Lesbian Adventures: Wet Panties Trib

I approached this first entry in Nica Nicole's WET PANTIES TRIB series (the word "LESBIAN" in the title is clearly superfluous) with trepidation - what a lousy title. But I was very pleasantly surprised by an imaginative program with at least two classic vignettes included.

The other two segments are more standard lesbian erotica, both highlighted by the presence of always-reliable icon Sinn Sage. In one she tests a roommate (Amber Chase) at a Self-Awareness Retreat for Lesbians, since Amber is parading around with a "look at me" haughty attitude and doesn't seem to actually be of Sapphic bent despite her presence there. Sage soon gives her the acid test and 40 minutes later both are happy and satisfied campers.

In her other vignette, Sinn is infatuated with her exotic and busty roomie (in what looks like a mansion, not as spare as the usual Sweetheart Video "anonymous bedroom" settings) Isis Taylor, an actress who has stuck to her guns and kept her now questionable stage name. Taylor is all dressed up and goes out for a date, quipping "Gotta kiss some frogs", as her attitude towards the male population (this is a lesbian video after all).

Sage pulls off a tricky solo scene of rummaging around in Isis's bedroom, not finding telltale evidences of her being a terrorist, but instead sniffing Isis's panties, then trying them on, and masturbating with thoughts of the tall drink of water on her mind. Of course, she is interrupted by Isis's sudden soon return, and hides in the closet, definitely not signifying anything in the usual sense of that term.

Isis discovers her, is angry at the stolen panties action, but is quickly happy to hop in the sack with the superstar. Isis declares "I gotta take out my frustrations on somebody, don't I?" after having been stood up on her hetero date, but she doesn't indulge in any BDSM activity with Sinn, but merely good lovin'.

These Sinn-full segments bookend the 4-parter, but the other two are nearly unique adventures per auteur Nicole, and highly recommended to her fans. Natasha Nice, not quite as bombastic (and huge-breasted) as in later roles, has a tour-de-force in a story that I never thought of but which makes perfect sense in the porn area. She's a shy girl, hiding out in her room as director Nica Noelle makes a cameo appearance as her mom, knocking on Natasha's door to tell her she's going out for the evening.

That's the signal for NN to go into action, pulling out her life-size sex doll that she hides outside her bedroom windows (the logistics are purposely left ambiguous, as this is a fantasy segment), with which she has sex, talking to the blonde, anatomically correct blow-up doll as if it were alive. This has been the subject of many films and videos wherein a male pervert is the protagonist (e.g., Ron Jeremy in Joe Sarno's classic MY PARTY DOLL, or more famously Ryan Gosling in the overrated LARS AND THE REAL GIRL), but it makes perfect sense that a lesbian might be attracted to a female sex doll.

Very well edited, the doll imperceptibly turns into a live girl, Jessie Andrews, and Natasha has a very hot scene with her, both actively participating after the live doll initially is passive. She turns back into the sex doll and is put back outside when ma Nica returns.

Even better than that exceptional performance by Natasha Nice is the next segment, which has become one of my all-time favorite sex vignettes. Zoe Voss, that unique address with the unique look, is down in the dumps after being dumped by her boyfriend after 5 years together, and her roommate Alexis Texas tries to cheer her up. It's worth noting that Texas was already a superstar when this video was shot, having appeared in nearly 300 features by then.

Bored with TV, Zoe suggests they read aloud to each other, something they did together as kids. The atmosphere is set by the sound of distant thunder and rainfall outside. Zoe picks up a book titled "The Oyster" and the girls begin alternately reading, in a segment lasting 9 minutes - just closeups as we listen to their seductive voices. "The Oyster" turns out to be lurid Victorian pornography, its title a parody of the famous Victorian book "The Pearl" that was so popular when issued legally back in the '60s. Probably an invention of Nica's rather than a real tome, it is a first-person erotic tale voiced by Dr. Watson, about sex with maidens involving Sherlock Holmes as cocksman rather than detective.

As a fan of Victorian literary porn, I was bowled over by Nica's creation here, even better than her overt Victorian porn videos in both the lesbian and hetero genres. I've never seen a movie with such a long sequence of just reading erotica -no visualization beyond the two actresses reciting. Perhaps there are Sappho-oriented movies I've never heard of that tapped into this mode.

During the reading Alexis starts masturbating (fully clothed), and though first taken aback by this, soon Zoe puts down the tome and they make love. The simplicity and eroticism of this sequence owes mightily to the literary aspect - we are 180 degrees away from mechanical, gonzo sex.

So why the stupid video title? Beyond marketing considerations, the girls do trib in each sequence, both with panties on and more traditionally off. Since I'm not a lesbian, not even a girl for that matter, I have no idea about the actual effect of tribbing, but its value as a spectator sport remains dubious. The strength of this feature is not in its trib content but in the great chemistry, effusive sexuality and well-designed atmospherics that produce a nonpareil example of erotica.