Before the contemporary Capitalist hit "Wheel of Pain" series, in which young women test their mettle in exchange for cash, there was the earlier four-part "Pain Factory" series of videos. Unlike the "Wheel of Pain", which accurately describes the main feature of the films right there in the title, in "Pain Factory" 1 through 4 there is no factory in which girls are subjected to pain; no industrial center, no Communist sweatshop, no steam-powered over-engineered hydraulic presses stamping screams from tortured female victims. Rather, just four films about curious and brave young women who randomly select rolled-up sheets of paper on which different physical tests involving bondage and pain are written. If they can get through the test on the paper, they earn money and are given the opportunity to draw another sheet of paper, working their way up the corporate ladder towards higher earnings and more pain. Each film has a good selection of candidates, but for the sake of brevity I'll only focus on the best and the brightest here. After all, hard work is its own reward, right?

Let's meet our first employee.

You may recognize her from other Mood Pictures and ElitePain films. She was a regular in the stable back in the day; a combination of girl-next-door looks, an innocent face, and a "I'm too pretty to be whipped" quality. So, of course, she's strung up and whipped, because that's the kind of workplace that's run at the Pain Factory. When her shift is through, she punches her time card and goes home.

But she's just the beginning of a long line of laborers. I will credit the ElitePain team on their casting. They did a good job in mixing seasoned pros with curious amateurs, each trying to earn as much cash as possible before reaching their physical limit, like this hottie from the first film.

But not all of the women are out for cash. Certainly, a little green is nice to have after putting in a hard day's work down at the Pain Factory, but some girls just want to add a little excitement to their day, and giving it a go to see if this might be a good career move. In the second film in the series, we're blessed with this young college intern, who has a sharp mind, a curious intellect, and a body built for hard physical labor.

She even seems to enjoy the hard work she has to put in. It builds character, right?

It's all fun and games until the whip finds her aroused clit, then things get serious. Very serious. She questions her career choice.

This film also has another pretty candidate who is interested in testing herself against the industrial patriarchy.

Let me say right now that she had the best responses to the whip. I loved the way her body moved as she twisted in her bonds. The task doesn't last as long as I would've liked (do they ever?) but she did deliver a great performance. If her whipping had lasted longer, she could've made Employee of the Film.

But alas, she didn't get far in redistributing the wealth.

The film ends with a red-haired worker who has been in other Elite Pain films. She was a steady worker in the Elite Pain stable and by the end of her run, she was looking pretty haggard. In this film, she takes on some very challenging assignments, including one that was so scary that not even the production assistants could bear to watch.

Hard work is its own reward, right?

And we're only half-way through the series.

The third film features a woman who, in the Mood Pictures film "Victimized" had one of the most intense scenes I've ever known Mood Pictures to produce. I won't spoil it here, but you'll want to pick up a copy of "Victimized" just to check it out for the psychological horror aspect of it, even if you aren't into canings on the ass. In the "Pain Factory" scene, we get a very good demonstration of what she's capable of handling, getting whipped on both her front and her back by a dom with some serious arm musculature, so you know it had to sting.

Even Max Lomp himself takes a crack at her.

I should state right here that there are actually a variety of tasks and positions involved, not just the standing spread-eagle pose. There's caning on the ass while bent over the spanking stand, pussy whipping while cuffed to the torture table, telephone cable whipping, assault with a dildo, and even pliers-to-the-nipples torture. But I love the standing spread-eagled between the poles position the most. Most women look best like that, and it offers up so many sensitive areas of the female body to torture.

One of my favorites from the third film is this raven-haired beauty, who, at the tender age of twenty, is curious to see how far she can go in her career choice.

She gets subjected to two nearly identical punishments – first the flogger, then the single-tail whip – to her thighs. I love her facial expressions; from playful giggle to shock and horror as the blows land against her tender feminine flesh. I also love that long, exotic hair. I guess it's because, back in my youth, I read the "Conan" novel "The Sword of Skelos" where a female character named Isparana is subjected to the whip in a dungeon. It's one of my favorite scenes, and this girl reminds me of exactly how I imagined Isparana would look - long raven-black hair that curled like the night wind, proud haughty breasts, and eyes that shined with intelligence and bearing – reduced to being stripped naked and strung up between two poles for her beating.

So good.

The fourth film is the weakest of the lot, in terms of quality of performer and quality of work output, and I've already put up quite a few pictures so I'll spare you clips from this film. I can only assume that by the end of the production run, the Pain Factory was running out of raw materials. Certainly the best and the brightest of the workers had been expended. There are some good scenes, but on the whole the other three offer better entertainment.