Pin-Up Girls Vol. 1

PIN-UP GIRLS has to be the most ingenious of the many porn series devised at Girlfriends Films over the past decade and a half. Combining the label's vaunted emphasis on naturalistic sex with the innocent charm of 1950s underwear and girlie magazines is sure-fire.

For the first volume, plot and even character development are kept to a minimum, as the fans are served a heaping helping of beautiful actresses in extremely authentic '50s fetish outfits, seducing each other with tongue-in-cheek aplomb.

Rayveness, as she does in many subsequent segments, sets the tone with her sweet voice, persistent ability to charm the clothes off any young lass with her quaint patter, and filling out those missile-warhead bras of the period like nobody's business.

Premise, which is repeated over and over in the followup features, is that Rayvenees and her friends can make good money modeling for topless photos and advertising sets of their photos in the back of men's magazines. Even more lucrative is posing for the 8mm short film loop market. Earnings quoted seem like small potatoes today, but represent big bucks for 60 years ago.

In the first sex segment, meek-voiced young Ashlyn Rae lies on her bed masturbating, and has a sex fantasy of being made love to by her step-mom Rayveness. This crypto-incest is played straight.

Second sex vignette has Rayveness' game cohort in the sleazy photos biz, a plus-size edition of Zoe Britton, seducing blonde Prinzzess. Miss P is perhaps the most beautiful of the lesbian superstars, and she shows how she earned her status with a natural, believable orgasmic performance once Zoe wears down her resistance. Her comment afterward to Zoe: "You brought me to this...That was the best orgasm I ever had". With both performers quite enthusiastic, this is true erotica, not "porn".

Rayveness rather casually takes tall blonde Victoria White up to her bedroom to try on lingerie and practice poses (this is routine she successfully repeats in followup features like PIN-UP GIRLS VOL. 8. White's casting and styling is apt, as she strongly suggests the look of January Jones on TV's "Mad Men", set just a few years after this takes place.

Ashlyn's fellow students Kimberly Kane and Faye Reagan make fun of the girl, especially jumping on the rumor that she's hankering after incest with her step- mom (they like the audience are in the know). Kane is up to no good, and ends up seducing Reagan. Faye's truly beautiful breasts steal the show and it is fun to see not only what fast learners (yeah, right) both she and Kane are in the Sapphic arts, but also how after making love they profess to being BFF lesbian girlfriends.