Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
So that’s where DDF went
DDF was one of my picks for top networks back when it was just DDF, Porn World could be even better
Around 15,000 total scenes makes this one of the biggest sites you can join
Quality is excellent across the board
Also offers a view of pay per view porn site Legal Porn
Pictures and videos are all worth downloading
Navigation is pretty good for a network of this size
Cons:
Other than having to ignore the Legal Porno scenes which cost quite a bit for a single scene, there isn’t much to complain about
Bottom Line:
I remember when DDF switched to Porn World, but I forgot about it. I remembered after reading a Porn World review. DDF was one of, if not my favorite, networks. I love the simple focus on the attractiveness of the female models. It is made all the better by the scenes often being hardcore only because there is penetration between a male and female. The bigger picture is the focus on the female’s sexiness. You have the leg and feet content, the not really BDSM but close enough scenes from DDF’s House of Taboo. Those scenes move onto the ones that filled DDF’s One By Day site and there were multiple other sites. All are included on Porn Word.
The videos of the last decade usually have a 4K download option, but I’m still downloading and enjoying HD. There are picture sets, which should be expected from DDF content. His sites almost always had top 5% picture sets. This content represents, in my opinion, the closest any site or network came to creating high level pictures and videos that improve each other. It was and still is common for sites to lean heavily to either the video or picture side, but DDF’s content has always been strong in both pictures and videos.
Let’s talk about Legal Porno, the content that comes closest to being bonus content for Porn World. It is pay per scene or view. If that makes you pull away, you don’t need to feel different or odd, it pushes me away. I join for a membership/subscription. I have bought pay per view scenes a few times and guess if Legal Porno had something that piqued my interest enough, I would consider it, but yeah, the Legal Porno content is fun to check out and consider, but it just feels out of place considering I have access to 15,000 scenes of porn. I just can’t see me paying nearly as much for one scene as I pay for the whole DDF Network content. But I don’t mind it being there.
The models are still in all their DDF glory. DDF seemed to prefer the most feminine forms he could find and made them often look even better than the nearly 10s they already were. There is glam, hose, stockings, heels, lipstick and everything promoting femininity.
I don’t think the navigation has improved since the DDF Network days, but do believe it’s at least almost as good on Porn World. The tags haven’t been altered or changed and are very good and helpful.
It’s an impressive site with excellent quality and gorgeous models. There just isn’t much you will find wrong with this site.
DDF was one of my all-time favorite networks. It was one of the first hardcore pornsites I joined. But back then, I only joined 1byDay and paid a premium price for the one site. All the 1byDay content is available on Porn World and I have to say, it’s still as good as I remember.
I want to say all the DDF content is here, but I can’t say that. There is a lot of it. Around 15,000 scenes. I do believe a few points should be taken off the score for the more complicated site, Porn World’s navigation. It’s not a dealbreaker, not even close. But I was fairly frustrated the first few times I logged in and searched directly for a scene I remembered, only to not find what I was looking for. With that said, a little time and a lot of paying attention has made the navigation good, not great.
The DDF sites I remember the most were: OnebyDay, Hot Legs and Feet, Only Blowjob and DDF Busty. The DDF network, in its early days, was my pick for the best value in porn. It’s still up there and the TBP $14.95 discount makes it even better. It advertises as $44.95 to me.
The videos and picture quality are still in-line with the DDF standards and the models are gorgeous, even still a little glamorous as DDF was known for. There are still updates as well and with a 15,000+ scene catalog, it’s one of the most impressive networks you will see.
Legal Porno also has their content on Porn World and I will admit, there are some scenes from them that caught my eye and made me consider paying for tokens to download. In the past, I probably would have found the Legal Porno content to be frustrating, since it’s taking up space in my vision and not available without paying more for, but enough sites have turned to the pay per view method, it’s just becoming common and I have accepted that.
You receive one of the best mixes of niches and genres with this network. It’s still a show of what a brilliant producer, director and photographer Denys Defrancesco was. His work is up there with the top names in porn history and even with the frustrating navigation, you at least know you’re going to get great content in your search.
This site also would be good for those that miss the 2000s era of porn.
I will confirm that from the best I can tell, all the House of Taboo content is available on Porn World. DDF stepped so far out of his zone with House of Taboo, but it was easily one of the best BDSM sites on the internet. I have downloaded quite a bit of its content from Porn World and consider that content, alone – to make me happy. It’s worth checking out if you’re into the idea of BDSM but back out when you see the “scary” parts. DDF produced BDSM with class and respect. That’s how I feel about his content. And it’s why this is a very highly recommended join.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Likely the largest transsexual collection online
There are over 230,000 scenes to download and over 230,000 photo sets to download.
Up to 4K downloadable videos
All niches within the Transsexual genre are represented
Multiple daily updates
Mostly amateur transsexuals
Cons:
The scenes can be very explicit and possibly offensive to those that are newer to transsexual porn
The site’s navigation is not as good as it should be.
Bottom Line:
If you’re familiar with Porn Box that has the DDF Network on it, you’re at least familiar with Trans Boxxx. It is owned by the same people. The site looks like it would be a great value, and realistically, it is. The first thing that stands out to me is how hardcore and niche/fetish heavy some of the scenes are. The scenes are mostly amateur and it shows both the good ways and bad ways. The good ways include seeing the many niches of the transsexual genre. There is solo, transsexuals with men, transsexuals with women and groups. Transsexual sites typically stick to one of those niches, but you get them all on Trans Boxxx. The bad is pretty straightforward and maybe even expected. Some of the models look like they’re new or newer to transsexual and are just men who are crossdressers. You have a smaller percentage of models that look more like women than men.
If you’re familiar with Porn Box, you may already know and expect the navigation problems. The scenes are very tagged and that makes them show up in searches that are at the mercy of the knowledge of the person tagging the scene. You won’t find a regular model list, but can click on the named models names and see all of their scenes.
You do get multiple new updates everyday. There is a chance, though, that you might not like any of the new updates for a week or more. Like with me, I like the solo scenes and the scenes with transsexuals with women. There will be times there are 10 scenes in a row that have transsexuals with men. Which is my least favorite niche in transsexual porn.
This site is so big that I believe it could be a con. Either that or have better, more accurate tags.
Because it’s mostly amateurs you do get some scenes where the models’ preferences and niches are being covered. This could be pissing, stretching the transsexuals anus with toys and frottage. Transsexual is already a polarizing genre as it is. These more obscure niches won’t help that any, but if you’re into transsexuals, you might like the variety which isn’t normal for transsexual sites.
I like transsexual porn enough that I like the more fetishy scenes. Anything that pushes the boundaries of what is normal makes me happy and aroused. I believe this site, for me, is a very good choice and it’s one I have joined twice in the last few months.
One thing that can be confusing is they do credit your account with “tickets”. I haven’t used any of mine. I’ve never been into watching cam shows,but you do get some free tickets.
The quality of downloads does help the site’s review score and it’s a site I will likely join a few more times this year.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
As others have said, the amount of content in this site is pretty exceptional - 14,601 with new updates almost every day - 15 updates so far in May, pretty much all women that work for the European studios, including new babes like Lia Lin & Karolina Geiman. The videos look great and can be downloaded in 5 different sizes, including 4k and new videos have BTS video as well. For me, what really makes this site super fun is the ability to peruse all the material they make available for purchase from all these other studios. The trailers are very entertaining and there's endless amounts of material to peruse using different tags, etc. Warning, though - video quality on the oldest videos is not high. For instance, I find recent videos to have bitrate of 3335 kbps while 2002 videos here have a bitrate of 1064 kbps
Cons:
Their C/S is no fun to deal with, in my experience. You ask a question, you'll be asked 5 questions back before you get an answer to the question you were asking in the first place. Interestingly, the best place to get action on issues may be Pornworld's forum. Most sites eliminated forums when they started to have member complaints about the site. I just checked out a forum thread where a member was complaining about a large number of videos on the site that were not playing to the end or were encoded at a poor resolution. Instead of telling the member to shove off, the moderator thanked him for the list and got it to people to fix the issues. The member who submitted the original list of dozens of videos on May 8 found only 4 videos with issues on June 1. So use the forum if you have C/S issues with this site.
Bottom Line:
Fun is a factor that is not accentuated enough with porn sites. For me, the massive amount of PornWorld material and the un-freaking-believable amount of non-Pornworld material that is available to peruse and check out is really fun and their new material is better than what a whole lot of other sites are doing.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Some absolutely gorgeous women, just Supermodel types from the 90s era
- Films had a real nice nostalgic softness dreamy feel to them- Great exotic style settings and backdrops
- Some good films if you've never been a member of woodmans films
Cons:
- Not the best quality here with resolution as movies made a long time ago
- I feel the women often underused in lots of these movies, often felt my expectations were not quite met
- Photos sadly not great in my opinion
- Porn scenes with plots on lots of movies
Bottom Line:
I have to say this site to me was one of them that looked good on the outside and I really should of looked more into the actual content as that was a serious letdown, having recently been on Woodmans network which included his woodmans films site and downloaded all I liked here and being really blown away by the beauties that appeared, let's just say OMG some of these women were knockouts, absolute stunners that I wish so much you saw the like in today's adult films. So soon after joining I was excited to see more of the same women with more content on this site. Sadly all the good stuff I'd already got, there was the odd movie I got of some decent stuff but lots I found lacked the good sex scenes and were more trying to be a normal movie with a plot-line than outright porn movies which I've never been a huge fan of mainly apart from classics like Emmanuelle.
