Penthouse Letters: In Deep(Penthouse)
By: The Wife & I

Back in the day, the wife used to work at a little convenience store in our tiny town. During the rare moments of downtime, she says, she used to get an occasional porn fix by reading the latest edition of Penthouse Letters. That’s the thing about the wife’s attraction to porn – the story behind the fucking is much more alluring than the fucking sometimes. So, when it came time for us to review another DVD, Penthouse Letters: In Deep seemed like an obvious candidate. The film plays out in five parts, each a “dramatization” of a letter read at the top of each scene by Penthouse’s 2006 Pet of the Year, Jaime Lynn.

Penthouse Letters: In Deep takes you through a variety of erotic fantasies – a neighbor catching her friend’s husband in the shower, a newly appointed lawyer having an affair with his legal secretary, an exhibitionist couple who have sex by their friends’ pool, a sexy student seducing her sexy professor, and two cute diner employees getting it on after hours on the burger counter.

Though the fantasies are varied, the sex really isn’t. The first four scenes are basically the same thing in different contexts. Hetero, vanilla sex is pretty much the dominant theme throughout, save the lesbian scene at the end. Some of the shots come off as a little more softcore, but that’s not always a bad thing when you’re picking a DVD to watch with your lover. The hottest scene is probably the first, where Claire Robbins climbs in the shower with her best friend’s husband. The scene is slow, erotic and extremely passionate. The foreplay action between Claire and her forbidden lover is tension building and hot, and the running water just helps make things even steamier.

The slowness of the scenes (and when we say slow, we don’t mean boring) is the key to the erotic glamour of the movie. The lesbian scene at the end with Heather Vandeven and Justine Joli, for example, gets hot-and-heavy but still retains a degree of infatuation and passion.The slowness and the attention to foreplay made the scenes a bit more believable (especially the two we’ve mentioned) and when you’re looking for a porn flick to watch with your lover, this is exactly what you want. It’s like the wife says, Penthouse Letters: In Deep “wasn’t dirty, it was erotic.” Yeah, it’s OK to watch two people fucking each other like animals, screaming and panting through the whole scene. But if your goal is to watch a movie that’s going to get you and your lover hot and bothered, you probably want to aim for something a little more akin to the sex you’re going to have afterwards; sex that is a little more romantic, and a little less pornstar.

Rating: 3.5/5