We see a sexy blonde woman wearing black lingerie, sunglasses and a see-through plastic raincoat. Two uniformed policemen grab her wrists and drag her down a dimly lit staircase. As she struggles in their grip, they began to fondle her breasts and her pussy. A pulsing electronic score almost drowns out her moans of pleasure.
The scene is bathed in deep reddish light, smoke billows around the threesome. The video editing is gritty and jittering. Eventually, the policemen will stroke her cunt with their batons, and she will get down on her knees and suck their cocks. The camera circles around them, and the throbbing score almost imperceptibly rises in tension.
“Cops and Hooker” is a scene from “Tanya Hyde’s Twisted Dreams” from 1999, and this was my first encounter with Tanya Hyde’s unique vision. It turned me on immensely, and as I began searching for more of her videos, I found them to have much the same style and more or less the same high quality.
A surreal universe
You often hear porn being criticized for having stupid plots or (ironically) for having no plot at all. In Tanya Hyde’s films there are no plots, only situations. In other scenes, two nuns masturbate with a rubber dildo, until two burglars break in and force them to sex. And a maid is sexually dominated by her cruel mistress and master.
In Tanya Hyde’s slightly surreal universe, nothing exists but sex and desire. Every location – hospital, church or prison cell – is transformed into a strange dungeon devoted to kinky pleasures, complete with chains, straps and sex toys. All characters are dressed in uniforms, leather or latex. And the only purpose of the unrealistic lighting and cinematography is to emphasize the beauty of the actors and suggest the physical sensation of the copulation. Like all good visual pornography, it doesn’t look the way sex actually looks – it looks the way sex feels.
It is a fantasy world of pure sex. And even more important, the actors indulge in every bizarre scenario with lusty abandon. Tongues lick eagerly across tender body parts, cocks thrusts deep into every orifice, women gasp with pleasure, men roar with lust.
Tanya Hyde’s videos are deliberately “arty” – and lovers of gonzo porn may well hate them. But I find that Tanya Hyde makes our – or at least my – sexual fantasies come alive. And isn’t that what porn is all about?
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