Make no mistake about it, the bondage in "Masters & Slaves: Part 1: Opposite Attractions" is heavy bondage. Some of it is wince-worthy, but it has the extra touch that director Bob Wingate always puts in his heaviest videos, some little touch that makes it palatable to every audience possible. Sometimes it's a gag, but this time, amidst all of the heavy leather and slapping, the threat that makes this bondage video so easy to watch, such a pleasure to watch, in fact, is love. Love? In a slave a master epic? Absolutely. It's subtle, and it's done very carefully, but it's there. Of course, bondage admirers shouldn't be turned off. The hot stuff, the rough stuff, the scary stuff, it's all there, too, and in magnificent form.
After a night at the Met, with the shooting sprays of water at Lincoln Center, the eyes of tuxedo-clad Steve Ross and Jason Branch meet. There is an instant attraction. Steve tosses his date into a car and follows Jason. Then these two gents have a perfectly luuuvely dinner in a perfectly luuuvely restaurant as they grope each under the table. However, there is a problem amidst all this cultural luuuviliness on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They are both into submissive boys, but for the night, they are willing to give each other a try. There's a force connecting these two burly studs. They head off to the Upper West Side's only gay watering hole, The Works (where Jason happens to work), and from there to Jason's perfectly luuuvely apartment with all of its perfectly luuuvely art. The point of going home together is to test Jason's theory that all tops are also bottoms. The teasing rapport between the two of them adds considerably to the jazzy gist of the dialogue and plot, but when it's finally time for the sex, all of that has been so ready to explode into the physical that it literally does. They literally tear around each other, groping and moaning and really throwing themselves into their oral chores. Chests and nipples are attacked and then Steve blows Jason with a slurpy jangly blowjob complete with tons of hand usage. Jason takes over, in a wet suck with all the proper sucking sounds left intact. There is nothing fake here -- it is all real intensity. An exciting 69 following with excellent work from both guys, and Steve finds all sorts of clever ways to make up for the fact that there is no deep-throating all of that massiveness.
Sun comes streaming in from Central Park the next morning and the two follow up the previous night's session with another, now that the connection is becoming something more than a chance meeting. This episode has a tad more roughness to this scene, with both doing great work again, and then Jason binds Steve to the bed and gags him. His masterful blowjob really gets Steve a tingle. Just watch his legs twitch with the discomfort of not being able to fully participate in the passion. Jason cums and then Steve roars off his shot, still gagged. It's about time for another perfectly luuuvely meal, and these two civilized professionals pour coffee into expensive mugs and daintily partake in petite dejeuner as Steve invites Jason and his slave up to the blueblood county of Westchester to meet his slave. Jason is picked up at The Works by Aaron Tanner, Steve's slave, and whisked off to a manse with an exceedingly long driveway. The foyer looks like something out of Edith Wharton, but it's the basement that matters. It's a complete dungeon.
So, Steve allows Jason to have his fun with Aaron after Aaron is made to lick his boots a little first. The master-slave relationship here is very interesting as Aaron is a gorgeous talented hunk on his own who obeys Steve's orders to please Jason, even though he obviously would rather be with his master. So, he licks all over Jason's leather-clad body, bottom of the boots and all, sniffs the codpiece, and finally gets to blow Jason. He deep-throats him briefly, and with his hands behind his back, no less. Nipples, pits, every part of Jason is lathered up by slavish Aaron. As for Jason, he's bewitched by the adoration. His cocky porn smile gets bigger with each task he's able to have Aaron pull off. His confidence leads him to tie Aaron to a wall and truss him up like a Christmas goose, with his balls and dick bound by heavy white rope. And Jason must have been in the Boy Scouts at one point, because he has a way with knots. Aaron is gagged and blindfolded and Jason plays around with his body. What would a Bound & Gagged video be without clothespins, so with Aaron not able to even whimper in complaint, Jason snaps them onto his chest.
Steve returns and he and Jason tie Aaron up in an even stranger position, some contraption that suspends him in the air like a chandelier while the hairy beefcakes slap him around as a human tetherball. They finger him, they paddle his ass, they let him blow them, and they swing him around to keep him away from their kisses. Jason and Steve both take turns flogging Aaron's butt to a glowing pink color while he blows the other, but take note of Steve and Jason during these moments. They aren't so much concentrating on what they are doing to Aaron, but on watching each other. That's what I meant earlier, and it becomes even more obvious as the video continues. Steve and Jason eventually fuck Aaron, but by this point, a standard fuck seems matter-of-fact, and just another fun touch of mastery they can briefly use.
Aaron is then ordered into his "sleep sack," zipped in, bound in tight, hooded, and then hooked onto an apparatus that allows the guys to swing him around. Bound up like this, he looks like the Marquis de Sade's pet vampire or something, and Steve and Jason take great pleasure in spinning him until nausea has to be setting in with poor Aaron. Steve pulls a convenient Murphy bed down from the wall and he and Jason go at their blowing tasks yet again. This time, though, Jason is tied and gagged, with Steve on fire teasing the helpless Jason. His blowjob contains a superb hand-mouth combo.
It's morning when this pair wakes up again, and when they make plans to bring up Jason's boy for the weekend, and Steve refers to them as a "family," we know love has set in. It's awfully cute, even with Aaron still immobile in his coffinesque sleeping bag. True to his word, Jason takes slave Jay Ross up to the luuuvely country house and when Jay and Aaron see each other, there is a hint of plot there. They regard each other with a strange set of glances. After the requisite boot-licking (and do you notice that licked boots are always the cleanest to begin with?), Jay and Aaron are bound and gagged, flogged rather harshly by Steve and Jason to "wake them up." The flogging is interrupted every now and then by Jason and Steve tying Jay and Aaron's dicks together and hanging weights from the bind. Finally, Jason and Steve tire of all this mastery, and go off to deal with their burgeoning love, tossing Jay and Aaron in a cage. Well, the slaves immediately make out like old friends. More than that, they are ex-lovers! Jay had ditched Aaron when things got too serious, but they still are the loves of each other's lives. In the cage, positioned awkwardly, they prove their love with some blowing and 69ing that is magnificent, since each has great practice in pleasing someone else.
And that's the end. Until "Masters & Slaves: Part 2: Ties That Bind," at least. Take a close look at the first and last moments of this video, this video that bares the seedy title of "Masters & Slaves: Part 1: Opposite Attractions." Starting at the splendor of one of the world's finest pieces of architecture, in tuxedos, two men meet and fall in love immediately (well, lust at least) and at the end, two long-lost lovers are reunited by chance. Sounds like your typical video, right? Then watch it! Those of you who like these sorts of plots, watch it! And, you'll find that what happens in between, the heavy bondage and unbelievable torture, will not seem quite so off-putting, and rather invigorating. Everything, rather the passionate lust or the gutsy bondage, is treated with the utmost energy by all participants and the powers that be at Bound & Gagged have yet another unique story on their hands.
A Video Review by Brent Blue