Site: www.amateur-uk.com Cost: 2 days $2.95 recurring to $19.95; 30 days recurring - $19.95 Genres:: Masturbation, Lesbian Condoms: No One-line summary: Not perfect, and doesn't play up the UK angle much, just a decent site to watch women and their battery-operated boyfriends play together. Reviewer: Mark Buckingham

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Not many men want to admit that they play second fiddle to a piece of vibrating plastic, but we may just have to face the music, fellas. I know I've never gotten a woman from start to finish as fast as the dames here can with nothing more than a couple fingers and 9 inches of faux dong. Or could she be faking it for her vibrator, too? Welcome to the world of Amateur-UK.com, where the videos stay small, short and to the point, and the women are capable of reaching orgasm possibly faster than you can, playing along at home.

In this fast-paced world, I can appreciate getting in and out of most videos in less than 10 minutes, and almost all in fewer than 20. Keeping things decidedly medium- to low-resolution means you won't lose a lot of time downloading, either. I had to keep clicking just to keep the queue in my download manager busy; they were finishing so fast. On offer are typically at least three different file sizes for videos, as an entire movie or several shorter clips. Some are only in the small, smaller and smallest range, with the biggest 256k Windows Media file generally clocking in under 30MB and 320x240 resolution. The occasional 750k flick steps it up to 640x480, which looks a lot better but isn't high def by anyone's standards. Still, it sticks to the theme of "get in and get out" that much of the site revolves around.

Sorting options are ample as well. For pretty much every section, there's a column of genres or other filters running down the left frame so you don't lose a lot of time looking at stuff you don't want. The model index lets you search by name alphabetically, but the odds of seeing anyone here you recognize are slim, though I did enjoy especially the performances of Sarah W, Carrie Lee and Natasha. Being able to find more of their stuff in just a click or two came in handy. All the images I saw weighed in with at least 768 pixels on a side, making respectable wallpapers if you want. No zip archives, so you'll have to wade through the image galleries to find the keepers, but the links work and the galleries don't go on aimlessly. Things are generally pretty good so far. No hassles, no DRM, the price is right.

The major slip-ups are missing thumbnails in the model index for videos, lots of missing thumbnails in the bonus area, one of the two video chats is down, the bandwidth test isn't even THERE (just gives a 404 error), preview thumbs of "discounted sites" don't display properly…pretty much everything in the bonus area is broken. The UK angle also doesn't get played up much. For what few chicks sporting accents I heard here, it might as well have been called Amateur-SanDiego.com. And since when are there palm trees in Britain?

Despite that, there's a lot of solo-girl action here and a smattering of lesbians to keep you happy. Just steer clear of the bonus areas by and large (the Erotic Stories and Adult Games work as far as I can tell, but that's about all) and leave behind expectations of all the gals and settings being very Brit-oriented and you'll be just fine here.