I'm a picky pornography consumer. I prefer to spend my time and money on quality, ethical productions and support the work of people like Tristan Taormino, who is the feminist filmmaker responsible for Rough Sex. So you can no doubt imagine my delight when the first installment in the Rough Sex series arrived and I was treated to five scenes of gorgeous people exploring their genuine rough sex fantasies with partners of their choosing!

All scenes are prefaced with interviews of both performers, discussing why they like rough sex, what rough sex means to them, and why and how they wanted to do the scene for Taormino's film. This is, to me, somewhat invaluable when it comes to pornography that deals with this type of play—I want to know that the performer likes being spat upon, called names, or slapped. I want to know that this gets them off, because that helps to get me off as well. I genuinely like seeing people have genuine rough sex and this delivers in spades.

Scene One: Adrianna Nicole decides, 'I'm alone in the house so it's time to have a shower whilst wearing a butt plug,' and as luck would have it, the very chiselled Marco Banderas sneaks into her bathroom and forces her to perform oral sex, pulls her by the hair, and fucks her roughly all over the house. This scene was a little cheesy for my liking, but I bet it will be just the ticket for other people.

Scene Two: The very, very sexy Satine Phoenix is stranded in the desert with a broken-down car. It's a good thing Derrick Pierce happened to be in the same area, otherwise we wouldn't be treated to this very hot, sweaty, intense, and passionate scene, fucking in, on, and out of the car. Derrick is fantastic in this scene and the control and domination he has over Satine makes for very horny viewing, helped along by the filthy, dirty talking he does.

Scene Three: Francesca Le has some dirty talk of her own to do, as she skillfully dominates Christian. If verbal humiliation and femdom works for you, then go directly to this scene. She has a commanding presence and isn't afraid to get down and dirty with a whole lot of spitting and spanking.

Scene Four: Marie Luv and Julius Ceazher play out the revenge-fuck fantasy incredibly well in this scene. Once again, lots of verbal humiliation and incredibly rough fucking. Great for those who fantasise about getting busted and then being punished for it.

Scene Five: The fifth and final scene stars the one and only Sasha Grey (who is this DVD's covergirl) who is so very, very masterful a tease in this scene with the hottie Danny Wylde. An extended lead up while the two play a raunchy game of pool leads to Danny taking the lead (and getting a very hot-to-watch rimjob) until he messes up and Sasha switches things around, dominating the hell out of him. One of the hottest and most fun scenes of the series.

This DVD is also chock-full of special features, including scenes and previews from other Vivid features and a really interesting behind the scenes featurette, which gives some further insight into the at times hot, at times ludicrous, and at times utterly mundane world of pornography.

I can't wait to see the rest of the Rough Sex films, and hope Taormino keeps on making movies that demonstrate how ethical and even feminist pornography can really be.