Things sure got sexual last week. There was my entry about
David Carradine’s death, which now turns out to be (most likely) the result of autoerotic asphyxiation. There was also that
big brouhaha about Playboy.com and what most bloggers politely referred to as the hate f*ck article. Actually, the conservative bloggers got that part wrong. The common complaint was that “hate f*ck” is clearly a codeword for rape. That’s not true. The important thing about a “hate f*ck”—as the term is most commonly used—is that it’s all about mutual consent.
Playboy.com, reliably enough, screwed up their chance to capitalize on that unfair complaint. The company issued an apology that legitimized all those conservatives’ misunderstanding of the term—while trying to ignore the craven misogyny that really made the original piece so pathetic.
I thought about noting all this at the time, but I was waiting to see if (the very hate f*ckable)
Kathy Shaidle would address the issue. She is, after all, the only woman to ever proclaim
The Night Porter to be a chick flick.
And speaking of carnal matters, let’s finally get around to discussing
Screw My Wife Please!! Vol. 24. This popular series pairs swinging amateurs with porn stars, and
Vol. 24 is pretty good. The high point is starlet Kate Frost performing a scene in what’s mostly a supervisory capacity.
Screw My Wife Please!! Vol. 24 is also a uniquely patriotic film. The circumstances are lousy, though. Here’s the video’s intro, as presented by regular
Screw My Wife host Dave Cummings:
Hi, I’m Dave Cummings, and this is September the 19th in the year 2001. [Producer] Bobby Rinaldi and I were just talking about filming this Screw My Wife Please!! Vol. 24
, and how difficult it is for us. It is just eight days after the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were bombed.
We hate terrorism. We hate the suffering it’s bringing on everybody. We hate every aspect of it. I don’t know if you know it, but I’m a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel. I spent my time in Vietnam; I used to be the Director of Personnel in Saudi Arabia. I’ve been on patrol behind the Berlin Wall. I spent 25 years in the Army. I know a lot of people affected by this. I’m affected by it, and probably you are affected by it. Bobby Rinaldi and I feel like we need to do this—Vol. 24, Screw My Wife Please!!
—as a diversion to try and get things back to normal, and get you folks thinking about sex again, and trying to bear up with what’s going on around here. So sit back and relax. We’re going to try and bring you some hot sex, despite what’s going on in the world today. Be safe out there. Yes, there are probably adult videos out there with similar openings. Some young creep is talking about how it’s important to film some scorching anal action, or the terrorists will have won. I don’t like the thought of that any more than you do. The difference is that Dave Cummings really is a military veteran. (That’s him on the left in the above graphic.) Nobody watching the DVD had to know when this latest edition was being taped. Cummings’ intro seems to be a sincere statement that he felt needed to be said—no matter how ludicrous it might sound. Moments that honest aren’t so common in the adult industry.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to once again state my admiration for David Carradine’s singular life and death—even if that demise wasn’t one of those rare respectable suicides. There’s no reason for anyone to be making snide comments about whatever turns out to be the truth about Carradine’s passing. You won’t believe some of the lame antics that pass for edgeplay nowadays.
