LACTAMANIA 4
(1996, Totally Tasteless Video. Directed by Loretta Sterling)
Cast: Stacy King, Sahara Sands, Lady A., Jake Williams, Hank Armstrong.
Well Lactation Lovers, if you're like me, you can get pretty anxious when new movies
that cater to us are released. After all, we lovers of pregnancy and lactation
erotica are a happy bunch, and have such a small base of titles from which to choose
from. Ergo, we are prone to making mistakes in judgement, due to excitement or the
potential of something new. Case in point: Lactamania 4.
I've been following Loretta Sterling's daring foray into the world of pregnant and
lactating porno for some time, and was there from the first installments of the Ready to
Drop (RtD) and Lactamania (Lac) films in the early 90's. Trinity Loren comes happily
to mind, as she was this reviewer's first glimpse of a voluptuous, full-bodied pregnant
woman who wowed me even more with her solo milking scenes in Battle of the Ultra Milkmaids
(BoUM).
I figured I'd give you a short rundown on the latest release, Lactamania 4, with a few
ramblings of my own.
Scene 1) The tape opens with the narrator, and for the life of me I can't remember his
name. We'll just call him Narrator Bob (no offense meant). He's talking about the
usual: how he loves big lactating boobs, and how much fun the tapes are to make. He
mentions something new: He went to a local store and bought a hand-held vacuum pump and
various sizes of plastic glassware--goblets and such. He put together a makeshift
tit pump, and proceeds to show us how redhead hottie Stacey King (known to us pregnant
from RtD 11, 12, 13 and 14). Stacey's scene opens with her wearing a white silk chemise,
reminiscent of Kim Bassinger's in 9.5 Weeks. She squirts a little milk through the
chemise, and we see the front becoming rapidly wet. Then, she takes the thing off and does
a bit of squirting action. It isn't much, and I was thoroughly disappointed.
Now I can try to explain this in several ways:
a) Physiological: Not every lactating women can be a marathon squirter like Trinity Loren or Sahara Sands. We know that breast size is not a factor, although loss of milk glands either through breast implants or surgical reduction can impede milk flow. Stacey King's milk is VERY thick, almost like colostrum (or hindmilk--I can't remember which is thicker), which may also be a factor.
b) Weaning: Narrator Bob tells us at the beginning that Stacey's SO doesn't know she makes porn movies. Hmm, therein lies a possibility. If she had to wait several weeks or months before doing Lac4 (for fear of arousing any suspicions), her milk may have mostly dried up. Stacey looks pretty fit in her scene, which leads me to think that she had a few weeks to tone up for the film. If Stacey hasn't been nursing regularly, she would not likely have a copious milk flow.
c)Practice: It takes training and self-exploration to learn to properly massage the areola and nipple to stimulate milk release. Babies have an inborn ability to do this, and women go to classes sometimes specifically to learn manual milk expression in times of engorgement. Stacey may not have had a lot of practice with manual expression, hence the poor turnout.
Anyway, back to the review. Along comes a gentleman, who I will call Generic L.S. (Loretta Sterling) Male #1. The RtD and Lac series are not known for the acting ability of the male talent. This may be that several are husbands, who do not normally do the porn movie thing. In other cases, L.S. uses the same help he can find and depend on (and afford?), which becomes tiresome after you see the guy in three or four films, looking bored or otherwise Not Into It.
Now commences the tit pumping. If you've seen the boxcover on HUBBS's web site, you know what I
mean. Imagine two large champagne glasses hooked to tubing and covering almost the
entire breast. The Generic #1 starts pumping, and we see Stacey's breast distending
into the cup, filling it as the vacuum pressure is increased. Not erotic, IMHO, and
also, I would
think, quite painful. Narrator Bob also said that Stacey had some very red rings
around her breasts from these pumps, and I can see why. There is almost NO
milk expression with this pump, and if L.S. knew anything about breast pumps, he would
know that the areolar/nipple region is what needs pumping in order to express milk from
the ducts. His design may not have
been intended for function but for effect, but nevertheless there isn't a massive surge of
milking like we would want (and expect).
The pumping continues with a smaller glass apparatus, which looks like it was scavenged from someone's bong (not that I would know about these things...). This just fits over Stacey's nipple, and we see a bit of milk expression (backing up my theory), enough at least to taste from when she removes the tubes.
We go to a final pumping session with even larger cups and again see the same breast/nipple distension effect. Again, no milk and I think then they decide to move on to "other" things.
Now let me say that I think Stacey King is one of the sexiest prego ladies to come
along in a while. Her hair and face are exquisite, and although I don't drop jaw
over redheads, she has just the combination of strawberry tresses and milky skin to win me
over. Nice ankle tattoo as well. Stacey begins a short fellatio scene,
followed by the generic missionary and
cowgirl position, and through all of it, she looks a bit unconfortable. She looked
similarly in RtD 12 when doing one of the Bogas Brothers, but I think she was had
pregnancy-related cramps at the time. Another thought that came to mind was
"episiotomy," since woman who have this procedure done are supposed to wait 6-8
weeks before having intercourse (for those of you who don't know what an episiotomy is, it
is an incision the obstetrician makes in the vaginal wall (usually near the bottom of the
vagina), to facilitate passage of the baby's head through the birth canal. This is
basically a huge cut in the vagina, and takes stitches and several weeks to heal
properly--hence the ban on sex). If Stacey had an episiotomy, and it was not quite
healed, we would expect an occasional wince of pain.
In short, the scene ends with this dude popping off on her breasts, and her squirting a little bit of milk on his cock. Nothing spectacular, or "holy shit" about it. Quite generic.
