In many ways, this is a typical gay porn product of it's era - a number of cute and fit young Eastern European guys are gathered together on a film set and filmed in couples having sex with each other. Like a lot of recent gay porn, the sex is bareback, so there's an element of risk, fantasy and exploitation about the enterprise. But Dripping Wet is distinguished by a couple of elements worth commenting on.
The film studio has been dressed to look like a public lavatory, but this is a WC like you have never seen in your life before. The walls have the requisite obscene requests for male genital contact written on them (like the walls of the lavatory in Fassbinder's Querelle) but unlike real public lavs, these walls are painted in the most lurid dayglo colours. It has often been the case that loos in gay porn don't conform to a strict sense of verisimilitude - most often, the doors to the lock-ups are missing, so that the camera can film the activities inside (whether through glory holes or two men sharing a lock-up) without barrier. This is a practical measure, yet somehow it curtails the sense of intense private transgression of the public space made private bacchanal which real lock-ups with doors offer cruisers. In Dripping Wet, the lavatory is a kind of garish neverland, a fantasy zone in which impossibly good looking young men can strip naked and have sex without inhibition, not for one moment worried about getting interrupted, caught or apprehended.
What's lost in realism is gained, finally, in allowing a full expression of uninhibited joy in gay sex. The final pairing, after a handful of mediocre to hot couplings, has Dominik Trojan and Mark Zebro going at it hammer and tongs. Zebro tops Trojan, and the sheer pleasure they both get from it - especially Zebro, who seems to be wildly turned on by the very beautiful and talented bottom he is topping - is communicated straight to and through the camera. If ever a clip has to be shown which would be a public advert for how feel good gay sex can be for its participants, then this would be the clip to choose. These boys know, enjoy and exhibit what they are doing to such a degree that is unusual in gay porn, where too often dull people have dull sex, and very difficult to capture on camera. This scene alone makes Dripping Wet stand out from much contemporary pornography.
The film studio has been dressed to look like a public lavatory, but this is a WC like you have never seen in your life before. The walls have the requisite obscene requests for male genital contact written on them (like the walls of the lavatory in Fassbinder's Querelle) but unlike real public lavs, these walls are painted in the most lurid dayglo colours. It has often been the case that loos in gay porn don't conform to a strict sense of verisimilitude - most often, the doors to the lock-ups are missing, so that the camera can film the activities inside (whether through glory holes or two men sharing a lock-up) without barrier. This is a practical measure, yet somehow it curtails the sense of intense private transgression of the public space made private bacchanal which real lock-ups with doors offer cruisers. In Dripping Wet, the lavatory is a kind of garish neverland, a fantasy zone in which impossibly good looking young men can strip naked and have sex without inhibition, not for one moment worried about getting interrupted, caught or apprehended.
What's lost in realism is gained, finally, in allowing a full expression of uninhibited joy in gay sex. The final pairing, after a handful of mediocre to hot couplings, has Dominik Trojan and Mark Zebro going at it hammer and tongs. Zebro tops Trojan, and the sheer pleasure they both get from it - especially Zebro, who seems to be wildly turned on by the very beautiful and talented bottom he is topping - is communicated straight to and through the camera. If ever a clip has to be shown which would be a public advert for how feel good gay sex can be for its participants, then this would be the clip to choose. These boys know, enjoy and exhibit what they are doing to such a degree that is unusual in gay porn, where too often dull people have dull sex, and very difficult to capture on camera. This scene alone makes Dripping Wet stand out from much contemporary pornography.