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Ms. Young's exhausting catalog of BDSM/LGBT techniques
lor_6 July 2015
Having seen quite a few acting and directing credits of journalist/pornographer Madison Young recently I pretty much know what to expect from her. MANY SHADES spotlighting lesbian actress Juliette March is Young's equivalent of a neophyte's first film: cram as many ideas into one package as humanly possible.

The ideas here are actually the arcane methods, technique and paraphernalia characterizing extreme Lesbian lovemaking. I've heard this stuff name dropped often (see: Jacky St. James's more mainstream videos), but Young insists on showing us in excruciating detail what may (or may not) go on behind closed doors (but in front of picture windows here) when a fully brainwashed sub (my characterization) meets up with an aggressive, punishment-wielding dom.

Lasting well over three hours, and seeming even longer to watch in a single sitting, the storyline meshes with Young's earlier saga 50 SHADES OF Dylan RYAN. Dylan is back, still living with dom Sadie Lune as Ms. Grey (lifted from the book with that name). IMDb lists this video as a 2012 title but it was shot in February and March of 2013, per the disclosure credits ensuring the actresses are at least 18 years old.

This time Ms. Grey is many months pregnant -not faked, but actress Sadie bulging immensely and having expanded breasts ready for lactation (though that kink is avoided here). First 48-minute sex scene has her abusing the title lady, a diminutive, cute young actress who in my humble estimation has fallen under bad influences (I know, we shouldn't be judgmental, but this sort of pretentious exercise invites same). I won't run through the dozens of keywords describing what Sadie does to the poor girl (who as the saying goes "loves it"), but suffice it to say it isn't erotic but unlike those tame bondage and fetish videos it is definitely XXX in content.

I understand that in those consensual agreements that BDSM aficionados contract amongst themselves that "the knife" is an issue, and here it's downright scary to watch Sadie apply what looks like a sharp blade to March's private parts and elsewhere (tongue anyone?), not drawing blood as is so often faked in movies, but merely to assert her dominance and cement March's obedience in the most vivid way. No matter what mayhem occurs, March is ready with a dutiful "Yes, mommy", and always at the ready to lick off the floor whatever falls there, usually her own saliva after she gags on a strap-on dildo or some such device.

March is banished to Seattle, where she meets up with an equally dominating creep in the form of Isla Gold. Before showing newbie March a thing or two, the bosomy and sickly sweet (of facial expression and verbal tone) Gold woman-handles to a fare-thee-well her own pretty sub Rena Wood. Young's depiction of Seattle is otherworldly, a remote farm with animals milling about, and a young girl doing chores who is dumb enough to try and help out March (this flat-chested redheaded actress is given the misleading and unsatisfactory stage name of just Milkmaid -again, no lactation in sight).

Video is fleshed out with a rather strong scene between Ms. Grey's nemesis Leila (Aiden Starr) and the androgynous Lesbian star Syd Blakovich as a spy working for Grey. Syd is the very masculine-seeming sub that Starr abuses at length. This nonsense, which is quite repetitious after watching the more aggressive other two mistresses at work previously, is upstaged by a lunatic subplot of Starr ready for the loony bin, playing with tiny action figures (she provides their voices) like a Punch & Judy show as she acts out her hostile relationship with rival Ms. Grey.

After getting the Isla treatment, video ends on a pathetic note with Isla filing her progress report on how lousy March is doing in Seattle and a whiny March files a video on the level of "How I spent my summer vacation". Apart from its occasional shock value (shocking to outsiders like me, that is), I failed to gather insight or entertainment from Young's relentless documenting of cult behavior.
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