Scene 2) Lady A. has a scene where she begins by squirting average amounts of milk around, massaging and moisturizing her breasts with the milk. I would guess also that Lady A has a decent-sized clit, which I may have overlooked in previous scenes. She is quite "well-endowed" clitorally-speaking, but we don't get much action with it. Enter Generic L.S. Male #2, who was the same partner in an RtD installment. Usual scenes with her, missionary and such, he pops on her breasts, little or no milk. Again, very generic. Lady A has HUGE breasts, which Narrator Bob comments on several times. She is very similar breast wise to Teresa Tease in Lac1 (though Teresa had a much more enjoyable performance).
Scene 3) Sahara Sands has her scene, as Narrator Bob calls her the Queen of Milk
Squirting. Now if you saw Lac3, you would recognize the stage as one and the same
here in Lac4. Obviously Loretta--as many porn film producers likely do--is prone to
filming four to five scenes in one day, and spreading them over several different
tapes. We hear somewhere through
the course of Lac4 that there will be a Lac5 (see comments below). Sahara doesn't
disappoint, shooting record streamers across the stage, and the black backdrop picks every
stream out with surprising detail. Sahara runs second for me in terms of milk
squirting (Trinity Loren being 1st), but third in looks. Kim Angeli was an
underexposed (and underrated, IMHO) lactation star, since she had such a gorgeous little
body and figure. Shame she didn't stay in the biz.
Anyway, Sahara continues the squirting session, finishing with a couple of hand-held mini-milk pumps (basically a plastic bugle-looking device with a squeeze bulb--it doesn't allow for much milk collection, so I assume it's used for getting the nipples primed for milking). She has some trouble getting a good seal, but when she does, the milk comes pouring out, filling what I would guess is the equivalent of a shot glass in 30 seconds. She pours the milk into a glass, and shows it as if she's displaying a goblet of fine wine. She also starts giggling a bit (as she does throughout the scene, mostly from the squirting shots). She gets into it pretty good, and the laughter shows she's having a pretty good time.
Enter Generic L.S. Male #3, who again is the same African-American guy from Sahara's scene in Lac2. I don't know if this is her SO, but they seem to have a bit of chemistry, though who am I to try and guess. He does a bit of suckling and licking, Sahara still squirting streams of milk everywhere. She blows him and we have a short fuck scene. Generic ejaculation, she squirts some more milk, and we finish.
Narrator Bob comes in at the end, bids a fond farewell, and we do, for a change, get previews of some upcoming L.S. titles. Haven't seen these since the early RtD series. No lactation or pregnancy trailers, so I was a bit disappointed.
--------------------------------------
AFTERWORD: My Comments
I posted this msg to several alt.* groups dealing with pregnancy, breasts, and movies, and
have corresponded with HUBBS several times over the past week. HUBBS is considering
putting several reviews on his page, in addition to what he has (I would even volunteer my
services as guest reviewer of lactation and pregnancy vids!)
HUBBS gets flack on the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pregnant newsgroup for other things, but he at least sells his movies for a decent price. I was just disappointed that he doesn't provide more info on the movies, other than a few stills. He says that the Lactamania series is the fastest-selling tape series on his web site. Again, I go back to us as a fetish group, and the fact that professionally-done movies that cater to our interests are rare, forcing us to consider ANY new release in the genre a necessary buy.
As for Loretta Sterling, I am seriously considering writing him and offering my creative services (or at least some suggestions). I know that I could turn out a prego or lactation movie that has more action, and more erotic dialogue than he's shown. Take for example, A Little Bit Pregnant, and the 1st scene with Sahara Sands. She's having a tiff with her hubby because he likes big girls, and she catches him with porno mags. She walks up to him, pulls her dress up, and says "I'm trying to get bigger for you..." We have a nice long close-up of her belly (with hubby conducting what I could only call "belly worship"), and the whole scene is very erotic.
Another series I highly recommend is the H&S Sales series Pregnant and Milking in the U.K.. There are currently 4 installments, and all are excellent. These tapes feature, what else, U.K. stars, many of whom have graced the pages of JUGGS or D-CUP at one time or another. The most intense lactation scene I've ever witnessed was the second scene in Preg and Milking #4. I believe some vidcaps from that have appeared in the pregnant binaries newsgroup. A thin blonde is wanting a massage, and invites a masseuse over to do it. It turns out that the brunette masseuse lactates, and we get a hot scene of her squirting milk all over the blonde's back, massaging it in. It then snowballs into an intense milking lesbo scene, which is almost too hot for words; both ladies are really into it, and they are marathon squirters like Trinity and Sahara.
But best of all, we see the women nurse--actually, NURSE--from each other. So much so that when they pull away, copious amounts of milk drip from their mouths. There are several such exchanges with both ladies throughout this scene. The women seem to be getting off, and I would go so far to say that the blonde climaxed several times.
I understand that adult film is a tenuous industry, and again, I fall back to the Golden Age of the 1980s when the story and dialogue were every bit as erotic as the sex scenes. Surely with the huge amount of pregnancy and lactation erotic stories I've seen over the years, a decent script could be put together. But I'm sure there are some of you who don't want the dialogue, or the forplay. You may just want to see a women squirt some milk, and that's fine. It's just that there are some of us who want MORE out of our fetish movies, and this is an area where I'm sure the fans could deliver creativity.
Well, enough of my ranting. Comments are appreciated and desired. I want to know what YOU think. I just feel it's time for Loretta Sterling to move away from his "formula" for RtD and Lac movies, and move on to something more appealing to those of who want more than just a woman squirting milk.