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WOMEN AS SENSUAL SEX OBJECTS, February 2, 2008
This review is from: Sensual Distress - Art of Steve O. Reno (Perfect Paperback)
Damsels in distress? No! How about Sensual Distress, the latest hot collection of art from Sal Quartuccio Productions. Their latest release presents the art of Steve Reno, 64 pages of playful pinups especially geared towards the bondage/fetish fan. The Reno woman is beautiful, busty, and always seemingly has a wide-eyed look of shock and surprise on her face, as she is caught up in the most...distressful situations!
All of Steve's pieces are titled which is nice, especially when one is trying to do a review. Steve first takes fans on a tour of sensual distress through the ages with images that have come to exemplify eras of film and popular culture. The first with showing a girl about to be sawed in half by a dastardly, handlebar mustached villain. "Cliffhanger" gives us a scene straight out of 1940's B-Movie serials as the lovely heroine is tossed from a cliff, her hands and feet bound tightly. The 1950's piece is all about giant monsters and evil aliens, binding these poor girls in their sinewy webs. The 1980's gives us Reno's take on the video game Dragon's Lair with his love girl about to be eaten by the scaly terror.
From there we get a variety of different illustrations from the terrifying to the hilarious. Reptiles and octopus-like creatures play a prime role as monsters of choice in Steve's work. Their tentacles are often found binding and probing their beautiful subjects. "island Sacrifice" finds a buxom topless girl tied to a palm tree as tentacles rise out of the sea to embrace her. "Collecting Figures" find doll-like subjects being tape to title cards by their collector. "Steve-O-Reno's Vibe-O-Rama" is one of the provocative pieces as a bound, blonde Goddess is surrounded by all manner and shape of mechanical-armed vibrators. "Floor Models" features a man looking at half dozen tied up women as he tries to decide which one he wants to take home.
This is just a fun, sexy book. 64 pages with black & white interior art and color covers. This is women objectified in the most sensual manner!
REVIEWED BY TIM JANSON
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Pretty women; so-so settings..., July 19, 2008
This review is from: Sensual Distress - Art of Steve O. Reno (Perfect Paperback)
Steve Reno certainly has talent, and he likes drawing pretty women in dangerous settings. But are his drawings erotic? Well, some of them certainly are. By my count there are 67 drawings in this book. I divided Reno's illustrations into three different quality categories: Excellent, Average, and Weak. I rated 15 of his drawings as Excellent, 27 as Average, and 25 as Weak.
On the positive side, I liked the "women as playthings" motif, I enjoyed most of the bondage drawings, and I especially loved the handful of illustrations of girls with other girls.
On the negative side, there were way too many tentacles involved, also too many machines. Also, if the girls appears to be about to be drowning or stuff like that, I simply didn't find it erotic.
Overall, a fairly good effort, at least in my opinion.
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I'm Officially A Fan, November 2, 2008
This review is from: Sensual Distress - Art of Steve O. Reno (Perfect Paperback)
I really love this book. It is a great collection of Mr. Reno's work. I first heard about it through Deviantart.com, which allowed me to get a preview of some of his pieces before I decided to purchase this. That was a great help. Knowing what to expect in the book, I was still surprised by the quality, and quantity of pieces. For any fan, new or old, it is well worth the money.
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