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Meat Packing: Director's Cut
Rating: 3 Stars
Directed by Mark Sohl. No additional technical credits provided. Starring Dawson, Brad McGuire, Andy Hunter, Jerek, Austin Shadow, Josh Buchanan, Tom McCarthy, Kirk Nadir, Seth Scott, and Matt Walker
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Addressing the 1998 World Pornography Conference, Treasure Island Media's founder Paul Morris advocated covering the whole queer sexual gamut-- "from innocent to depraved, from life-affirming to death-enhancing"-- with documentary candor. True to that mission, Meat Packing celebrates unconstrained sex. Its top-billed model is Dawson, the go-for-broke bottom whose handsome face and capacious bum have enhanced such descriptively titled Treasure Island features as Cumsloppy Butthole and Dawson's 50-Load Weekend. Shot on Fire Island, this production follows last year's Meat Rack, in which Dawson explored the eponymous stretch of woods between Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove.

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I>Meat Packing starts with Dawson welcoming a squishy condomless fuck administered by Brad McGuire, who pushes his big, veiny cock inside his partner's rectum as he starts to ejaculate, then pulls out, then pushes in again. Once Dawson has licked the excess spooge off his dick, McGuire stoppers the jizz-filled star with a butt plug attached to a hose, and segues into a raunchy piss-enema wallow. There are at least ten sex sequences: Meat Rack interludes in which the bottom-boy is slender, insatiable Jerek; impromptu poolside footage capturing frisky models unaware (at first) of being filmed; some casual piss-play sessions; and a gang-bang finale.

In the one indoor segment-- the only scene resembling a standard porn loop-- Andy Hunter, star of Chi Chi LaRue's Oral Exams, makes his bareback debut, topping pliant young Josh Buchanan. Since LaRue has vowed not to hire models who perform unprotected anal sex on-screen, Hunter presumably won't be working again with gay porn's über-diva in the foreseeable future. (If LaRue blacklisted every model who had condomless sex off-screen, of course, his/her production company Rascal Video might fold.)

Bareback fucking and other dicey practices aren't just shown here, they're ostentatiously fetishized-- sometimes with a self-consciousness inconsistent with Treasure Island Media's freewheeling, pseudo-objective style. At its best, Meat Packing shows an absence of inhibition soaring toward ecstasy. The exuberant, vocal action will enthrall some viewers and infuriate others. "Fucking shoot your big fucking seed right up in there!" Dawson seethes. The moment is at once erotic, funny, edgy, and disturbing-- "life-affirming" and "death-enhancing" all at once-- and therefore, for some viewers, hard to sort out. But releases like Meat Packing serve as calls to get one's priorities straight. In the end, each viewer must decide for himself at what point personal freedom may supersede personal safety.