the whole shebang

scene title:  anal play performers:  elin, nikolina site:  abby winters production credits:  giulia (dir.) trailer l: elin, r: nikolina i guess this demonstrates the perils of generalization. i don't care for amateur porn, i don't care for porn where no one says anything, i don't care for porn without any kind of setup or preamble... except when i do. not that i absolutely adored this scene. all the usual abbywinters flaws were there: bad camerawork, garish and unpleasant decor, awful lighting, endless yawning takes where nothing much is happening. but the two performances at the center, so intimate and involved that it hardly seems fair to call them performances, really worked this time. even though neither of them spoke more than two or three sentences all hour, and never above a murmur, their connection was strong throughout. checking the abbywinters website, this seems to be nikolina's first shoot, and only elin's second (i have no idea what th...

scene title:  tribbing performers:  manon, paulina site:  abbywinters production credits:  ursula (dir.) trailer l: paulina, r: manon i haven't noted in this space before that abbywinters (there never was anyone by that name in charge of the site, by the way), although it began life as an australian pseudo-amateur site, now shoots in europe, i believe primarily the netherlands. which is only notable because this is the first time this month we've encountered european performers: everyone else hitherto has been, according to their accents, north american. i don't know where manon and paulina are from; unlike the two previous pairings i've watched here, they spend almost no time in conversation, only using their words infrequently and hesitantly. (it doesn't sound like english is a first language for either of them.) to the extent that there's any kind of narrative, it's that paulina, who has a much more extensive history on the site, is show...

scene title:  facesitting performers:  sienna g, zina b site:  abbywinters production credits:  giulia (dir.) trailer l: sienna g, r: zina b the promise of amateur porn, that for a significant reduction in production value you get real, authentic, unmediated sex, is, quite apart from the truth of the claim, profoundly uninteresting to me. watching real, authentic, unmediated sex sparks in me not voyeuristic lust but an equally human reaction of regret at having intruded and an immediate desire to let these strangers alone to conduct their intimate business in the privacy they deserve. what i want out of porn is not authenticity, but entertainment: i want to be conducted by professionals through a fantasy. sienna and gina seem like very nice canadian women (i have no idea whether abby winters exclusively recruits their talent pool from canadians staying in amsterdam hostels, but it certainly seems that way), but i am no more eager to watch them have r...

scene title:  nipple to nipple performers:  danai, maely site:  abby winters production credits:  giulia (dir.) trailer l: maely, r: danai this is, to the best of my recollection, the first abbywinters video i've watched all the way through in more than twenty years of watching girl/girl porn. partly that's because i've never had much interest in "amateur" content, preferring to indulge the heightened fantasy of mainstream porn, fully aware of how unrealistic it is. but also it's because, as far as i could tell from my very cursory awareness of the brand for the past couple of decades, it was very white. so i was pleasantly surprised when the first girl/girl video posted to the site this month features a black woman. browsing through recent postings, it's not as lily-white as i remembered (or assumed), although i'd venture to say it's still very middle-class, in the way that a lot of bespoke, artisanal internet content is, because...