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20/20 |
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5/5 |
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The people behind one of the web's arguably best lesbian sites, Sapphic Erotica, has recently released their second site.
In Focus Girls, despite being pretty much brand new, is already well loaded with video and photo content, and scheduled for daily updates.
You'll recognize many of the gorgeous natural girls from Sapphic, but the themes are different at In Focus Girls - and more extreme. Solo masturbation with a range of toys (including anal and DP toys), peeing and last but certainly not least, plenty of lesbian fisting action. All performed with the same loving intimacy that made Sapphic Erotica stand out from bland run of the mill porn star crap.
In Focus Girls also severely trashes pretty much any porn site in terms of technical quality - going for full HD video (although with plenty of options for people not on high speed broadband connections).
(Read the full review below)
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Site info updated May 25 2009
| Pictures: |
671 photosets (Approx. 60-200 per set)
2000 and 1200 px resolution |
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692 videos (Approx. 10-25 minutes each)
Windows Media (wmv), QuickTime, Mpeg and Flash Player (streaming) available
Highest quality: wmv 1280x720, 4000 kbit
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1 month recurring: $/€29.95
2 months non-recurring: $/€49.95
3 months non-recurring: $/€59.95
6 months non-recurring: $/€89.95
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Update, May 25 2009
I'll once again make this a combined update of the sites from the Sapphic Erotica team, and start out by saying that Sapphic Erotica itself is just ticking along like clockwork, alternating between daily photo and video content updates.
I wrote a lot more about the content and the site in general in my August 2 2008 update, so let's move on to In Focus Girls and Only Cuties instead.
In Focus Girls and Only Cuties have also been piling on the content updates since my last proper look back in 2007, and both sites are now very large, Only Cuties is in fact now ahead of the several years older Sapphic Erotica in terms of video content (though OC has now also slowed down to alternating between photo and video updates, rather than both every day. Hardly a disaster for a site this huge though).
I still love their style of generally slow and intimate scenes with cute and sexy Eastern European girls - which now include, among many other reasonably new popular models, Lucy Belle (Lucile here, one thing I've never been fond of about these three sites is that they often use names different from the ones the models are now most commonly using), Zara, Cindy Hope (Klaudia), Blue Angel (Beatrice), Cherry Jul (alrigh, she's not really all that new, but she's hot as hell), Lauryn May (Kissy) and Angelika Black - although as I mentioned in my last Sapphic Erotica review update, repetitiveness is an issue, but I would argue that that's rather hard to avoid when you've got ~700-800+ videos (2,300+ if we count all three sites) within just a few niches, unless they were willing to break off entirely from their consistent style and throw in eg. harder types of solo and girl/girl sex.
But I have a feeling I'm not the only one who would find something like "Belladonna's Fucking Girls" DVD series rather out of place at Only Cuties or Sapphic Erotica.
There's also still that "problem" with Only Cuties arguably making In Focus Girls somewhat redundant, as OC has almost as much solo girl masturbation content as IFG, plus all the lesbian and hardcore b/g videos and photosets.
As mentioned before though, there's absolutely no content sharing between the sites (including Sapphic Erotica), so In Focus Girls is by no means a bad choice if you're only after masturbation content, and should you opt to join both, or all three sites, you'll obviously end up with a staggeringly large amount of really hot video and photo content (seeing these three sites together in a single $29.95 network at some point is probably too much to hope for though).
Overall all three are still fantastic sites - for first timers as well as for returning members. Although if you're in the last group don't expect anything but content volume, and perhaps the addition of some great new girls, to have changed.
I've added two points to the content volume score for Only Cuties, bringing the total score up to 97. And yes, given the potential issues regarding repetiveness and content "overlapping", some might argue that the extremely high scores for all three sites might be a few points too generous (just as the same could be said for many other sites I've reviewed), but as I've said in a few reviews before, my rating scale unfortunately proved a tad flawed and top heavy right from the start, leaving too little room for score nuances between the highest rated sites.
Unfortunately it's too late to fix that now without some major work, and that's not gonna happen with my limited schedule. So let's just leave it at "fantastic" for these three sites.
