the whole shebang

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:  please make me lesbian #17 [scene 1] performers:  prinzzess, harmony wonder site:  girlfriends films production credits:  b. skow (dir.) trailer l: prinzzess, r: harmony wonder another week, another first scene from a girlfriends dvd originally released in 2018 but not put online until today. this is the only time all month we've been graced with an appearance from girlfriends' only contract star, prinzzess. she's been doing precisely this kind of scene for over a decade, and could do it in her sleep. i'm not convinced she didn't do it in her sleep this time. harmony wonder, who i suggested was less memorable than cecilia lion in the scene she shared with her earlier this month, acts rings around her as a, uh, college student who doesn't want to go study abroad because she has a crush on her dorm mother (?), prinzzess. at least until the sex starts, when harmony plays the younger woman almost exclusively in terms of whimpers. if t...

scene title:  we tease together performers:  abigail mac, ella knox site:  we live together  ◅  reality kings (mindgeek) production credits:  none listed trailer l: abigail mac, r: ella knox in some ways this could be seen as a spiritual sequel to abigail mac's scene a few weeks back with kendra spade for mofos: two women putting on a performance of lesbian sexuality for an inadequate boyfriend at the other end of the video recording. but although thematically it's the same, psychologically it's the inverse: rather than taunting the unseen boyfriend with how much better abigail is at pleasing her, as kendra did, ella is doing it as a tease and an invitation to up his game. there's probably something more honest about girl/girl porn that explicitly invites the male gaze; performers who declare themselves to be bisexual are frequently candid about getting off to turning men on by interacting with women. my kneejerk discomfort (a common one a...

scene title:  hog wild performers:  natalie mars, riley reyes site:  ts pussy hunters  ◅  kink production credits:  sadie lola (dir.) trailer l: riley reyes, r: natalie mars well, huh. i've had to wrestle before with how to evaluate scenes which are very much not my thing (anal, squirting, and pseudo-incest don't do much for me, but i've seen enough of each that i can distinguish between the mediocre and the great), but i've never had to figure out how to talk about something so far out of the realm of being my thing i didn't even know it was anybody's thing. so i want to tread lightly here. the specific fetish is, i guess, dehumanization. riley reyes plays a woman whose car has broken down and stops at a farm to ask for gasoline. farmgirl natalie mars instead chains her and turns her into a "piggie," giving her ears and a buttplug tail and stretching her nostrils with wire in imitation of a snout, cages her, puts her hands in synth...

scene title:  #difs performers:  adira allure, lasirena69 site:  girls gone pink  ◅  mofos (mindgeek) production credits:  none listed trailer l: lasirena69, r: adira allure i'd been waiting for the other shoe to drop, for mofos' girls gone pink brand to display just how soul-crushingly awful it can be, and here we go. but i want to be clear: very little of how terrible this scene was was the fault of the two performers at the center. adira allure and lasirena69 are new to porn as of this year, but they're already highly skilled professionals with excellent chemistry and maintain solid sexual enthusiasm despite the sophomoric bullshit surrounding them. because the scene is supposedly set in a dorm room among college students, and there are three men in the room (one of whom is holding the camera) before the two of them even arrive. a lot of girl/girl consumers have a hard-and-fast no dudes rule, and would rate this scene low or even disq...

scene title:  the watcher performers:  alexis fawx, kenzie reeves site:  sweetheart video (mile high) production credits:  ricky greenwood (dir.) trailer l: alexis fawx, r: kenzie reeves another sweetheart dvd begins its slow rollout here: older women younger girls #13, doing exactly what it says on the tin. this is kenzie reeves' fourth appearance this month, and third time being partnered with significantly older, taller women, which only makes sense: her diminutive stature and small frame make her one of the most in-demand pseudo-teen performers. her role here as the neighbor's daughter spying on alexis fawx as she bathes demands little from her in terms of acting; i'm not sure she even has a line of dialogue before the sex begins. it's alexis, with an extensive opening voiceover and patient solo sequence, who is the real star of the scene. the protracted sequence in which kenzie and alexis both masturbate to the thought of each other, sup...

