Though Nina Hartley's Private Sessions 6 has decent production values, gorgeous women in top-flight fetish fashions and is set in an elaborate, real-deal dungeon (director Ernest Greene's we presume), much of it lacks any real passion. Even for viewers into BDSM, this thing - as well as many fetish productions; it's a genre-wide problem - is unwankable. And isn't that contrary to the whole point of adult?

The only real sparks - and even they're fleeting - come care of Amber Michaels, enthusiastic performer that she is, in scene three's Porn Queen summit wherein she's topped by flogger-wielding Nina Hartley and Amber Lynn (whose name is unconscionably misspelled in the opening credits as "Anber," but who provides the tape with its single hottest moment as her still-perfect-after-all-these-years ass parades past the camera in a damn-near spray-painted-on black latex micro-mini). Unfortunately, the ensuing strap-on pussy action is feigned, as it is throughout the tape since the receivers are invariably bound. Nice try though.

As for the other scenes, the opener has Emily Marilyn dominating Justine, and while both women are beautiful, the scene itself is a bloodless snooze. So too is scene three, in which Greene and Vic Alpine (both wearing boring basic black denim as opposed to kink couture; now would viewers tolerate it if the women wore denim? Of course not.) top Hartley and Marilyn. Not to sound repetitive, but so too is the closer, in which Hartley dominates Crystal Summers.

More ardor people, more ardor.