Other AVN reviewers have praised this series for its ultra-realistic depiction of the way women really have sex with each other - and for that it is noteworthy, by all means. Watching the standard WSW interlude is the closest thing you'll likely ever find on a porno tape to peeking in the window of an actual lesbian couple makin' it.

The problem is (with this volume, at least), the real, privately-shared-between-two-people act of makin' it tends to be decidedly unerotic when observed by a non-participant. There's lots of dewy kissing, and stroking, and utterly gag-inducing cute talk and tee-heeing. None of which, let's be honest, exactly gets the blood flowing to yon nether regions unless you are one of the people being kissed and stroked.

Just for the sake of illustration, take the first scene here, which lasts close to an hour, and involves two blondes and a brunette. The brunette watches while the blondes make out with each other for - no exaggeration - about the first 30 minutes. We're surprised the third girl in the scene manages to keep her eyelids open the whole time, never mind anybody who might watch this video. And while the two blondes do finally get into some dildo play and such, the brunette never actually joins in. May we ask, heh?

Skip ahead to the third and final scene (that's right, 144 minutes, three scenes ... you do the math), in which two friends out for some rollerskating in the park end up in bed together after one of them falls and hurts herself (yeah, we don't really follow the logic either, but why question it?). The injured girl begins to seduce her friend, which of course draws out interminably, but is kind of erotic for a while. And then there's the middle scene, a portrayal of a lesbian encounter on an early-20th-century cruise. Involving strap-ons. Because they were all the rage back then.

Final analysis? We like porn, not make-out videos.