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:  milf book club massage performers:  ryan keely, aiden starr, crystal rush site:  all girl massage  ◅  fantasy massage (gamma) production credits:  billy visual (dir.), fistopher nolan (scr.), willy balsh (ed.) trailer l: crystal rush, c: aiden starr, r: ryan keely it's probably perverse of me to give this scene my highest rating of any allgirlmassage scene so far this month when it was undoubtedly the most widely criticized and disliked by the network members who rated and commented on it. (to be fair, it is also the most liked scene of the month; but the like-to-dislike ratio is lower than on any scene not featuring a person of color.) the polarizing element is, as you might guess from the screengrab, aiden starr, whose porn career has been long and distinguished but who has transitioned into mostly behind-the-camera positions as the years have gone on and her waistline has thickened. i'm all for a greater diversity of body ...

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...

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scene title:  easter egg-gasm performers:  scarlett sage, shyla jennings site:  all her luv (missax) production credits:  missa x (dir., ed., scr.) trailer l: scarlett sage, r: shyla jennings if the last allherluv scene was the most complex, emotionally mature, and dramatically complete scene we've seen all month (thanks to writer-director whitney wright), this piece of holiday-themed fluff is entirely its opposite: a silly premise featuring two women playing well under their actual age, with no particular shape to the story, no narrative payoff to several seeds planted, or any complex emotions at all. which is fine: not every porn scene needs to be in contention for the palme d'or, and scarlett sage and shyla jennings are probably the two girl/girl stars most suited to playing up a silly premise with no real acting, but a great deal of sexual enthusiasm, necessary. what their relationship is supposed to be is never spelled out in the scene, bu...

scene title:  deuces are wild performers:  carter cruise, jayden cole site:  hot and mean  ◅  brazzers (mindgeek) production credits:  none listed trailer l: jayden cole, r: carter cruise two girl/girl all-stars in a ridiculous high-concept scene for one of the few studios that reliably shoots ridiculous high-concept scenes in a compelling way? yes please. this could easily have been a twistys scene rather than a brazzers one, and the two leads playing poker competitors with a reason to hate each other at the beginning is the only reason it slots into the hot and mean theme. otherwise, in terms of lavish decor, radiant lighting, stylized costuming, and classy camerawork, it looks very much like a traditional glamour scene rather than the broader, sitcommy style brazzers is known for. not that i'm complaining, just noting a visual discrepancy as it occurs to me. the premise of the scene, a tense poker showdown in which jayden accuses carter...

scene title:  women seeking women #152 [scene 4] performers:  serene siren, carolina sweets site:  girlfriends films production credits:  b. skow (dir.) trailer l: carolina sweets, r: serene siren the second b. skow-directed girlfriends release i've watched every installment of this month, and possibly the best scene i've gotten from him (and from the studio) all month. none, or almost none, of that is due to his work: most of it is due to serene siren and to a lesser extent carolina sweets. it's worth taking a moment to look back on the entirety of women seeking women #152, which (like many or even most girlfriends releases is really two entirely different stories told across two scenes each, packaged together for no particular reason other than that dvd sales are the only thing the company really understands). the first half, with ella knox and jenna foxx as the employees of elexis monroe and ryan keely, started strong but went nowhere; the second...

scene title:  we like girls: cadence and serena performers:  cadence lux, serena blair site:  we like girls ◅ girlsway (gamma) production credits:  bree mills (dir.), clit eastwood (ed.) trailer l: serena blair, r: cadence lux this is the fifth entry in the we like girls project, one of several original series bree mills is producing for adult time, gamma's attempt to create a netflix-style porn destination with high-quality content, a vast licensed back catalog, and entries in every major porn genre. because it's girl/girl it falls under the girlsway umbrella, but traditional girlsway fans are mostly turning their noses up at it: they want the shitty stories and lame acting, they don't want to see the girls talk to the camera or see behind the scenes as the camera crew and makeup artists get them ready. they want fantasy, and they think that seeing the director interact with the performers kills the fantasy. so what do i think? i think it's ...

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:  easter treat yourself performers:  nicole aniston, katana kombat site:  when girls play  ◅  twistys (mindgeek) production credits:  none listed trailer l: katana kombat, r: nicole aniston the last time katana kombat appeared here, she was in charge of the scene with kenna james; this time the roles are reversed, as nicole aniston takes confident charge here and directs the action in smart and engaging ways. i haven't taken much opportunity over the years to enjoy nicole aniston's work (partly because she primarily does boy/girl), but she's a classic old-school pornstar, familiar with her angles and professional to the hilt. the very slight premise is wholly unconvincing, and even a bit nauseating, as the two of them enact a fluffy fantasy of simpering femininity that at least has the decency to be silent (set to dorky electronica) and brief. why two grown women would be undertaking this silly holiday ritual is a question so i...