Some Recent Good "Couples Porn" Flicks For Your Consideration
It's been a while since I've done anything over here, since I've been working diligently on my relationship site, the Red Pill Room, so I thought I'd take the Labor Day opportunity to make a few over-due recommendations.
I get a lot of requests for recommendations for good
porn. The problem is, what constitutes
“good porn” varies incredibly. Usually I
have to ask some follow-up questions: do you watch alone, or with someone
else? Is it masturbatory or purely
foreplay? What are a few of your
favorite types of scenes? Do you value
production values and pretty people over authenticity and “real” people? The answer to each and every one of these
questions further influences my particular recommendations. So you can imagine how hard it might be to
recommend half-a-dozen good recent flicks, even within the categories “couples
friendly” (usually meaning not a lot of anal and a little more cunnilingus) and
“entertaining”.
Still, I’m a professional, and I do have my personal faves
from the regular avalanche of porn I wade through every month. The last several months have produced a
decent number of quality pictures, although I doubt anyone will like them all
and most of you will only prefer a few of them.
Porn is highly subjective.
But in no particular order, here are my recent faves, along
with good reasons why.
(DISCLAIMER: the links in this post go straight to a NSFW
porn site. Don’t click if you’re going to
get in trouble or are offended by . . . well, naked people having sex. I can’t even guarantee it will be good
sex. There are two sites I link to, mostly, AdultMovieMart.com and VideoGold.com.
Adult Movie Mart is a straight-up sales site, where you can simply purchase DVDs by mail or rent-on-demand on your computer. Adult Movie Mart is the online presence of the venerable Video Mail catalog, which has been selling good wholesome porn to the people of America (except certain jurisdictions in the South) since 1983. Yes, you read that right. It's a 30 year old porn company that is not only still in business, but has packs of rabid customers. It helps that virtually every purchase comes with a free gift, a discount, or both.
Video Gold is an Adult Movie Club, just like those book and record clubs. It's actually a pretty decent deal: you become a member and get three movies for less than $12 (+S&H) -- and their premium selection is choice. Once you're a member, you have an obligation to purchase at least two more flicks in the next 12 months. Every month they'll send you the Video Gold Main Attraction, which you can open and accept or return unopened and decline. If you keep it (and it's almost always keepable and collectible) then you get charged and you fulfill one obligation. If you decline it online or return it, there's no charge. You also get a monthly catalog full of other selections and plenty of special deals and discounts and free gifts -- VG is pretty lavish, and they try to get the absolute best in every specialty niche market. But their prices are lower than video-store prices, their selection is arguably better, and sometimes it's just nice to go out to the mailbox and discover a new porn video arrived.
What I CAN guarantee is that there
will be no pop-ups, viruses, or other hazards at this site(s). These are people I work for, and although I
don’t make a commission off of sales I do feel it’s appropriate to mention that
they have my personal trust. I’d not
only let them have sex with my computer, I’d even call them the next day. But yes, I do work for them. They sell porn. You’ve been warned.
ALSO: This weekend ONLY, one of the sites, adultmoviemart.com, is having a $1.95 blowout sale on 48 hour on-demand rentals. That means you can watch virtually any of 1000 porn titles for less than two bucks, and have access to them for two days (in case you get. . . "distracted". Considering most VOD sites charge in 15 minute or 5 minute increments, for those of you who like a little more entertainment in their Adult Entertainment, this is an excellent opportunity to experiment a little with some stuff you might not have ordinarily picked up at the dirty book store. $59.95 for a DVD!?! You have got to be kidding me! End of disclaimer.)
Romance Picks (If You Aren’t Sure Where To Start…)

You might want to consider
Intimate Encounters. Well-shot and well-produced, this
DVD packs five super hot, newbie-friendly scenes featuring some terribly pretty people. Shot as individual vignettes (a popular style for these types of romance-oriented films) these five scenes range from the soft and gentle to the delightfully dirty. Best yet, it’s offered with a $4.95 2-day rental option, direct to your computer, which lets you stop between vignettes for oral sex or ice cream or a bathroom break, as you see fit, and return to it later.
