If not quite as consistently scalding as the first two volumes (Editor's Choices, September 2001) in this terrific new non-bullshit, meat-and-potatoes line, Balls Deep 3 is still a - sorry fellow AVN voters, can't resist (inside joke) - very solidly strokable effort.

Its six scenes are hard-edged, crisply produced and in general extremely well-energized, featuring some luscious A-list lovelies attired in mouth-watering kink-light couture. Solo wankers should eat it up.

The opener is, as director and star Lexington Steele puts it, "championship round adult video," matching himself - AVN's 2000 Male Performer of the Year - with Jewel De'Nyle - AVN's 2001 Female Performer of the Year. It's a bloody 10-round, knock-down, drag-out featuring De'Nyle - porn's reigning Bad Girl - loudly cumming no fewer than four times, twice with Big Lex buried, well, balls deep in her ass ("Oh, what a fucking anal orgasm," she snarls at one point).

That's followed by statuesque Miko Lee, never looking hotter in thigh-high, black patent leather boots and kinky body harness, getting d.p.'d in scalding fashion by Steele and Erik Everhard, then face-fielding both their loads. Yummy.

Steele next nails Euro-beauty Monica Sweetheart (gorgeous she is; a sweetheart she ain't) and nasty Nubian Diana DeVoe at the same time, paying special attention to Monica's Hershey Highway. For those not familiar with Sweetheart, run - don't walk - to this scene. It's hard to believe a babe this beautiful is a porn whore.

In scene four, blue-eyed blonde Calli Cox proves herself an emoter of the first order as Lex reams her pussy over and over in a variety of positions. That filly must have had trouble walking for a week. Trashy biker bitch Kristi Love, meanwhile, gets generously d.p.'d by Steele and Jon Dough (looking like an extra from Deliverance) in scene five.

Diminutive French cutie Delfynn takes on three dicks, including Mr. Marcus', in the closer, doing double vag, double anal and even triple penetration (ass, pussy, mouth), before having her face turned into a gooey, glistening mess. Despite the sexual gymnastics, however, the scene never really reaches a full boil. But five out of six ain't too shabby, now is it?