One of the other main reasons I wanted to join was to see the images too as I remember the 90s style of porn magazines and the look of women in porn in the 90s and late 80s where classy not your fake eyelashes and over done makeup porn you see with stars of today's porn world forcing the glam look there was no need in the first place, these porn photographers and directors back then seemed to hire some super stunning natural women that just had class you don't tend to see so much now, weather it was the film they used back then or the photo filters but I for one love that type of porn, it takes me back to when I first discovered porn so has nostalgic value I guess. One major downside though was the quality of the image for content from the 90s and 80s is it isn't going to be high resolution and I knew that when joining but the images here just didn't really excite me much and were not as good as I'd hoped they might be. For one it was quite hard to find anything decent. You have to go through lots to find anything worthwhile as navigation on this site and search ability is next to none.
The sites is good to look at don't get me wrong if you've not been on the woodmans films site and got them then here is a great place to find those movies, don't expect any high resolutions as these movies were made mainly in the 90s and early 2000s maybe but there is some amazing models to be found that worked for Private in those days, women that you will not believed did porn Silvia Saint, Nikky Anderson, Blondie to name a few, lots of the movies here at least the best stuff in my eyes were directed by Pierre Woodman so lots of the movies feature anal and watching absolute stunning women doing anal on film is always for me a winner, lots of really exotic settings and some of the most beautiful porn ever shot I would think, wish there was porn being shot like this today with the same style of movie filters or whatever they used for that great 90s porn you see but with huge high resolutions, I for one would love porn to look like this quality but done now, sadly most directors at least that I've found film anywhere near as good stuff as found back then, I guess those type of models they used in these movies just don't choose porn as a career or if they did it's doing the self produced stuff on onlyfans or you'd see them on sites like Playboy or Femjoy.
Overall its a good site to discover how gorgeous some of the models were back in the 90s, and you'll discover some good stuff if you've never joined woodmans films before, if you have an have these movies you'll discover much less classics in my opinion.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
***Content, content, content… It’s very overwhelming at first glance at the number of videos that are available to you on first look of the site.
**Features the best stars in the industry from across the world.
*Video and photo quality is decent for what you may need or to satisfy your itch for many, many months plus the number of niche categories that are available for a viewer to search for.
Cons:
***The ticket based system that is available is a joke. The amount of money they are charging and/or the wait you need to do in order to acquire tickets. How about have those sites as separate entities instead of gouging.
**500 downloads per month limit… Sort of…
*The number of doubled scenes that need to be sifted through just to get the one that you have actual access to.
Bottom Line:
Intro:
What used to be known as DDF Network is now Porn World. When you sign up, it then transfers everything over to Porn Box. Not confusing at all. There is a ticket system that is involved, however, that is to access other scenes within the “network” of sites that include Anal Vids, Legal Porno, Bang Bros., etc. It should be noted that some scenes on those sites do find their way into Porn World, and at the very least the screenshot thumbnails of the videos do make that apparent. As a member, you are allotted a number of tickets per month without needing to make a separate purchase to acquire tickets. But, if you just cannot wait, purchasing ticket bundles is an option. There are 100+ studios associated with the network, however, not all are included with the initial membership and tickets will be needed to access those studios.
The photo quality:
Image size, in the gallery photos and not screen caps, that is seen mostly in the newer scenes is at 2592 × 1728 with 96 pixels per inch. The older scenes have pictures sizes at 2592 × 1689 with 72 pixels per inch.
The video quality:
Available downloads are in as follows and where available:
“WEB” - 640 x 480
“VGA” - 960 x 540
HD or 720p - 1280 x 720
1080p - 1920 x 1080
4K - 4096 x 2160
(Some videos will be at 60 fps, but most are at 30 fps.)
Also, video trailers can be downloaded. Some videos have “Behind the Scenes” videos available are are marked on the thumbs with 4K and Closed Captioning tags. The BTS scenes that are available are, what I feel are, true BTS scenes that show more of the directing aspect rather than the “silly off camera” stuff that can be seen on sites like Bang Bros and Vixen.
Pricing:
Month-to-month can run you around $30/mo. 2 month subscription is at $55 and 3 months runs at $80. As far as I can see, there wasn’t anything I saw that was for 6 or 12 months like most sites, but this could be an oversight.
Ticket packages that are available run from 10 tickets for $13, 20 for $24, 30 for $38, 50 for $60, 100 for $100, and 250 for $220. If you do the math on the ticket packages, it doesn’t really make much sense and you don’t see an actual benefit from making these purchases unless you want to go all in at $220 which equates to about $0.88 per ticket.
Studio subscriptions are available at $30 for Bang Bros. Box, Porn World Box, and Private Box. These subs come with the notice of purchase saying that if you have used tickets to purchases any scenes under any of those subscriptions can be refunded to your account.
Not every studio has the aforementioned monthly subscription offer. They do provide a total amount of value of tickets needed to purchase in order collect all scenes under that studio if they do not have a subscription offer. Example of this would be Giorgio’s Lab is valued as $2700 for the complete library currently.
The other stuff:
One thing that seems a bit odd to me was the download limit. From other sites, they all mentioned not having a limit on downloads. I am here to tell you that there is. Around 500 for the month is the limit. Yes. 500 per month. That works out to about 16 downloads per day and 125 per week. Not that bad for sites that set limits like that, however, I think it would have been better served to set a limit per week or day instead of month. If you are willing to put in the time on it, that limit can be reached in a day. The nice thing, like the majority of sites, you can still stream unlimited.
Recommendation:
The scenes are varied and plentiful, so there shouldn’t be any worry about not being able to find content that suits you for that day. It is overwhelming to see how much there is. I’m not sure if there’s anyone that would have enough time to watch half of the scenes available on the initial membership. Since there is so much, you will find your fair share of duds and overall flat scenes that just don’t do a thing for anyone on all fronts. There are a handful of scenes, mainly of models that I looked for, that were well represented and done well enough to be satisfying to watch, and even fewer that I see myself going back to over and over. One thing that I wish there was more of is the sensual stuff. Being that the site doesn’t really touch on the softer and more intimate side of sex drops the rating for me, but one thing is for sure is that the porn here goes hard and that is enjoyable to view as well.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Should be called an adventure in avoiding clicking the wrong thing. There’s a DDF Network in here somewhere.
- If you have the patience and no itchy mouse trigger finger, it’s not a bad site at all.
- The navigation is pretty good once you mess with it enough.
- Susy Gala, where the hell did she come from?
- Joining and canceling seem simple enough but their promos do not work. I will explain in the bottom line.
- If you want the short version, the DDF Network is in Porn World and Busty Porn World. I will have to explain this in the bottom line. They have seriously complicated this.
- The navigation tabs are the whole key to making this site work.
- Averages more than an update per day.
Cons:
- It’s not good when I laughed before typing this. Lets just say here, it looks like they have around 50-100 sites on this one site and you have access to two of them. The rest require you to purchase tickets. And no, I’m not clicking the tickets to find out how much they cost.
- Going to a particular model’s page from the model list not only shows you which scenes you do have access to but also blends in the ones you have to have tickets to watch or download. I will make a comment in the bottom line about that.
Bottom Line:
I bit the bullet as they say. I’m a huge fan of the DDF Network and have been since the day they launched the DDF Network. I can tell you the DDF Network is running strong on Porn World. For some reason they do have it separated into Porn World and Busty Porn World (DDF Busty) but I do believe all the scenes are here. Those two combined: Porn World lists 14,008 scenes. Busty Porn World lists 1,942 scenes. That’s almost 16,000 scenes. All the scenes have multiple download options on those TWO sites. The newest scenes have 4K, 1080p, 720p and a couple smaller ones listed as VGA and WEB. Each scene has a full picture set that can be downloaded too. That part, in my opinion, is very good. It could be better. I don’t like that all of the DDF content is now listed just as Porn World or Busty Porn World. You have to dig through the scenes to find the scenes from the different DDF sites but it’s all here from what I can tell. Porn World itself updates daily and Busty Porn World updates 2-4 times a week. I can tell you based on my old stored files, the numbers look accurate on specific models I have collected from DDF.
