Hi there everybody! Me and my wife are looking for advice from experienced movie buffs who have a decent knowledge of and simply know their way around the movie entertainment industry not only in US, but also in Europe or anywhere in the world. There was a number of beautiful, really high-class erotica movies that we found abroad, so we wanted to share with you guys our insights, and see if you could help us find any of the movies we encountered and liked, but available here in the United States.

For me and my wife, when it comes to forming our judgment about the movies we want to see, what we are very interested in is beautiful erotica, like 9 1/2 weeks, Nine Songs, then some of the Andrew Blake's softcore erotica films and others. I work as a business consultant for IT industry, and just last week me and my wife came back from a business trip to Russia. While in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, we had a chance to visit local DVD stores. Please don't get me wrong here, I am not talking about the adult smut DVD stores, but rather about mainstream Russian DVD stores. I picked up a few erotica DVDs from Sergey Loginov's Russian studio called Strawberry. It seems like we have uncovered a little known pearl of erotica because what we saw so far was so beautiful and original that both of us were very delighted and surprised. The problem here is that we can't find anything from Strawberry for sale in the States.

I realize not many will know much about the topic, because I spoke with a few of my Russian friends while still back in Moscow, and it appears that these movies are considered to be independent special interest types even among Russians. Wherever I turn to, there seems to be no complete answer to my searches. We've been looking everywhere for the info, and even found a Wikipedia article about Russian erotica, which did mention Strawberry studio and referred to a web site of Hot Specialty, www.hotspecialty.com that I honestly, have never heard of before.

So we only have tiny bits and pieces from the whole picture, but long to learn more and buy their movies. And we can't really wait for another trip because with my tight schedule I will most likely not find myself anywhere near Europe for the next year or so. The thing is, professional, artistic erotica is such a rare phenomenon, that we pretty much exhausted all of its sources in the Western hemisphere. Me and my wife together watched everything Amazon had to offer, bought all we could (there wasn't much, really) in little specialty video stores in Boston and NYC. We have The Voyeur with Francesco Casale, Irreversible with Monica Belucci, Emmanuelle,  Cheeky, Lie With Me, all Vintage Erotica collections - the list could go on forever, but the thing is that we've watched all there was for sale in the States... Any new source of classy erotica, be it European, or any other kind of erotica, gives my wife a real rush, and makes me very happy too. It's so hard to find beautiful, refined erotic movies these days, and the new Russian stuff very much intrigued us... I feel disheartened to see how much money is poured into the porn industry. Artistic genius of  erotica certainly deserves more attention than it's given today. Erotica is a healthy movie genre that helps married and/or loving couples to invigorate their sexual lives, discover their inner sexuality, enliven and renew their intimacy. I was so thrilled to find something new in Russia and I don't want to let it slip away. I guess the topic indeed is a dark horse, but any information, even the slightest bit of it will help. Thanks to all, there are no words that could sufficiently describe our appreciation of your help.