Two "subjects," played by smooth-bodied, leather boy next door, Trenton Comeaux and Former Titan exclusive and current Mr. San Francisco Leather 2000 Lance Gear - each enticingly clad in muzzles and leather restraints, are dragged down the long, barren corridors of the Punishment Asylum by two merciless but equally incredible-looking orderlies, played by Clint Cooper and Joey D'Falco, and into a large, antiseptic room. Once there, under the watchful guidance of the surgical masked, vaguely ominous Asylum Doctor and his assistant, "Sigmoid," they're chained up and worked over. Soon the vulnerable captives' hot, muscular bodies are glistening with tension-based sweat as they're physically "examined" and "manhandled" by the powerfully built pair of orderlies who themselves, soon strip off their hospital whites and down to the leather bare essentials. Groping, biting, spanking, flogging and having their rock-hard abs and bulging pecs punched and pummeled are among the treatments they're forced to endure before being placed head to head on a large examination table for an even more invasive kind of therapy. Daddy Zeus himself directs the action both behind the scenes and oncamera as the "Doctor." Punishment Asylum contains very little dialog - none is really needed. Far greater and hotter erotic mileage is gotten from just the natural grunts, groans and sounds of forced gratification. A major element in setting it head and shoulders above other videos of this kind is the way it always delivers great and greatly stimulating moments of realism, which tears an illicit response from anyone watching. For instance, the "Doctor" doesn't just fondle his subject, he gropes them, and you can practically feel it when he does! The video overflows with such "sensually empathetic" moments. Another unique and striking aspect it can claim is the disquieting atmosphere it manages to create, which actually heightens the energy surrounding what's going on. Bathed in harsh white light, the room is devoid of color, consisting almost entirely of sterile black and white. Other than when Comeax and Gear have their backsides turned from lilly white to rosy pink after each has been given a good whacking by Cooper and D'Falco, the only injections of color come from the large bottles of red, yellow, blue and green liquid, and even these are more unsettling than bright, as the jars contain "instruments" used to administer the helpless pair's "treatments." When they're doused in this liquid or forced to undergo "toxic" douching with it, does it burn or sting? Is it cold? Director Zeus knows that allowing the viewer's mind to answer questions like these adds immensely to the production's overall effectiveness. The best aphrodisiac is the mind, after all, and the best porn is that which involves it more completely - Punishment Asylum is nothing if not involving.
Much like sexual arousal itself, the tension builds steadily and strongly, with one segment flowing into the next, even hotter one towards a volcanic climax! Among the juiciest moments along the way is when D'Falco and Cooper are seen "unleashing" themselves, as they open the basket pieces of their jock straps - leather and metal respectively. (Cooper even has to use a key!) The best sights by far, though, come toward the end when the action culminates into an all out four-way. The large, leather-covered examination table the guys perform this on, needing to be big, long and strong enough to accommodate such big, long and strong studs, had to be specifically built just for this scene. All of the money shots are ample and well worth the build getting to them, but it's Comeaux, shooting off third out of the four, who scores the best in the entire video!
Where you one of those who, in your younger, more impressionable years, liked to watch late night movies or peruse the cheaper section of the video to store to find those films - ranging from '50s horror or science fiction to low-budget martial arts or schlocky old Italian "gladiator epics," which would often feature a muscular hero (or victim) stripped to waist or more, glistening with sweat and "taking it like a man." Did you find yourself strangely aroused? If you agree that there's a certain arousing beauty to seeing a beautifully masculine physique in distress, something that stirs us in our most intimate places, then Punishment Asylum is for you. Director, "Daddy" Zeus recently observed how "Seeing hot, muscular guys in distressed situations... I don't know anyone who doesn't think that's sexy!" When asked about how the actual filming of it went, he noted that even when the cameras weren't rolling this quartet of incredibly hot guys couldn't keep their hands off each other. That heightened sexual energy translates fantastically in what found its way on screen. This is Gear's very first video outside of those he's done for Titan; other than his being slightly hairier and sporting tattoos, both he and Comeaux are almost identical, and both of them are nothing short of heart-stopping to behold. Better known as York Powers in most of his other videos, D'Falco's gone by "Joey" in every project he's ever done for Zeus Studios right from the start of his career, so everyone involved felt why break with tradition? A rose by any other name and dripping with as much testosterone still drives us wild!
Currently available exclusively through mail order from Close Up Productions and Zeus Studios, it should be on the shelves by December. The main upshot here is that Punishment Asylum is geared toward a very specialized audience - those who are really into bondage porn. However, if you fall into this category, you'll find this video's definitely and without a doubt "not the same old, same old." In fact, it may even be one of the best specialty videos offered this year.
- Leo Buck