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I pulled out an old tape I haven’t watched for several years last night, and it contained a sex scene I had completely forgotten, and that truly surprised me. 1987’s straight stroker, Cabaret Sin is one of the early "shot on video-tape" films, early enough that the production values are still quite high. Produced by the great Kirdy Stevens (producer of the famed Taboo series, and other classic whackers) and directed by Phillip O'Toole, Cabaret Sin takes place in the not so distant future. There has been a nuclear explosion (or something) and because no one wants the mutants to multiply, sex has been outlawed. Cabaret Sin is the government sanctioned night-club where mutants go and watch beautiful, undeformed people have sex. A private-eye (played by blonde hottie Greg Derek, even though many websites and the box cover says it is Randy West – who is nowhere to be seen in the video) goes there to investigate police corruption, and finds plenty of it.

Overall it’s a pretty good film. Trying for a Fosse-like Cabaret effect, every scene is soaked in smoke. Unfortunately, whoever was running the fog-machine let it get out of control every time anyone starts to fuck. You can still see everything, but it is sometimes hard to clearly make out what’s going on. The great Kevin James plays a half robot, half mutant cop who illegally fucks one of the performers, and although I usually find James stunningly sexy, here he is not. Because he is made-up to look like someone who’s been exposed to radiation poisoning, he isn’t anyone you’d necessarily want to jack-off to. The scene is a disappointment.

The "acts" presented at the cabaret make up most of the film’s sex scenes. It was one of these scenes that completely caught me off guard. A woman on stage is playing the trombone, and behind her are two guys playing trumpets. The three of them are swinging back and forth in unison, not unlike ZZ Top. That is, if ZZ Top didn’t have beards, wore white dinner jackets, and had no sense of rhythm. The women begins to masturbate with the trombone (to the delight of the mutant audience), and then drops to her knees, crawls over to the guys, unzips their pants, and proceeds to blow them. Presently we see the three of them naked and the sex starts in earnest.

But then something happens you just don’t see very often. In the middle of a fairly hot, if relatively ordinary, three-way, one of the men starts to suck the other guy’s cock. The scene turns into a full blown bisexual sequence in an otherwise completely straight porn flick (if you don’t count the solitary girl-on-girl scene.) One of the guys sits on the other’s face, they sixty nine while the girl watches, and then they shoot cum all over each other and her. The mutant audience is confused by what they’re witnessing, and some even boo. The movie moves on to another dialogue sequence, and the bisexuality is never referred to again.

This got me thinking (it also got me off, by the way.) We know there are damn few straight porn films that don’t contain at least one lesbian section, ‘cause you breeder boys just love that. But how many main-stream straight porn flicks have male bisexual scenes? I can think of only two others I’ve seen, albeit containing very brief moments of bi fun. A classic film I saw years ago in a porno store "preview room" titled (as I recall) Sodom and Gomorrah contained a quick moment in an orgy where one guy grabs another guy’s dick and leans down to start sucking it. I believe the guy even came in his buddy’s mouth, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, and so I couldn’t swear in court the oral money-shot moment is even in the film.

Another movie was one I rented a couple years ago. A Russian production called something like Bear Run or Bear Club or something of that nature (I remember it was from a company called Sunshine Films that produced only one other film I’ve found, a movie called Lustful Witches of the Russian Village.) The Bear film featured another orgy sequence, and again one of the guys fell to his knees and started sucking one of his male friends. There is instantly a quick edit, and suddenly we’re back to purely straight sex. (I wonder if in the European release this blow-job played out to some sort of conclusion. Europeans are a lot more open minded than we are.) These two examples are very brief moments, as opposed to the Cabaret Sin scene in which the guys are active with each other for a full six or seven minute scene.

Along the same lines, there was a Private flick I rented once (and, sorry, I’ve forgotten the title) where, in a behind-the-scenes moment, three of the well-known straight Euro-Stars are sitting on a couch together getting ready to film a scene while their female co-star is being made-up. They are wearing running shorts and feeling themselves up through the shorts, keeping hard and ready for the up-coming shoot. One of these Euro-Studs jokingly grabs and shakes another star’s hard cock through his shorts. Everyone laughs, he drops it and that’s the entire episode.

So, my questions are, how many of these "bi guy" sequences are there in straight films? And I have to wonder, how do straight boys watching a "vanilla porn flick" react when a "bi guy" scene unexpectantly springs up?

Now that’s something I’d like to hear about.