Strap On Desires, from Nica Noelle's Hot Candy Films

★★★★½

Time: 2:30, Director: Nica Noelle, Date: 2012

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Cast: Annie Cruz (28yo), Rocco Reed (30yo), Asa Akira (26yo), Alec Knight (40yo), Dana Vespoli (40yo), and Lucky Starr (40yo)

Source: DVD

Pleasure ✓, Passion ♀-, Balance ♀-

Review

Darlene (Asa Akira) and Rocco (Rocco Reed) have been married a year, but their sex-life is already staggering. It turns out that he has been struggling with his desire to be pegged. His buddy (Wolf Hudson), who just happens to be a porn star, sets him up with a friend of his (Annie Cruz) so he can try out the idea. He meets up with her, but can't go through with it.

Meanwhile, Darlene is becoming suspicious that he is having an affair, so she starts to get very depressed. Her boss Mark (Alec Knight) takes her to lunch, and they have a few drinks and end up having sex in his office. She then goes over and has a long talk with her mother (Lucky Starr) and her partner Charlie (Dana Vespoli), who suggests she break into his email. Her mother is appalled, but Darlene does do a bit of snooping and so discovers his secret. In the last scene, she makes his fantasy come true.

More time is spent on this story than is typical in the other Nica Noelle movies that we have seen: over 40 minutes. And the idea here is fanastic. It's a great alternative to constant refrain one gets from "femdom" porn: that a man's receiving anal sex means he's being dominated—or, worse, that he is somehow less "manly" for it. And the last scene is beautiful. It's amazing how Darlene embraces Rocco's fantasy.

Unfortunately, however, the other sex scenes are not as good. We generally found them just to be too long, and the third one is totally gratuitous: It doesn't fit into the story at all. But we strongly recommend the movie nonetheless, if only for how ground-breaking it is.

Scene 1: Annie Cruz and Rocco Reed (♀♂)

★★★★☆

Time: 32:00

Cumshot: Stomach

Features: Analingus, Penis Masturbation

Pleasure ✓, Passion ♀, Balance ♀

Rocco (Rocco Reed) visits a professional (Annie Cruz) to get pegged for the first time. But when she is ready to do him, he loses his nerve.

There is very good chemistry between them, but we would have expected a bit more communication between these characters. And, given that the scene is 32 minutes long, it needs to be really, really good. Unfortunately, it just isn't that good. The sex is not unpassionate, but he does not seem as excited as you might expect, given the story. And, while she does seem to enjoy herself, and to become fairly aroused, she never seems aroused enough to be very near orgasm.

The camera work is about as one would expect from Nica Noelle: very, very good, with a somewhat voyeruistic feel, though with more "medical" shots then we prefer.

Scene 2: Asa Akira and Alec Knight (♀♂)

★★★½☆

Time: 24:00

Cumshot: Ass

Pleasure ✓, Passion ✓, Balance ♀

Darlene (Asa Akira) has sex with her boss Mark (Alec Knight) in his office.

There is decent chemistry between them, and the sex is not without passion. But they do not really stay in character during the sex, and she seems to overact it. Maybe she really is as loud as she seems to be, but we do not remember her being so from other movies we've seen her in, so her vocalizations seem forced. That makes it hard to tell how much she is actually enjoying herself, and it makes it feel as if maybe she's not.

The camera work is about as usual for these.

Scene 3: Dana Vespoli and Lucky Starr (♀♀)

★★★★☆

Time: 24:00

Female Orgasm: Multiple

Features: Analingus, Spanking, Tribadism

Pleasure ✓, Passion ♀

Darlene's mother (Lucky Starr) has sex with her partner (Dana Vespoli).

The scene is completely irrelevant to the story, but there's very good chemistry between these two. Not a lot is done to establish the relationship between them, but they somehow seem like a couple, one that still enjoys fucking. The sex has a somewhat desperate feel, in fact, and is reasonably hot and natural. But several of the sequences feel as if they go on a bit long, and Vespoli never seems all that aroused.

Scene 4: Asa Akira and Rocco Reed (♀♂)

★★★★½

Time: 22:30

Female Orgasm: Yes, Cumshot: Stomach

Features: Anal, Analingus, Double Penetration, Penis Masturbation, Strap On

Pleasure ♀, Passion ♀, Balance ✓

Rocco walks into the bedroom, and Darlene is lying on the bed in sexy lingerie. "I wanted to surprise you", she says. "You did", he replies. "I mean really surprise you", she says, and stands up wearing a strap-on cock.

There is great chemistry between them, and there is some good communication as well. She really seems to get into the fantasy of having a cock. But he does not play his role as well. She tries hard to get him to help carry the story into the scene, but he is just not very responsive.

Oddly, though, it is fairly realistic how they struggle to make things work. And the sex is reasonably passionate. She starts by fingering his ass and then fucking him with her strap-on. They swap roles, and she has at least one orgasm, fucking her own ass with a dildo. She then fingers him some more before he fucks her again briefly.

The camera work is about as usual for these, but we do lose him pretty badly when he starts fucking her.