The Lingerie Effect

As great as his work was nearly two decades earlier, Nick Orleans increasingly mindless recent efforts for Adam & Eve are embarrassing.

Witness this stupid paean to his fetish for lingerie. The final scene is thoroughly incompetent, as our two leads, miscast as supposedly scientists researching the effect of wearing lingerie on stimulating sexual fulfilment (paging Dr. Nina Hartley please), finally have sex together on their desk and Nick throws any type of continuity out of the window, having star Angel Smalls' hairdo suddenly revert in the middle of the scene to the dramatically different style she used in earlier scenes. Who cares? That's the point: Nick & co. assume nobody cares about anything, so condescending is his approach to his audience.

The structure and technique here is transparently phony: Angel and her co-worker Jay Smooth staring at a video monitor as the cast of test subjects introduce their fictional character and then get interviewed. They try on various lingerie (with supposed comedy relief as the guys are also asked to try on effeminate undergarments), and perform sex, but the nude sex footage foolishly has no relation to the lingerie. Supreme fetishist Orleans is usually careful to include visuals that try to impart the tactile nature of the clothing, especially his beloved pantyhose, but here the "lingerie effect" never is made explicit.

Lousy cast lacks any real star power, though Smalls is a lovely example of the current craze for extreme petiteness in leading ladies. A lesbian couple Miley May and Kayla West show off, respectively, fabulously pointy nipples and alluring full & natural breasts, and one Kallie Jo is tossed in to the mix in an irrelevant Solo turn.

Porn is generally predicated on the notion that the viewer is either brainless or needs to send his brain on vacation for the duration, and Nick, who once exhibited great respect for the fans out there has now joined this know-it-all brigade of pornographers.