Now, take a deep breath. On the main screen when you login, and by the way, you are still sent to Pornbox, not Porn World. It’s like someone got a bargain of urls and has to use them all. I’m going to count how many sites are on the main page. You thought I was bullshitting with the 50-100 sites estimate in the cons, didn’t you? There are 158 sites/studios on the main page. Including Bang Bros, Bang Bros add-on sites like Dancing Bear, CFNM Show and every content-maker on Legal Porno. I can get around this. I have figured out click “Porn World” and “Busty Porn World” but you know curiosity is going to cause me or you to at least look at those others. Where I’m going to get a little frustrated is there’s a button that says “Filter studios with full access membership”. I did that. It’s 57 sites/studios showing as full access. I don’t know about you but “full access” means full access to me. You have to have tickets OR you can join the sites. I will use Bang Bros’ add-on site Dancing Bear as an example. It says you can buy lifetime access to the site for $30 or you can buy specific scenes with tickets. I took the risk after saying I wouldn’t. The tickets are 42 for $29. One Dancing Bear scene costs 12 tickets. It’s clearly a better deal to join for $30 but it only lists 82 scenes. Dancing Bear had around 105 scenes when they shut it down. Every single site they have has different rules and prices to join them. The Bang Bros one has 9 lines of rules, something about you can download the last 31 days of new scenes. I am sure there’s another charge to get “full access”. Just avoid that shit.
Porn World and Busty Porn World are good deals. The promos, I received one in email for 3 months for $29.95. Its regular price is $44.95 a month. I clicked on it and the price was $24.95 for 1 month. There was no 3 month option for $29.95. Going to the site through the PU link, the offer was $24.95 for 1 month, the same as the offer they offered me for clicking on the 3 months for $29.95 promo.
Back to Porn World and Busty Porn World. Very good DDF porn. I said for years, the DDF network was my favorite network and the new scenes do not disappoint. It’s just the complication of everything. Where are the House of Taboo updates? Where are the Hot Legs and Feet updates? Where are the Only Blowjob and One By Day updates? They’re all blended in as Porn World. It’s a hassle. I think the part that disappointed me the most was going to a model’s page, I listed her in the pros … Susy Gala. If I search for Susy Gala there are 34 scenes I can download with my Porn World subscription. It says they have 118 scenes of her. Since I don’t have an itchy mouse trigger finger, I clicked to see more. Most of them are not even Susy Gala. The scenes are of other models named Susi not Susy and looks nothing like Susy Gala. Here is what I have figured out.
At the top of any page there is a tab for “library” click that. In the search box change “store” in the drop-down menu to “library”. It then lets you just search within the scenes you do have access to. Once you do that or just go to Porn World or Busty Porn World, you’re at least out of that 156 site/studio minefield. I’m going to score it well. Once you get beyond the hassle, it’s DDF Network and the tags at least somewhat lead you to specific sites from DDF, like the tag, “masturbation” that’s usually going to be One By Day content. It’s workable and manageable but the top score I’m going is 90. I believe my last DDF Network review was 98. Patience, calm the itchy mouse trigger finger and focus. It’s better than not having any access to the DDF content.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Vintage and classic porn DVDs from the 1960s – early 2000s.
Downloadable magazine photo sets from the Private magazines also going back to the 1960s.
The site is laid out well, with selections for movies, models, magazines, 00s, 90s, 80, 70s, 60s, also has a section for black and castings.
Currently have exactly 400 models with some having over 100 scenes each.
Just under 1,900 scenes, unlimited downloads.
Can also search by full DVDs, there are around 300 full DVDs, including the very first porn DVD I watched.
Cons:
I am not for sure how much of a con this is, but the videos have only one download option. Besides that, a lot of these scenes seem very short (some under 5 minutes).
No category search or tags
They have updated, but there are no dates and no way to know how often they update.
The filenames do not have the DVD’s title in them.
Bottom Line:
One of my favorite sites is Vivid. I only watch their “classic” DVDs. The stories are usually at least better than we see in current DVDs and I think the models are more believably into the scenes as in newer porn DVDs. I was recommended this site as similar to Vivid Classics and in some ways, it is, in other ways it is not.
I do like the magazines section. Being from India, I have very little experience with the porn magazines and seeing the photo shoots from those shows how much porn has progressed.
One part I misread was I thought I also received access to private.com, which has their newer scenes on it, but you have to join it separately.
I have not watched a lot of the oldest scenes. I like the 90s and 2000s. They not only have some story and continuity from scene to scene, but also do not feel like current porn. The production does not seem as planned out. When I watch newer DVD scenes it seems like they follow the same exact plan from start to finish in every scene. These scenes sometimes will just have oral or a quick sex scene that leads into the next scene. It is too bad these DVDs cannot be downloaded as one whole part. Considering the scenes are mostly standard definition (480p range), it makes the files small and I would think a full DVD would be under 1GB.
There is a good selection of models. I know of some of them. And even though it seems like some of the scenes have been edited, these are still the only porn DVDs I really like. You can even get a porn history lesson here by watching the DVDs from the different decades. I think I would call it the evolution of the cumshot. The older scenes were mostly body cumshots, then the boobs cumshots and into facials in the newer scenes.
I do not know why these older scenes have a more authentic feel to them, but they do. Maybe they were better actresses?
The site really needs a tag system or categories. You are just handed the site with newest updates and have to decide what looks good without knowing what happens in the scene.
The first DVD I downloaded was Tatiana 1 which was the first porn DVD I ever watched. I thought it was older than the site lists it as 1/1/1998, but it was still fun watching it again.
There are a similar number of classic scenes here as on Vivid’s site, the quality is overall similar to Vivid’s classic scenes and the stories are as well. I think that is the market this site would appeal to. If you are into classic Vivid DVDs, I believe you would like this site.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Lots of anal sex (if you're into that)
- Lots of content (pro and con)
- Adds multiple scenes daily
- 4K or HD on a lot of movies
- Search engine
- Receive a good number of tickets (45) when you sign up
Cons:
- Can be VERY expensive
- Too rough for some
- Download speeds can be abysmally slow (more on that later)
- Lots of content (can't get through it a monthly subscription)
- Using videos from other studios (mainly DDF)
- Scenes can be repetitive
Bottom Line:
First real review and I thought this would be a good one because I did enjoy this site.
LP does use a ticket system and can get expensive. When you first sign up for $29.90 you get 45 tickets to buy any video you want or like. Most of the newer scenes are 5 tickets each. The majority of scenes are 3 tickets each. Scenes are quite large so ensure you have lots of space on your hard drive. LP also has a member area where once you buy a scene it is always there. You need to keep your subscription active to access or you need to download the scene before your subscription expires. There is also a feature where you can buy a months’ worth of scenes for $29.90. Additionally, you can also subscribe exclusively to any studio for that makes up LP. What you get for a ‘subscription’ is access to that one studio only AND only access to what that studio uploads for the 30 days you’ve subscribed.
Models are young and attractive and are mainly from Europe. I was hoping for a certain model (Apolonia Lapiedra) to appear but I think this site is to hard core for her. Still, there are other models who are as equally attractive.
As another reviewer noted, quite a lot of scenes are from DDF under the name "Glam Porn" (currently 712 scenes). These videos also feature lots of anal but the scenes aren't as hardcore. Not sure how this will impact LPs future but if I wanted videos from DDF I would have signed up for them.
Download speeds varied from browser to browser. When I used Firefox, my speeds were terrible with multiple time outs. When the video finally did download, it was unwatchable. I switched to Chrome and didn't experience the same issue. Speeds were much quicker and the move downloaded perfectly. Not sure why but FYI.
Corresponding pictures are OK but not great. Sizes are good but they don't show the final cum shots. You get lots of pictures but no happy ending. I am a picture guy and videos have always come second. This isn't a negative to the site as there is a lot of content to look at but just be aware.
You can search the site through the genre section plus each scene has a list of talent and genre of that particular scene. I found this helpful.
Videos are offered in multiple resolutions, 720p, 1080p, 4K and file types.
Bottom line is this site IS enjoyable if you like anal sex. If not, you may want to avoid. My biggest gripe IS the ticket system as it can get expensive. I could easily see someone spending big bucks if they are into a certain type of genre but the scenes can get repetitive. I will definitely come back but not for a while as there are other good porn sites out there.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Unique scenes
- Rough sex
- Lots of anal
- Double anal
- Some triple anal (!!)
- Group sex
- Gangbangs
- Lots of content
- Adds multiple scenes every day
- Two file types and multiple resolutions available
Cons:
- No true subscription available
- Can be VERY expensive
- Too rough for many
- Download speeds can be abysmally low on occasion
- Peeing not available for the American market
Bottom Line:
I’m re-reviewing LP because the site has changed quite a lot since I last reviewed it and my opinion of it has changed a bit too.
LP remains one of the most controversial mainstream porn sites. One reason for that is what it offers is much more extreme than what is offered on other mainstream sites. Another issue people react to is that the site mostly operates on a business model that doesn’t include the typical subscription for a month of access to everything.
