It’s rare for me to watch porn featuring trans women. Even when I’m seeing porn made by trans ladies as opposed to porn made by men (for male consumption) I still often end up experiencing body dysphoria brought on by seeing girls like me having sex. However, my dysphoria has been somewhat more in check lately and so when Chelsea Poe said she was looking for reviewers for her upcoming film I jumped at the chance and I’m so glad that I did.
FETISH FVCKDOLLS is a collaboration film of three scenes that each feature a different trans woman performing as the submissive. The scenes range in terms of content, length, and style but come together to make an expression of the wide range of submissive experiences. I’m going to say it’s a Whitman’s Sampler of sub trans girl porn.
Kelli Lox and Ramses Rodstein. (troublefilms.com/fetish-fvckdolls)
Kelli Lox and Ramses Rodstein’s Bad Ballerina is one of the most fun BDSM scenes that I’ve seen in a while. Kelli is all dolled up in a bright blue ballerina outfit that “daddy” Ramses rips off of her throughout the course of the scene. Although there’s plenty of discipline and dirty talk in Bad Ballerina the dominating sound is laughter as they tease and play with each other. Of the three scenes this is probably the most “realistic” and the viewer ends up taking on the position of a voyeur watching what feels like the sort of sex that might happen even when Kelli and Ramses aren’t being filmed. Ramses spends most of his time pinching, slapping, kissing, and biting Kelli with an intensity that wanders between tender and pure hunger. There’s plenty of ass fucking and impact play but my focus was really on the moments of oral sex when I got to have that great experience of recognizing moments from my own sex life on screen. The rare times that I watch porn featuring trans women the oral sex usually involves a trans woman with a firm erection pushing her dick into the cis partner’s mouth. This has, uh, never been my experience and seeing a trans woman receiving oral sex as the submissive and while not rock hard was a lovely moment of validation for me. Even watching her go down on Ramses’ strap-on and then on his own genitals felt like a great moment of blurring the usual image of the strap-on being a permanent extension of the body during a film and not something that can be taken on and off at will. Bad Ballerina was a sweet and sincere scene that might be my nomination for “Feel Good BDSM Scene of 2016.”
Cheat ON Chelsea uses the trope of walking in on a cheating partner that naturally leads to a threesome. I’m going to be upfront and say that this wasn’t my favorite scene of the film. When Chelsea walks in on her girlfriend Suzie Spindrift having sex with Alyx Fox (wearing a truly massive strap-on) she’s eventually persuaded to join in. Join in might not be the right word because for most of the scene she’s more of a passive object tied up for Suzie and Alyx to hook up on top of. At times Suzie and Alyx interact with her to humiliate her but even then the focus is still mostly on Suzie who not only gets fucked with Alyx’s strap-on but with the gag/strap-on that Chelsea wears in her mouth. There were some definite hot moments for me in Cheat ON Chelsea but they were often cut short because of the way the scene was shot. There were several times where I wasn’t sure what the camera was focusing on and the action seemed to get lost with thighs and hair and sheets in the way of the camera’s view. Maybe this is supposed to convey the way that bodies tangle around each other during sex? I don’t have that much experience with group sex but I don’t remember the limbs and bodies obscuring the fucking. The moments that stood out to me included the torrent that Suzie releases when she cums on Chelsea (this will stand out to literally everyone who watches this scene) and the way Chelsea is brought to orgasm and then has her wet panties cut off and fed to her. I’m sure that there are many people out there who will appreciate the entirety of this scene but as far as porn goes I spent more time thinking about framing shots than I spent thinking about sex.
I started Stefani Special’s scene with Mistress Kara with a sort of detached interest. I’ve personally never been that invested in strict protocol BDSM and when Dungeon Pet started with a collaring ceremony I assumed that’s the direction we were heading. I began the scene with my notepad in hand but soon set it aside so I could pick up my Hitachi. The scene opens with Mistress Kara collaring Stefani before restraining her so that she can go to town on her ass with all sorts of impact toys. She absolutely tears up Stefani’s butt cheeks to the point where her ass becomes redder than an embarrassed Macintosh apple blushing. Fans of humiliating dirty talk will enjoy the level of dialog that Mistress Kara uses throughout the entire scene as she teases Stefani and makes her beg for punishment. Together they hit just about all the acts you might expect from a BDSM scene: shoe licking, clothespins on genitals, electricity play, whips, crying, spitting, and more. As a fan of grittier body-on-body rough sex I loved the transition made during the last twenty minutes or so when Stefani was taken off the bench and Mistress Kara began to get really hands on with her. This is the part where my notes become harder to read with words written in ALL CAPS and with exclamation points digging into the paper. The look that Stefani has on her face at the end of her ass fucking looked just like the place that I always hope sex will leave me. Her pout just killed me in all the right ways. The camera work really helped make this scene stand out for me. I particularly appreciated the focus on Stefani’s face as she reacted to the Mistress Kara’s various punishments. I have a pet peeve about porn scenes not showing enough of the sub’s face but Dungeon Pet avoided this by zooming in to see every moan and lip bite and face twitch.
Stefani Special (troublefilms.com/fetish-fvckdolls)
I ended my viewing of FETISH FVCKDOLLS not with a looming wave of dysphoria but with a sense of satisfaction and contentment. I’ve known for a while that I don’t see much in porn that I can relate back to my own identity as a submissive/bottom trans woman and yet I wasn’t prepared for how meaningful it would be to see such familiar elements of my sex life being performed by other trans women. Even in the moments that didn’t work with what I look for in porn I still found things that made me go, “Oh hey, I do that. My dick does that when I cum. That sounds like something I’ve begged for.” FETISH FVCKDOLLS didn’t cure my dysphoria or sense of isolation but it did provide moments of community, moments of relatability that I didn’t realize I was looking for.
FETISH FVCKDOLLS is directed by Chelsea Poe, Stefani Special, and Alyx Fox. It also starred Kelli Lox, Mistress Kara, Suzie Spindrift, and Ramses Rodstein. Release date is 4/20/2016 from Trouble Films. All images in the body of this review are my own screen captures. Featured image was provided by Chelsea Poe. I was provided with an advance copy for my honest review.
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