This disappointing ninth volume of Girlfriends' venerable girl/girl series is a tough slog to watch, lasting an interminable 203 minutes (ouch!). The label has never absorbed the "less is more" philosophy, as evidenced by the 4th and final vignette here being a scene lasting 71 minutes.

Even by current porn standards, when streaming scenes has led to 30 or 40 minute durations for each hump expected by the fans, an hour and ten is a bit much. It's a chance for an actress already well-exposed in volumes 5 and 8 of this series to return and refuse to get off the stage. That's uber-buxom redhead Susan, who in recent years has emerged as a mainstream actress named Laura Meadows (with her self-penned IMDb mini-bio suppressing all knowledge of her earlier porn career). She encourages young Kylie to explore her sexuality, and even if boys are in the kid's future, it can't hurt to teach her Sapphic lovemaking, even though this is a rather lengthy first lesson.

The previous scenes, more in the 40-minute each range, are no great shakes. I got to see an early appearance by my all-time favorite pornographer Nica Noelle, humping up a storm under her previous stage name Syndi. She's cast as a lawyer working for boss Keisha (NonSex cameo, but she returns XXX in a different role in a future scene on the video), who tutors intern Alicia in the art of lovemaking.

Keisha, after memorably taking porn's most petite little jail-bait artist Kitty in Volume 8, gets to paw another young 'un named Mindy Lee. As in other segments, and many an older/younger scene from Girlfriends Films, the set-up before XXX commences is frustratingly ambiguous as to the relationship between the mature lady and the little slip of a girl living together at some mansion. It's all part of the "think about incest, all the time" underpinnings of so much of Lesbian Porn nowadays, where innuendo and "wink, wink" have replaced good old screen writing.

Prettiest gal in the show is Kaci Starr, her nubile big boobs overshadowing the "oldie" in her pairing, an untalented blonde named Emily who is doing carpentry work at Kaci's house. This segment features an uncredited (Girlfriends hands out screen credits with extreme reluctance) boss lady on the work crew played by an authentically butch looking actress, hardly enough butch content to satisfy fans longing for a roll in the hay by some ancestor to Lily Cade or Syd Blakovich.