The system that LP uses is a ‘ticket’ system whereby you create an account with them and then are required to purchase tickets that you can then trade for scenes. It is also possible to buy the scenes individually with a credit card but the costs for this are more expensive than tickets. The number of tickets required to gain access to scenes varies widely, usually from 2 to 6.
The biggest downside to the ticket system is that it can get very expensive. I spent approximately $50 per month on this site for three years and still didn’t get all the scenes I wanted. However, I didn’t mind doing this because LP offers a unique product.
It does appear that LP is now offering a form of subscription. You can now subscribe to any of the individual studios that make up LP. What you get for a ‘subscription’ is access to that one studio only AND only access to what that studio uploads for the 30 days you’ve subscribed. That’s a serious limit.
Up until several years ago LP required an attestation that your credit card was valid. This is no longer required and you can buy tickets immediately after signing up.
The site itself is made up of several different studios under the LP umbrella. While there are nuance differences between each of the studios they are much more alike than they are different. The scenes have always pushed the boundaries towards the extreme edges of mainstream and over the past few years it appears that they have pushed even further. Most scenes feature more than just a male and female talent. They can have many different combinations though scenes with one woman and multiple men are very frequent. Almost all of the LP scenes added over the last few years feature anal sex. Vaginal sex, if it appears in any scenes, is simply an ad-on or is part of a double penetration. The anal sex is hard and rough.
Also over the past several years there has been a significant increase in the number of double (DAP) and even triple anal scenes. DAP is now commonplace.
None of the scenes have any setup or plot. The sex starts almost immediately.
There has been an increase in the number of scenes featuring women being peed on but for some reason this is edited out for the American market. (Yay Canada!)
The models are overwhelmingly from Eastern Europe and Russia though the last few years has seen a few American models. There aren’t many American models who are known for being this extreme.
As rough as the scenes are I’ve never seen anything even bordering on non-consent. I’ve bought and downloaded hundreds of LP scenes and can only think of a handful where the model looks overwhelmed.
Up until recently everything at LP was exclusive. It now appears that they are offering some softer scenes but these appear to be licensed from DDF. Don’t download the scenes from LP unless you only want one or two. A DDF subscription is likely to be better value for most. (More recently there appears to be an increase in the non-exclusive scenes so caution is advised.)
Last year LP underwent a major shakeup and it appears the dust is still settling. Two directors, one of them being a long-serving LP director was fired. There was some speculation that with the departure of these two directors LP could not keep up its update schedule. This may be a cause for more non-exclusive scenes.
Download speeds are often fast but I find times when the speeds are very slow, almost to the point where it’s best to leave and come back later. This is unacceptable for a company that charges this much for their porn.
In my first LP review I commented that the site was confusing. The site hasn’t changed but I retract that comment as I now find the search function and tags to be easy to use and effective.
Videos are offered in multiple resolutions and two different file types. VGA videos are offered though my preference has always been the MP4 files. Those are available in 720p, 1080p and 4K.
The bottom line is that this site isn’t for everyone. The porn is very rough (but not BDSM), almost all anal and even more than a few circus acts. To make matters worse, their business model is unique and not customer-friendly. Downloading LP stuff can get very expensive quickly. On the other hand, LP offers a lot of unique porn that appeals to a narrow viewer but if you’re one of those who like this style of porn then you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
huge selection of material
Good talent
Well shot scenes, lots of 4k scenes, plenty of formats offered.
The ability to keep track of what you have already downloaded, is great and i wish other sites did this
Good range of fetishes, porn types offered, have to use a vpn for some geo locked content, not offering piss videos in usa even though it is not illegal.
I like the simple format they use mostly of solo girl, for a bit in lingerie or similar, then bring in the guys. I also like some of the intros they do that are kind of bts
Cons:
some scenes are clearly shot better than others, lighting perfect in major scenes, seems to get a B team for others.
Expensive, the site has free videos, but most favorite videos need to be purchased with tokens that are purchased and received through membership. They now offer subscriptions to download all studio content per month, but to me this should really be a default feature for some of their network at least, paying a similar monthly charge as other sites should get you more than a handful of videos.
A lot of double and triple anal. Not a fan of double anal almost ever, and never have understood who exactly is turned on by three guys standing around a girl, all trying to get their dick in one hole. Is the girl supposed to love this? are the guys supposed to be super turned on by fencing with two other guys? than just do that lol. That being said, anal is probably my favorite category, but i like it when the performers seem to also like it, simple dp man i guess
Bottom Line:
It's my favorite porn site format I have come across. Kink comes in close second for content library and simple use. I've had subscriptions with Met Art, Brazzers and reality kings through pornhub, a few others. Besides LP and kink, I would not sign up for any site i have ever paid for again without hesitation. weak material and splitting up one website umbrela into a dozen like some do is unacceptable to me.
I know what I get from LP, if they have a month where I don't like anything, I save tokens for next month, If a good month for one of their studios, I can buy a one month subscription and get them all for one price, or i can buy more tokens.
Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
-Photo sets from the 1960s and '70s display a playfulness, a carefree approach to hanky panky only possible in a HIV free era.
-1st month is under 21 bucks with PU's discount.
-Ah, memories: For those of a certain age, Private XXX magazines were the first taste of hardcore. VHS was still years away.
-Attn youngsters: see what postal inspectors used to devote thousands of work hours to intercept.
Cons:
-Tagline .."..since 1965." yet the oldest videos only date to the late 1980s.
-Eye-watering, mind-boggling, erection-softening effect of clothes, hairdos, household interiors & infrequent shaving from the 60s and 70s.
Bottom Line:
By the late 1980s, Private was on the cusp of cranking out a steady flow of hardcore films with high production values often filmed at exotic locations. To get to that future, Private had to shoot sets that, while not in the same league as say 'Deepthroat' or Playboy, kept the studio lights on, the staff paid. These are the results.
As stated the oldest vids date only to the late 1980s. That's my guess as none carry the production year. Obviously porn stars are desired when fresh then less so as they grow shop-worn then face a transition period when they are either snicked at or admired for their locked in an era appearance. IMAO the gals featured in this 1986-9 stuff have a way to go, dare I say ten years?, before they can be considered hot or even retro by today's audience.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
This site has some pros
1) It feature 12 sub sites
2) Their are over 6000 scenes
3) Their are over 900 movies
4) They specialize in DP, Gangbang and Anal content
5) Their is one Fantasy Rape sub site: I Confess
6) Their is no download limit
7) Their membership is affordable with TBP Link
8) Their site is significantly better than the previous one
9) Their are a lot of HQ excellent pics for every shoot and the pics often surpass the excellence of the scenes
10) More than 5 updates per week
Cons:
Their are some cons with this site
1) You cannot download any 4k videos.
2) Their HD option for videos are a little suspect as the size of their files for HD range from 500 mb to barely over 1 gig.
3) Some of the sub sites require separate subscriptions, and some of the included ones are in low def.
4) 62% of their library is in Low Definition.
5) Positions you see on thumbnails and pictures will often not be featured in the sex scenes.
6) Their is a cross checked pre sale
7) About 10% of their HD Downloads are not hd and in fact the coding is so bad they are unwatchable.
8) Most of their current HD content is non exclusive and can be found sometimes in higher quality on other sites. Their LQ content is mostly exclusive.
Bottom Line:
The Good
The good news is this website is 100% better than its last incarnation. The video quality is significantly better too. Private is making a effort to improve and for that they should be praised.
The Bad
The bad news is nothing you will find on this website is better than what another website does. For example over 50% of the HD content on this website is in a superior format on Bang!. Almost all of Privates "HD" content is non exclusive. If your looking for DP then Kink, Bang! and the DDF Network do it better. If your looking for Anal then Kink, Holed and Tushy do it better.
The Ugly
My first paid online job was reviewing Private DVD's. It might surprise some people to hear that Private as a company used to be cutting edge. One of the first to switch to Digital filming they took huge advantage of this and filmed in exotic locations with decent budgets and amazing scripts and set pieces.
That version of private (When they were #1 in European porn production) is long dead. I am kind of a expert on this company so I can say their current business model is to pay the lowest amount possible per scene to paid contractors who loose money on the deal and have no viable livelihood. Their are many good documentaries on this to be found online.
How can Private turn things around?
Literally their IS a roadmap back to success. I am telling you guys at Private it is possible for you guys to hit #1 in Europe again. Literally INVEST in remakes of your very best movie lines. Start with Tatiana, Cleopatra, No Limits and work your way back to the Matador series. You will find the modern audience is dying for the old locations and set pieces and scripts. Even the "Tower" series so controversial at the time can be done MUCH more dark and hardcore now and will find a adoring audience. You guys have the road map to success you just need to follow it back to greatness and profits.
