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Abby Winters
Abbywinters logo.jpg
URL Abbywinters.com
Type of site pornsite
Registration monthly fee
Owner Garion Hall
Launched 8 October 2000
Current status active

Abbywinters.com is an Australian-based erotic paysite, which specialises in lesbian and solo erotica of amateur female nude models. The site claims all female shooting crews.[1][2] 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.[3][4] The site has won several awards for online adult content. The site was launched in 2000[5] and has since been split into three "mini-sites"; Solo, Girl-Girl and Intimate Moments.

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[edit] Description of content

The website features female models from ages 18 to 25.[6] Most models have not appeared in pornography before.[5][6] The site does not feature models with surgically enhanced breasts,[4][5][6] models wear little make-up,[4][5] and often have a full patch of pubic hair,[6] in addition the website claims that the photos themselves are not retouched in any way.[7] The women begin the shoots wearing their own clothes and underwear, which they gradually shed, and are photographed in their own homes and bedrooms and/or in outdoor settings. Many of the models have never done any form of nude work before.[6] Most appear in both still photos and videos. As of 2009 there were 1200 models featured on the site, with more than 370,000 images and almost 4000 videos,[3] with new content uploaded twice daily.[6]

It has been praised for portraying a more realistic depiction of sex than most pornography.[5] Customers are able to suggest scenarios on the sites forum which are sometimes filmed.[5] After establishing a rough scenario for each shoot the production team then lets the performers decide how fast the scene progresses, and which sex acts they will perform.[5][6] All scenes are filmed by women, some of whom have previously modelled for the site.[6][8] Girls are paid approximately $800 for a solo masturbation scene, and $1,400 for a sex scene with another girl.[6]

[edit] Company

Abbywinters.com is owned and operated by G Media, which also operates GMBill, its payment service. Garion Hall is the CEO of all three companies. GMBill also provides payment services to Australia-based site GirlsOutWest.com.

Abbywinters.com is based in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy;[9] in late 2007 the company also briefly opened a second office in Sydney. Uniquely no males are allowed on set,[6] with all the shoot production handled by an all female staff,[6] many of whom are former models.[6] The site's web servers are based in the Netherlands and United States.[1]

Abbywinters.com has regularly donated $1,000 a week[8] to various organisations, including Samba, ASACP and various other open source projects, as well as health aid organisations.[10] Consequently, Abby Winters is a Sustaining Contributor on the Free Software Foundation's Thank GNUs 2007,[11] and on the OpenBSD's donations list.[12] It also made a AUD$78,000 donation to the Black Saturday bushfires appeal.[10]

In late 2007, Abbywinters.com partnered with Wicked Pictures as the exclusive distributor for Abbywinters.com DVDs.[4][13] Although it is an Australian site, 65% of subscribers are in the United States.[6]

[edit] Criticism by former model Liandra Dahl

In 2007 ex-Abby Winters model Liandra Dahl wrote on her blog about privacy problems concerning G-Media sites, which was picked up by the Herald Sun.[14][15] 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, on file sharing networks.[16]

[edit] Police raid on G Media

On 16 June 2009, G Media offices in Melbourne were raided by Victoria Police as part of a wider "Operation Refuge".[3] The Herald Sun article gives two grounds for the raid: that G-Media may have filmed an under-age model, and that G-Media's DVD productions may have contravened Victoria's film classification laws.[3] The report states that CEO Garion Hall was arrested but released later the same day, and claims that the raid was made in response to information provided by the paper. G Media later released a statement stating that nothing had been seized in the raid, and that the police were polite and amiable throughout.[17][18]

[edit] Censorship

Abbywinters.com is included on a list published on Wikileaks, on 19 March 2009, alleged to be the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) blacklist of websites to be prohibited in Australia under the proposed Australian Firewall.[19]

