This inconsistent sequel to AVN's 2000 Best Anal-Themed Tape is part chatty sex instructional tape, part hit and miss stroke vid.

It features butt-fucking expert/author (and tape co-director) Tristan Taormino presiding over an anal sex Q&A session in an adult store with an audience largely composed of geek types (why is it that those who attend such events invariably look like librarians? Guess all the beautiful people are, like, you know, actually doing it, rather than pontificating about it).

Most of the tape's five sex scenes are set up to illustrate the answers to audience questions about sodomy. Scene two, for instance, a Kate Frost/Mr. Marcus pairing, addresses the dilemma of how to minimize the pain of a really big dick invading a really tight bunghole (gently, gradually and with lots of lube. Duh). Unfortunately, the scene has all the heat and passion of a driver's ed tape, and it doesn't help that Frost keeps interrupting whatever flow of things there is to get off-camera advice from Taormino.

Pretty heatless too is the opener, featuring Jewell Marceau rather methodically sticking fingers and hardware in both her holes while yakking in tongue-in-cheek fashion to Taormino before the scene abruptly fades to black (likely bringing to mind for some viewers the old Peggy Lee standard, Is That All There Is?). Not exactly an auspicious debut for the pretty brunette.

Thankfully, things starts to heat up somewhat in scene three due to the presence of flat-out gorgeous Ava Vincent, who strap-ons the just so-so looking Taormino's arse (sorry, but Taormino just isn't attractive enough to carry an entire tape).

Hotter still is scene four, featuring anal queen Bridgette Kerkove (never looking better in sinfully sizzling hardcore fetishwear), Lola and Mickey G. taking each other's bums with toys and real dick (and yes Mickey is reamed briefly by the strap-on wearing Hispanic hottie).

But the tape's sexual high water mark clearly is the closer starring bad girl extraordinaire Jewel De'Nyle, demonstrating with conviction why she's AVN's 2001 Female Performer of the Year. Looking extremely mouth-watering in a PVC bikini and knee-high black boots, she verbally tops Joel Lawrence while he eats her pussy to orgasm as she languishes in a nasty leather love swing. She then intensely rides his stiffie in her crapper in a variety of love swing positions, cumming loudly several times. It's the uh, shit. Pre-nom it for Best Anal Sex Scene - Video.