Slice Of Life

A pioneering S & M video from the early 80s. Very heavy play.

If this video is a slice of life, the life of slave Bauser is truly analogous to the opening image: the heavily tattooed hand of Leather Rick slicing oranges on a bed of machetes. In this vintage S & M video, the viewer should forget about the amateurish production values and instead concentrate on the truly experienced players. Biker leather bear top Leather Rick with the cool, expert finesse and finely paced crescendos of brutalization pours hot wax, electrocutes with a violet wand, flogs, and straps his slave Bauser (a somewhat stocky, balding guy with a massive hairy chest and a bushy scrotum) in various tortuous bondage positions.

The sometimes aimless, blurry camera work and poor lighting actually gives the piece a docudrama feel: in the dungeon setting, watching and vicariously experiencing the gradual ascent/descent into the ecstatically frightening endomorphin rush of Bauser as he undergoes his tortures with an amazing, intense control and almost no explicit verbal interaction or instruction from his master/top.

Though the scene transitions are not clearly defined at times, perhaps reflecting the fluidity of dungeon play, the first activity essentially transforms Bauser into a human altar, the ritualistic, symmetrical placement of the votive candles actually calling into mind the Hindu temple imagery of the opening credits. Bauser is slowly nailed to his bed of machetes and bound to it with barbed wire (!). Leather Rick (and one almost never sees the faces of either participant until later scenes, which adds to the aura of mystery) pours hot wax on him while placing several candles on his fleshy body. Amazingly, he doesn't writhe, as he is underneath barbed wire and several lit candles. Excellent training from Leather Rick. More noise emanates from some bald-headed slave on the floor whose tits and balls are squeezed by another top.

The scene abruptly changes to Bauser, restrained by the hands to T-shaped cross, submits with varying degrees of tolerance, to a well-paced but frightening crescendo (only losing momentum at times with some of the less intense strapping and the ineffective long-distance camera work) of flogging, strapping, and slapping on back and a wide a strong ass with a variety of instruments (including a blackjack and a night stick) by Leather Rick (he gets the best outcry from Bauser, however, from the force of his bare hand).

Just when one thinks Bauser is finished after he grovels in an ecstatic whimper and licks Leather Rick's heavy engineer boots, another top appears and Bauser is now bound with rope facing front in a crucifixon position. Leather Rick and the other top, the chilling sounds reminiscent of the Crucifixion, bind him with barbed wire, nailing the ends to various positions on the cross. Gamely, Leather Rick proceeds to strap Bauser, whose dazed face displays an endomorphin high, across the chest, abdomen, and thighs.

Strangely, a dim figure appears reclining on the ground near the cross jacking off with an uncut cock (perhaps symbolic of the viewer getting off on the scenes, as the video does not focus on the genitalia) which practically vomits a white juice.