With Friends Like Hers...

Fine casting helps hit these two scenes out of the park -Pure Taboo episodes not intended to demean women or to leave a bad taste in the viewer's mouth. Instead, they're engrossing, amoral and actually makes some points.

An Italian actress with a thick accent plays a key NonSex role in the title scene: 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 a 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.

A quite unusual and satisfying all-girl Pure Taboo segment (my personal favorite), its title "Her 100th Foster" refers to cougar Rachael Cavalli, as Charlie Foster, playing a lady fond of taking in stray homeless girls to live with her. In exchange for a place to stay and a loving new "family", they all service her sexually. The 100th stray is new arrival Kyler Quinn, who is initiated sexually by "older sister" Aiden Ashley.

The other seven sisters watch as Ashley and Kyler make love on a couch, interrupted by the arrival of Charlie, who reprimands Ashley and then has sex with her, while Kyler joins in for a satisfying threesome. It's Charlie's odd way of reasserting her authority over her role-playing brood.

I was thrilled to see that all ten actresses get a screen credit, not the usual practice with NonSex roles. But what is really exciting is that the same team, headed by director David Lord, shot a companion episode titled "His 100th Foster", using essentially the same script but with a gender substitution: Charlie Foster is played by Brad Newman as a patriarch, and the "older brother" is played by Rion King instead of Aiden Ashley. The rest of the cast including star Kyler is the same.