Xstasy

This porn feature by a prolific pornographer (Lawrence Cole) takes itself seriously but just doesn't measure up. I want to say "nice try" but it left me with a sour mood.

Shanna McCullough is wonderfully styled, looking as beautiful as can be, right from her unblinking intimate staring at the camera throughout the opening credits sequence.

She's married to Jerry Butler, and they alternate talking directly to the camera, explaining their motives scene by scene. He's the only man she's ever known sexually, but Butler becomes domineering and insists she help him act out an erotic fantasy of his. She insists she think of having sex with a Black man, and gives her a black dildo to masturbate while he watches.

Accompanied by romantic piano music, feature consists of escalating debauchery, as Shanna becomes accustomed to putting sex fantasies into practice, soon taking over from Jerry. So we have threesomes, first adding an experienced woman (Nina Hartley) to form a menage, and then having Butler watch Shanna let loose with two studs (Mike Horner and Jay Serling).

Ultimately, McCullough insists that Jerry watch her in a lesbian threesome, with Hartley and young Kim Carson, causing him to literally flee. Finale is a group-sex party Shanna organizes featuring the various cast members plus Shone Taylor (except for Horner). Jerry watches and ends up f*cking Kim Carson.

Ending is quite downbeat, and watching Shanna turn from the epitome of innocence into a debauched sex addict is quite dispiriting.