This is the best solo-j.o. video this reviewer has seen in many a moon. Just when you thought the genre was burnt out, along comes producer/director Max Julien from Brazil with a very personal and obsessive look at the sexual side of hardcore bodybuilding. Star Alex Villalobos is the link between the segments, as his voice-over narrative gives vent to his passion for all the pumped-up muscle that's passed through the deserted locker room where we find him as the video begins. Vignette melts dreamily into vignette, with appropriately feverish montages of bodybuilding contests in between.

Newton Petersen does himself in front of a mirror, Julio Sanson gets off remembering a shower with his workout buddy Walter Soares; the complex editing of images and background sounds (workout grunting or sexual rutting?) makes this perhaps the best episode in the video. Further scenes with shaved-headed Igor Sharif, chunky-chocolate Rick strode, and steamroom seducers Mario Gema and Bruno Bacarat lead up to the climax, where Villalobos shoots a videotape of himself lewdly posing naked in the locker room and then watches it while pumping his love muscle. A scene that could have been clichéd and unconvincing, actually works and elevates this video meditation on narcissism, muscles and sexual fascination to a whole other plane.