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• Actors: Virtual Valerie, Ru-Paul, Katie Morgan, Barry Brandt
• Studio: HBO
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304441207
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,830 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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As with sex itself, the better parts of HBO's long-running magazine show Real Sex are a matter of personal preference. However, the cable channel's official greatest-hits package, The Best of Real Sex, is an accurate overview of the series' polymorphic interests: loving intimacy, outright orgies, voyeurism, transvestites, computer sex, self-pleasure. The more sensational stuff, such as a story on a Miss Nude World competition or a software company's development of cyberslut "Virtual Valerie," wears thin after a few minutes. But when the accent is on ordinary people with ordinary bodies, The Best of Real Sex is far more compelling. The first feature, for example, concerns a course in helping women of any age experience their first full orgasm through masturbation. Elsewhere, a Maui retreat presents a New Agey curriculum to individuals and partners for deepening their sexual experiences (though much of the footage looks like a carnal free-for-all). Perhaps the most interesting piece focuses on a good-looking guy who spends his lunch hour guiding a peep-show girl through a realization of his fantasies. With a window separating them, these two intelligent folks (we learn through a separate interview that she has various degrees of higher learning) slide into a loose, easy banter that makes one wonder why some men have to go to such extremes to be happy. --Tom Keogh

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars interesting, erotic, and exciting (well, mostly), July 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best of Real Sex - HBO Presents (VHS Tape)

As the title implies, this video focuses on real sex, that is, real, everyday people and their sex related activities. The topics run the gamut from bondage between a married couple to a silicone-enhanced nude beauty pageant with strippers as contestants. Each segment is divided by short sequences where the "real sex" team ask people on the street about their sex lives. These are enjoyable to watch, and are often quite funny. As for the segments themselves, the best ones involve regular people doing sexy things. There is a (far too) brief segment about a middle-aged woman who teaches a masturbation clinic for women who have never had an orgasm. There is a segment about a "Guerilla fine-art photographer" who drives his models to streets in New York city, has them strip, and then takes artistic pictures of them. It is exciting to see these natural and very attractive people suddenly become naked in these public places. If you have ever fantasized about public nudity, buy the video for this segment alone. There is a segment about a forty-something couple who practice light bondage with each other. Perhaps the best segment is a long study of a sexual awakening camp in Hawaii. The men and women seperate into their respective groups, strip, hug, and kiss. The next day the men and women meet again in a large room and get in groups of four, get naked, scream and shake themselves into a foaming frenzy, then one person in the group lays on the floor, and the three others rub, lick, and suck them into the best orgasms of their lives. Seeing the people in this segment totally lose their inhibitions and become trully sexually liberated individulas is very exciting to watch. There are a few dud segments in this video, such as a long segment about a bunch of strippers who participate in a Miss Nude World contest, and an extremely long segment about transvestites. The strippers are too plastic, and the transvestites are too gaudy and grating for too long. But, since this is a compilation video, it's to be expected that not every segment will be as good as the next. There is something for everyone, though. This is truly a unique video that affords an unprecedented glimpse into the private sexual worlds of regular people just like you and me. They are (for the most part) unposed, unrehearsed, and totally unashamed in front of the cameras. It is a rare and erotic treat not to be missed!

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well DUH, it's really not a "movie", July 26, 2002

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Elisabeth (L.A. California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Real Sex - HBO Presents (VHS Tape)

First off, if anyone has seen HBO's Real Sex shows, you'll know that this is The Best of Real Sex. Picking the most interesting segments on the show...and not just a man and a woman getting down and dirty. I've seen basically all of the Real Sex shows from the begining, and the topics or "documentaries" they show are meant to enlighten and open the minds of those who have them closed. You'll find anything in the shows, from the yearly Exotic-Erotic Ball, to a NYC Wall St Exec. submitting to a Mistress by being humiliated in a private Dungeon somewhere in Manhattan. So to those who are expecting some actual, "sensual" real sex-ish porno, this is NOT the video for you...but if you're interested in something like the Miss Nude competition, then buy it :) You might like it... ta ta

36 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars HBO documentary with gratuitous nudity, July 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best of Real Sex - HBO Presents (VHS Tape)

In the continuing style of HBO cable this tape is another advanture in gratuitous nudity and titilating subject matter. Unless this is your only option for getting and viewing X-rated video my recommendation is to leave this one alone.