On Edge

Adult Time has fastened this DVD as a grab-bag of segments from several sources: a couple of "Modern-Day Sinners" stories, a fine "Pure Taboo" cuckold scene, plus a dumb sort-of-comedy from the obscure new "Go Stuck Yourself" series.

Lapis Afterglow fashioned an ingenious and intriguing screenplay for an offbeat Pure Taboo episode titled "What's Good for the Gander", a pleasant surprise. Except for directors Vegas & Siouxsie dropping the ball on credibility along the way, its cleverness is quite effective.

Story begins with a cliche: Vanna Bardot's sorting the laundry and finds in her husband's pocket a match box from a bar named Vibe, with a phone number for "Blake" inside. She correctly jumps to the conclusion that he's been cheating, and tracks down Blake, out to confront her at her home.

But Blake turns out to be a guy, and it's Dante Colle, portraying a popular stripper at Vibe, who is bisexual and sleeps with willing folk of both sexes who frequent the club. Bardot is truly shocked, but even more so when frank-talking Colle suggests she get revenge on her husband, and then volunteers to service her, hence the segment's title.

This novel switcheroo on the familiar cheating scenario benefits immensely from the casting of Dante, who in recent years has become porn's leading AC/DC performer, dividing his screen assignments between boy/girl, boy/boy and boy/trans roles.

Bardot agreeing to the arrangement is not convincing, and she drops her character to become pro sex worker once Dante starts humping her XXX-style, both drawbacks here. But the scene recovers when happenstance has hubby phoning Dante to make an appointment right as his wife is riding Colle's cock on his couch. They show hubby what they're doing via the cell phone, and he's perfectly cuckolded in real time. Scene doesn't have a solid ending, but at least it has avoided the series' nastiness and misogyny, substituting the niche Cuckold genre in a new way.

"Go Stuck Yourself" (a series imitating many a competitor Brazzers slapstick scene) has August Skye getting stuck somehow with her bare ass sticking out of an elevator at her boyfriend's condo in a vignette titled "Stand Clear of the Doors". The building's handyman Seth Gamble happens by and chats with her mindlessly until he takes advantage of the situation to f*ck her doggystyle. She ends up enjoying it, and when she suddenly is freed they complete having sex, standing up inside the lift. The stupidity of this scene exemplifies how a "Stuck" series is as dumb as porn can get.

Gamble, clearly porn's most over-exposed performer lately, returns in a "Modern-Day Sins" segment titled "The Nanny Cam Part 1" (good luck finding a Part 2 on DVD). His acting in this one is extremely poor and irritating, no doubt on purpose (his speech is clipped in a near-stammer mode, signifying nothing). He's hired cutie Kimmy Kimm as a new nanny for his young daughter, and watches Kimmy via the bedroom camera in the child's room. Poorly written scene has Kimmy stripping sexily for this camera, causing horny Seth to visit the room and f*ck her. Neither his wife nor his daughter show up on camera, and the time-killer is utterly pointless.

Another "Modern-Day Sins" entry stars Christy Love as a beauty who is fed up with being neglected by her nerdy husband (NonSex actor Daniel Shar), who's been working at home but not satisfying her needs anymore. She gets Codey Steele to come over as a substitute and as luck would have it, hubby catches them in the act just as Christy squirts fountains of Evian into the air. Since this is styled as Cuckold porn, Daniel gets mad but sticks around to watch the couple have a good time. All told, a porn scene combining two of porn's stupidest tropes: Squirting and Cuckolding.