From the "Can You Top This" department comes Loose Ends II, the lengthy sequel to last year's moderately successful Loose Ends, a kinkytale of the sexual underworld. Here, director Bruce Seven attempts to get his characters to go even kinkier, but only one performer, Bionca, explores anything unusual.

Bionca portrays a woman who can't get off during sex and is squeamish about oral sex. She is befriended by Erica Boyer, an expert, who, through the use of lesbian sex, spanking and an array of dildos and creams, teaches our heroine the ins and outs of sex.

Loose Ends II is slow on story but, thankfully, top-heavy on sex. Some of the highlights include a fantasy sequence where Bionca gets clothes-pinned in all the right places just before they pour on the dripping hot wax, and a three-way lesbian anal match-up where Keli Richards helps Bionca take those little balls up her rear. Also, the hottest one-on-one anal scenes involves Boyer, one of the industry's top rear-end performers, and veteran bun-buster Marc Wallace.

I like some of this off-beat feature very much. But I still get annoyed when a professional production has bad sound editing and stray noises that drown out some of the dialogue. Also, Seven's disadvantage here is that his group of actors can't act. They can certainly perform enthusiastically, but they read their lines like fourth graders tackling Shakespeare. Otherwise, with good video quality, fans of no-frills hardcore sex will probably enjoy this tape.