Cathy's Diaries 9

My all-time favorite Adult Film actress is Sarah Young - I've watched her videos particularly "The Goddess of Love" dozen titles hundreds of times. The usual porn movie I sit through once.

With her quick retirement in the '90s there was a vast gap in porn as nearly all the new leading ladies were either plastic, uninteresting types or representatives of the ongoing jail-bait trend: girls like Chastity Lynn, Jenna Haze or even Shyla Jennings who maintain a timeless underage look no matter how old they get.

Sarah didn't work in England - there was no British porn industry to speak of during her tenure, but instead created her many classics in Europe with mentor Sascha Alexander. More recently Brit Porn, in the past 10 years, has quietly become a dominant force with far more interesting content and much more striking women than its U.S. and Continental counterparts.

And I was very pleasantly surprised to recently, belatedly discover one Cathy Barry, touted as Britain's #1 porn star in her blurbs on video boxes. I wondered -if that's true, why haven't I heard of her -and the answer is simple -she made it big as a local hit back in Bilghty -never getting a break to crash the international (and U.S.) market. Sort of like Slim Whitman the country singer before his eventual discovery by fans many years after his initial heyday.

She has a figure resembling Sarah's and notably an outgoing, ebullient personality - suggesting an unholy marriage of the entertainment qualities of Sophie Tucker and Mae West. This larger than life persona is quite refreshing and chronologically places her right after Sarah's reign as the best in porn, right up through the current generation of British talent that is making a much bigger splash than Cathy - on a worldwide scale.

The "Diaries" series documents Cathy's appeal in vignette format, with her husband and amanuensis Phil Barry at the helm. This Volume 9 has many ripe moments, kicking off with a 5-guy gang-bang of nurse Cathy in a dentist's office, led by UK porn stalwarts Keiran Lee and Danny Mountain.

Another vignette has Keiran in a three-way when she visits a lord's castle and humps both the lord and her chauffeur. This is an atmospheric sex scene shot on location. She runs the gamut of content, anal sex, d.p.'s, lesbian sex, mixed combo action -you name it, all with a hearty laugh and a more than hearty handful of giant boobs. Even in this cornball format, her bits of patter introducing segments is entertaining and I'm positively smitten with the aging star.

DVD also features a charming little animated film titled "Dildo Disaster" featuring "Cartoon Cathy", with the real lady handling the character's voice-over; cheaply but amusingly animated by Mark Davies.