Abbywinters.com
Type of site | softcore pornsite |
|---|---|
| Owner | Garion Hall |
| Created by | "Abby Winters" AKA Garion Hall |
| URL | abbywinters.com |
| Registration | monthly fee |
Abbywinters.com is an Australian-based pornographic or erotic paysite, which specializes in lesbian and solo erotica of amateur female nude models. The site is noted for using all female shooting crews[1] and having collector-targeted content. Abbywinters.com is in the top 10,000 visited websites in the world according to Alexa traffic rankings, and as of January 2008 has about 30,000 subscribers.[2] The site has won several awards for online adult content, and in web reviews it has been noted for the quality of its images and commonly reviewed as one of the best amateur porn sites.[3][4]
Description of content
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The website features models aged from 18 to 31, though most are under 25. Models are almost always with natural breasts (as opposed to silicone enhanced), and frequently with pubic hair. The women begin the shoots wearing their own clothes and underwear which they gradually shed, and are often photographed in their own homes, bedrooms and/or outdoor settings. Most appear in both still photos and videos.
The quality of the images as high resolution and bitrate of images/videos, images of details and good offline download options is cited by review sites such as The Best Porn[3] and ASS[4] as one of the main reasons for consistently high scoring of the site.
Company
Abbywinters.com is owned and operated by G Media, which also operates GMBill, its payment service. Garion Hall is the CEO of G Media, which has offices located in Melbourne and Sydney.[5] GMBill also provides payment services to Australia-based site Beautiful Agony. Prior to 2008, GMBill also provided payment services to the Girls Out West site.
From September, 2006 until November, 2007, Abbywinters.com regularly donated money to various organizations, including Samba, ASACP and various other open source projects, as well as health aid organizations.[6] Consequently, Abby Winters is on the Free Software Foundation's Thank GNUs 2007 list as sustaining contributors and on the OpenBSD's donations list also.[7][8]
In late 2007, AbbyWinters.com partnered with Wicked Pictures as the exclusive distributor for AbbyWinters.com DVDs.[9]
Abby Winters
Abby Winters is an internet persona, whose actual identity is believed to be Garion Hall, the CEO of abbywinters.com. [10] 'Her' first writings to usenet are from 1996.[11] Abby insists in print interviews that she is a real person, but is removed from the day-to-day operations of the business.[12]
The site's much speculated[citation needed], but official folklore says that it was founded for fun, launched October 14th, 2000 by a photographer, Abby Winters (born December 13, 1974), and her web-designer friend, who observed how poor existing sites were and thought that "she" could do better.[13] Around May 2002 Abby left to "pursue other interests" and Garion Hall became owner and operator of the website. Abby Winters does regular interviews and writings, but only does them in print[14] and there is no record of her appearing at any trade shows or events.
Abby claims to be the main photographer, and as of November 2006 used a Canon EOS-1D Mark IIN camera for the majority of the site's shoots. Abby only shoots digital.[13]
Criticism by Liandra Dahl
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In 2007 Ex Abby Winters and IFM/ISM/BA model Liandra Dahl wrote on her blog about privacy problems concerning G-Media sites, which was picked up by The Herald Sun[15][16] Dahl is concerned that Abby Winters fails to inform young and inexperienced models on how their involvement in pornography might revisit them and inhibit their future choices, in the sense that content may be available outside of the confines of the paysite, and be available in file sharing networks. As of May 2008, it remains extremely easy to obtain images and videos of virtually all featured models, including the "member-only-shoots", through a range of free sources.[17]
Awards
Abby Winters has won AVN Award 2008 in Best Amateur Series[18] with their Intimate Moments DVD and has been selected as Best Adult Website in 2006 and 2007 by Australian Adult Industry Awards. [19] Abby Winters has reigned as the top ranked amateur paysite for 4 consecutive years at Quality Amateur Paysites. [20]
References
- ^ "abbywinters.com Upgrades to Become ASACPs Newest Title Sponsor". ASACP. Retrieved 2007-08-28.
- ^ "It's porn, it's business, it's legit". Las Vegas Sun. 2008-1-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "amateur category (containing review of AbbyWinters.com)". The Best Porn.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b "Review of AbbyWinters.com". ASS.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ AVN,7-13-2007 ,Abbywinters.com Opens 2nd Office, Doubles Production
- ^ Abby Winters Donation FAQ
- ^ FSF's list of Thank GNUs 2007
- ^ OpenBSD, donations
- ^ abbywinters.com and Wicked Pictures establish exclusive distribution deal
- ^ http://fleshbot.com/5108242/who-is-abby-winters
- ^ usenet profile: See details in articles talkpage
- ^ Adult DVD Talk, October 2007, Abby Winters interview
- ^ a b Abby Winters, About Abby, her ideas, and her gear
- ^ Abby Winters interview
- ^ Herald Sun, 3 December 2007, Merchants of Porn
- ^ Herald Sun, 3 December 2007, Porn exploiters attacked
- ^ Liandra Dahl, Liandra lets loose[dead link]
- ^ Abby Winters won AVN Award 2008
- ^ "Abby Winters press information". Abbywinters.com. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ^ Top Ranking Amateur Sites at Quality Amateur Paysites
External links
- Abby Winters website
- Abby Winters press website
- Wired, 2.1.2008, Real Sex Tantalizes as Processed Porn Gets Boring
- The Village Voice, Australian Girls with Pubic Hair Reclaim Amateur Porn