the whole shebang

scene title:  dp'ed by her mistress performers:  chrissy fox, wendy moon site:  house of taboo  ◅  ddf network production credits:  none listed trailer l: chrissy fox, r: wendy moon well, that's an unpleasant note to end on. note i didn't say it was bad, just unpleasant. in fact there were some things i liked about this scene: i always appreciate a strong bdsm performance (i might feel differently if bdsm was as common in girl/girl as men dominating women is in boy/girl), and some of the photography was quite beautiful. wendy moon's performance as a silky domme, even in broken english (both performers are czech, and regulars in europe's extreme fetish scenes), was quite nice. and that's it. what i couldn't stomach was chrissy fox's performance of utter terror and abjection. (it was a superb performance, which is part of why i disliked it so much.) maybe that means i don't actually like bdsm, just light vanilla kink; but every yes ...

scene title:  girls night in performers:  amber d, julia rain site:  viv thomas (metart) production credits:  sandra shine (dir.), frank mirror (ed.) trailer l: amber d, r: julia rain perhaps the slightest and least compelling of sandra shine's directorial efforts for the vivthomas brand this month. it's beautifully shot, but even by the story-free standards of the site the intro is lackadaisical: houseware-porn closeups of amber d preparing popcorn for a tv night, then she sits down on a couch and pretends to watch tv, julia rain joins her, the popcorn goes everywhere, julia plucks it out of amber's nightie, they kiss. maybe if either of them demonstrated a scintilla of personality it might be more engaging, but they're both very new (their only previous credits seem to have been for sexart in the past month) and although they perform sex perfectly adequately (sandra shine can nearly always be relied on for that), their total lack of communica...

scene title:  long hair stunning babes in heels performers:  andreina deluxe, lexi dona site:  lesbea  ◅  sexyhub (really useful) production credits:  none listed trailer l: lexi dona, r: andreina deluxe it's hard not to feel as though every site is just pushing its least notable stuff out at the end of the month, even though i know intellectually that of course the scheduling doesn't work that way. anyway, here's the last thing we're seeing from lesbea in april, and it has all of lesbea's faults that we've seen throughout. it has most of its virtues too, but to the usual mediocre effect. we saw czech lexi dona with ukrainian josephine jackson for lesbea a couple weeks ago, and she's back with colombian andreina deluxe, who is much newer and less experienced in girl/girl but not very shy about it. their similar body types, including long waterfalls of dark hair, and almost total lack of discernable personality make the scene relatively sam...

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:  perfect sense performers:  arian, olivia sin site:  sexart (metart) production credits:  andrej lupin (dir.), john sweet (ed.) trailer l: arian, r: olivia sin and we say goodbye to sexart with this entry. april 2018 hasn't perhaps been the best showcase of the site's girl/girl strengths: a lot of diminishing-returns sequels, relatively few of the big european stars who can be relied upon for memorable scenes, little of the visual experimentation that makes the site a must-follow despite the relative paucity of output (at least from a girl/girl perspective). i suspect that metart is beginning to feel the competition from other big euro-heavy brands, including the porndoe collective and greg lansky's sites, and trying to continue to distinguish themselves without spending that kind of money. this scene, at least, is classic sexart: stylishly filmed in andrej lupin's signature chiaroscuro, no dialogue (except a few murmured expressio...

scene title:  coffee and kisses performers:  adora rey, ginger mary site:  viv thomas (metart) production credits:  xanthus (dir.), anna mary (ed.) trailer l: ginger mary, r: adora rey apparently this is director xanthus's debut on viv thomas, as well as both models'. adora rey, the blonde, has a few more credits (all 2019), but this looks like ginger mary's only shoot to date. they are both latvian, and ginger in particular looks so young that i feel uncomfortable watching them. the narrative is a slender thread: they wake up in each other's arms, adora gets up naked, brews coffee, brings it back to bed, they sip it naked and kiss and eventually the coffee gets put on the windowsill and they move through leisurely positions. there is not a scintilla of personality that flickers in either of their faces, and the occasional whimper is all the vocalizing either of them ever do. the sex never rises above the level of mechanical (ginger in particul...

scene title:  4 on 1 lesbian gangbangs #04 [scene 2] performers:  victoria puppy, angel piaff, tina kay, claudia macc, lilu moon site:  doghouse digital (mile high) production credits:  kk (dir.) trailer l to r, standing: claudia macc, victoria puppy, lilu moon, angel piaff, c: tina kay i disliked the first installment in this series so much that this was bound to be an improvement, if only because the woman at the center of the gangbang is tina kay, who is british and so has no problem verbalizing her enjoyment of the proceedings in detailed and continuous english. perhaps thanks to her example, the rest of them (the czech puppy, piaff, and macc and the russian moon) also do plenty of talking, with the result that there's more chemistry flying around this set in the first ten minutes than there was for the entirety of daphne klyde's session. which doesn't mean i loved it. my objections to the format and genre expectations of the four-strapon...

