Consent

Nina Hartley has eloquently covered the subject of consent between partners in sexual relations in several dozen sex education videos she made for Adam & Eve release, combining lectures on anatomy and human sexuality with how-to demos by porn actors of various sex practices. Here Dana Vespoli under the aegis of her Evil Angel boss John "Buttman" Stagliano delivers extreme XXX gonzo content while presenting unconvincing arguments defending her fetish pornography.

Problem is the fallacy here of conflating freedom of expression for an individual with the pornographer's exploitation on film or video (or streaming nowadays) of explicit depictions of extreme sex. Dana and her femme talent profess a personal fondness for rough sex, defend female submission (currently popular in the "50 Shades" era) as actually being in control of the dom who is "forced" to do most of the sexual work pleasing the woman, and even advocate for themselves all sorts of dangerous activities, some of which are depicted here in documentary fashion. Stagliano says he would give up shooting porn if it caused any harm, while fetish model turned mainstream porn star London River points out that she entered the porn industry because it provides a safe way to indulge in her outre BDSM fetishes including suffocation and a notoriety for double-anal sex. Dana and her femmes even advocate for waterboarding, "with consent" of course, as another method of thrill seeking.

We see London in a climactic threesome on Disk Two of the "Consent" set with Dana wielding a strap-on dildo that combines with Markus Dupree's cock to give River a double-anal workout, plus almost suffocating her with a plastic bag over her head during sex (latter in defiance of the reaction post-death of Robin Williams by auto asphyxiation). Certainly this sort of extreme porn "sells tickets" and makes money for Buttman's Evil Angel, but that begs the question of whether we should respect Dana for indulging in same for fun and profit, as she and her cofreres keep pleading in this video for some respect. By the way, Dana also indulges her BDSM fetish for using a speculum for non-medical purposes on London in this segment.

So Whitney Wright goes airtight with a trio of the usual porn studs, Emily Willis is uninhibited with Bill Bailey, and tattooed lady Ivy Lebelle gets quite a working over from Manuel Ferrara. Ferrara maintains that in his over 2 decades of working in porn he always strives to bring his female co-stars to orgasm, so that is all that matters in the endless dom/sub role-playing under consideration. Four and a half hours of this proselytizing/gonzo porn combo is more than a bit much to swallow.