Abbywinters.com
Type of site | softcore pornsite |
|---|---|
| Owner | Garion Hall |
| Created by | "Abby Winters" |
| 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 it had January 2008 about 30,000 subscribers.[2]
Abby Winters has won AVN Award 2008 in Best Amateur Series with their Intimate Moments DVD and has been selected as Best Adult Website in 2006 and 2007 by Australian Adult Industry Awards. [3] In web reviews it has been noted for the quality of its images and commonly reviewed as one of the best amateur porn sites.[4][5]
Description of content
The website features models aged from 18 to 31, 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[4] and ASS[5] as one of the main reasons for consistently high scoring of the site.
Company
Abbywinters.com is owned and operated by G Media, also called Gmbill. Garion Hall is the CEO of G Media, which has offices are located in Melbourne and Sydney.[6] G Media also owns Beautiful Agony, I Shot Myself/I Feel Myself, and Girls Out West.
AbbyWinters.com regularly donates money to various organizations, including Samba, ASACP and various other open source projects, as well as health aid organizations.[7] 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.[8][9]
In late 2007, AbbyWinters.com partnered with Wicked Pictures as the exclusive distributor for AbbyWinters.com DVD's[10].
Abby Winters
Abby Winters is an internet persona, whose identity is unknown. 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 become owner and operator of the website. Abby Winters model and G Media staffer Liandra Dahl claims in her blog that Abby Winters is a pseudonym of Garion Hall. [14] Abby Winters does regular interviews and writings, but only does them in print[15][16] and there is no record of her appearing at any trade shows or events.
Abby claims to be the main photographer, and has a Canon 1D mkII camera. She only shoots digital.[13]
Criticism by Liandra Dahl
In 2007 Ex Abby Winters model and G-Media worker Liandra Dahl wrote on her blog about privacy problems concerning G-Media sites, which was picked up by The Herald Sun [17] [18] 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 [14].
References
- ^ ASACP, August 28, 2007), abbywinters.com Upgrades to Become ASACPs Newest Title Sponsor
- ^ Las Vegas Sun, 1-11-2008 ,It’s porn, it’s business, it’s legit
- ^ Abby Winters, checked 1-15-2008, Abby Winters press information
- ^ a b The Best Porn, amateur category (containing review of AbbyWinters.com)
- ^ a b ASS, Review of AbbyWinters.com
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Liandra Dahl, Liandra lets loose
- ^ Abby Winters - An Interview with Abby Winters Part 1
- ^ Abby Winters interview
- ^ Herald Sun, 3 December 2007, Merchants of Porn
- ^ Herald Sun, 3 December 2007, Porn exploiters attacked