Reviewed by SexHerald Staff
Has anyone else noticed that suddenly couples counseling has become TV’s big stock storyline? If it’s not David and Keith on Six Feet Under, it’s Bree and her husband on Desperate Housewives. Now, the trend seems to have infiltrated gay porn. Adonis Pictures’ Lust Counseling sees several gay couples on a retreat to reconnect with each other and reawaken their sexual selves. But where Hollywood went wrong with tedious navel-gazing, Adonis injects a healthy dose of action.
How do they manage to avoid the pitfalls of bad television plots? Come on, it’s porn! Gather a bunch of porno "It" boys--Kent Larson, Jason Branch, Brad Benton--and no one’s really going to care why they’re fucking, as long as they are fucking. But actually, the hint of context in Lust Counseling doesn’t hurt at all. It doesn’t overreach like a lot of plot porn, devoting too much time to lousy acting, boring set-up, and the inevitable jarringly abrupt conclusion. Instead, Counseling provides just enough context and dialogue so that you feel like you’re watching real people have sex rather than wind-up dolls. And the acting--Benton’s in particular-–isn’t all that bad.
Larson and Branch star as the counselors at Camp Lust. They walk around completely nude like touchy-feely new age gay gurus bringing sexual healing to their wayward flock. Each scene represents a different couple’s sexploration. First up are Park Wiley and Adonis exclusive Andy Kirra. It’s not really clear why Wiley and Kirra need counseling, but their session with Larson proves they’ve come a long way. Larson watches them, stroking his perma-erection and barking clumsy commands like, “Ah! Now suck cock!” Wiley and Kirra flip-flop, Wiley fucking Kirra, before getting fucked himself. Larson finally joins in, sitting on Wiley’s face and cumming all over his chest.
There are a couple orgies, the first involving Dante Foxx, John Marcus, Josh Williams, and Tyler Austin, and the second involving the entire cast. The Foxx/Marcus/Williams/Austin scene is hot, mainly because it pairs two darker, burlier guys with two fair twinks. The finale, however, is a cluster-fuck in both senses of the word. There are just too many gay boys doing too much all at once.
The real gem here is the scene between Benton and Jack Ryan. The two are actually kind of believable as a bickering couple whose miraculous sexual reconciliation is pretty freakin’ hot. Somehow, director Mike Donner got each couple in Lust Counseling to act like a real couple, and nowhere does it work better than with these two. Benton’s puckish charm and smooth, supple bod don’t hurt, either. He rides Ryans cock like a champ, but it’s the subtle way he grasps his partner’s hand that really adds a sense of intimacy rarely seen in porn. LustCounseling
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