Temptation

Michael Ninn cleverly cast the only two models ever to be prominently featured in both Playboy and Penthouse magazines: Victoria Zdrok and Lynn Thomas, in this visual extravaganza highlighting their beauty. It's just the thing for fans of non- narrative erotica.

There is hardcore content but it is minimized, likely a wise approach (and necessary given both models' reluctance regarding "going all the way" on screen). The lesbian sex involving dildos and fingering suffices, and avoids the overdone nature of most XXX porn.

There are many photographic and kaleidoscopic editing techniques employed by Ninn to dazzle the viewer and keep the content changing. An impressive staging at a huge atrium shaped building resembling an observatory (replete with a small telescope prop) is a terrific backdrop to the gals showing off.

The video is probably attempting to give equal time but I found Zdrok to dominate, maybe reflecting a personal bias on my part. They do present contrasting idealizations of beauty and Ninn is to be congratulated for fashioning this project as a two-hander, rather than the usual (been done a thousand times) salute to a single star.

In the decade-plus since this was released, storyline porn has taken a hit, so non- narrative salutes to beautiful women (in XXX poses) are now more than commonplace. But the hack directors of today could take a useful lesson by observing the creativity on display here -so different from the stress on almost hidden-camera realism that dominates now.