose, hard fucking, etc. It's one of the best I've ever seen. Joey's stuff just keeps getting better. I'm glad he makes these movies, nothing else even comes close to his shemale stuff.
"But the bullet hole graphics on the cover of Bang Bang She Male (along with the line "11 she-males get destroyed!!")
Yeah, I agree with YogaGrrl here. These production companies need to use their heads a little more often. That was totally insensitive in an age of open violence against gays. Not that much has changed in the last 40 years, violence-wise, toward gay men and lesbians.
I agree, that's outright and unambiguously offensive.Not to put too fine a point on it, but transseuxalism is independent of sexual orientation (transpeople can be gay, bi or straight). Transpeople endure a higher violence rate as a group than nontransgendered gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
I'm guessing the person who designed the Bang Bang cover is ignorant of these statistics. At least I hope so. But just try substituting another word for "she-male," like "Bang bang lesbian: see 11 lesbians get destroyed!" and it's hard to avoid the conclusion that it sounds pretty hateful.
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Posted - Mar 13 2004 : 3:13PM
I'm not the designer of the cover, but I'll tell you that when I heard the name of the movie, I was confused. Didn't understand it. Nacho had said it was a play on the term GangBang. I said OK. Still don't quite understand it.
Even with the bullet holes there, I didn't make any connections to physical hate violence. But maybe I'm naive. After I read the posts here, I can see how someone can take it that way, but I can assure you that at Evil Angel, we love and respect she-males for the courage they have in their lives, and any coincidences of imagery are just that.
That being said, YogaGrrl - I'm not sure that this is a movie for you. From many of your posts, I have thought of you as a very gentle soul. Perhaps rent a Nacho movie, because you might love it. Nacho has a true love for sex and women and porn, and really shows it in his scenes. But he is also one of the most intense male performers working today. Personally, I see him fuck a girl, see their eyes connect, and my pussy gets wet. But that's just me.
Thanks, Tricia. I have watched Nacho perform (with Jazmine) in Please! and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, as well as with Jewel De'Nyle in a movie from another studio. I liked what I saw, which is why I'm interested in sampling his work as a director. But you're right, I am a "gentle soul" (which was a very kind way to phrase it--I'd probably just label myself a sensitive viewer), with a moderately low threshold for roughness and a very low threshold for violence. I'll keep reading the reviews to try to discover something that might be right for me.
Meanwhile, I do appreciate the reassurance that you love and respect transsexuals at Evil Angel. I thought (hoped) that was probably the case, but hopefully future releases will have covers that are more congruous with the spirit of the contents. This one really did leave me concerned.
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Posted - Mar 13 2004 : 5:26PM
What bullet holes? I only see Tom Ford chocking a tranny.
I think you guys need to chill out a little on this. First of all, anyone that rents a shemale porn doesn't hate these girls, they like to see them fuck so I don't see the connection with hatred toward shemales and this particular title. It's obvious from the title and boxcover the it was a play on Gangbang Shemale, instead of using it Nacho used Bangbang Shemale to make it a little different. Second, it's 11 shemales on one guy, who do you think is getting to get abused (by abused I mean fucked), it's the guy that's who. It's a shemale porn, nothing more nothing less. I watch these all the time and I never made any kind of connection between this title and what could be percieved as a hatred or dislike of shemales. As far as Transsexual Penetrator is concerned, I have seen it and the action is tame. The pictures on the box cover don't really jive with the sex in the movie. At the very start of each scene there is a little bit of it implied, but you can tell on the girls faces that it's not real, some of the girls can't stop themselves from cracking up and laughing, and as soon as the sex starts it's no different than any other porn, just regular fucking. #2 from this series (not out on dvd yet) is a little more intense and I liked it for that, but #1 is tame.
Just my little opinion, having watched a couple of Nacho scenes where he's with women....
From the title, and the blurbs "11 Shemales get destroyed" and "Things get rough" on the front cover, I would have assumed that this is a rough sex film, where Nacho and/or some of his male buddies have sex with the 11 shemales, and the shemales are on the recieving end of the rough treatment. Especially because of the "get destroyed" comment.
Myself, I've never watched a shemale film, but I've seen trailers of them, and those show regular men having anal sex with shemales. So, that's what this Nacho film would mean to me. If that's not what's in the movie, maybe some other copy would be better.
Then again, I've seen regular B/G anal scenes, where everything is consensual, described on the box cover as the man being an anal addict who sodomizes the poor girl. There must be some rule somewhere that says the boxcover copy must always be sensational, even lurid, just to get people to pick it up and look at it.
I like a well done "rape/coercion" scene in a porn (simulated, of course). In my experience finding one of these types of scenes that is any good is exceptionally rare. The ones I judge to be good are the ones that have a well thought out, plausible scenario and are well-acted (Yes, I know, I know, how often to you find that in a porn). My point is, the thing I find exciting about these types of scenes is the fantasy. I have no urge to see someone actually brutalized in a vid. Therefore I must side with Yogagrrl. The depiction and/or promotion of violence in an adult vid, like a bullet hole in the box, may be a cause for concern.
Even more disturbing is what seems to be an ever-increasing trend toward more violent forms of sex in mainstream vids. For example, I watched a vid named Service Animals #10 earlier this evening. To be honest some of the scenes were a bit of a turn-off. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some "couples porn" watching pansy. I like my porn hardcore (anal, dp, gangbang, sloppy bjs, oral/facial cumshots, cumswapping, analingus, etc). However, I wasn't turned-on by all of the "gagging" (forcing a cock down a woman's throat until she chokes), spanking in a manner that seemed painful, extremely degrading and abusive language used towards the girls, hair-pulling, and most importantly, slapping the girls in the face. The sex can be hot without this type of stuff.
I hope I've made some kind of a point. This letter is probably rambling and contradictory which proves that I'm like most people; I don't know exactly what to think, lol. I don't think that this is a big problem right now. But it does bare vigilance.
On the bright side, Yogagrrl, there was a time not too long ago when I never saw any of the major studios release She-Male vids. (I use the word she-male because someone told me that they aren't transsexuals until they actually have the operation. Is that true?)But recently Red Light District released this vid . So who knows? Maybe things are looking up.
A pre-op transsexual is someone who lives their life as the oppostite sex every day (i.e. a man that dresses as a woman every day and lives his life as one) a sex change isn't necessary to be considered a transsexual. A post-op transsexual is a man that has had a sex change operation and lives his life as a woman all of the time. A transvestite is a guy that dresses as a woman only sometimes and doesn't live his life as a woman every day. By the way, all of these situations can be applied to women living as men as well.
Geez, when I read, and re-read it, which I always do before posting a review, I had some issues with the clarity, but the IDs being virtually nonexistent, is what got me.
I still don't know where the "destroyed" part came in.
---BIGmike, going and going and going since MCMLXXX---