scene title: pussy freak on a leash
performers: scarlit scandal, elsie
site: hot and mean ◅ brazzers (mindgeek)
production credits: none listed
release date: august 25, 2022 | trailer
i just said that black women in a scene together was rarer than hen's teeth, and we got two in august.
performances: 24
cinematography: 18
editing: 17
script: 10
sjw points: 8
total score:
performers: scarlit scandal, elsie
site: hot and mean ◅ brazzers (mindgeek)
production credits: none listed
release date: august 25, 2022 | trailer
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| l: elsie, r: scarlit scandal |
i just said that black women in a scene together was rarer than hen's teeth, and we got two in august.
few sites could be more different in their approach than all her luv and brazzers, of course: missa x's scripts are at pains to ascribe relatable, everyday emotions to the conversations that lead up to the sex, and the subsequent sex is leisurely, decorous and moodily lit, while the content assembly line at the mindgeek mills focus heavily on outrageous, impossible fantasies that can be summed up in twelve-second gif ads, emphasizing high energy, big expressions, and unsubtle camera work that can be grasped at any resolution.
scarlit scandal is dating elsie's "brother" (an incompetent nonsex performer, looking and acting like the p.a. on set who drew the short straw that day), but elsie wants scarlit for herself, so she sends her nudes over text, then sneaks downstairs to overhear scarlit complaining that her boyfriend won't let her peg him. (alas, anyone expecting that this means a strap-on will show up later on will be disappointed.) the boyfriend leaves to blow off steam, and elsie taunts scarlit via text again, who marches upstairs to tell her off. but elsie greets her with a leash trailing from her vulva, and begs to be treated roughly. so scarlit obliges; but again, anyone hoping for a sub/domme narrative throughline will be disappointed. scarlit, as the more experienced performer, is certainly in charge the entire time, but once the sex gets going all power play elements go out the window, and it's a mindless free-for-all fuck fest.
after a certain point a scene like this just gets grueling; i admire both women's stamina, keeping an enormously high energy level going for almost half an hour, but brazzers' reliance on sex toys and camera angles as the primary fetishistic foci of girl/girl scenes helps to keep any actual chemistry at a remove. there are some amazing moments of genuine autonomic response mixed in with all the huffing and puffing, but too few and too far between.
but i am glad to get a chance to recognize the young kenyan-american starlet elsie, who thoroughly charmed me when she appeared on holly randall's podcast a few weeks later; her meatier frame is especially lovely as contrasted with scarlit's tiny hardbody, and her gorgeous dimpled smile could get me through a much direr scene than this. the promise of the original premise, with elsie being scarlit's willing plaything on a leash, could perhaps leave me nothing but disappointed, as nothing that requires real sustained imaginative drive is going to come out of 2020s mindgeek, but they're still a delicious few minutes while they last.
performances: 24
cinematography: 18
editing: 17
script: 10
sjw points: 8
total score: