User Reviews

The video kicks off with the featured Pets talking about their preference between being dominant or submissive as standard montage footage flashes by (2 mins). A title card introduces each scene and you hear from the model throughout their segments.

"Theresa" is Theresa Presley. She poses in a bikini outside, but it doesn't last long. Then in a black piece of lingerie that quickly comes off. Now a red dress that shows off her cleavage before that comes off too. Lastly in a bathtub all oiled up and getting wet (8 mins). "Brandy" is Brandy Ledford. She's laying down in a green dress pulled down exposing her breasts. Then a black dress that comes off near a piano. Lastly her literally posing in two different dresses as pictures are taken (4.5 mins). "Robin" is Robin Brown. A little build up finally ends with her topless on a staircase. It focuses on her big bust. Next she's gets topless and dances / jiggles around playfully. Goes fully nude in a luxurious bathtub where her buns and kitty from behind get featured. This three minutes was the hottest part (8.5 mins).

"Janine" her entire bit is some silliness about robots and she has silver body paint on to resemble one. They leave it off her private area and boobs except the nipples. It's not the worst concept ever, but wasn't my favorite (4.5 mins). "Christy Joel" dances around in a bikini getting topless. Then we join her in a black see thru leotard that doesn't last long at all before we join her in a shower (5.5 mins).

"Christy Lee" is initially in a black seethru top and panties that come off. Then a yellow dress that hits the floor gives more views of her naked body (7.5 mins). "Shawn" is Shawn Mussel. In a pair of skintight jeans and a white bra they briefly show her riding a horse with her boobs bouncing. Inside she drops a dress. Oddly the color of her panties change between shots and again it doesn't last long. Then we're on a bed where she strips from a nightie where you get a nice close-up of her kitty and it's over quickly once more (3.5 mins). "Lynn" is Lynn Johnson and no time is wasted showcasing this pretty blonde's killer rack. The next part is the same story. There's a quick close-up of her panties being removed and then it's over (4.5 mins).

Penthouse's 'Dreamgirls' isn't horrible. It features many pretty ladies - some of the busty blonde variety - but it's really inconsistent in quality and has the tendency to be really tame even by 1994 video standards. An interview clip should never interrupt an actual scene in process neither.

Like most males who have grown up with the American sexual yin-yang standard, I am of two minds when I watch a Penthouse video. The first mind is that of the post-Women's Lib era, who wants to believe that he sees women as equals and does not want to regard them solely as sexual objects. The second mind is that of the typical stoop-jawed chauvinist who stares wide-eyed at his TV screen and thinks, "How do they get women to do this?" In particular, there is a woman in this video named Lynn Johnson, a generously endowed blonde who not only shows off her astounding physique, she relishes in it. The way in which she, er, shows appreciation for her ample self is undoubtedly the acid test for any couple watching this video. I'd imagine that most wives would leave the room in disgust, while their husbands were in the middle of giving the video a standing ovation.

I notice that, of the thousands of IMDb ratings of movies and videos, there are nearly no critiques of Penthouse videos. But I'll bet that doesn't mean that lots of Epinions male writers don't watch this stuff. Although it could be that a lot of men are ashamed to admit to that, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that such Epinions ratings are scarce because you can't judge Penthouse videos in the way you can review a movie. For one thing--and I say this to Penthouse's credit--they don't bother with any semblance of plot, unlike the X-rated videos that feel they have to justify their nudity with a pedestrian storyline. They just cut right to the chase--gorgeous women, erotic fantasies, and always a happy ending.

I confess to frequent pangs of guilt when I watch this stuff, because I guarantee that no video camera will ever catch *me* doing stuff like that in the nude. And yet if I'm typical of the millions of people, male and female, who watch these videos, they've certainly tapped into *somebody's* fantasies.

Lastly, there's the old argument that this is very "heightened" reality--that you never see physically ugly people having sex in these videos. Well, of course not--the operative word is "fantasy." Do most couples look like Richard Gere and Debra Winger in "An Officer and a Gentleman"? Of course not. And yet, when we see them acting out on screen, we'd like to *think* that we are those people. So forgive me for enjoying gorgeous women in lushly photographed fantasies. I promise I won't ask you to do the same.