Velvet Tension: Stroke of Genius

Are you a straight girl who likes looking at cocks? (Or a guy who likes looking at cocks but, for whatever reason, isn’t ready to go all the way and get a gay video?) Then this is the flick for you. Marketed as made by and for women, Velvet Tension: Stroke of Genius features lots of beefcake — often wet and occasionally soaped-up beefcake — for your viewing pleasure. The male actors even get top billing over their female co-stars! It is curious that the well-hung and muscular men on screen are pretty much serviced by gorgeous women who happily provide them with handjobs on demand, which seems a bit more like a male fantasy than a female one, but maybe I’m simply not reading the right kinds of romance novels?

Now, it’s sort of a strange porn movie, insofar as there’s no penis-in-vagina sex. I almost said “no penetrative sex,” but fingers and sex toys are inserted, and that’s penetration, right? I ponder such definitions because the plot — or “plot” — forces me to. Hot leading man Julian plays a wealthy real estate agent who makes a bet with a buddy that he can go a week without having sex. Not much later he’s making out in the pool with a naked blonde, and shortly afterward she gives him a handjob and he spurts onto his own belly and chest. It took me a moment to realize he hadn’t just lost the bet — because handjobs aren’t defined as “sex” for purposes of the wager! (Or that’s how I interpret the situation, anyway. The plot is honestly more of a tissue-thin contrivance here, and quickly becomes irrelevant.) Anyway, the movie is basically a series of scenes featuring hot guys being jerked off by hot girls, though there’s also some toy play, lots of making out, some good mutual masturbation scenes, and plenty of lingering shots of ripped male physiques. There are no blowjobs (despite the multiple images of kneeling women on the back of the DVD package — they do kneel, but they don’t do what you’d typically expect when they get down there), no straight sex, no facial cumshots (the guys come on their own bodies, or on the women’s breasts), and none of the sort of offhanded roughness that seems de rigeur in so many porn movies (with the slapping and the spitting and whatnot). It’s not softcore, and neither is it especially romantic, but the emphasis is very much on beautiful bodies (male and female), not on dirty nasty fucking. It’s a good movie, and it feels a sparsely-populated niche.