The Bottom line
So why did I join? Because I could tell from just the previews this new Private site was better than its last version. I was hoping they were back on the right path. I actually found some scenes that was exclusive and worthy of any collector of Flexible Sex & Tall Teens (Melisa, Mea Melone, Dila and Carry Cherry).
The bottom line is I do not give the current private my personal seal of approval. They earned a 70 because of their vast improvement in their site. But they are capable of a 100! Owners of Private for porn sake invest in your product, stop buying from bottom of the barrel private contractors. Hire some exclusive stars, rehire your old famous directors or cultivate some new ones. Follow the roadmap you yourselves already have and become the worlds number 1 website again.
I was profoundly unhappy that the 4k is streaming only, most of the library is LQ and the HD is questionable. My final verdict is Skip this site for Pierre Woodman's sites and for Marc Dorcel's sites. Their quality standards are up to modern times.
I have nothing for love and fond memories for Private as a company. Did you guys notice a remake of IT made millions at the box office? Remake your movies well and your website will flourish. You could even make the movies exclusive to the site!
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
+ Over 6,000 hardcore and lesbian scenes of mostly exclusive hardcore porn
+ A lot of attractive euro girls, mostly teen to early 20's with a few MILFs as well
+ $15 a month through TBP
+ No download limits
+ Good download speeds for me, about 2-3 mb/sec
+ HD files are not excessively large but no file size is ever given
+ Get to see a lot of porn stars, especially early in their careers
+ In browser playback is mostly smooth and you have different stream options
+ Allows for comments, saving scenes as favorites and rating scenes
+ Updates 6x per week
+ Mostly high production value, lots of exotic or unique scene locales too
+ About 90% exclusive content or at least Private media exclusive
Cons:
- Prechecked cross sale
- Support is a bit questionable
- Almost, but not quite, a site for picture oriented porn geeks
- Limited model info, model directory not complete
- Search functions limited and scene tags are too broad for a decent search
- File names are terrible
- About 40% of content is not HD and there's some psuedo-HD as well
- Some scenes get repeated/recycled, especially early on
- Cannot download 4k vids, only stream them
- Just because an update occurs today doesn't mean the scene was shot recently ... or even this century (I'm not kidding).
- Lots of anal and dp if that isn't your thing.
Bottom Line:
This incarnation of the Private website started in 2010 and consists of 251 pages of updates as of August 2017. This site is really a tale of 2 halves. Keep in mind that the date a scene is posted is not when it was shot. Thus, the oldest 125 pages is mostly content shot in the 90's or early 2000's on VHS and converted in 480 digital format. Ouch! Because Private was mostly about producing porn in exotic locales a lot of the early scenes suffer from poor lighting, poor sound, not so special special effects, tons of shitty background music, and the then European obsession with endless closeup shots. Because some scenes were shot in a foreign language Private decided to have the dialogue and sex sound overdubbed on some of these. I challenge you to not laugh as a low quality, poorly lit scene streams hideous overdubbed sex sounds from a double penetration with smooth jazz blaring in the background. Some early scenes get recycled too.
Things finally change with roughly the updates from 2013 onwards (the most recent half). You get HD vids on most updates. By 2014 you start getting reasonable picture counts with sizes coming in at 1600x1060 (96dpi) with some sets getting up to 1500x2300. 4K vids arrive in late 2015 but you can only stream at 4k, not download. They also get away from the obsession with closeups and some of the ultra exotic locales in favor of more set work with higher production values.
Here's some specs:
PICS: Not all scenes have pics (even recent ones) and most are at 1000x1500 (96dpi) with 1600x1060 sizes or larger coming since about 2014. The pic count offered by TBP and the Private is exaggerated. The early scenes only offered a few dozen pics at best and the majority of pics are mostly the obligatory pre-scene pose shots. Starting around 2012/13 you get more scenes with reasonable pic counts (80-200 per scene) without the endless posing. Like most sites, the vids typically show more action than the pics. All scenes with pics have zip downloads although file names are just a series of letters and numbers. The photo viewer sucks though, you only get 8 pics per page and have to frequently jump though a lot of pages to see if you want to download the zip. Pics aren't always in order either when viewing in browser or opening the zip file. The pics tend to be good quality but limited size makes this an iffy site for pic lovers.
VIDS: As noted above, a lot of the early content is just old standard media shots or VHS shots converted into 480p. 480 is only download option for about 40% of the content, otherwise you have options of 480, 720, 1080 or phone. HD comes along in 2013 but, suspiciously, you have 720 or 1080p as options no transition from 720 to 1080 or i to p on the HD. I didn't dig into this deeply but given the age of some of these scenes there is no way they could have been shot at 1080p. Thus, my claim of psuedo HD on some scenes applies. Download speeds were good though and the file sizes were reasonable I download mostly in 720 and half hour scenes were usually 500-700 mb. Scenes range from a few minutes to almost an hour, most fall into 15-30 minutes.
Navigation needs some work. Pagination is limited, but you can manually adjust for page numbers to jump around as needed. Model info is limited. Tags are too generic for any meaningful search and some scenes are mislabelled or tagged as well. As noted above, the picture viewer needs work. The inbrowser stream player works well and has the pop-up screen shot available on the time bar for most videos although how well it works varies from scene to scene. Really the only way to view this site is to page by page.
You signup (less prechecked cross sale) through rocketgate. To cancel you have to submit a support ticket. I was canceled within minutes but I did a confirmation email. Private also makes pretty clear that they don't do support.
A lot of the older content is endemic of what Euro porn used to be: closeups, background music, actors looking at the camera, and very male-centric in that the hot girls are really just willing props with an orifice for you to stick your meat into them. Often, if it went into one orifice it was going into all three. More recently it's a lot more reflective of what you see on DDF, 21st sextury and teenmegaworld. I stunned to see some heartcore type as recent updates. The scenes also have more of a story arc (no dp's within minutes of a girl meeting 2 strangers in the woods) and less emphasis on exotic locations and more on production value. While the production value rises some of what made Private Private has disappeared. It's less focused on exotic locales and scenes with lots of hardcore action and is now more generic in that the scenes now look like they could be shot by any of the major Euro companies.
Overall, the site gets most of it's points from the fact that there is so much content. It's too big to fail but could be better.
Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Excellent HD quality. Some videos are as good as 1920x1080, 12000 kbps. Many new videos are also available in 4K.
-Huge website with something like 2500 videos. The exact number is very difficult to find due to the strange way the site is organized.
-Probably the biggest anal themed site on the internet. Much of it is also interracial, black on white.
-Has previews for every video and an extensive tag system so you should have a good idea that you will get if you want the video.
-Updates are daily. June had 31 new videos and May had 60.
-Screenshots for every video.
Cons:
-Extremely slow downloads. Worst speeds I have ever seen on any site.
-Can be the most expensive site you will ever join. You buy what you want, but some videos can be free.
Buying videos can be tempting as it makes you feel that you are the proverbial kid in the candy shop.
-The site layout is counterintuitive as well as being a bit unclear as to how the ticket system works. You need tickets to purchase videos.
-Most of the videos look like the porn style of several years back. A lot of stripper outfits and funny angles in the videos.
-Anal is fine with me, but double and triple anal sometimes looks too much like circus acts. Some scenes are hot and work but many dont and come across as too staged.. I cant imagine what the models think about these acts.
Bottom Line:
This site is unique in many ways. Unfortunately, not all the ways are for the best.
You dont exactly buy a membership, you buy tickets that can be used to buy individual scenes. The best deal is for three months and that is what I signed up for. For that you get 120 premium tickets, but not all at once. Every month you get 40 tickets. The newest videos cost about three or even four tickets, which comes to about 30 videos for $80.
You also get access to videos that utilize another pricing plan. For every day you are a member, you earn a free ticket. These are not the same as the premium tickets I just mentioned above. The videos that you can buy with these range in cost from 1 ticket each to maybe three or four. So that gets you as many as 90 videos in addition to those using the premium tickets. Two problems exist regarding these. First they are of lesser quality and second, they are hard to locate on the site. I never found a simple way to get a list of exactly what they have so I could make an intelligent decision as to how to spend my tickets.
The third category of videos are free and there is no ticket required. They are from several years ago and the video quality is quite a bit less. In fact, in many cases there is no option for HD. Not very interesting, I downloaded many and then deleted most as I did not find them interesting.
The site itself is huge. They update daily and on some days there is more than one new video. They proudly showcase the newest and most expensive videos, making you want to spend even more money than the initial membership price. I felt like I was a kid in a candy store.
Before you buy a video, you can see a short preview and there is a system involving many tags. You can even preview the screenshots. This is helpful as no way can you download every video they have on offer.
The download speeds are abysmal. They vary throughout the day but mostly they are so slow that a 2 or 3 GB video can take hours to download. I mean hours as in maybe 3, 4 or even 5. I got slow speeds here that I have never seen on any site and I am not exaggerating.