Other well-produced Romantic porn flicks:
Fallen (Wicked -- about a really hot fallen angel)
A Touch Of Seduction (a rare well-produced series of romantic vignettes featuring African American performers)
For those who got hot-and-bothered by the
bondage-and-submission of
Fifty Shades of Grey, yet weren’t turned off by the
vapid prose, consider the just-released
The Truth About O.
This modern continuation of the classic BDSM tale features
performer/director Bobbi Starr as O, a woman devoted to BDSM and erotic
submission.
Starr is out to find a sister slave to help her please her
master, James Deen. The dialogue isn’t delivered that well – remember, this is
porn, if these folks had serious acting chops they’d be . . . well, acting --
but the gorgeous people and moderately intense action will make up for that for
most of you.

Beautiful Asian performer Asa Akira becomes the object of
Starr’s desire, and Deen is pleased to see submissive Starr fondling the pussy
of a rope-bound Akira as he meets her for the first time – and note that there
will always be a fair amount of girl-girl in most bondage flicks, as boy-girl
bondage is still considered obscene, lascivious, and a violation of local
standards in some jurisdictions. But it’s completely consensual: Akira loves
the fingering and oral she gets from pretty Bobbi Starr, and at one point would
pretty much promise anything to get Deen’s cock in her pussy, she’s so turned
on. And that’s when things get a little crazy. Akira gets a suction tube used on her tits
and clit until she’s begging for an orgasm, and Starr gets hung upside down by
her ankles to give Deen head. There is
some un-bound anal that’s well-done here.
Asa Akira clearly her time with Deen’s cock. Then Bobbi Starr presents herself as a temporary gift to
well-hung master Danny Wylde … and she’s the kind of gift that arrives with a
glass plug in her ass (hint for Christmas, Mrs. I!). Starr is surprisingly tied
up during her anal with Danny, and it’s a good one. And there’s a fair amount of spanking, too:
Starr flogs Krissy Lynn to warm her up for a powerfully intense interracial
screw with Nat Turnher. Another good girl-girl scene shows hottie Justine Joli
getting bound with rope and suspended by Claire Adams before
Adams
decides to eat Joli out. Then a bound Joli eats out
Adams
and Joli has a strap-on put on her so that
Adams can
ride her. But that’s not all—the girls break out a homemade “screwing machine”
for more toy play.
Over-all this is about as hot and intense a bondage film as
mainstream porn has produced – you have to go to overseas outlets or the bowels
of the internet to find comparable fare, and bondage films usually lack the
production values in this one. Starr
handles the camera as well as she performs in front of it, and the female
direction may give a better woman’s perspective on the scenes (although they
seemed pretty damn hot to me). And to
give you a more objective assessment, Adult Video News (the Variety of the
pornosphere) gave it 4 out of 5 As. If
50 Shades gave you a bad case of dewy-panties, this might be your next step on
your path towards sexual servitude . . . or just a really hot date-night flick.
Folks who don’t like BDSM, whips, chains, spanking, anal,
girl-girl, or often-authentic orgasms should stay away from it. And note that the “rent it now” option gives
you 48 hours internet access to it at adultmoviemart.com, if you want to watch
it without buying it outright. That’s
two days to start-and-stop while you practice trying things out. But the DVD
price is comparable or lower than your local adult video store (and doesn’t
even have a sticky floor) and you will almost always get either a discount, a
free gift, or both with your order.
If You Liked Spartacus: Blood & Sand and 300…
If you liked
300 or
Spartacus, you might enjoy
The Four, a
kind of XXX sequel to
300. It received a
rare AAAAAs from the critics at
AVN. Although the shooting, post-production, and
distribution of the picture was hung up for years, the result is both erotic
and visually pleasing, with a feel like of mainstream epic from the '50s or
'60s.
