"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."

That's how we began our Editor's Choice review of Balls Deep 1 & 2 back in Sept. 2001, and we're happy to report that after lapping up Vol. 5 of this superb line, nothing much has changed. Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?

All six scenes here smoke in varying degrees and constitute masturbatory Nirvana.

The opener, for instance, has white-hot newcumer Jewels Jade taking on Big Lex in her first interracial. After some preliminary pussy pumping, Lex cuts to the chase and reams Jade's ass but good in various and sundry positions as she wails at the top of her big fake lungs. "I am so fucking wet," she snarls at one point while looking directly into the camera with Steele embedded, well, balls deep, in her ass, "because your dick feels so good." Jade, a terrifically take-no-prisoners sexual performer and one of the most intense, nasty newbies in adult, richly deserves a pre-nom for Best New Starlet.

Scene two has Steele putting it to Austin O'Reily and Taylor Lynn, two hot blondes with matching slave collars and tongue studs who could pass for twins. With no anal action and O'Reily looking a bit self-conscious at times, this scene doesn't quite pack the sexual wallop of that smoking opener. But it will more than do.

Next up is luscious Layla Jade, who pairs off with Erik Everhard in an anal-heavy number, which has a little bit of just about everything, including A2M, P2M (pussy to mouth), choking and a dam-bursting monster facial that nearly takes out Jade's right eye. For this scene and countless others, pre-nom Everhard for Male Performer of the Year.

That's followed by a sinfully delicious Belladonna/Caramel/Sean Michaels threeway. With her hair dyed jet-black, Belladonna has never looked hotter as she stares down the camera while Michaels reams her ass, then, along with the Caramel, takes his load on her kisser. For this scene and countless others, pre-nom Belladonna for Female Performer of the Year.

With apologies to Shaq, Steele proves he's the Man of Steel in scene five as he fucks the shit out of tiny Daisy Dukes (whose entire body is nearly dwarfed by Lex's massive pipe), blows once, fucks her some more, then blows a second time.

Multiple pops also abound in the blistering Shyla Stylez/Everhard/Steele closer, easily the tape's best scene. The 19-year-old Stylez, practically a shoe-in for a Best New Starlet pre-nom and looking like the very embodiment of lust in sinfully delicious fetishwear, gets fucked, sodomized, double-pussied, d.p.'d, then face-fields four loads - two each from Steele and Everhard. These three performers have World Class sexual chemistry and several of their threeways this past year, including this one of course, deserve pre-noms for Best Group Sex Scene - Video.

As for the more coveted Awards categories, pre-nom the vid for Best Gonzo Tape, the line itself for Best Gonzo Series and Steele for Performer of the Year, Director of the Year and Best Gonzo Director, an extraordinary consideration indeed.