Courtney Trouble's Trans Lesbians

I enjoyed and was enlightened by avant garde pornographer Courtney Trouble's "Fucking Mystic" starring Chelsea Poe. Chelsea's back in harness for Courtney in "Trans Lesbians", but unfortunately the auteur insists on injecting herself on screen, front and center, to a fare thee well.

Subject matter is quite intriguing: mix and match trans-females with cis-females and each other in what amounts to lesbian couplings, all of them unconventional. In the last decade Lesbian Cinema (on video of course -no Pussycat Cinemas have opened nationwide for Women porn fans to attend) has proliferated into a major force, and it is nice to have some outre alternative to its rather regimented content.

So why throw herself as performer into the mix rather than remain behind the camera and hire the best talent money can buy? This is clearly an issue for many female directors, such as Dana Vespoli (on screen vs. off in her movies at about the same ratio as mid-career Woody Allen did), Nica Noelle (popping up in "mother" non-sex roles frequently), Rebecca Lord (mainly hosting) and Skye Blue (seemingly retired from the fetish wars on-screen).

Courtney fancies herself a BBW performer but she doesn't have the body, personality or looks of the greats in that field headed by Samantha 38G, Karen Fisher and Eva Notty. So we get Ms. Trouble pawing and making love to several cast members, such as TS blonde Drew Deveaux and superstar Bailey Jay in segments that seemed uncomfortably self-serving, almost casting couch, lesbian auteur division. Watching the star talent let their fingers do the walking in yeoman attempts to give Courtney orgasms is hardly my definition of entertainment.

But when the stars are allowed to shine, quality porn results. Summit meeting of Bailey Jay (wearing glasses to add one more fetish to the mix) and Chelsea Poe working on their cute cocks and other body parts is a surefire fan pleaser, and mohawk-hairdo Andre Shakti adds another variation.

My DVD copy was terribly mastered, hopefully not any sort of constant production defect. The menus were useless, and the individual vignettes garbled with footage from one edited into another, destroying any continuity whatsoever.