Thanks for the kind words about my review. You’re correct that Revelations is two movies cut together. Candida excluded the original two scenes (shot on film) and replaced them with three scenes (shot on tape). I give her credit for recognizing that the original material was not working. She saw that she’d made a mistake, and she corrected it, even though she didn’t have the budget to correct it. If I understand the documentary correctly, the release was delayed for two years until Candida could make arrangements for taping the replacement scenes.

That was a gutsy move. In pornography, as you know, the more usual tendency is to slap the footage together and ship it out.

I suspect the story worked better for me than for you because of my strong empathy for the lead character. Ariel is a seeker, a woman whose curiosity gets her in trouble, a soul that needs to burst into full creative blossom but has encountered some obstacles. Like Ariel, I’ve been fortunate to encounter the right porn at the right times. In a sea of bad product, that’s nothing short of a minor miracle. What the good porn has done is to help me claim aspects of my sexuality which were previously hidden from my conscious mind.

On an unrelated note (or perhaps it will prove to be related), I am reviewing a couple of bondage movies by Ernest Greene next. I am curing my fear of BDSM the same way I cure my fear of everything else. I’m running straight toward it instead of away from it. Heh.

Congratulations on the one-year anniversary of your blog, Tony. I always read your entries with great interest.