There's nothing much to say about Lexington Steele's new Balls Deep line except that this is the way solo stroker smut should be made.

Its scalding formula is deceptively simple - nasty, raw, high-energized no-holes-barred sex combined with clean, crisp production values and across-the-board good-looking gash garbed in, as the box so aptly puts it, "super whore attire" - yet incredibly difficult to pull off, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of the competition simply can't do it. Bottom line? All 12 scenes in both volumes - every motherfuckin' one - flat-out rock as hard as a Porn Valley earthquake magnitude 6.0 or above. And that, friends, is no easy feat. Steele, AVN's 2000 Male Performer of the Year, has already demonstrated excellence in front of the camera. In these two tapes, he demonstrates it behind as well.

Pre-nom both volumes for Best Gonzo Video, the series for Best Gonzo Series and several scenes (we'll point 'em out to you) in individual scene categories.

Highlights of Volume One include the spirited opener, in which Steele and Vince Vouyer d.p. and double-face-frost Asian superslut Jade Marcella, but not before Steele, while buried deep inside Marcella's rump, manages to uh, plug, his new line by grunting into the camera, "Lookit that! Balls deep!" What a marketer.

That same level of intensity is on display in Euro-beauty Nikita Denise's threeway with Vouyer and Mark Davis. After giving the camera a nice long tease (Pre-nom, Best Tease Performance), Denise gets down to business by sucking and fucking the pair with the sort of abandon for which the lusty, husky-voiced Femme Fatale-type has a well-deserved rep. The scene - nom worthy for Best Group Sex Scene - Video - ends with a four-finger anal cavity search and - what else? - a slammin' d.p.

Steele closes out BD1 with arguably its strongest scene - a raunchy Mei-Yu/Mr. Marcus/Erik Everhard/Davis pile-up complete with sloppy blowjobs, lots of sweaty anal, A2M, more d.p. action and copious cum guzzling.

Without skipping a beat, BD2 comes roaring (an apt description considering that few, if any, male performers roar louder than Steele does when he blows the inevitable high-arching load out of his jumbo-sized rig) out of the gate with a scorching threeway that has Steele and Marcus taking turns in gorgeous Euro-chick Sophie Evans' various and sundry holes before morphing together for a d.p. barbecue and a decent double-face-frosting.

The scene features the first of several gorgeous you-are-in-the-middle-of-the-action close-ups found throughout the tape, this one of Evans, her long legs looking splendidly slutty in sheer black stockings and monster heels, spread wide apart as the two studs stuff her pussy and ass simultaneously. Porn can be such a beautiful thing.

That's followed without delay (another strength of this line is that each sex scene starts virtually immediately after the one that preceded it without any b.s. interview filler) by a ball-draining sequence starring the vid's real find, extremely nasty newcomer Marie Silva, who radiates pure wicked unremorseful joy at being an on-screen whore. She and fellow beauty Luzy Purl double-team Steele's tool with their mouths and pussies before Silva takes that monstrous member up her shitter, loving every loud, sweaty, agonizing minute (and inch) of it.

Gorgeous close-up No. 2 is of Silva riding Lex deep in her ass in a reverse cowgirl, her long legs - with nylons and heels, natch - spread as wide as they go. The scene ends with Silva, just by her very vulgar facial expressions, practically coaxing the cum out of Steele's tool and all over her and Purl's pusses (as distinguished from pussies). This Silva tart is one lewd live wire to look out for. Pre-nom the scene for Best Group Scene - Video.

Steele wisely saves the finest bitch for last, however, as Perfect 10 Taylor St. Claire - arguably the best-looking female performer around these days - gets triple-penetrated by himself, Vouyer and Joel Lawrence. While St. Claire's performing skills can't compare to her utterly breath-taking looks - she could stand to be a whole lot more pro-active - the mere sight of this heart-stopping beauty getting stuffed by three cocks is a multiple load-blower all by its lonesome. Hell, even her sexy solo prelude - garbed tantalizingly in fetish-light attire, she stuffs a PVC-gloved hand up her twat - is more than sufficient to get off on. So too, we're willing to bet the farm on, will be Balls Deep 3. We can hardly wait....