Debi Diamond, watch out. Tammi Ann, like some lanky blonde pit bull, could be nipping at your heels, ready to lock on your ankle in a mortal death grip.

Provided that...

Debi, who was named Female Performer of the Year, may have some formidable competition in her efforts to repeat, providing Tammi Ann remains in the business and providing Tammi re-evaluates her demeanor. Current rumor suggests, however, if a bread were named after Tammy's attitude-of-late, it would be called sourdough.

What a difference several months makes.

Depraved Fantasies was lensed when Tammi Ann first came into the business, armed with a fresh open mind and an eager willingness to take on all comers coupled with epic ambitions to scale the Icarian heights of sexual mythology.

What a difference several months makes.

Another rumor has it that part of Tammi Ann's malaise is due to the machinations of one particular producer/director who, apparently, defiled her physically, not to mention sullying her perspective and zeal. A little more cynical around the edges, Tammi Ann's apparently holding out for "better projects" and listening to "advice." This oft-heard cause-and-effect rings like a sad refrain from a Country-Western jukebox.

The new Tammi Ann is partly the reason why John T. Bone's Depraved Fantasies begs to be seen. It locates this energetic, sexually supercharged woman in the hub of mega-decadence, making it one of the most controversial sex features of the year.

Depraved Fantasies may not have you rushing for your thesaurus to find the P. T. Barnum equivalent of "best" or "greatest". It has one patently average sex scene where Tammi has "normal" sex with Jake Williams, a man who has parlayed talent and farm boy charm into a successful adult career. And it has another scene where Tammi gets gang-banged by a relatively anonymous group of black performers with Lady Paree making a surprise cameo, doing strap-on honors. This scene isn't necessarily my idea of a day at the beach. Then, again, it was choreographed at Tammi's request, thus fulfilling one of her fantasy trips. Or close to it, because she wanted Sean Michaels, originally, to appear in this scene, but that item is covered in this month's gossip.

The two scenes that beg to be commented on are an outdoor segment that borrows inspiration from both Michael Gates' Junkyard Dogs and Bruce Seven's Loose Ends VI; that, plus a REAL double-penetration anal scene.

The first scenario is established when Tammi and Williams come back to his place after a date. The TV is broken and Jake wants to play a game. That idea is soon squelched once they begin making out. Jake begins eating her and the scene fades to the junkyard, suggesting that Tammi is now entertaining a "depraved fantasy".

During the course of this fantasy encounter, Debi Diamond and Bionca, the Scylla and Charybdis of the asshole, begin playing with Tammi's butt and practically rip her a new excretory opening. In what could be construed as a New Age commercial for Citgo, Debi next pours a quart's worth of 10W30 into Tammi's anal tract. Topped off at the tank as one might say, Tammi is now plundered by Bionca, who nails her with a strap-on on the top of a filthy 55-gallon oil drum.

Bionca next aims the strap-on in the direction of her blonde partner-in-crime, giving Deb a tonsillectomy that would gag a sword swallower. Debi props her by-now dirt-encrusted ass up in the air for more strap-on relief, and a delirious promise of things to come. Armed with a funnel, Tammi Ann and Bionca wedge it into Debi's sphincter, allowing it to be the catchall for the entire contents of a bottle of Castrol GTX poured down Debi's stern. Proving that she's good to the very last drop, Tammi licks Debi off; and Bionca, with a running hose, flushes Diamond's radiator. I don't think it would be going too much out on a limb to suggest this is the scene to beat for next year's best all-girl sex scene.

After a little more Jake/Tammi by-play, the scene fades to an operating room where the "surgeon general" Ron Jeremy preps Tammi for a rectal correct-all. Ron's mammoth dick slides rather easily up her ass, suggesting that Tammi Ann has had some practice passing an NFL game ball through her bowel tract. This sets the stage for an excruciating d.p., when the equally mastodonic Derrick Taylor (reputed to have the biggest dick in the business), teams up with Jeremy. As if this feat weren't enough, Tammi then accommodates a double anal in the missionary position. As a rather anticlimactic gesture, Taylor and Jeremy lather her face.

After the aforementioned gang bang, Williams dusts off Tammi with an almost Andy Hardy-type mainstream delicacy.

One word of caution to viewers. Outrageous sex scenes are contagious, and you may never be able to watch a perfunctorily performed sex encounter again.

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