Two Big Meanies

We won ‘Best Hardcore’ in The Stranger’s Hump 2007 Amateur and Locally Produced Porn Contest. We’d created Pirate vs Ninja for the first one a couple years ago, and this year they asked us very nicely to send something in. We edited down ‘Everyone Likes Candy‘ into a seven-minute package and called it ‘Lauren Likes Candy‘. The audiences thought it was pretty intense, but still voted for us for Best Hardcore (as opposed to Best Funny/Erotic, the other prize).

There’s a short sample clip available. You can also buy the award-winning short for cheap, or read about and/or buy the full-length shoot.

Lauren will add to this at some point, just wanted to get something up. ^-^

While we’re getting caught up on our various reviews, I thought that I’d write about one of my favorites–though it isn’t properly a review at all, but more a very positive mention.

A couple of weeks ago, Dan Savage, editor-in-chief of The Stranger, used TBM as an illustration of ethical BDSM porn in his column Savage Love.

I was thrilled, of course, not only because of his kind words but also because I read and enjoy Savage Love regularly, and have an ever-increasing amount of respect for its author. (The free publicity from a widely-read and nationally-syndicated column kicked a lot of ass, too. *g*)

Check it out, and then work your way through the column’s archives, because there’s a lot of good stuff in there!

We just got a nice review from SugarBank; related to SugarClick (mentioned earlier), but covering the site in its current incarnation.

Couple quotes that made me happy:

“It’s refreshing to see BDSM presented as something sexy and loving, not tortured and degrading.”
and
“Sites this good make the future of porn seem a little brighter”

Less happy about the reviewer characterizing enjoying BDSM as ‘ever so slightly wrong in the head’.

And I’m not sure how I feel about being compared to Right Said Fred. :)

We’ve been reviewed by a number of places over time- this set all predates our switch to pay-per-download.

Janesguide reviewed us when we first launched, then re-reviewed us a year or so later. Favorite quotes:
“There is a deep level of care, friendship, and fun that penetrates the whole project.”
“fun, sassy, kinky, vibrant, and intimately nasty BDSM delivered with a grin and a punch.”

Audacia Ray gave us another nice review on SugarClick (I’m not sure if they’re related to SugarBank or not, I’d kind of assume so). The pull quote was “BDSM scenes that are playful, hot and respectful of both viewer and doer,” which I liked.

TheBestPorn.com gave us a very thorough review early on, and a quick revisit last year. They’ve got some really neat ideas with building numeric scores based on different criteria and totaling them, I like the transparency that gives the final number. We got a medium-good number, but they also did four separate full-page editor reviews (and paragraph re-reviews)! I wish those were more visually apparent on the page, it actually took me a bit to notice them and I think getting the four different perspectives is really informative. We’re going to try to get a complete re-review with these guys soon, since we’ve made such a major format change. They didn’t have quite so much in the way of little sound-bite quotes, probably the best was “a quality fetish package with a lot of personality.”

Jaxon Jagonov also gave us a nice review. My favorite quote:
“Everyone’s having authentic fun on TwoBigMeanies. They’re doing what comes naturally and expressing their freaky thing with gusto. And while they’re having fun, they’re also aware they’ve got a paying audience, and they do a good job of being entertaining. It can’t be an easy balance to strike – having real sex (or whatever you want to call what they’re doing) while also simultaneously putting on an entertaining performance, but TwoBigMeanies does it admirably.”