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The first thing we have to say about Draggin' Ladies is that it's a
totally transparent site. Like Celebrity
Movie Archive or Videosz,
you can check out the whole site--the way it's arranged, the kind and
quality of content, everything--just by taking a site tour. This makes
our job a lot easier, if not entirely superfluous. They aren't hiding
anything, so just go check it out. You can even download free video
clips for each of the models. Kudos!
OK, here's their mission statement, with some comments from us:
Dragginladies is a word play on the term "dragon
lady" of course. Spelled draggin, like draggin' on a
cigarette, it gives our name the double meaning and its own
originality.
The expression "dragon lady" is usually applied to Asian
women. In case you miss it when you're checking things out, a lot of the
models on this site are Asian. That may be a good thing or a bad thing
in your book, but just so you know.
On this site the fetish is mostly all about seductive
female facial expressions.
Not really. It's mostly all about girls smoking. And blowing smoke.
There's a lot of lesbian action where the girls blow smoke at each
other. And on each other's pussy. And there's boy-girl stuff too where
they blow smoke on the guy's dick or smoke while they're getting fucked.
The photo galleries are more solo posing, and there is some evidence of
seductive female facial expressions, but this isn't what the site is
really all about.
This is brought out through the model's smoking. Showcasing her
feminine mannerisms, smoking also gives the model some form of
empowerment over her subject.
This is hard to follow. But
the point, we think, is clear. Smoking fetish divas tend to have that
femme fatale noir look about them. Lotsa make-up and vintage
lingerie. You also see a lot of femdom women smoking. So there is an
aspect of control and coolness about having a drag and a puff.
It visually stimulates the viewer as the looks given by these women
make them seem, alluring, in control, sexy, dirty, as well as portraying
that "bad girl” image perhaps. Female smoking gives you inkling
in to the sexual behavior women may possess as they interact with the
cigarette (a falic [sic] symbol to some) with their lips and
sometimes tongue and as they use eye contact to draw in their now
captivated audience.
You may think this is over-the-top, but we enjoy it.
As this site goes as far as X-rated we get to explore this fetish
to our great delight and hopefully yours.
There is nothing necessarily x-rated about smoking, but this site
does have hardcore sex mixed with smoking. Girl-girl and boy-girl.
We want to keep our members interested and feeling like this is a
great site to join over other, more predictable, formats. We think
you'll feel we bring out each model's sexuality in a unique
style.
Well, it's pretty good. But there is room for improvement. As noted, you
can browse the whole site for free and see what you think of the models
and how much content there is. 45 girls when we visited, many of them
Asian. The girls are pretty good looking and you should recognize a few
names. Updates are being added daily. You can download the video clips
(which seem to all be around 3 minutes) in a variety of formats (mpeg
and high, medium and low wmv files). The best resolution plays back at
800 kb/s, which is nice. The pics are decent quality too, and not just
vidcaps from the video. They are studio pics and they do focus on the
actual "facial expressions" of the smoker (much more so than
the video).
Things we didn't like:
(1) Despite being of high technical quality, the videos don't look
good. For some reason the picture isn't nearly as sharp as it should be
at this bit rate. Some were way overlit, others underlit. Editing and
camerawork weren't great. No expense in the production either. You can
have smoking girls looking classy or sleazy, and here the look is
sleazy. The sets mainly seem to be just hotel room beds with blankets
(even leopardskin and zebraskin) thrown over them.
(2) The videos we saw didn't even have any sound. There was a note
saying that music was being added to the new videos, but all the clips
we downloaded were without any (and we'll take natural sound to music
any day). A site that's shooting this much video, and making a
commitment to present it in some generous formats, should be shooting better
video.
(3) Site design is nice and simple, with a gallery of the models
being the main members index. You can click on the model's face, or a
link to their videos, or a link to their pictures. But all these links
go to the same page (the model's separate page). It's a little thing,
but why bother having so many different links going to the same page?
DragginLadies claims to be the top smoking fetish site on the Net,
and that may be true. The only other smoking site we've reviewed is Smoking
Bitch, and it wasn't that good. This site has potential. We love the
open tour, decent price, daily video updates, and the fact that they're
shooting all their own content. The actual video production, however,
has got to improve to make this a top site.
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