posted on the atlanta.creativeloafing.com site: Saturday I received a press kit from Hustler magazine containing Atomic Vixens: Escape from the Valley of the Sluts, an adult video featuring “the first-ever licensed soundtrack compiled of unsigned artists discovered on the popular Web destination myspace.com.” The idea that something owned by Fox would provide the soundtrack to something produced by Hustler was already enough to make me giggle. According to the press kit, the DVD will be available at video stores around the country including mainstream retailers such as Tower Records. With such distribution, I expected soft-core or pinup/tease material but when I put in the disc I was mildly surprised to find standard hard-core porn.

It starts off with some sci-fi story about terrorists taking over a moon base and threatening to level earthly cities with a laser unless they are granted control over all the earth’s women. The only group that can save us is the Atomic Vixens, who are introduced in a series of vignettes featuring various sexual acts. The backstory is all but abandoned, only showing up as narration behind goofy comic book-style graphics connecting the scenes, and the film never reaches a climax — at least not in relation to the lunar terrorists.

Some of the girls are pretty, but I found the cartoonish makeup and goofy sets to be a distraction to the action rather than spicing up otherwise typical porn. Director Ron Royste is quoted in the kit for Atomic Vixens as saying, “It took five straight weeks of listening to hundreds of bands, and finding 30 perfect songs, all from unsigned brilliant musicians!” Despite all those long hours of research, I can’t recommend this disc for its musical qualities any more than its visual ones. There are a few fun, lounge-style tunes but they’re mixed in with mediocre metal and pop in a haphazard way.

So why do I mention this somewhat unremarkable video? Because it arrived minutes before I headed out the door to catch the Atlanta Feminist Women’s Choir. And the contrast of watching porn full of imagery many feminists have rallied against just before I watched many feminists rallying together (in song) was too much to resist