December 12, 2008 | 8 Comments

Who Is Abby Winters?

Who Is Abby Winters?Aussie all natural porn site Abby Winters has long been plagued by the rumor that founder Abby Winters is (gasp!) not a real person—and a reader email we just received seems to confirm this suspicion.

On the Abby Winters forums, “Petria,” one of the models who participated in the company’s AEE 2008 appearance, admits that Abbywinters.com CEO Garion Hall was actually the photographer credited as “Abby” in the site’s popular “Yoga Girls” photo session. Responding to a customer, she says:

Who Is Abby Winters?

Drama! Intrigue! Gasp!

That aside, however: Abby Winters makes quality porn, featuring a type of girl not often seen in adult media. From everything we know, their models are treated well and enjoy working with the company. While it’s certainly in poor taste to create a fake female figurehead… well, we’re not about to boycott the site just because of that.

· Model Petria Reveals Abby Winters’s Identity (forums.abbywinters.com)

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  • Snowbunny

    In related news; Adam and Eve were WAY dead before that whole situation started.

  • MalzyWheels

    Hmm, I thought Abby Winters was Jethro Tull’s niece.

  • Anonymous

    It’s the adopted child of Monty Python and Pink Floyd

  • Anonymous

    The post must have been changed since that screen capture was taken, because the reference to “Garion” has been changed to “the photographer.”

  • Anonymous

    I had never joined a porn site before I became an abbywinters.com customer, and I know that my belief that “Abby” was a real person was one of the things that made it “safe” for me to take that step. I’ve always had to balance my enjoyment of porn against the pervasive feminist dogma that it degrades women, so a porn site founded by a no-nonsense lesbian photographer seemed like something I could join.

    So I felt rather stupid when I finally learned the truth, and this feeling is now a part of my overall AW experience, along with the good things, like watching the content and interacting with models and members.

    And what’s really odd is “Abby” is almost real — almost. Women make key creative decisions at AW, shoot all the pictures and video (now that Hall has stepped away from the lens), run the front office, and create uplifting, female-friendly porn. “Abby” might be fake, but the company seems like one a woman might actually have created.

    So why the lie? That’s the question that nags at me now. The AW people look down their noses at the fakery of mainstream porn, but how can a company champion the idea of porn without pretense while hiding behind a pretense of its own?

  • Anonymous

    At some point given the industry, a guy is going to be involved, whether in production, distribution or talent. How many really strong adult stars have gone rogue and run their own empires? I can think of a handfull:

    Candida Royale
    Belladonna
    Jenna Jameson
    Tara Patrick
    Danni Ashe (probably one of the few that are really under her control, but the hubby is quite wealthy so she still likely had some venture capital to help her)

    If they put forth the image of a lesbian-run site, then it’s their fault for deceptive advertising. I could see a revelation like that hurting the memberships. However, given a man who actually lets the talent (or has real lesbians providing input) make the decisions–what’s the big issue overall?

  • Anonymous

    My experience is pretty much exactly the same as yours.

    The worst part is that my complaint is more or less “a chick on the
    internet turned out to be a dude!” That’s the oldest trick in the
    internet book!

    I can see how it probably started off as some silly little bit of
    flavour when the site started, but the lie does sour things a little
    for me now. :(

  • kurometarikku

    Does the site explicitly state “Abby Winters” is a broad? I have seen “Abby” used as a diminutive for dudes named Abdullah before.