The Four in the title
(Brea Bennett, Renee Perez, Nikki Kane, Cassidey) are women of Sparta
avenging the death of their king after the battle of Thermopylae
(that the battle featured in the mainstream film 300 – the flick that launched
a million gym memberships). Queen Gorgo (Brea Bennett), mourning her husband
King Leonidas (Charles Dera), has a couple of super hot flashbacks to better, happier
(and sexier) times with him that are both hot and well-shot. But then after Thermopylae
the queen and her ladies bargain with a shaman for the powers of a warrior for
all four—a service for which the shaman takes a comely blonde servant as
payment. (No, he doesn’t give back two
brunettes in change, although I’m sure it would be amusing).
The sex scenes waver between stylized and realistic, with a soft
camera focus giving way to tight close-ups and very contemporary-sounding
groans and squeals. Sometimes the scenes are back-to-back, like when three
harem girls take each other on as a prologue to Alexis Love's set-to with
Xerxes—a studly Marco Banderas (with a sash tied around his hips hiding his
contemporary tattoo). Along with the sex scenes are sequences of dramatic
exposition, including Brea Bennett vowing her revenge and imagining how sweet
victory will taste, and Xerxes “defiling” his high priestess (and that’s quite
a defiler in his loincloth) to punish her for failing to stop the Four.
As the Four get ready to attack Xerxes, the Queen leaves Plataea
(Nikki Kane) behind to watch Xerxes' death from afar so she can report back to Sparta
and pass along the story to her yet-unborn children. Approaching Xerxes' palace
through a wilderness, Queen Gorgo meets the recently-defiled high priestess,
who tells the Queen of a secret passage to Xerxes' chambers. As the Three
remaining amazons avenge Sparta by
killing Xerxes, Plataea sees
herself with King Leonidas, leading to a triumphant ending, their son representing
a reborn Sparta free of Persian
influence.
The moody, stylish photography and close-up scale gives The
Four the feel of an "intimate epic" – much like Starz’s Spartacus
series. The production values are lavish, the original music and eye-catching scenery
conspire with a stentorian scene-setting narration to build layers of depth not
often seen in a porn flick. If “going
Greek” is your style, then this epic fantasy will likely please you.
See Also: Private's
Gladiator (old, Euro, but entertaining)
If You Liked The Princess Bride…
While some people don’t see fairy tales as erotic, the Grimm
brothers certainly knew them for what they were: cautionary folk tales designed
to help keep a lid on sexual tensions in later adolescence. The medieval flavor of fairy tales gives them
a certain dreamy quality in our minds, and this is the vibe Wicked Pictures
taps into when it produced
The Craving and
The Craving II.
Both flicks are adult fairy tales, which is actually not a
new concept in porn. But while previous
treatments tried to make the stories farcical, Wicked’s adept director Brad
Armstrong keeps it serious, erotic, and explosively sexy.
Wicked and Armstrong have a long-running relationship which
has allowed the award-winning Armstrong a lot more freedom than many porn
directors. And Wicked’s signature contract
girl, Jessica Drake, delivers incredible performances in both films. There’s a little anal, a lot of oral, and
gorgeous, gorgeous costuming. Acting is
minimal – these vignettes aren’t particularly wordy – but the sex is
scalding. Either one of them would be
good date-night fare.
If You Liked Pretty Woman…

Let’s face it, if you’re feeling sexy, often you want your
porn to reflect something, well, sexual.
And there’s not much more sexual than prostitution.
Portrait of a Call Girl is a quite-entertaining,
erotic, well-produced and (in places) intense feature story of one young
woman’s rise to become a high-end call girl.
Of course she has to go through some deliciously nasty places before she
gets there, but adorable newcomer Jessie Andrews does a magnificent job.