Most of the videos can only be described as extreme. Most are anal, double anal or even triple anal. Some scenes feature so many performers that you know they must be expensive to make. Some scenes are fairly hot and the performers are into the action. However, most scenes are pure staged gonzo where no one enjoys the action. Many would call this circus porn with no enthusiasm. Many, many scenes are interracial black on white. This basically does nothing for me. I like a variety of races in the women, and this site does have a few but not many, scenes with black women and a few with Asians.
In a lot of cases the women are wearing stripper clothes and the scenes are shot on weird angles. This was fairly common in gonzo scenes a few years ago and it never did anything for me.
The women are nearly all Eastern European, in their twenties and slim. Many are well known porn stars. As such they are usually very attractive and know how to perform in porn.
I would not join again despite their being many interesting videos that I did not buy. It is just too expensive for my taste.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Updated:
05-26-1704:07am (Update History) Reason: After spending more time on the site, I decided the site merits a higher score. The site does most everything right for what it is.
Pros:
$20.95 for 1 month with PU discount, recurring at $29.95.
RocketPay and Epoch are the credit card processors, trusted companies.
Although various sizes, quality of images is high resolution, jpeg.
A random selection of videos (mp4) indicates 720. While remastered and not true HD, they are of good quality considering their age.
1,189 photo sets (detailed below) which translates to about 60,000 photos.
55 DVDs and nearly 900 video scenes.
Updating at about 1 DVD per week along with regular scene updates.
Streaming and downloading; full DVDs and scenes can be streamed.
No buffering issue with streaming; good streaming quality.
Models look more natural compared to todays state of affairs.
Cons:
Pre-checked cross-sell at signup.
Membership does not include access to any other sites in the Private network.
DVDs cannot be downloaded streaming only.
Poor organization of videos, see comments.
Nonsensical file naming scheme.
Basic search only, i.e., no category search.
Non HTTPS
Bottom Line:
For those not familiar, a little background. Private Classics is a part of the Private Media Group which was founded in Sweden in 1965. Its magazine was the first color hardcore magazine. The first intercourse scene was published in 1967 which was groundbreaking in paving the way for explicit porn. Private is known for high budget videos and has won major AVN awards. The Classics site is for those looking for nostalgia. I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality explicit photos from the magazine. The was a more innocent time in porndom. Private seems to have been in a class by itself in that it combined explicit smut with high-end production values.
The photos are probably the main attraction with the videos and digitized magazines the icing on the cake. There are three distinct sections: videos, photos and magazines. Although any one of these sections could probably have gotten by as a distinct site, they are interrelated. The videos are from the 90s or early 00s while the magazine and photos span 4 decades from the 60s to the 00s.
The site is well organized and is generally simple to navigate once you get the hang of it. The videos, photo sets and magazines are separated by menu sections. The photos and magazines are then further segregated by decade. There is also a model section (which can be viewed any one of 3 ways) which includes all the content for each model, i.e., videos and photos. There is also a brief comment about the model as well as her vital statistics.
The video organization is confusing. I never completely figured out the distinction between the two video sections offered, Movies and Scenes. The Movies section lists the DVDs and you can stream the entire DVD. On the same page are scenes from the DVD which are available for download and streaming. The Scenes section seems to be a duplication of the content in the Movies section though there seems to be more scenes in the Scenes section. There is no explanation on the site for the distinction. After a while and only by scrutinizing, I noticed some differences. Regardless, there is no point in having 2 video sections.
Another peeve, though minor, is with the ordering of the DVDs and scenes. The Movie section (DVDs) seems to have no rhyme or reason to the manner which DVDs are listed, like chronologically. The Scenes section seems to list scenes in order of date added regardless of when they were filmed. However, it is not a major issue since all the videos are from the 1990s or early 00s.
There is only one download option for the videos though theres no indication of the quality. A random selection of videos shows them to be 720. However, since the videos are about 20 years old, they were obviously remastered and the quality is not true HD. All things considered though, the quality is satisfactory (full screen with a 27" monitor).
The videos reflect the magazine. The action is hardcore and varied including lesbian, straight, orgies, blowjobs and anal. To the delight of some, there is an inordinate number of group scenes and plenty of anal. Scenes run from about 10 to 30 minutes with an average of 20 minutes. The videos are unlike other hardcore. They are unique in various ways interesting locales like Mars [!!] coupled with above-average direction and camera-work. There are generally plots with at least an attempt at good acting. Most of the videos seem to be in French, many of which are dubbed in English. The models are European, good looking and seem to average in the upper 20s in age. The models have more of a natural look with a minimum of tattoos and silicone.
The photo sets are taken from the magazine. All the photos from the magazine seem to be in the photo section, so you can skip the, uh, intellectual articles in the magazine. However, dont skip it! They are downloadable in PDF and pleasing to the eye. Looking at the old magazines was a blast.
Photosets are zipped and sets range from a handful of photos to over 100; Ill guesstimate the average is 50 photos per set. As mentioned, photo quality is very good. A random spot check shows good compression quality. My abacus reveals the following statistics:
History was always a favorite subject. Private Classics is like a hot stroll down memory lane. Hosiery, high heels, honey bee hairdos, latex suits and natural breasts will take you back to a bygone era. This is a classy site and all 3 offerings - photos, magazines and videos, all merit praise. I found the Private material - magazines and videos, refreshing in that it was innovative, natural, shot in interesting places, and most of all, highly erotic Once you figure out the best way to use the site, there are a large library of photos, videos and magazine to keep you occupied endlessly.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Mainly top European girls
- Downloads are allowed
- Top quality scenes
- A lot of well known Pornstars
- A lot of not so well known Pornstars
- Over a thousands videos
Cons:
- No video previews on thumbnails
- Not a lot of videos are 720 or 1080
- Scenes are similar in nature
- Not every scene from Private is available here
- Interface could do with being a bit more up to date as it looks a bit cheap
Bottom Line:
Private is a site that hits hard when it comes to quality of the scenes. Whilst not every scene is available above 540 the way they make the girls look is second to none.
The scenes are exclusive but you can find some of them on sites that offer the Private label such as Videobox and Bang!
Do not make the mistake of thinking every Private scene that is shown on the homepage is available for the join price as their additional sites are separate altogether and require an additional subscription.
Many of the girls wear lingerie and have beautiful makeup which is just the kind of thing i look for.
I managed to download all the scenes i liked in a month so shop around for a good deal but you will be pushed to find it much cheaper than $14.99.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Outstanding content
Multiple daily updates
Good download speeds
All content can be previewed by non-members
Tickets never expire.
Videos are yours forever.
Cons:
Expensive
Overly complex business model
Poor navigation
Bottom Line:
Legal Porno is probably the most expensive site you can belong to. It has fairly poor navigation, is more complex to understand than it should be, and is setup more like a digital store than a traditional membership site.
Despite these problems, I believe it consistently produces the best hardcore content each day of any site I know, making it well worth checking out if you can deal with its cost.
As a non-member you can view trailers of all their videos the same way a member would so you'll have a good idea of what content is available and if it appeals to you before you join. I appreciate this over sites that hide their updates from non-members or offer no trailers. LP is upfront about their content offerings.
99% of the videos are of young slim Europeans doing very hardcore anal scenes that you'll either immediately love or hate. There aren't really any tame scenes on this site. Any model working for LP really earns their paycheck.
Each month you are a member you accrue tickets that can be used to purchase premium scenes. I've seen these scenes range from 1-4 tickets. They are usually just under an hour long and are available in 640x480 and 720p resolutions. I wish they were in 1080p but the bit rate they use is high enough that their videos actually do look quite good.
Once you get a movie (whether free or premium) it is added to your "PornBox". The PornBox is like a digital locker or file manager, and shows you all of the videos you've ever acquired and you can download them from here. There's no limit to how many videos can be added and one positive of this approach is that once you've added a video here it is always available. Even once you are no longer a member you can return and re-download anything as many times as you want. The videos are yours for life as if you bought them on Amazon, iTunes, etc.
I'm told joining used to be a hassle because they made you prove that your credit card belonged to you but that is no longer the case. You can join the site as easily as any now and there is no attestation procedure to go thru.
You can buy scenes or tickets a-la-cart if you want but it's a bad idea because it costs so much more. If you want the best value then you need to choose the option to be member for 3 months which costs $79.90. So yeah... not cheap.
For that you get access to 1500+ free scenes (these cost 0 tickets and are decent but mostly not HD) and each month you accrue 40 premium tickets you can use towards the newest premium scenes. It is worth noting that tickets never expire. So there's no rush to use them before your membership ends.
In addition to this, each day that you are a member you earn 1 "free ticket". The free tickets can be used on premium scenes that are over 1.5 years old.
So you end up with 120 premium tickets + ~90 free tickets over the 3 month time period. This is the best bargain available on this site but obviously not at all cheap.
