Den...Let me state that I'm a fan of your site and a 2 year member. I'll also state that your concise reviews are great when I'm looking for a breakdown of what's being displayed on various pornvids.
Even though I'm not into rough sex & choking, I totally disagree with your crusade against it. When I first saw you panning some vid for this, I thought it must have been a truly dispicable scene. Then I saw the sex in question and I shook my head in confusion. The choking, while not a turn on, was very loose and not at all endangering.
Later, you included a link on your site stating why you're so against it. According to you, if it's done on video (even lightly), some drunken git might accidentally choke his partner to death. I'm sure glad you're not a member of the mpaa.
What I find a bit odd is that you've never made a peep about extreme blowjob tapes like the Gag Factor series. These porno's have guys "throat fucking" women mercilessly until they gag, cry, and puke. These tapes have receive very positive reviews from your site...
Sorry if this seems to be an attack on you Den, but I think you should be less reactionary. Look at the various scenes and subtract points (if you must) based on the severity of the actions. Don't just knock it down out of hand.
Hi Den, I distictly remember you commenting post-SERVICE ANIMALS 10 that you would not "waste your money on any other tape that had Brandon Iron in it." This was because of my brutal treatment of the girls with whom I work. I am in JUST OVER 18 #4. My name is on the box. You are either a liar or a hypocrite. Which is it? Brandon
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DenverDon Benevolent
Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02
Posted - Nov 9 2002 : 9:19PM
Well, with TT Boy's rant, that makes three performer/producers that have included bits in their movies about reviews and reviewers.
Jim Holliday and Jill Kelly used to insert comments about reviews and reviewers also. Negative comments.
Jim Holliday and Jill Kelly used to insert comments about reviews and reviewers also. Negative comments.
You know I really like Jim Holliday's work, it's fun and different than most porn. Fun being the key word. Fun is good, good is fun.
I haven't seen Just over Eighteen 4 yet, but like all of RLD's discs, I'll probably be buying that. RLD is the one studio that I can actually get all of the releases from without going to the poor house. Seeing is how they're at around 50 releases and I own over half. So in due time I will probably be getting this...
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result. - Albert Einstein
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DenverDon Benevolent
Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02
Posted - Nov 9 2002 : 9:53PM
BIGmike,
I have enjoyed Jim Holliday's work also. It's just that I noticed in the commentary/narration that Jill and Jim did in between the scenes, they would add the negative comments about reviews and reviewers.
There was an article in the New Yorker about pornography that featured a description of a shoot with TT Boy. Article was by Susan Faludi called Waiting for Wood (94/95??). Faludi commented about how rough he treated the women in the shoot. She used him as an example of what happens when your role in life is to be a piece of wood at the ready, a piece of 'furniture' on the set of a porn shoot.
Well, now wait a minute. CAVR has a right to its opinion just as TT Boy does. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be wise for Den to take the high road here, but the fact is that CAVR is giving equal time to both TT Boy and Brandon Iron and allowing his customers to decide the issue on their own. Den's joke is no worse than TT Boy getting in front of a camera on a mass distributed adult video and saying "Fuck You" to CAVR without any intelligent or constructive argument against CAVR's understandably stated choking and roughness position other than yet more girl slapping.
I respect TT Boy. I also greatly respect Brandon Iron, but they have to come to expect this king of negative feedback for what they produce without resorting to public name calling. While Den may be sinking to TT Boy's level a tad, I still think CAVR has a legitimate and well thought out position.
I think it isn´t okay to talk about TT Boy or Brandon Iron so bad.
I, personally, have not seen much of TT Boy to make any real judgements. I know Brandon gets a little pissed at the negative comments he's received...
But when you do what they do, and in no way is this meant to be negative, they have to realize that some people aren't gonna like the rough stuff. Granted, some titles are obviously geared towards the rougher side, like Service Animals , but not titles like Just over Eighteen .
I love Joey Silvera, I may not like everything he does... I love Red Light District, I may not love everything they do, but... you get the point.
I knew going into Service Animals 10 that there'd be rough sex, I just didn't know how rough. But a title like Just over Eighteen , isn't a title you'd expect to see rough sex in.
I have not seen Just Over Eighteen 4 , but I'm sure I will.
I really think that Brandon is a great performer, a bit too rough sometimes, but always solid when it matters.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result. - Albert Einstein
the Problem is, i haven´t seen any Service Animals because i can´t get the in Germany. I don´t know how hard is Brandon Irons there. But i have seen some Slap Happy Films. There is i think the face-slapping mostly played and not to rough.
I think the same problem was with Rough Sex from Anabolic. The Sexscenes were for me normal. It was normal anal, Blowjobs and so on. The only disgusting thing was the real hard slapping and disgrating the woman. This was the point they banned it in America and not for the Sex.
But here in Germany you can rent movies you won´t see and i think when you see that you mean TT Boy is a little lamp. I mean Piss, Scat or other things.
Markus76
PS: I really hope Red Light holds her standard and i am looking for more good movies from them.m
TT Boy finishes his scene and the camera goes in for a close up and TT Boy looks into the camera and says: ................................................................. This is for the critic out there, one of the critics talking shit about me. F..k you punk. F..k you! You little bitch ass. You a little bitch aren't you. Watch this. Look. Look. Look. C'mere Pulls her by her hair and slaps her face. What you gonna do f..ker. She laughs at TT Boy as David Luger asks her if she liked her birthday present. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh brother. This speaks for itself really, but I thank Den for pointing it out. I certainly will avoid anything with TT (temper tantrum?) Boy's name attached to it.
TT (Torch-Tweaked?) Boy has more issues to worry about than reviewers who don't care for his stuff. What does he expect?
If he can't take it, he shouldn't dish it out. Especially to smaller, weaker girls that he hires to take his abuse. It makes him look like, well, a little bitch.
The problem about spanking, gagging or slapping is that it's overwhelming the market. That's turning those of us who don't like it into the minority. Which is making it harder and harder to find and purchase a 100% spank, gag, and slap free "movie". A fetish has become a rampaging bully.
Also, it's popping up where you'd least expect it. You purchase or rent or get given a screener "movie" expecting/hoping for a good wank fest but as you watch you're rudely suprised by spanking, gagging, or slapping. Violent fetishes such as those used to be limited to speciality "movies". Now they're everywhere, in the majority of the "movies" released today. Fast-forwarding doesn't remove/erase the problem. It interupts the wank fest and spoils the mood for those who don't like it.
Some seem (I could be wrong) to assume that porn CAN'T be hardcore porn without spanking, gagging, slapping, choking, hair pulling, and mouth to face spitting etc. That that is what hardcore porn is all about when it's not. And they tell us to go watch "features" or softcore porn if we don't like these things. As if that's what we like. As if either your at one end of the spectrum or the other, no inbetweens. Porn isn't black or white it's a rainbow. And no one colour should overtake the entire or the majority of the spectrum.