Rubber Passion 2

Brief (only an hour long with just three vignettes total) this fetish exercise from the great pornographer Skye Blue has the former actress, now leading director over the past decade, simply going through the motions. She doesn't try to hide her boredom at all during the helpful BTS short subject on the Bizarre Video DVD, responding to interviewer Voodoo's outre suggestions with a mock-yawn, declaring "I'm jaded".

Well, so is the viewer, as bondage/fetish videos have not progressed since the Stone Age, and this is no exception. She jokes that this one, shot simultaneously with the equally throwaway "Forbidden Latex 2" (I confess as a less-than-novice to not know the difference between rubber and latex gear worn in these awful videos), will go out under her own name. "Skye Blue" appears on screen but her earlier alter ego "Deidre von Dutch" gets the credit on the DVD packaging through a typical mix- up.

Most impressive here is a dominatrix named Mistress Aradia, clad head to toe in rubber, often so tightly wound as to have her semi-hobbling along as she abuses this or that submissive. Far more famous dom Anastasia Pierce, arguably the leading light in this genre nowadays along side Aiden Starr, shows up to get her licks in, and the BDSM content ranges from mild (the pinwheel metal device rolled around on a lass's breast) to typical flogging and labia-torment that would qualify as torture if carried out at, say Abu Ghraib.

Ariel X is the most familiar of the subs, but in this context it is the tormentors who steal the show.