Type of Site: Lesbian
Address: www.twilightwomen.com 
Price: 
$30/month
Date of Review: 
May, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

Our first impression of this site was that it was very similar in approach to Cinema Erotique. What we mean by that is: independent feature film-making with an artistic edge, definitely setting itself up as something different than, even aesthetically and philosophically opposed to, mainstream porn, and using natural-looking, woman-next-door type models instead of the usual glamour girls. Not surprisingly, both sites also come with manifestoes. Twilight Women's tells us that their goal is to focus on character development and conflicted sexuality (i.e., shame and submission, within a lesbian context). "In a word, drama."

Well, we are all for more drama in our porn around here, so this really appealed to us. Unfortunately, the site only partially lived up to its own billing.

The content is all video. There are no picture galleries or even vidcaps aside from the handful of thumbnails that come with each scene. The video all comes from a line of movies directed by "Div Fore," a name we've never heard of (and Googling didn't help). The updates that are being added (and they seem to be coming every few days) are scenes taken from these movies. Note however that a "scene" can run upwards of an hour in length. There were two main features being sampled when we visited: Lesbian Seduction (four scenes) and House of Shame (two scenes). There were also 12 "selected scenes" that hadn't been incorporated into any larger sequence yet. The total running time for this collection was 12 hours. Upcoming features included a 1950s-style movie and something to do with vampires.

What kind of movies are these? Not your usual girl-girl stuff. For one thing, the action is very slooooooooow moving. Expect a lot of build-up, and then a lot of rubbing and hugging and kissing rather than non-stop pussy-eating and strap-on fucking. You can call it psychological power trading, but we just found it romantic. We figure the slow build-up is where most of the "drama" is supposed to be coming from, though it's hard to tell because there's so little talking going on. Seriously, it's like some of these girls think they're in a library. We found this really frustrating, and weird. There are little written descriptions of what's supposed to be happening, but there were plenty of times we couldn't figure these out at all. Or even who the different characters were. This makes character development kind of hard. There's just not enough context presented for what's happening. Was that part cut out? Or was it ever in? It's hard to tell.

That's not to say it doesn't work. There are some really great couplings here. At the top of the list of the stuff we saw was a scene between Alexi and Zille (who can also be seen at cyberdyke.net). Now there's a couple with real chemistry! However, other scenes had us scratching our heads, starting off slow and not really going anywhere.

As for the production, it's . . . different. For all the credited professionalism (the opening credits for the different scenes run over a minute), it has an oddly amateur look. We suspect that was what they were aiming for. Focus sometimes comes and goes. The lighting can be atmospheric (like the darkness in a sauna scene), but can also be glaring or too dark. Sound is rough. At least there's no music, but occasionally you have simple incidental background noises magnified to the point where they sound like major distortion. And the colours all seem kind of washed out.

Video quality is weird too. There's no choice in formats. Everything is mpeg. A high bit-rate, but for some reason formatted for a small screen size (320x240). At least you can take it up to fullscreen without a lot of distortion.

Like any site that's trying to do something different, this is a hard one to give a grade too. Basically, if you want to see professionally produced, original movies of amateur, natural women and authentic "dykes" making out, then it could be for you. But: (1) it's expensive (Cinema Erotique is still only charging $10 for its erotic experimentation); (2) the presentation is just average; and (3) at least for us, it didn't really deliver on most of its promise of "drama." We're sure there are people out there who will like it a lot more than we did. And people who will like it a lot less. This ain't Sapphic Erotica, Lesbo Machine, or We Live Together. Just know what you're getting into.

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