Black Venus and Lady Libertine are the debut DVD releases of a company called Private Screening Collection. Their initial films are both productions that Towers did on behalf of the Playboy Channel over twenty years ago. Private Screening Collection has two more Towers produced Playboy Channel films scheduled for November. Both films are polished productions that almost look like what would happen if Merchant-Ivory made soft core erotica. Both films boast literary sources, Lady Libertine from the anonymous Edwardian era narrative, while Black Venus gives credit to that chronicler of hot lesbian couplings and group sex, Honore de Balzac.

The films themselves are not really meant for serious analysis. Black Venus has the advantage of having the more attractive Josephine Jacqueline Jones, Miss Bahamas 1979, as the star. The film was directed by the filmmaker also known as Frederic Lansac, best known for his film Pussy Talk. The DVD cover for Lady Libertine features future French TV hostess Sophie Favier on the cover. Jennifer Inch as "Frank" does not disguise her feminity with that Dutch Boy hair cut, and is otherwise less alluring than the other female cast members. As the story is about a man who takes in who he thinks at first is a runaway boy, there is a homoerotic aspect to the story that the filmmakers, pardon the pun, skirt.