Sarah Young's Private Moments Volume One

Of the 100-plus Sarah Young videos currently available on DVD, Volume One of her PRIVATE MOMENTS series stands as odd-man-out. It's an unusual, sex in the outdoors opus, with zero American talent for a change and a more personal "memoir" structure.

Opening is non-sex and memorable, a very lengthy credit sequence which we're informed was "Recorded live at Discotheca Amnesia, Ibiza", an unusual credit in itself. We see, in distorted (chromakey) visuals a dance floor filled to capacity of drunken revelers as machines spray soap foam all over them continuously. I'm a lifelong foe of discos and especially disco music, so I never had the pleasure of experiencing such sloppy abuse in person.

Show proper begins with Sarah in familiar pose, writing on her notepad. As her (substitute-dubbed) voice-over in German tells us, she's paying tribute to her mentor, responsible for her movies, career and even her fantasies, "Hans" (namely Hans Moser, her husband & Svengali, who uses Sascha Alexander as his stage moniker). This sets the stage for 90 minutes of all-sex cavorting by the pool at their lavish Ibiza mansion with a cast (including Sarah, but (natch) minus Hans/Sascha, who always remains strictly behind the scenes) of seven sexy performers.

It boils down to 3 guys (Sarah regular Christophe Clark plus Richard Voisin and Eric Benson, all of them impressively and endlessly erect) and 4 gals. Principal femme costar is Deborah Wells - a real beauty whose frequent lesbian couplings with Sarah here look heartfelt. The obscure new talent Cjilla March and Carole Legrand are also distinctive sex performers, if not raving beauties.

With frequent framing footage of Sarah in a jacuzzi or elsewhere still writing down her memories, the endless orgy is well-orchestrated with plenty of variety. Clark alone contributes four money shots, and the various groupings of threesomes, foursomes and double-penetrations are delivered to the fans like clockwork.

My favorite element here was Sarah appearing in a smashing one-piece bathing suit: red with yellow polka dots and purple trim (credited to swimsuit company "O'Neill"). Of course she sheds it, at least partially, for XXX sex, but it perfectly displays her legendary figure and proves once again the importance of details and settings in porn, which the average dullard (usually behind the camera -the fans know what they like) frequently ignores in favor of all-nude, wall-to-wall tedious gonzo action shot claustrophobically on crummy hotel beds.

Several of the vignettes have been anthologized in later Sarah Young compilations, but most of the material here is fresh and not duplicated elsewhere. Currently available DVD version complete is from Mike Hunter (Germany), using the title "Sarah Young Exxtreme Part Six".