I think the idea of 2 kinds of tickets is confusing and dumb. Personally I'm OK with using tickets for the most recent scenes because I understand it's costly to produce what they are churning out but I think all scenes over 1.5 years should be totally free for members and not use a separate ticket scheme. Since every day another 2-3 videos become ex-premium videos this would give a constant stream of hi quality free videos for members and would make me gladly keep a constant membership going.
I find this sight tough to judge. On one hand it's so pricey that it's hard to call it a good value. On the other, I can turn to any page on their site and I want virtually every video they have and every day they produce new videos that look just as appealing. I can't say that about any other site. On many sites I'd need to wait a year before there's enough content I might want. On LP everyday they have something I think is worth while.
If you like their content, you'll have to be the judge of exactly how much it's worth to you. But since you can view the trailers of all their videos for free there's no harm in looking :)
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Updated:
01-03-1501:36pm (Update History) Reason: One paragraph in the original was incorrect based on comments from other PU members. The paragraph provides accurate information now.
Pros:
- 1500+ free scenes
- Some unique porn if what they shoot is what youre interested in
- Supports download managers
Cons:
- Unique business model that wont attract any fans
- Can get VERY expensive
- Website is poorly organized
- Many scenes dont have female talent listed
- Search function isn't effective
Bottom Line:
Let me get one thing out of the way first: my opinion on this site is vastly different from pat362s and I want to explain why. Pats comments are true, accurate and valid and if he hadnt posted those I would have not known that this site was VERY different from everything else Ive ever joined. If I hadnt had the information that pat posted I would have written the same thing as he did. BUT having been forewarned by pat that this site uses a completely different business model I was prepared for that and willing to join anyway. Im grateful for pats comment since I went in with the full knowledge of what I was getting.
Further to the above, I think it is more accurate to think of this site as a store rather than a normal porn site. You pay your membership fee and that gets you access to 1500+ free scenes but if you want the newest stuff (less than a year old) you have to pay an additional amount. The flaw is that this can be an expensive way to get porn. But if this is the kind of porn you like then youll like it a lot.
One aspect that pat commented on was the attestation requirement. After you buy a membership you have to prove that you own the credit card you used. The process is simple: the site deducts a small amount from your card. You log on to your bank, confirm the amount and report that back to the LP site. The amount is refunded. The process took me less than five minutes. The process is an attempt to limit piracy.
The second thing I should mention before I get into details is that this isn't mainstream porn that will interest everyone. Most of the scenes here push the limits of hardcore. Most of the scenes are at least threeways and scenes that dont feature anal sex are rare. Youll also find milk and cream enema and pee play. The scenes are definitely NOT artcore.
You can choose different levels of membership with the difference being how many premium tickets you want to buy upfront. Once youre a member there are three different classes of videos the premium ones that you buy with the tickets you get with a membership, the ex-premium ones that you buy with free tickets (you get one free ticket per day when youre a member) and the free videos you have access to through your membership that you need no tickets for. It appears that videos that require paid tickets move to requiring free tickets after a year. It doesnt appear that the premium videos ever become completely free with a membership.
The site itself is a giant clusterfuck that needs to made more intuitive. I got used to it but it can be improved. Scene a model naming are a constant problem with generic meaningless names being given to scenes. Since Russian and Eastern European models change their names more than their socks I cant entirely blame the site for that, but its still annoying.
Newer videos are available in two resolutions 640x480 and 1280x720. Both are MP4. Older videos are only available in the lower resolution. I downloaded the higher resolution and those have a bitrate of 4500/kb/s so they look decent. The older scenes have a 2500 bitrate and they look okay too. Trailers are available, as are photos.
Many of the older free scenes are available elsewhere (like Videobox) but the resolutions here are usually higher than at other sites.
I used a download manager and had no issues with it. Download speeds varied and there were some times when the speeds were slow but most of the time they were okay. Sometimes they were fast.
You can buy scenes individually without a membership. One piece of advice is that if you do want to buy a few scenes work out the cost and compare it to a membership. Buying scenes individually is VERY expensive with that cost being about 3 times the cost of the tickets for the same scenes.
I found scoring the site to be difficult and I finally settled on a fairly low score mostly for objective reasons. The biggest of those is that the site isn't easy to use: it could use a major overhaul. If I factored in my subjective opinion on the quality of the porn the score would have been higher. If you like your porn with a harder edge youll love the porn even if you dont like the process to get it. I know the biggest criticism of the site will be having to pay for newer scenes, but think of the membership fee as giving access to 1500+ scenes and you can buy the newest scenes.
Id recommend the site with four caveats: go in knowing that the porn is a lot harder than whats available at most other sites, that the site itself is illogical, that unless youre willing to spend a lot of money youll be leaving the newest scenes behind and finally that business model is unlike any other porn site. If you do decide to join go in with your eyes open. Im glad I joined and Ill probably rejoin again.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
No download limits, DRM, or regional discrimination.
Upmarket glossy settings instead of the usual cum stained casting couch.
Different locations plus professionally produced and lit videos with some good angles, makes the material look different to the usual mass produced porn.
Good speeds on streaming and download.
Access to one of the most well established, and professional porn studios, giving access to a good variety of new and archive material.
HD videos look really good.
Zipped photos.
Consistent updates, albeit of different age and quality.
Very little filler material.
Their representative did take the time to appear at PU and answer concerns about cancellation problems.
Easy login.
Cons:
Cancellation not confirmed, took a number of messages and emails to confirm cancellation.
Awful navigation and search facilities.
Old and new, high and low spec videos, all mixed in together.
Clips from same dvd mixed up over different sites.
Some videos don't play.
Only mp4 available for download or streaming.
Too many fake breasts.
A little less material than on big sites.
Bottom Line:
This place is a delight and pain in the ass in equal measure, what you get though is quality stuff. Private is yet another dvd site masquerading as a network, so I use the main home page as base, then use the various sites as a filter and search facility. I am still finding some great material, but with no meaningful category search facilities, it is hard work and time consuming being a member. Browsing can be frustrating and no fun, if you spend more time searching than viewing.
On the main home page videos are not listed in chronoligical order of update, although scenes are, and so are the scenes on the individual sites, but updates are a mix of new and old material, so you get old 480 quality, mixed with 720 and 1080 quality, and scenes from each dvd are split up across the network on different sites. This has to be one of the most irritating porn sites to browse on the internet. Everything is mixed up together like an Eton Mess (created when a student dropped his dessert on the floor resulting in everything being mixed up. That sums up navigation).
For instance, if you go to Private Castings you will find a selection of videos with names like Guns And Rough Sex, Sex Auditions, and Cum To Daddy, split up into clips, but you wont find them all on the same site. For example, Cum To Daddy has a clip on Private Castings, but the other scenes from that video are to be found on both Russian Teen Ass, and Tight And Teen.
To me some of the older 480 clips don't look at all good, despite some glamorous and luxurious location filming, directors often can't resist changing from one angle to another, like you're going to get bored watching a beautiful girl getting fucked from the same angle for more than ten seconds, and once again there are far too many gynaecological closeups, and fake breasts.
Things could be so much more enjoyable with a little thought and organisation. Or maybe there is thought and organisation behind it all. Of course you don't think a company like Private just leaves it to chance do you? They've been around since 1965, and don't get to be in business this long by leaving things to chance. You think piracy is putting these guys out of business? I don't think so. They pre date internet porn, they predate video, they nearly predate me, but not quite.
Ah yes, video tapes, remember those? You'd make the effort, to go to one of those video shops, and fork out a lot of money buying the genuine article from some distant relative of the Krays, who'd only recently got the jail bars off his arse, but it was worth it, you finally had the real thing. Then you'd get it home and put it in the video machine, and wait, and wait, and wait...then finally, finally, after half an hour, it got to the good bit, and then it was over. WHAT!? That's as bad as my sex life, that can't be it!
But it was, and you didn't even have a remote control to forward wind. Ah, but they knew how to frame a shot, and they were actors, and it was all produced so well, but you just wasted an hour and a half of your life.
Porn is now vastly improved so I'm being a little harsh in judging Private who has to compete with the number of dvd's on the likes of Video Box or Videos Z, and the number of sites on 21 Sextury or Teen Mega World, and are attempting a sleight of hand at trying to make it look as though there is more than there really is. I think there's enough anyway, without the sleight of hand, even though the older material is far inferior in picture spec, though not in production. Making searching impossible and time consuming means longer memberships.
Same goes for the cancellation problem. It maybe designed that way for a reason. It took a number of emails and messages to get them to confirm my cancellation. One of the problems was their internal service did not recognise my membership password, so it was impossible to cancel using their links. Some of those missed cancellations are going to slip through "accidentally" which means more money.
The newer vids look very impressive, and if I was going to compare them to anything it would be to those early higher budget porn movies shot on film. Picture content is varied. Some clips have only 5-10 pics, some have over 100, and some have none at all, but they are of good quality when they exist, and can be downloaded in zipped form, or browsed through on the same player as the videos.