Update, October 17 2007
Sapphic Erotica, plus their two other newer sites In Focus Girls and Only Cuties (I'm doing a combined update for all three sites here), have been growing at the usual brisk pace since my last updates, and all three sites are - obviously - better than ever.
Sapphic Erotica remains my top choice among the many impressive lesbian sites out there, while In Focus Girls holds its own as one of the top solo masturbation (plus girl/girl fisting) sites and Only Cuties mixes a bit of both plus some hardcore guy/girl content.
On the slightly less positive side there have been some recent changes to the pricing structure for Europeans (which includes yours truly). Since I imagine the seemingly persistently weak US Dollar means we might be seeing more of that from other sites (at least those run by non-US companies), I decided to created a special info page about this subject - there's a link in the info box above.
With regards to Sapphic Erotica in particular, but almost certainly also In Focus Girls and Only Cuties (these two might have a bit more competition from other sites though), I very much feel that you still get way more than your money's worth from a membership whether you'll be paying in Euros or Dollars.
€29.95, around $42.50 at the time of writing, is objectively speaking still a bargain for around 100 (In Focus Girls and Only Cuties) to 190 (Sapphic Erotica) hours of extremely hot high quality video and tens of thousands of photos.
I expect these three sites to remain among the very best of their kind for quite a while to come - and I'll check in again once or twice next year to confirm that.
2nd look, January 25 2007
In Focus Girls was pretty much a brand new site when I wrote my original review in April, but starting out with around a hundred videos and photosets, seven weekly updates, hot masturbation and girl/girl fisting content and last, but certainly not least, full fucking fantastic looking HD video at 1280x720, 4000 kbit (plus a load of other lower options for those who can't stomach 300-400+ Mb downloads), this site was obviously firmly set on the right track.
Aside from raw volume - In Focus Girls is now at 263 videos and photosets - not much has changed. As I think I wrote in at least one of the other "2nd looks" I've been doing this week, it's not like there was much of a need for change though, so it's probably safe to say that In Focus Girls is just getting better, or at the very least larger, which is why I've added two points to the quantity score (and comparing it to some of the other sites in the masturbation category I guess you could argue for the last and third points as well).
With more content you've also gotten more beautiful ladies - most of them still East European hotties like on Sapphic Erotica, unless I'm much mistaken. The alphabetized model archive is slightly clunky with overlapping pages, so I couldn't be arsed to count each and every one of them, but I would estimate there are at least 40-50 girls now.
As I've mentioned in a few other reviews, the toys/masturbation niche has a number of downright spectacular sites, and In Focus Girls is most certainly one of them, but after having revisited FTV Girls the other day and also reviewing an extremely interesting site like ALS Scan a few months ago, the 98/100 score In Focus Girls is supposed to get now thanks to the extra quantity points, just doesn't seem quite right, despite those neat HD videos, the Eurohotties and all the other great things.
Don't get me wrong, In Focus Girls is one hell of a site and you shouldn't hesitate at all if you're intrigued at this point, it's just that in a direct comparison with particularly FTV Girls, the content at In Focus Girls might seem slightly more... don't really know what word I'm looking for here, "sterile" perhaps?
Nothing wrong with the masturbation, fisting, peeing, whatever action itself - but it's mostly more or less straight to the point, whereas at FTV Girls (and to a lesser extent at ALS Scan as well) you get some more interaction with the girls, whether with short interviews, apparing in several different locations (including public areas), seeing them put makeup on, trying out lingerie or sexy outfits, or chat or laugh with eachother if it's a two girl feature.
So I'm saying you should go with one of the two other sites if you want the best and hottest masturbation porn then? Nope, I can't really say that. I love all three sites, but for slightly different reasons.
I do admittedly feel that in a straight comparison, In Focus Girls should probably only get a 14/15 in entertainment value if the others are getting a 15/15, so for the first time in a second look I'm substracting a point. With the two added points to quantity the total score is however still kicked from 96 to 97/100, so a bad site it most certainly isn't.
Original Review
Many porn site companies run a number of sites, some of them so many that you rightfully got to ask yourself whether the quality can possibly keep up with quantity in the 50-500 site portfolio.
