Reviewed by Scott Axelrod
 Leaning more towards the idea of the high-concept art presentation than its sticky separated-at-birth explicit sex-site siblings, Met-Art.com is an extremely ambitious presentation featuring thousands of high-quality glamour-style photographs of all-natural young European women, and closely related video content. Organized by month and starting back in 2003, the site immediately opens up into a large platter of magazine cover-style thumbnail links of the very sexy models featured here. Each set is shot by a different photographer, and all of the girls are featured in multiple collections, making the amount of content here basically innumerable, and somewhat overwhelming to take in.
 Whether you click randomly on a lady of your liking, or seek out someone whose assets are arranged to your exact specifications, each set is arranged identically, offering both high and low resolution versions of each shot. The girls themselves are truly unique to the point of humbling anyone with a taste for beautiful women. Large-breasted and small, petite and buxom, trimmed and shaved, with a salon’s worth of hair colors and literally stripping out of a fashion fanatic’s wet dream, it becomes difficult to focus on one particular lady. Whether they’re posing indoors or out, in bed or on the floor, in a kitchen or a bathroom, or in color or black and white, the variety is very well-organized. While most of the photos can be considered soft-core, each contains a subtle hint of vagina, tending to focus more on the models as a whole than on any specific orifice.
 The “movies” section contains a medley of models in short promo clips. Each girl here remains solo as she does a little bump n’ grind for the camera or slowly fondles herself out of silky underthings while maintaining semi-constant eye contact with her viewing audience. Choreographed to soundtracks of pulsing heavy metal, chest-thumping drum and bass, smoothly seductive jazz and blues, and other well-composed instrumental music beds, all of these Madonna-esque scenes are well-produced and erotically entertaining. Although most of these get to be kind of boring after about a minute or two, each is readily streamable/downloadable in QuickTime, Windows, DIVX, MPEG, and even IPOD formats.
 The option of viewing the specific portfolio of any of the site’s featured photographers is available, as is a bookstore selling some of their published collections, while another link sells several DVDs featuring some of the met-art girls. The live-cam section displays a schedule when models are appearing to chat and probably get naked and probably ask you for more money. Unfortunately for both of us, none of these sessions took place during the times I was on the site, so I’m only able to speculate.
 I believe that there are two types of online adult-entertainment enthusiasts: Those who like their porn polished, possibly airbrushed, but always carefully lit and cleverly posed, with an artistic air to it similar to that of the high-concept art of, say, Playboy, in its heyday. Then there’s the cult of the warts-and-all, purposely amateur-looking, mirroring-the-reality-of-what-sex-really-looks-like style commonly found in stroke-mags hiding high up on the rack of one’s deli. Whether you’re perusing any of this content to simply bust a nut, or because of your appreciation of art for the sake of appreciating art, both styles seem to peacefully coexist, serving whichever purpose you decide to propose. I’ll get off my soapbox now.
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