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Terrific psychodrama
lor_23 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The very talented team of Teri Diver and Tom Elliot are responsible for "Decadent Obsession", a drama set in the milieu of psychotherapists, with Kylie Ireland and Jeanna Fine squaring off in a memorable war of wills. This is the type of erotic thriller that was so common during this period in the form of softcore movies starring Shannon Whirry or Nikki Fritz, but given extra impact in a XXX format.

Teri Diver's top-notch screenplay opens with a lengthy S&M dream sequence, in which dominant Steve Drake manhandles sub Kylie, only to have her awake from this daydream right in the middle of a therapy session with Drake, who understandably gets mad and storms off, not thrilled with his doctor at all.

Kylie is deeply inhibited, unable to develop sexual relationships herself, though she tries (in vain) to pick up guys at a local bar. She's envious of other people, including her redhead receptionist Brittany O'Connell at the clinic. She doesn't get along with her boss, Mike Horner, who's carrying on a secret affair with Brittany.

When Mike hires another therapist to the firm without even mentioning it to Kylie she gets even angrier, and is shocked to find out that the new Dr. Goldstein turns out to be Jeanna Fine, who very recently humiliated her at the bar by picking up a handsome guy (Frank Towers) that Kylie was trying to seduce.

Kylie just has to get back at Jeanna, but gets another comeuppance when she sneaks one night into Fine's house and has sex with a blindfolded stud (Sean Rider) there, only to discover afterwards that he was Fine's brother, the whole affair being set up by her enemy.

Fine is carefully portrayed as the show's bad guy, including having a session with 3 patients where she goads them to have a threesome right there in her office (busty blonde Morgan Le Faye, Jay Ashley and T. T. Boy), only to have Kylie and herself watch them in action. But the movie's finale is highly satisfying as the still-combative Kylie finally succumbs to Jeanna's power, and it becomes clear that Fine was really trying to help her colleague all along, and succeeds.

This is a strong and sexy sort of thriller, typical of the great XXX movies made during this era by the unsung team of Teri & Tom.
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