She stars as Elle, a call girl haunted by her troubled past
(aren’t there any hookers from quiet, well-adjusted suburban families?) . After
getting kicked out of her house when she busts her stepdad cheating, she uses
her boyfriend Sam to break into her parents house launching her life of
crime. Before long she’s working the
streets of the big city, turning tricks on streetcorners.
But is she doomed to a life of tragedy? Or can sex act as a redemptive act, as well
as a business proposition to a hooker?
Elle moves from one steamy liaison with her tricks to another, finding
pleasure, pain, excitement, and intrigue in the process. Slowly but surely she rebuilds her shattered
life into something she can be at peace with.
It takes a certain kind of woman to thrive as a call girl – and Elle
proves she’s the hooker with the heart of gold in the end. Extremely well-produced and expertly
directed, Portrait Of A Call Girl skips the moral judgment or “cautionary tale”
route and looks instead at the intense sexuality of the world’s oldest
profession.
If You Are A Hardcore Nerd…
Believe it or not, there’s actually some original sci-fi
made out in Chatsworth (that’s the “Hollywood of Porn”, for you novices. Being a nerd, I’m kinda sensitive to that
sort of thing, so when it happens, I like to see it. Here are a few of the
(sometimes comically funny) attempts at doing original sci-fi in porn.
This is probably the best original sf/porn flick to date: it’s
a near-future movie about the end of porn.
That is, it’s about how fully-animated and fully functional physically
perfect sexbots (“anibots”) might impact the porn industry. It’s fascinating, thought-provoking,
well-produced (Wicked, duh) and deliciously nasty. It features Alektra Blue who is freakin’
fantastic – seriously, some of her best work – and Randy Spears as his own
grandson, Ryan Spears. It won 3 AVN
awards and got an impressive AAAAA.
Post-apocalyptic epic starring Kayden Kross from Adam &
Eve. Won AVN
award for best picture. I am legally
obligated not to comment on this picture.
It’s complicated.
If you liked Pirates of the Carribean…
…then you might like one of the most expensive porn flicks
ever made, the hugely, insanely popular
Pirates. It won virtually every award it possibly
could, and the soft-core version is hugely popular on the cable channels. Plus, it's on sale --
$20.00 off the retail price!
If you liked . . . virtually anything you saw on television in the
last 30 years…
Then you might like PARODIES! That’s right, if you’re a fan of a mainstream
show, then odds are it’s been parodied in the last few years. Porn Parodies are seen by the industry as
kind of “gate-way porn”, a way to introduce the pornless to big dicks and big
boobs in a friendly, entertaining manner.
Each of these was a unique piece, and the quality really
depends upon just how attached the director was to the original show. But if you were a Buffy fan, for instance,
you won’t want to miss the Parody and be the only one in the Whedonverse to
miss it. Without further fanfare, and in
no particular order, here are a smattering of some of the porn parodies that
have popped up in the last few years:
Television
Seinfeld (New Sensations - a porn about nothing)
Movies
Star Wars (Vivid - The ultimate porn parody -- got 5 As from AVN)
Avatar (Hustler - The best blue-on-blue sex I've seen since
The Smurfs)
Shaft (3rd Degree - You're damn right!)
Cartoons
The Smurfs (Oh, Gods, yes they did. And yes, Smurfette gets smurfed in the smurf...and she loves it!)
Superheroes
The Avengers (Vivid)
Batgirl (Extreme Comixxx -- and Sunny Lane's last movie)
Ironman (Extreme Comixxx - and they used the expensive $7000 suit, not the cheap $300 suit)
Batman (Vivid - Think "Adam West")
That’s my list for now – a good place to start, depending
upon your idea of adult entertainment.
If you have further questions, let me know.
Oh, and the Adultmoviemart.com site (disclaimer: I work for
them) is having a Labor Day Weekend Sale on all of their on-demand movies. For two bucks you can see just about any of
1000 adult movies on-demand on your computer or other device for 48 hours. And you don’t even have to sneak into the
adult video store at 4:00am to keep
you neighbors from seeing you.
You can’t
beat that with a stick.