TS Love Stories

Dana Vespoli is making in-roads and adding her distinctive personal touch to Nica Noelle's ground-breaking Transsensual label, and this series of 4 vignettes hits the spot.

The director appears (uncredited) on screen in the final story to tell exotic-looking Mara Nova about troubled Kory Houston at a youth center. The dissimilar pair hits it off, and the resulting sex scene is very impressive. He's sort of a goth kid, obsessed with death and Dana throws in a movie in-joke that watching Gaspar Noe's film "Irreversible" starring Monica Bellucci caused him to become a nihilist, no longer interested in living.

Most striking segment has the amazing TS star Jessica Fox, who I first saw in a terrible exploitation porn feature about Native American girls having sex with cowboys in the Old West (!), terrific as a mean-spirited diva who bosses Chad Diamond around, finding fault in his work straightening up her closet. She later catches him cross-dressing in her clothing, and punishes him by pegging and humiliating him, but of course Chad loves it, this being a porn film. He's a regular assistant on Vespoli's Evil Angel projects.

Stefani Special brings something special to her vignette, playing a redhead angry at her man Billie Ramos, who beat up a guy out of jealousy during their date one night. This segment reinforces my esteem for Vespoli having mastered a new art form (which I attribute to the late writer J.G. Ballard) of "condensed narrative". She packs 30 or 40 minutes of story into just a minute and a half in the dense, well- written set-up to this scene, so that Billie & Stefanie can hump for the requisite following 20 minutes (suitable for streaming).

Remaining episode features Aubrey Kate, arguably tops in her field, and certainly the marquee bait shown topless on the DVD front cover. She's on a blind date with Crispin (great character name, as Dana doesn't always default to stage names as character names), who turns out to be a relatively far-out stereotype: tattooed all over, a Vegan, no car and no money for a proper Aubrey-appropriate dinner at Nobu). The old opposites attract kicks in and soon Ruckus, an alt-porn actor previously in Dana's adventurous films like "Girl/Boy 2" is humping away on Kate with orgasms for all.

By not treating her actors as freaks, and creating interesting characters and situations for them, Vespoli and mentor Nica Noelle are creating a new genre in Adult Cinema, one I consider significant on the road to ultimately breaking down marketing & audience barriers that prevent multiple gender genres (e.g. boy/girl, girl/girl AND boy/boy) from all coexisting within a single feature.