Private has lasted this long, mainly because they've maintained a high standard, and given people what they want - action, and done it with a style and professionalism that few others have. The videos don't all look the same as they do on some networks, due to a number of different directors working in different locations.
If not for the cancellation problems and navigation I would have stayed longer and scored higher. Just before I was due to post this review, the Private representative appeared on PU to answer the cancellation concerns. If that improves I will join again.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- 660 Private titles
- Likely the most lavish productions of any current large studio
- Stunning models
- Some HD available
- Supports download managers
- Lots of anal (might be a con for some)
- Updates with two scenes (not full DVDs) added per day
Cons:
- Not a true network of sites as indicated
- Download speeds can vary
- Sorting functions are limited
- A few minor issues with separate links leading to the same scene and wrong star names
Bottom Line:
This is one of the better studio sites where Ive had a membership, but since I find most studio sites lacking in some key areas that isnt necessarily praise. This is a good site that offers solid value though.
Youll note that I refer to this as a site while others consider it a network. The TBP review notes that a membership to the main site comes with ten sites in total. Thats sort of true, because those other sites exist, but it is also misleading. The additional sites contain nothing different from what is on the main site. The additional sites are more like niche tags. If you sort by DVD and then open a DVD youll see that some of the scenes in the DVD are tagged with the watermarks of those bonus sites. While this may be useful for sorting a niche you like, no one should join expecting access to both Private and bonus sites offering additional and unique content.
Currently the site has 660 DVDs available. Unlike so many other studio sites it appears that Private hasnt neglected to upload some scenes in DVDs. For those who know Privates videos they dont need an introduction, but for those not familiar with them, Private is a European studio (likely the oldest in the industry) known for high quality productions. The studio uses only the best looking models (mostly European but a few American A-listers too), has incredibly high production values and often shoots in exotic (and expensive) locations. Like so much of European porn, anal sex is frequent which may deter some members. If the site has a weak point, it isnt the quality of the porn.
The sites main weak point, as seems to be common with studio sites, is in the website execution. The site itself is simple, which in many cases is an advantage, but in this case more detail and options should be made available. For example, when sorting by DVD (my preference) the only option is to sort by popularity or title. There is no option to sort by upload date or HD versus SD content.
Ill confess that Ive become a bit of a size queen in recent months: life is too short for low res porn. The result is that unless there is a specific scene that I really want, I wont download anything less than 720p. On this site, that meant leaving a lot of porn on the table. (I cant really say how much HD is available because there is no way that I can find to sort for it, but I estimate that maybe 40% is available as HD.) Given that some of the DVDs available here were filmed prior to HD I cant fault the studio for this and I assume that all newly shot and uploaded DVDs will be available in HD.
Where only SD is available there is usually only one option of 720x480, though some come in at 720x540. The only file type offered is mp4. Many scenes also offer a lower-res version for mobile devices.
The HD scenes still only offer mp4 but there are more options for resolutions. Those are 480p, 720p, 1080p and mobile. I downloaded the 1080p and those came in at 1920x1080 at 4,100kb/s and 25fps. Interestingly (for a non-tech guy) the file sizes are much smaller than Im used to seeing for scenes of this resolution. I dont understand how theyre encoded, but the site really has struck a great balance between how the scenes look (they look great clear and crisp) and the file size. I certainly appreciate their effort.
Scenes are also available for streaming in the same resolutions offered for downloads.
The site allows download managers and I had no issue with timeouts. I realize that some have reported being limited to five downloads at once, but since I only use a manager to queue up downloads for one-at-a-time download I had no issues. I was also able to continue navigating when downloading contrary to what some others have reported. Download speeds were up to normal standards but I did see speeds drop off on a few occasions. I usually saw 10+MB/s but it could drop as low as 3MB/s for short periods.
A couple of minor issues popped up in that on more than one occasion I went to download a scene and my download manager said I already had downloaded it. It appears that some of the links may lead to the wrong scene. Another relatively minor quibble is that on maybe a dozen or so of the scenes I downloaded the female talent was incorrectly listed. As this is the studio that shot the video Id like to think they could avoid this mistake.
The bottom line for me is that this is a solid site that offers a lot of top-quality porn for a fair price. While the site could use more tags and search tools, and should continue to add HD content, even as it stands it offers great value for your porn dollars.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- That feeling you get the very first time you log on as a member to the website of one of the older, classier purveyors of adult material who has shown the ability to combine eroticism, beauty, and proper cinematic techniques to create some of the better adult films in circulation since the '60s.
- Um...
- Not constant login requests like a few other big name sites.
- If a grad student were researching "how companies unintentionally encourage the pirating of their material" then I'd recommend visiting this website. I think it could be an extremely useful example.
Cons:
- 250KB/s max on a 6Mbps DSL connection. ~150KB/s most of the time.
- You're not allowed to queue downloads, so you'll only be able to get whatever you sit and monitor and click (and re-click when it fails) to download. Maybe you'll be able to get 8 scenes per day.. Maybe twelve?
- Constant "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors if you try to look at other pages after beginning a download. The site supposedly allows four connections, but I ran into trouble with less.
- Repeated "size mismatch" errors when using download managers.
- A laughably small collection of movies for a 50 year old company.
- 350 movies wouldn't be so bad if they were decent quality, but most are comparable to early 2000's VCDs. Yep. That poor. I'd estimate only 25% or so are HD.
- You'll be lucky to download the HD movies without the connection failing or the speed dropping to 0kbps, and, when it does, you'll be lucky to resume. If you can, guess what? You start over. Hooray
Bottom Line:
Videobox has almost 300 Private videos available, consistently fast connection speeds (600kbps+), and the .264 quality is better than Private.com's standard quality. Not to mention you can use download managers at VB and queue up dozens of movies to view later. It looks like they offer HD now, too, so there is absolutely no advantage to joining this site. It's a frustrating waste of money.
Seriously, don't do it. You'll be disappointed that the site even exists and you'll think to yourself, "Wow, I just wasted $30" or "I could've put that money towards a _______ membership."
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Since I keep getting responses to my comment, I figured I'd go ahead and write a review. Hopefully this answers everybody's questions.
-Good size archive, almost 500 downloadable DVDs, 1160 zipped photosets, 200 downloadable full magazines.
-Partial magazine archive, most of which is downloadable in PDF format which is excellent quality. I'm not really sure "quantify" good quality for a pdf, but they appear to be digital prints of the magazines, not scans.
-Decent download speeds, I almost maxed out my connection - 1.4 MB/sec in Eastern USA
-Downloadable zips of photosets and magazines
-Video quality is acceptable 640x480 1500 kbps on high
-No DRM
-Photo quality okay, 1200x800 for the newer stuff 600x400 for the older stuff
-Good price with TBP discount
Cons:
-Navigation is downright aweful. If the navagation was similar to what is shown in the preview the site would be much better. I ended up keeping a window of the preview open so I could figure out which videos had which stars in them.
-Have a search function, but it is basically worthless unless you know the title name you are looking for
-Even when you find the DVD you are looking for, the thumbnail previews of the scenes are so small you can't tell who is in it. They don't even list who stars in the DVD or scene when you get to the DVD page.
-Download managers do not work
-Content not exclusive, many Private DVDs are available on sites like Videobox.
-It just takes too much time to sort through it all, I gave up and moved on
Bottom Line:
I think this site is the perfect example of a site that could be great with some major fixes to navigation and setup. Based on the amount of Pros I listed, you may think my score is far too low, but sites like this just piss me off. They certainly have some great content, and if you have the time you can find it - but why have the preview area show reasonably good navigation and then when you join the site it is terrible? I kept thinking there must be something I'm missing, like you have to click somewhere to go back to a "home page" or something. I can't stand sites that use this type of "bait and switch" tactics. Navigation, especially with a site this large, is pretty much THE MOST important thing.
Based on the stuff I found, if they fixed the navigation issues, added much larger thumbnails and scene previews, this site certainly could be excellent.
Even if they say they fix the navigation problems (see the Webmaster's reply to my comment) I would be hesitant to join again. Thus, it would be hard for me to recommend to anyone unless they have boatloads of free time.
Sorry if my Bottom Line sounded more like a rant, but content providers need to learn not to mislead customers.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
great looking women
Cons:
DRM. I see where s review on this site says no DRM anymore.....I'm here to tell you as of 8-29-09 they have a 7 day DRM. That means after 7 days it doesn't work. To add insult to injury they don't mention their DRM policy before you join. Additionally they do not respond to emails asking for an explanation.
the search function is close to useless
very difficult and non user friendly signing in protocol
Bottom Line:
Do your self a favor........Stay clear of this site....
Private.com apparently does not care what we think and see themselves as above having to respond to our legitimate concerns and complaints.
Arrogance is not an attractive attribute and Private.com embodies that very word.
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