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  • Star Chandler teams up with Summer Knight in the bondage video "Changing Ties", a title which accurately describes the usual role-reversal of such a fetish exercise, namely I'll tie you up, and then you can tie me up.

    Both are talented performers, with Star also directing (IMDb prefers to call her "Ruby Richards" even though she's always credited as Star). I had seen Summer starring previously in a horrible mainstream video making fun of Tennessee Williams ("A Streetgirl Named 'Desire'"), but she is more in her element here.

    I am not an aficionado of "the rope" in cinema, perhaps dating back to my "what's dat?" reaction many years ago to those '60s Japanese Nikkatsu eroductions in which some poor girl was tied up and squirming for much of the movie. Here we have detailed depiction of the careful tying/binding and making of knots which is clearly dull footage unless one is truly into the genre.

    The actresses' interaction is what makes "Ties" work -they have worked together before and keep up the patter and innuendo to keep things interesting. Various fetish content is included, my favorite perhaps being when Star plays footsie on Summer's vagina mid-way through the hour- long opus.

    Special colored tapes or adhesives are used for a form of cocooning, pretty far-out for me but perhaps titillating to the fans. As a true outsider (currently surveying a cross-section of fetish videos out of lingering curiosity), my thoughts were not running to prurient interest but rather pondering whether this sort of specialized "equipment" (ropes, adhesives) are on sale at Home Depot. Actually, watching Brit Porn I know better: at the end of every Tanya Hyde video are elaborate lists of website and store contacts to find any and all manner of latex, boots, leather, toys, medical "instruments", you name it.