Spanking The Monkey Review

Spanking the Monkey

Studio: Third World Media

Stars: Lisa, Pinky, Arty, Amy, Cat and Lidia

Director: Darren Morgan

Length: 1 hours 54 minutes

There still aren't a lot of shemale-solo videos, but it seems to be a growing segment. This one comes from Third World Media and has Thai stars. There are six performers, each appears once and alone. As the DVD runs just less than 2 hours, that's about 20 minutes per person, which is pretty good for porn standards.

The scenes are largely the same but there's enough variation to avoid monotony. Each performer starts off with some posing, and then the masturbation begins, sometimes with toys (typically a dildo in the ass) but sometimes without. After a cumshot there's usually a scene in a shower as the performer washes up.

There's no annoying music track but very little talking in any language, so if you're a fan of natural sound, you're in luck here.

Camera work is good--fluid but doesn't call attention to itself. The picture is crisp, bright and clean. There are a fair number of chapter stops.

There are only a couple of drawbacks here. One is that every chapter is separated by an annoying advertisement for other titles. It's as if they took the segment that would normally be separate on the menu and stuck it into the movie five times.

The other is obvious from the "Cumshots" compilation, which is the fact that there aren't that many. Sometimes the camera is aimed squarely at the performer's face and it's missed entirely; I thought it would be a way to make up for a disappointing pop, but one of the scenes has a penis-centric view of a cum that looks like it was the third of the afternoon.

What makes up for it is that the performers are better than average she-males; even with bolt-on boobs, even the least convincing one looks more like a woman with a dick than a guy with silicone boobs and hormone therapy. By that standard, this is probably the best she-male video I've seen.