Here's a nice network of sites that took us, frankly, a bit by surprise. And this time it was a pleasant surprise. 

Mainly because we weren't expecting too much given the layout. But now we're getting ahead of ourselves a bit . . .

This review has to serves as a kind of overview, since the 8 sites we're talking about are all part of the same package membership deal. They all feature the work of someone named George Picasso. Can't tell you much about him because there's no "About" page. Anyway, all the sites are set up the same way and they share a lot of the same characteristics so we can basically cover them all at the same time in this review. For some reason there is no single-access main page or hub site covering the whole network. You have to join one of the individual sites. But rest assured your membership will be good for all. We'll get to Sybian World in just a bit, but first some general comments.

The presentation is kind of crude. There are a lot of typos and empty links. The thumbnailing for the videos is shitty. There are no photo galleries. Well, we did find one. But it only had 10 pics in it and they were really small. The video is almost all in QuickTime (on Perfect D we did find a Windows Media option for one movie, but that was it). The videos are also broken down into short clips around 2-5 minutes long, and you don't often get the option to download full movies (though, again, there are exceptions here and there). Other times they have some text asking you to click for full video download but these weren't linked to anything.

There's nothing much in the way of extras. No extras or licensed/third party content. The FAQ page is just customer service. There's a Forum link but it doesn't work. As noted, there's no About page telling you what's going on. You do get some brief comments from George to go with each shoot. Sometimes these are kind of funny (see below), but more often they are just blurbs like "I was very lucky!", "Nina 29 and a piece of ASS!", or "All I will say about Tiffany is that she is a piece of ASS! WOW!" Alas, this last comment is appended to Greta's download page. Poor Greta. She just can't compete with Tiffany even when it comes to her pocket blurb.

As far as the movies are concerned, they are both good and bad. The "bad" is the generally fixed camera position, the lack of editing, the crude sets (usually consisting of a blanket thrown on the floor), and the fact that George is both cameraman and male talent and he doesn't show his face. This can be pretty awkward, as you might imagine. And sticking with the "bad", we also downloaded one corrupt file that wouldn't play. Boo-fucking-urns.

The "good" is the attractiveness of the models themselves, the frequent use of oil (why don't more porn producers use oil? It looks so hot), and the fact that since George is shooting everything himself it is all exclusive. 

Another issue worth mentioning is the update schedule. As in we're not sure what it is. Some of the sites seem to be updating, but others appear to be dead. Overall it looks like they're still adding content maybe twice a week across the whole network. Which isn't too bad. 

Here's the line-up. All links are external:

Sybian Lounge: there were 42 models up here when we visited and we're not sure if it's updating at all anymore. It might have been superseded by Sybian World, since the two sites feature the exact same kind of content.

Butt Lounge: also known as Butt Girls or Great Butts. Only 13 girls on tap. The action here includes anal fingering, toy-play, and anal sex.

Just-A-BJ: there were about 65 girls here. The fact that George doesn't show his face means he doesn't return any oral favours. How unkind.

Her-Sweet-Hand: "a site dedicated to the art of stroking." And we're not talking ego either. In other words: handjobs. But there's also some occasional blowjob and straight sex action as well. Nearly 200 girls here!

Perfect D: girls with more up top. About 120 girls here, mostly just lying back on the blanket and masturbating.

N My Face: no extra points for the stupid name of this one. Believe it or not we had to actually stop and think about it for a minute before we thought we'd e figured it out. We thought it was a facial site. But it's not. What it is is "in your face" close-up masturbations stuff. We actually found it kind of disappointing. It's not really extreme close-up, and it's the same kind of toy-play a lot of the sybian movies end in anyway. So we didn't think it was all that necessary.  Only 14 girls here.

Her Sweet Feet: footjob videos, or "the art of foot stroking" (meaning stroking George's dick with their feet, not George stroking their feet--like we said, the action all goes one way here). Lots of nylons. Doesn't seem to be too lively. We checked out the Updates page and it says they launched October 2005, then updated November 2005, and then nothing for the three months after that. So we're not sure how many more models you're likely to see beyond the 8 they had up when we visited. One odd thing about this site though was that they had Full Video Downloads for all of the movies. Why here and nowhere else?

Which brings us back to Sybian World.

Sybian World features real girls riding the famous masturbation machine to orgasm. Or not, if they don't happen to be in the mood. Sometimes it happens. One thing we have to give George a lot of credit for is his honesty. If a shoot just doesn't work, he lets you know. Get a load of some of his comments: "To be totally honest Andrea was terrible," "So you think it's easy to get a good sybian? Here ya go . . . one of the worst ever. 9 minutes of unedited truth." And here is our personal favourite, coming from Her Sweet Feet: 

"To be honest I was crazy for Petty, until I agreed to let her work with her boyfriend. She said that in private he really gets off with her feet. I am always nervous with boyfriends because it never works out good. Well as usual I am right and this was a disaster to the extent of 4 hours and 2 viagra. I was fuming after he took another one saying it would help him. This is the whole unedited session. There was so much I did not film because it was just horrible. I just wanted to show everyone it's not easy sometimes."

Oh George, we can relate.

In fact sometimes things get so bad with the Sybian that he has a page of "Rejects" (last updated July 2004) for girls who just can't perform:

"Ok, maybe I should not call these rejects. This is footage that we will say goes on the cutting room floor. I am trying to show people that this is not easy and not every girl that says she is comfortable and likes to have real orgasms is really honest. Fortunately I do not have many of these, some people are just not comfortable by themselves. Some of the girls that you will see in this section have gone on to do other things for me. THANK GOODNESS . . . "

We actually watched a couple of these. Incredible. The girls just look like they're falling asleep on the fucking thing. It's tragic. However, having said that, the girls who do like it, like it a lot.

At Sybian World you get 140 models, and they do appear to be adding a new one every week or 10 days (you can check the update page on the tour and see if they're keeping up). Most of the scenes begin with a brief "interview" (if they can speak English) and end with a quick masturbation clip. Our main crack against the site (aside from the general comments we made above) is that the Sybian itself isn't that exciting a piece of equipment. And it's not easy to film, unlike those whacky inventions they have over at Fucking Machines. Basically the girl is sitting on the thing, which means you're never going to see much. So instead George spends a lot of time pouring oil over the girls and filming