On the Couch: Volume 1 & 2

7/15/2022

Tom Bianchi interviews and photographs over a dozen homosexual men in their altogether, digging into their collective psyche to uncover their innermost fears and fantasies- and to watch them have sex. The DVD set consists of two volumes. Volume One is San Francisco, where Bianchi has his models pleasure themselves on a couch in his home. The men are not models, and the men discuss their sexuality. Volume Two takes place in Toronto, where a bed-and-breakfast's love seat carries on with the "on the couch" motif. He has a shoot with four men at once, and becomes part of a shoot with a slave-like subject. Both discs run about three hours total, and I wished for something different as soon as the first disc began. The viewer is mislead into thinking this is going to be a behind-the-scenes