Other companies pour all their energy into just one or a few sites, and usually (only usually) the outcome is a much better product.
The people behind one of my all time favourite lesbian sites, Sapphic Erotica, is now ready with their second site.
With In Focus Girls they are not straying too far from what they know and very much seem to love - beautiful, natural, mostly teen babes (many if not most of them girls you'll recognize from Sapphic Erotica) having intimate and loving sex with each other (and on this site with themselves) rather than appearing to be putting on a show for the camera.
In Focus Girls is not a carbon copy of Sapphic Erotica though, so while the style of the content is quite similar on the two sites, the themes are different on In Focus Girls - and much more extreme.
Hardcore solo masturbation - usually with a range of toys, peeing and lesbian fisting (and a lot of it) are the main topics at In Focus Girls, and without exaggerating the least I'll go right ahead and say that if any site has the potential to give FTV Girls a serious run for its money in the hardcore masturbation department, In Focus Girls is definately it.
And if you add the many lesbian fisting and the (fewer) peeing scenes, you also have a site that is markedly different so you don't really end up with an either/or situation.
If you've taken a look at the site info box above you've probably also noticed that the company behind In Focus Girls once again beats the crap out of just about any other porn site in terms of technical quality, but I'll get back to that later.
For a new site, In Focus Girls starts out pretty well stocked - 109 videos and 109 photosets, and updates lined up to come daily, alternating between photosets and videos.
The site has a few neat features that makes locating your preferred videos and photosets easier - most notably an indexed model section along with a quite powerful search function that allows you to search on set type (anal, fisting, peeing, sybian etc.), location (bathroom, bedroom, garden etc.) and model features like hair color, breast size, shaved/trimmed etc.
I imagine those search features will prove quite useful, especially once the site has grown a bit larger.
Moving on to the actual content, the girls are as naturally beautiful as on Sapphic Erotica, and as mentioned, there are many names Eurobabe fans should recognize - Peaches, Jo, Zafira, Jackie, Paulina and Rene (yeah, I know, no last names, but if you've been surfing for porn for a while, chances are you'll know who I'm talking about).
Most of the videos are from around 10 to 20 minutes long - some a few minutes shorter and some closing in on 30 minutes, and all of them feature some incredibly hot solo or girl/girl sex. The solo scenes (and there are most of those) usually include dildos or other toys, and as mentioned there are also some peeing scenes for those that are into that sort of things (I'm kind of sitting on the fence on that one myself).
The girl/girl scenes aren't quite full blown lesbian scenes like on Sapphic Erotica, but rather one of the girls acting like an extremely attractive sex toy for the main babe in the scene. Or more specifically, her fist is taking on the job as sex toy. And personally I was quite delighted to see that my favourite babe from Sapphic Erotica, Jackie, is the one lending a hand in quite a few of the fisting scenes - just as she does in many of the fisting scenes at the other site.
(No sample photos available - member area screenshots used instead)
Most of the videos at In Focus Girls are accompanied by a photoset (there are some videos without photosets and vice versa), each of them consisting of somewhere between 60 and 150 photos, some as high as 250.
Now that we've established that the content is smoking hot and already very plentiful for such a new site, let's move on to the technical quality.
Apparantly they decided that the 940x560, 2000 kbit videos they've been using for a while at Sapphic Erotica wasn't pushing the boundaries quite far enough. Say hello instead to full 720p HD video - Windows Media format (wmv) 1280x720, 4000 kbit. That's pretty neat.
Along with an additional 852x480, 2000 kbit version, there are also lower quality mpeg and QuickTime versions available for people on slower connections, along with a couple of streaming Flash Player versions.
Photos look great as well. In fact, rather than "just" sticking with a 1200 px version (and a smaller 800 px version), they are also available in a huge 2000 pixels on the long side.
Photosets can also be downloaded in zip files.
So just how much did I like In Focus Girls? Well, let's put it this way. Once the temporary reviewer's login they were kind enough to provide me with expires in a couple of week, I'm running right out and getting myself a 90 or 180 day membership. This one goes straight to my personal favourites list - and not far from the top at all.
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