Review: Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex

I’ve heard a lot of good things about director & writer Tristan Taormino. Feminist porn? Award winning guide to anal sex? I’m so there! And after reading Epiphora’s review of “Rough Sex,” I’ve really been hankering to watch some of her work. So imagine my joy to find out that she was looking for bloggers to review Rough Sex!

Tristan gives the actors a large amount of control over the scenes. The five actresses pick who, how and where they want to fuck: Adrianna Nicole is captured in her shower at home, Satine Phoenix is stranded on a desert road when a kind stranger stops to “help” her, Francesca Le is a good little housewife who decides to turn the tables on her corporate douchebag husband, Marie Luv’s boyfriend confronts her after he discovers she’s been cheating on him, and Sasha Grey has the switchy sex that she enjoys in her personal life.

Before each scene is an interview with the actors about what rough sex means to them. Not only were the interviews hot, but I think they’re perfect for someone who is new to rough sex and might have misconceptions that it’s “abusive” or that there’s only one way of having rough sex. I very much liked that the actresses talked about what exactly turned them on – from hair-pulling to being slapped around. However, there’s only one femdom scene – Francesca Le’s – which I found a bit disappointing. It should have been more balanced! Sure, Sasha has moments where she tops, but only moments. As a mostly-dominant woman I would have liked to see more grovelling from the men.

Onto the first scene between Adrianna Nicole and Marco Banderas. Adrianna is taking a shower (hot) when Marco ambushes her and has his wicked way with her. He pushes her around, shoves his fingers and then his cock into her mouth, makes her crawl along the floor to the bedroom while dragging her by her hair, where he fucks her in the pussy and ass and throws a Hitachi into the mix.

However, it is one of the weaker scenes of the bunch. I love the inclusion of sex toys, that they manage to stay in character pretty much the entire time, with Adrianna shooting some wonderfully vulnerable looks into the camera. However, I wished there was more dialogue between the two, and for some reason Adrianna’s increasingly whinny-like sex noises began to irritate me.

The second scene between Satine Phoenix and Derrick Pierce was awesome, with the longest build-up out of all the scenes. They talk and flirt a little before getting down and dirty, which made the scene more realistic for me, and had me fidgeting with anticipation.

This scene is definitely rough, and struck me as very real. Derrick verbally humiliates Satine, slaps her face, boobs and ass until she has red marks all over her (um, hot hot hot), and has her cringing, begging helplessly, and fucking him desperately while using the frame of her car for leverage.

Finally, he comes all over her while she lies in the dirt, and walks away – and that’s when a big satisfied smile breaks over her face.

The third scene was my favorite. Christian comes home from work and basically acts like an asshole, griping at his employee over the phone while ignoring his wife, Francesca Le. Frustrated, she changes into a sexy outfit before wrapping her husband’s own belt around his neck and pulling him into the bedroom.

Francesca insults him and orders him around. (“You don’t get to speak! You only speak when spoken to.” “Why aren’t you kneeling down? Why are you so slow, you dumb fuck?”) I loved sooo much about this scene – the shoe/foot licking, cunt worship, slapping, smothering. At one point, she uses a rubber flogger on him, makes him touch himself and stuffs her underwear into his mouth. I also really like Christian as a performer. I’ve seen him in Chemistry, and he’s so versatile, so gentle and willing to please but also very quietly commanding when he wants to be. Not to mention mad hot.

One of the few things I didn’t like about this scene was all the spitting. The one instance when I liked it was when Francesca blows him and spits his own come into his mouth. Mmm. The other thing I didn’t like was the TOP collar that she wears. Tops do not wear collars, IMHO. Even if the collar says TOP on it. Finally, I couldn’t help being critical of her dominance, because some of the verbal commands she used were very inconsistent. It didn’t seem to matter what he did, she would praise or chastise him depending more on her mood than on his actual behavior. At one point she punishes him for making her come, which really threw me off.

The fourth scene between Marie Luv and Julius Ceazher was the other weaker scene. Marie says in her interview that she wanted to be punished for cheating because it would produce an intense “love-hate” situation, but after Julius confronts her about it, it isn’t referred to again. Instead of an angry love-hate scenario, their dynamic just seems like what you would find in any rough sex scene.

Julius pushes Marie into various positions and fucks her. Yeah, the scene is pretty much as straightforward as that. The most interesting thing about the scene was when they do it against a mirror. The reflective images were pretty sweet. The scene ends with Julius coming all over the mirror, and with Marie licking it off. I personally did not like the licking. Maybe because I’ve never liked the taste of come? I don’t know.

The last scene features Sasha Grey and Danny Wylde, who are both ridiculously hot. This scene has the least set up, as it begins with the two playing pool and discussing rough sex, before doing what they talk about. They’re both into SM in their personal lives and it definitely shows; they both get very into it, exchanging intense looks and steamy, whispered words.

The scene starts with Danny topping Sasha – but really the scene is a power struggle, which is why I love it so much. Sasha says she wants him to fuck her; “you’ll have to work for it,” he says. “I’ll have to work for it?” Cue mischievous, very un-submissive look from Sasha. Eventually Danny slaps one of Sasha’s boobs, which she had told him not to do, so she switches on him to make him learn his lesson.

The DVD also comes with a safer sex clip and Penny Flame’s guide to choking, which I found very useful. I was actually kind of surprised that all the scenes involved a lot of choking. I assumed that this DVD was aimed at vanilla people who were interested in BDSM or rough play but hadn’t actually tried it yet, and choking seems like an odd thing to start out with because I believe that it comes with more risks than most SM acts.

All in all, though, I thoroughly enjoyed Rough Sex – it’s intelligent, sexy, and has left me wanting more of Tristan’s work.

Four out of five hearts!

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