scene title:  whore - lazy room performers:  paula a, emily j site:  sexart (metart) production credits:  paul black (dir.) trailer paula a once more, we're pushing against the limits of what can reasonably be called a girl/girl scene. the two performers who appear in this never share the screen and have quite possibly never met. both of them are from latvia, although paula (who is filmed directly) has only been doing erotic modeling since 2016; emily (who only appears on phone and laptop screens putting on a sex show for paula; her whole face is never shown here) has been doing erotic modeling and very occasionally pornography since 2012. this is a sequel of sorts to a black-and-white 2017 sexart film called "whore - the day after" featuring emily and an anonymous male performer, also by director paul black and producer ilona black. emily's name is only given as "whore" in paula's messages with her, apparently as a nod. is it a girl/gi...

scene title:  busy day performers:  jozephine jackson, kinuski site:  sapphic erotica production credits:  none listed trailer l: jozephine jackson, r: kinuski i have perhaps been unfairly harsh on sapphicerotica in these reviews. my distaste for scenario-free or scenario-light porn, my general lack of sympathy with the wordless european style of gentle interaction with little passion or personality, and especially my demand for visual language that heightens the mood rather than simply showing what's happening, all mean that the bland literalism of the site does nothing for me and at times even actively repels me. i'm not sure i'd go so far as to say i'm converted into a sapphicerotica apologist, but this scene, despite its many flaws, at least points to a few things they can be capable of getting right. the set is dull and generic, the couch one of those terrible squeaky ones that would be an audio engineer's nightmare if any such person ever cam...

scene title:  sugar mommy performers:  franny, sarah cute site:  old young lesbian love  ◅  21sextreme (gamma) production credits:  none listed trailer l: franny, r: sarah cute boy, this was just an interminable slog. i was fine with the last oldyounglesbianlove scene. i mean i didn't love it or give it a high score, but i didn't actively despise it. this one i did. comparing the two screengrabs for each scene gives an indication as to why: katana and bibi pink were shot in muted tones with plenty of rich dark colors, while franny and sarah cute are shot in blown-out light with tacky, jaundiced coloring. the central performances were fine, but hardly distinctive enough to overcome the sickly visuals; sarah cute's voiceover intro (her english is quite good, among the best continental european performers' i've heard) was entirely pro forma, and i found the food play at the beginning revolting. (yeah, that's an entirely personal bugbear, and if ...

scene title:  beautiful sunset performers:  nancy a, hazel site:  ultra films production credits:  fredy riger (dir.) trailer l: nancy a, r: hazel well, folks, i don't know what to think of this one. i can only assume that there must have been some serious problems on the day of shooting, or perhaps it's an artistic european choice i'm too unsophisticated an american to grasp: but this is the first time i've ever seen a complete scene fade out just as the second round begins. it's also the first time i've seen a full round of fingering where the camera is focused on the receiver's face throughout without cutting back to the action. which is unusual enough that it raises automatic suspicions: she must be faking it, she has a yeast infection or some other issue that make filming her downstairs inadvisable, and so forth. i don't particularly demand to see genital contact (people, and the things you can see in their faces, interest me more th...

scene title:  playful pussy eating easter bunnies performers:  baby nicols, sabrisse site:  lesbea  ◅  sexyhub (really useful) production credits:  none listed trailer l: baby nicols, r: sabrisse it was just one day ago that i said we'd had the best shot-for-shot lesbea scene, but this is head and shoulders above that. it's still not top-shelf, because it's produced by really useful and they don't do top-shelf, but it's a lot of fun and looks as good as anything produced by any of the really high-gloss sites. this is czech performer sabrisse's third appearance this month, and i'm no closer to discovering any kind of personality than i was before watching one scene; her partner, baby nicols, is new to me, but is apparently venezuelan and puts in excellent, if just as anonymous, work. it's the second lesbea scene this month to open with a half-hearted pillow fight that turns to kissing within a minute, a quote-unquote narrative choice tha...

scene title:  4 on 1 lesbian gang bangs #04 [scene 1] performers:  daphne klyde, naomi bennet, victoria pure, antonia sainz, jenifer jane site:  doghouse digital (mile high) production credits:  kk (dir.) trailer l to r, standing: victoria pure, naomi bennet, jenifer jane, antonia sainz, c: daphne klyde one other reason i might have liked london river's gangbang so much is that i was already subconsciously comparing it to this, which i knew was coming up next, and which i could tell just from the preview images would be, for my purposes, unsatisfactory on every level. doghouse digital is mile high media's european sub-brand; best known for romantic, script-heavy imprints like sweet sinner and sweetheart video, mile high uses doghouse as a generic clearinghouse for mostly-gonzo, mostly-hardcore stuff that caters to particular fetishes. their girl/girl material in particular is exclusively either younger/older pairings or this kind of pointless n...

