A mysterious porn production company called Equus ground out several films at the end of the '70s -various Sharon Kane starrers plus this forgotten mistake on the lake. They simply proved the axiom: "garbage in, garbage out".

As "The Girl from Ipanema" pointlessly plays on the soundtrack, we're introduced to Marisa, a buxom shrink who's pouring her heart out to her shrink, very creepy old Karl. We see her anecdotes unfold in typical porn vignette form.

First up is her lamentable encounter with patient Albert, a 29-year-old bookkeeper, about to get married. He's had erection problems for the past four months, so Marisa gives him a physical exam, quickly segueing to fellatio with Albert's big cock.

Several sexual positions later (revealing Marisa's very un-shrink-like Frederick's of Hollywood underwear), he ejaculates on cue -problem solved! Back in the present, Karl is masturbating under his desk out of Marisa's sight as she confides in him. He approves of her seemingly unprofessional behavior with Albert.

Next day Marisa relates another flashback: a beautiful hooker named Sandra visits her at her home for a consultation. That generates an embedded flashback: the hooker has a strange experience with a young john (played by future superstar Richard Pacheco, only recognizable face in the cast).

This scene has all the hallmarks of "le cinema bad": dirty feet, whirring camera motor noise, dog barking (not part of the film unit) on the soundtrack, and mechanical sex. The anonymous director emphasizes annoying, too tight extreme closeups. Very lengthy sequence finally makes a point, when Sandra announces "you're the only man who's ever made me come".

Coming out of her flashback, she cries to Marisa, noting she'll never see him again. Marisa comforts her before a roaring fireplace with lesbian sex.

Back in the office now that Marisa's flashback is over, Karl's still busy jerking off under his desk, predictably rationalizing Sandra's unethical behavior once again.

Marisa recalls a married couple, who complained to her of Sammy's sex compulsion. He keeps humping wife Sharon for hour after hour, sometimes four times a day, without ever ejaculating. Obviously they've come to the right shrink.

Marisa watches them having sex, sucking on her pen pensively and masturbating. (Alert to IMDb's king of Folding cinema Ted: the video viewer is at home watching porn masturbating as shrink Karl (implicitly) masturbates watching shrink Marisa masturbate. I think I need a shrink.) 

Big surprise, as Marisa joins them for troilism in a hectic sex scene, eventually evoking Sammy's desired eruption with a hand job. The hack director is so pleased he shows this money shot over & over again before segueing back to Karl's office.

Enough is enough, so Karl stands up and shows Marisa his erect cock. Soon he's balling her with special attention to anal sex, though the insert closeup shows him penetrating her vagina instead. The bald old coot, who's built like a concentration camp resident, hams up his fake orgasm -a verbal one since we don't get to see any money shot.

Ultra-corny ending has him announcing "We better make it twice a week from now on" to patient Marisa.

This piece of junk is very badly made, the epitome of filler. Something Weird resurrected it on Vol. 122 of its Dragon Art Theatre series, but I doubt that anyone but a completist like yours truly will ever bother to watch it. And I hope no one ever books it on a revival double bill with MY COUSIN VINNY.

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