My novel ODYSSEY OF DESIRE was a big hit in paperback.
It was my first with brush with publishing and I’ll always remember seeing it for sale for the first time. It was in Manchester Airport, England. It was the kind of saucy novel that sold well to travellers.
Anyway, the reason I’m taking this trip down memory lane is because the orgy scene about 68 minutes in on this film rather reminded me of something I concocted for ODYSSEY.
Enjoy. Don’t watch the whole film. Just fast forward!
Back in the early 1990s the erotic drama/thriller market was huge thanks to high street video chains.
Most of these films featured drab sax scores pounding laboriously over boringly obvious fake sex scenes.
But in 1994 a flick came out which raised eyebrows – and a lot more besides.
Play Time
The impact that ‘PLAY TIME’ was to have came not only because it was ten times steamier than any of the Shannon Whirry and Shannon Tweed stuff that was out at the time, but because it delivered on psychological levels that most American softcore failed to reach.
And, yes, then there was that scene. If you’ve seen it then you’ll know the one I’m talking about: the scene where Monique Parent and the glorious Jennifer Burton reached into their bikini bottoms and gave themselves a five-finger rubdown. Yes, that scene.
Jennifer Burton
But let me step back to the psychological stuff for a sec. Now I don’t want to get too analytical here, but there was just something about this movie that gets into your mind and probes some hidden places. Maybe it was the girl/girl seductions, maybe it was the partner swapping, maybe it was Brad’s teenage experiences with his sexy step-mom, or maybe it was just the voyeuristic kinkiness of it all.
There just seems to be a lot of fantasy elements that pop up in this film and it helps to make it a powerful piece of softcore.
By the way, the pseudo-sex is very well done, and in an interview once (so we’ve heard) Monique admitted that the masturbation scene with her and Jennifer was real. No matter. You will believe it when you see it.
And with some fine acting and a story that keeps the film moving from scene to scene without losing the viewer along the way, it’s probably one of the few true softcore “classics” out there. So many themes pop up it’s hard to write about them all, but if you see this movie you will enjoy it. Trust me.
With a virtual “who’s who” of the softcore genre for a cast, including Monique Parent, Jennifer Burton, Julie Strain, Tammy Parks, and Ashlie Rhey, this one is an enjoyable viewing experience for any softcore fan.
… Now, here’s a bit extra on this post for the impatient among you.
THERE are at least three scenes in the sizzling hot Play Time in which Jennifer Burton and Monique Parent masturbate together.
Burton is super-sexy, one of the hottest things in soft core erotic films.
She gives an astonishing performance here: her eyes light up in every saucy scene. No way can she be that good an actress: she loves her job!
The first scene she is together with Parent, they are in a swimming pool topless when the pool man arrives. They skip inside to hide. They can see this muscleman at work but he cannot see in. They decide to go in separate rooms to masturbate but then change their minds and stay together.
Parent sits in the sofa and Jennifer stands at the window with her fingers in her bikini bottoms. Both leave their bikini bottoms on.
They stare each other as they wank. Burton talks dirty and Parent gasps sexily. Jennifer kneels beside her as they both come.
Later they are in an office and they kiss. They undress each other, but again leave their knickers on. They masturbate facing each other and kissing sexily.
There is also a scene where they are both in a jacuzzi with a man meant to be Jennifer’s husband. Jennifer makes Monique hold his penis and then Jennifer gets on him. She kisses Monique as she makes love to him.
All three are totally naked.
Apart from the masturbation and lesbian scenes there are plenty of other sex scenes to enjoy, and the movie starts with Burton getting shagged and having a guy stick his face in her gorgeous arse as Parent, unable to sleep next door, slips her hand in her knickers as she listens to Burton and her man.
Jacqueline Bisset’s wet t-shirt in the film ‘The Deep’ played an important role in so many people’s teenage development. My own included!
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No rampant sex, this time – but a lyric, beautifully observed erotic scene.
Following on from yesterday’s post on Corinne Clery, here’s a classic piece of radio from the 1990s: author Will Self on the book, ‘The Story of O’.
New feature paying tribute to great erotic performances in cinema.
Chained melody: Corinne Clery in The Story of O
Today’s subject: CORINNE CLERY in THE STORY OF O
Directed by Just Jaeckin and released in 1975.
A classic tale of bondage and domination, in which Clery plays the beautiful photographer O.
O is taken by her lover Rene to an isolated manor house where she is made to submit to humiliations, bondage and sexual perversions to prove that she belongs to him. Later Rene shares her with the aristocratic Sir Stephen who falls in love with O.
Gorgeous
What you really need to know:
This is one of those soft core Euro erotica films which doesn’t have as much outrageous sex as you might expect but is loaded with plenty of naked flesh.
There is alsos plenty of whipping on offer, if that’s your bag.
Clery is naked virtually throughout the film – I can’t think of a scene where she doesn’t have to strip at least one item off.
Stripping
The film starts with her getting in a car on the way to this mad manor house with her boyfriend. He makes her get her breasts out and slip off her panties so she can feel the cold leather of the seat on her buttock.
Her arse makes loads of appearances and is fantastic! In fact, she is fantastic in every way.
Soon after arriving at the house she’s stripped and forced onto all fours and the sex begins.
From here on in its a free for all on O:
Her boyfriend holds O from behind as another man goes down on her.
O is bathed, a sponge being rubbed lovingly over her breasts. She’s taken to a dungeon where she’s whipped.
Throughout when she sits down she slips up her clothes to give an exciting glimpse of her buttocks.
She is taken to Sir Stephen’s flat by her boyfriend and is made to bend over the front of the couch. She pulls up her dress and the two men run their hands over her butt.
She is then told to strip to her stockings and touch herself. Then she bends over the couch again and the man makes love to her from behind. Lucky fellow.
Sofa fun
O later seduces her friend Jacqueline, kissing her breasts and her belly.
O whips a girl called Yvonne who is fully naked. O bends over a table and is taken from behind.
In a hotel room there is a longer but soft focus shag with O underneath and on top.
For me, the sexiest scene is very brief. The man comes into the room to find O stark naked her hands tied above her head. She is panting, legs apart, glistening with sweat. The man, though, runs away.
Wow!
The film turned Paris-born Clery into a cult star and an international sex symbol (and quite right too).
In 1979, she became a Bond girl, featuring alongside Roger Moore in ‘Moonraker’.
Bond girl
A few people have asked me about the name of my blog, ‘Blue Angel Nights’.
Well, it’s a double tribute.
Firstly, to the classic erotic novel by Margarete Von Falkensee which celebrates all manner of eroticism in 1920s Berlin.
The book has been published through the years with a number of bewitching covers.
I first read a second hand copy of this version.
I found the erotic tales of actors and aristocrats, students and showgirls, quite mesmerizing.
Every now and again the book gets republished with a new cover.
I believe this is the most recent…
I referred earlier to a double tribute.
Well, ‘Blue Angel’ also, of course, recalls the wonderful 1930 German movie, ‘Der blaue Engel’ with the outrageous pre-Hollywood sexiness of Marlene Dietrich.
BLUE ANGEL NIGHTS 