[edit] Awards

Abbywinters.com won the AVN Award in 2008, for Best Amateur Series,[20] with its "Intimate Moments" DVD, and has been selected as "Best Adult Website", in 2006 and 2007, by Australian Adult Industry Awards.[21] It also won the Best amateur series award at the Adult Entertainment Expo.[8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "About the Site". Abbywinters.com. http://www.Abbywinters.com/main.php?page=AboutAbby. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  2. ^ "Abbywinters.com Upgrades to Become ASACPs Newest Title Sponsor". ASACP. http://www.asacp.org/page.php?content=news&item=479. Retrieved 2007-08-28. 
  3. ^ a b c d Moor, Keith (2009-06-16). "Director quizzed over production of graphic movies". Herald Sun. www.news.com.au. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/director-quizzed-over-production-of-graphic-movies/story-0-1225736038354. Retrieved 2009-06-16. 
  4. ^ a b c d Brown, Joe (2008-01-11). "It’s porn, it’s business, it’s legit". Las Vegas Sun. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/11/its-porn-its-business-its-legit/. Retrieved 2009-11-16. 
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Lynn, Regina (2008-01-02). "Real Sex Tantalizes as Processed Porn Gets Boring". Wired. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2008/01/sexdrive_0201. Retrieved 2009-11-16. 
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Australian Girls with Pubic Hair Reclaim Amateur Porn". The Village Voice. http://www.villagevoice.com/screens/0820,australian-girls-with-pubic-hair-reclaim-amateur-porn,442797,28.html. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  7. ^ "What do you do to these images, anyway?". Abbywinters.com. http://www.Abbywinters.com/main.php?page=wiki&id=WhatProcessing. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  8. ^ a b c "Preaching to the Perverted". homepagedaily.com. http://www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article3919-preaching-to-the-perverted.aspx. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 
  9. ^ "Abby Winters Contact Information". http://www.Abbywinters.com/main.php?page=wiki&id=TitleEighteen. Retrieved 2009-11-16. 
  10. ^ a b "So, you donate to charities?". Abbywinters.com. http://www.Abbywinters.com/main.php?page=wiki&id=DonateCharities. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 
  11. ^ "Thank GNUs 2007". http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2007supporters.html#TOCsustaining. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  12. ^ "donations". OpenBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  13. ^ "Abbywinters.com and Wicked Pictures establish exclusive distribution deal" (.doc). 2007-12-18. http://press.Abbywinters.com/releases/abbywinters_pr20071218wicked.doc. Retrieved 2009-11-16. 
  14. ^ Keith Moor (December 3, 2007). "Merchants of Porn". Herald Sun. www.news.com.au. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22857379-2862,00.html. Retrieved 2009-06-16. 
  15. ^ Keith Moor (December 3, 2007). "Porn exploiters attacked". Herald Sun. www.news.com.au. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22858702-662,00.html. Retrieved 2009-06-16. 
  16. ^ "Liandra Dahl Lets Loose". 2007-06-16. Archived from the original on 2007-12-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20071206153648/http://liandradahl.blogspot.com/2007/06/liandra-lets-loose.html. Retrieved 2009-11-16. 
  17. ^ "Abby Winters owner Garion Hall issues statement". somebodythinkofthechildren.com. 2009-06-16. http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/abby-winters-garion-hall-issues-statement/. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
  18. ^ Duncan, Edward. "Abby Winters' Hall Issues Statement on Police Raid". AVN. http://business.avn.com/articles/35608.html. Retrieved 2009-06-23. 
  19. ^ "Legal adult websites blacklisted: AbbyWinters and The Hun banned - Somebody Think Of The Children". somebodythinkofthechildren.com. http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/legal-adult-websites-blacklisted-abbywinters-and-the-hun-banned/. Retrieved 2009-06-16. 
  20. ^ "Abby Winters won AVN Award 2008". Press Release. Abbywinters.com. 2008-05-23. http://www.free-Abbywinters.com/Abby-Winters-AVN-Award-2008.html. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  21. ^ "Abby Winters press information". Abbywinters.com. http://press.Abbywinters.com/aee/. Retrieved 2008-01-15. 

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