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:  weekend kitchen sex performers:  kim, kaisa site:  x-art production credits:  none listed trailer l: kim, r: kaisa speaking of mercifully brief. i wasn't sure x-art would show up this month. apparently there's been a change in ownership or something; they hadn't updated with a girl/girl scene for a several months. but then this popped up, and i wasn't sorry to have an example of yet another way in which euro glamour sites both infantilize girl/girl porn and make it dull. but i was pleasantly surprised. there's still almost nothing here: kim (usually credited as katy rose, experienced, czech) and kaisa (kaisa nord, new, russian) make a pretense of doing the dishes and talk inaudibly in english, then splash each other with water and that's a good enough reason to remove clothing and start feeling each other up. but the filmmaking was exceptional enough, and the action engaging enough, that my attention was held throughout. excelle...

scene title:  big tits babe with athletic darling performers:  josephine jackson, lexi dona site:  lesbea  ◅  sexyhub (really useful) production credits:  none listed trailer l: lexi dona, r: josephine jackson lesbea's variability strikes again. the performances are excellent, the camerawork depends a lot on the angle, the sex is both great and ridiculous, and the premise is nonexistent. shot for shot this is probably the best lesbea scene so far this month; if it still doesn't surpass the scenes featuring the afro-colombian boni, that's how my sjw points were designed to work. i never believed that the two performers, czech lexi dona and ukrainian josephine jackson (sometimes spelled jozephine; we saw her in a 21sextury threesome), had a reason to have sex beyond being paid for it on the day, but i believed that they thoroughly enjoyed the sex they had, despite at least one utterly absurd porn position. the fact that they vocally encourag...

scene title:  domination performers:  vanna bardot, gina gerson site:  als scan (metart) production credits:  none listed trailer l: vanna bardot, r: gina gerson the absolute low point in the metart empire, as far as my preferences are concerned, is alsscan. als stands for all ladies shaved, which was a dumb fucking selling point even at the site's height ten years ago; now it's just an exhausted trope, faux-teens with protruding pelvic bones using the same cheap plastic toys on each other in every scene, world without end. there's a market for it, obviously, but i'm not part of that market demo. i don't talk here about what gets me hard or wet, but from a purely aesthetic point of view the "teen" niche doesn't interest me and from an ethical point of view really skeeves me out. further, in isolation i don't care whether performers sport pubic hair or not (it's their body), but making "shaved" a selling point trips m...

scene title:  full of joy 2 performers:  eilin flame, julia rain site:  sexart (metart) production credits:  andrej lupin (dir.), ty rodriguez (ed.) trailer l: julia rain, r: eilin flame when the metart network finds new girls, they put them to work: i just reviewed ivy rein's second scene of the month for viv thomas, and her partner from the first scene, elin holm (credited as eilin or elin flame in the metart network because euro glamour sites are weird about letting the girls get too famous across platforms), makes her third appearance of the month here. her partner, julia rain, isn't familiar to me, but she appears to be brand-new anyway (her twitter profile was created april 2019) so that's not surprising. this is the second scene in a two-parter starring julia rain; the first was with a man, maximilian dior, who appears briefly in a previously-on here introducing julia to a compact vibrator. elin's discovery of the vibrator is the (very m...

scene title:  love is in the air performers:  ivy rein, sarah cute site:  viv thomas (metart) production credits:  sandra shine (dir.), frank mirror (ed.) trailer l: ivy rein, r: sarah cute there's little to say about sandra shine's third entry of the month, and second featuring russian newbie ivy rein. her hungarian partner here, sarah cute, seems to have more credits, but is also relatively new, so it was interesting to see ivy taking the, ahem, reins in their encounter; the last time i saw her, with elin flame, she was more passive. the photography remains exquisite, with a warmth and subtlety that functions as something of a rebuke to the more static and chillier vibe of the fox/veller team that is shine's primary competition at viv thomas. a yardwork montage over sentimental guitar plucks leads to perhaps the fakest bonking of heads i've ever seen when they both reach for the recycling; ivy kisses sarah's forehead to make it better, which ...

scene title:  yudi pineda: sinful nun performers:  ágata pons, amaranta hank site:  cum louder production credits:  none listed trailer l: amaranta hank, r: ágata pons i've never seen anything from the freemium site cumlouder before, but because this scene was released in april 2019, i've had to take a look; the production seems to be based out of spain, and the dialogue (when any) seems to be mostly in spanish. this scene had english subtitles until the sex started; amaranta hank as the mother superior continued to talk dirty in spanish, but the subtitles were gone. (i know enough spanish that i didn't miss them, but just for the record.) amaranta is a regular at cumlouder and has worked for several other european companies, while ágata pons (who plays the the titular novice) seems to have worked very little. i liked both their performances while never believing either of them for a second, but that may just be my soft spot for telenovela-style hei...