I know why _I_ like it....but I'm curious to know what your wife liked about it. And what specifically you watched. Maybe I showed Mrs. MLyons the wrong movie. :)

I must add the disclaimer that my wife is not necessarily typical.

Mike L.

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We also don't care whether it is supposed to be love or romance, or just lust. Somebody should be hard, somebody should be wet, somebody should be ripping somebody's clothes off, and they should both be breathing heavy. (I say 'both' because I have yet to see a group scene where the people were as turned on as they can be one-on-one. Although we have seen a few good threesomes and dp's).

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We don't find the sex in the Adamo flicks to be very hard, either. The dp in Italian Flair looked to me like a game of Yertle the Turtle. The people are too dissociated from what they are doing. In one scene the guy had his hands on his hips, looked like he could barely keep from checking his watch.

Must add, some people will like it, if they don't mind all that; it looks like Vogue magazine come to life - pretty people, lotsa makeup and hair, posing.

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Edited by - lindi on 3/7/2003 2:31:17 PM

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" In one scene the guy had his hands on his hips, looked like he could barely keep from checking his watch."

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I wonder if this is one of those major dividing lines between men and women... in that men are quicker to appreciate things simply because of pleasing aesthetics. Again, I really am interested in what your wife thinks Ayb. :) She's the only woman I've so far heard of that actually likes Adamo... or those kinds of movies... How does she feel about Blake?

I don't mean to make amatuerish generalizations here. There are men who don't care too much for how the performers look vs how they seem to FEEL, (I can be one of them depending on my mood) but I think that it's interesting. There's alot to consider, and one of the biggest things is that very little of today's porn is made with the woman's input in mind. I hope that forums like this serve to encourage producers to change that.

Mike L.

Edited by - MLyons on 3/7/2003 3:02:41 PM

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The fact that the performers aren't "in to it" is less of a factor for me because I know that most performers treat this as a job, not as recreation. And the motivation for almost all European talent is to get paid -- it's not really any different than modeling, only that it pays more.

I'd love to have the asthetic, hot sex, and chemistry all in the same movie, but I'll take any one that I can get!

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As far as Blake goes, I love it! But my wife thinks it's weird (her words) and she doesn't appreciate all of the lesbianism.

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The only Andrew Blake movie I've tried watching is Secrets. Unfortunately, the authoring job by Caballero was so bad that the disc would barely play in my machine (I've had this problem with more than one Caballero DVD). It froze at the end of the second scene. What I had seen up to that point didn't particularly arouse me, however. I could see Ashlyn Gere's mouth moving as she vocalized in her usual animalistic style, but I couldn't hear her since the sounds were edited out.

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This is not to decry Adamo in terms of couples appeal and I can certainly see its appeal, especially perhaps to someone trying to introduce a partner to porn and trying to overcome some of their misconceptions. Certainly, for a reluctant partner who has previously regarded porn as somehow seedy, an Antonio Adamo film might be just the ticket to put their mind at ease.

Sir Noel.
Drinker of scotch whisky and viewer of the blurry monitor.

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