With Friends Like Hers...

A fine cast helps hit this one out of the park -for once a Pure Taboo episode not intended to demean women or to leave a bad taste in the viewer's mouth. Instead, it's engrossing, amoral and actually makes a point.

An Italian actress with a thick accent plays a key NonSex role: Artemisia Love as the mother of star Anny Aurora, who is a bit too old (but plays well) cast as a teen who's secretly a lesbian, something mom wouldn't approve of, as Artemisia wants to have grandchildren. Anny's schoolmate Brooklyn Gray is to have a sleepover, so mom Artemisia has her friend Dee Williams promise to come over and chaperone the girls in her absence.

Brooklyn and Anny have an appealingly sensual sex scene, caught in the act by Dee Williams who (after masturbating awhile in pure porn voyeuristic tradition) then bawls the pair out and sends Brooklyn packing, all so she can take over, with some priceless dialogue: "I'll take some of what she's having" (straight out of "When Harry Met Sally"). And of course Anny declares one of porn's mandatory lines: "I'll do anything" to plead with Dee not to fink on her to mama. That line is always followed by sexual blackmail.