Serena, in probably her first starring role, is the title character Melanie Rogers, who defies her husband and decides to go to work, getting a job in a massage parlor. Film makes hay with the comic antics of her interactions with the customers there, while remaining highly erotic -achieving a good balance.
Key subplot is her husband's worker at his gas station, the lovely Brandy Saunders, having the hots for her boss. She challenges him to have sex with her if in fact she can prove that wife Melanie is cheating on him, leading to a hilarious and still-novel scene of him catching Melanie in flagrante delecto.
What makes this film so unusual is that it skirts the line separating softcore from hardcore cinema, at a time (1975) when the two were quite distinct forms, from an exhibition and distribution point-of-view. At the massage parlor we are shown hand jobs, there is a suggestion of actual sex scenes (fellatio) but always out of camera range, but the coup de grace occurs in the fateful "ah-hah!" scene.
Steve Rogers bursts into the room from his hiding place to confront Serena and not only does he dramatically display an erect penis, but it is bobbing and dripping (semen?) in the frame. This most unusual shot is quite a shocker, especially in a softcore film, and puts MSW in a category all its own.
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