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| 02-07-19 02:24pm - 2145 days | #480 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Phew! That's a relief! I'm glad to hear you say that. | |
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| 02-07-19 02:18pm - 2145 days | #92 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ This was the thread that I mentioned in my post to you last night on the raffle thread. I'm glad it got resurrected. | |
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| 02-06-19 05:55pm - 2146 days | #462 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Cyber, I know that I can't say anything to solve this, but please don't leave us. You are one of the longest 'serving' members here (we both joined in 2007!) and while TBP/PU has seen some ups and downs the site is one of the best communities for people who share our less-than-appreciated hobby. I know I'm not alone when I say that the community here would miss your contributions. RA | |
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| 02-06-19 05:51pm - 2146 days | #461 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I've been mulling over weighing in on this because I think both 'sides' have good points. It is really frustrating for regulars who put a lot of time, effort and money into joining and reviewing sites to see a potentially biased review win the raffle. But... I visit here regularly and I didn't pick up on this as a possibility until it was raised in this thread. I get why PU staff want to encourage new members. I can't say for sure (though I could easily check) but my first reviews were probably short and crappy. But I remember very distinctly that a senior member here (I forget who, this dates back 12 years) had posted a thread in the forum about how to write a good review. I'm a lawyer by profession so I can generally write but this was an eye opener and changed how I wrote my reviews. Believe it or not, writing legal opinions and porn reviews don't have much in common.  After some time of following a recommended formula two things happened. The first is that I developed my own style and the second was that I really started to enjoy writing the reviews and posting them here. I like contributing to this community. So the bottom line is that while there could be some work to do in weeding out potentially biased reviews I'm okay with the PU staff erring on the side of caution to try to grow the site. But trust me, I do understand everyone's frustration. Maybe we all got duped here. | |
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| 02-04-19 05:21pm - 2148 days | #3 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I don't know if I've ever seen the original. I was born in '66 so it's possible but I'm guessing there were a lot of remakes and sequels too. The early to mid 1970s was a great time to be a boy with the resurgence of monster-themed movies. This is a bit off topic, but in maybe '76 or so I was at a Saturday Matinee with some friends where it was a double-feature monster show. Obviously someone hadn't watched one of the movies thoroughly because there was a scene in one of them where there are a bunch of women frolicking in an underground hot spring. It turns out they were nekkid!!! Wanna guess how we learned that? The one shot I remember distinctly was a woman with at least D-cups bobbing out of the water. Oddly, I'm a small-breast fan. What's even more interesting, for me at least, is that without even knowing what the movie was called, and without even looking for it I stumbled onto it on YouTube several years ago. I'd say it was like finding a needle in a haystack but that isn't the right analogy because it presumes I was actually looking for the needle. I tried watching the movie but it was so bad I couldn't make it more than a few minutes. So I just skipped ahead to see the tits.  The movie title is "Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks" from 1974. | |
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| 02-03-19 12:06pm - 2149 days | #5 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ I hate all sports as rabidly as someone who love sports must hate common sense.  Thanks to TBP/PU for posting some great deals. I won't make the same mistake I did at Christmas and join so many sites that I couldn't view them all. | |
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| 01-30-19 03:18pm - 2153 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Thanks for taking the time to write that. It's interesting to hear the perspective of someone who was paid (though not much I guess!) for doing something that PU members do as a hobby. Even though it is just a hobby I take it seriously and it's obvious that many others do too. A review takes me several days to write and edit and for the past couple of years I won't even start to write until I've done a deep dive on the site AND watched a lot of what they have to offer. | |
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| 01-27-19 07:17am - 2156 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Bam Visions has some of the best video quality that I've come across in a long time. They use very high bitrates for all resolutions. The downside is that the file sizes are relatively large too. I don't agree with spank1 on Kink having top quality video. They aren't bad but they are barely state-of-the-art these days. | |
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| 01-27-19 07:14am - 2156 days | #9 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Ouch! We've actually had a few nice days here with the temperatures just above freezing. That followed a hellish week of snow/freezing rain/rain that flooded and then froze solid. The city was shut down for two full days. Spring is coming though! | |
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| 01-24-19 02:59pm - 2159 days | #4 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Hmmm... there may be some interesting stories in there. Consider sharing. On point, however, I share a lot of your thoughts. I'm frequently annoyed that as a regular subscriber to some sites that I still get no respect. I'm not saying a site has to go out of it's way to get my business, but simple things would go a long way. Not having pre-checked cross-sells would be a good start. Sure, offer me that additional site but don't check the box for me. If it's something I'm interested in and I think it's a good deal I'll join on own. Then, once I am a member and behind the paywall don't make your site a minefield. I'm looking at you Bang Bros.  Lastly, don't make cancelling my membership difficult. Two billing sites make this easy and painless - CC Bill and Epoch. Just use them or follow their lead. There are other decent billers too. I've subscribed to many sites that haven't used a biller but handled the transactions in-house. Many of those have been secure and easy to cancel. But some sites use billers that make things difficult for members. There are sites that I won't join anymore simply because cancelling is such a pain in the ass. So the site foregoes future memberships from me and hopes that they can cause enough people to end up with an additional months since cancelling is so hard. That's not a great business model. I'm not sure if this was on point or not. It turned into a bit of a rant. | |
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| 01-24-19 02:45pm - 2159 days | #3 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ I'm a bit off point like lk2fireone since I'm reaching back to the 1980s, but Ginger Lynn (as Ginger Lynn Allen) had a bit of success crossing over. I remember her playing a stripper on NYPD Blue. Dennis Franz's character (Andy Sipowicz) is at the club and gets a lap dance from Ginger. He looks at her and says "A Plus in the tit department, Monique." That line still cracks me up. BTW - the episode is "Tempest in a C Cup." It's season 1, episode 8. But more to the point, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more cam girls make the crossover or at least try. The lure of celebrity is big these days and there is less stigma about sex work. That stigma is still too strong, but it has moved in the right direction. | |
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| 01-22-19 04:02pm - 2161 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
On a different forum there's been a heated discussion going on about a certain website/network that may or may not have had an outbreak of something and may or may not have handled it badly. The initials are LP. I wonder if this story is related? | |
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| 01-22-19 04:01pm - 2161 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I hope this turns into a regular series. I'd definitely watch these. | |
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| 01-21-19 03:01pm - 2162 days | #7 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ I've been fortunate that when I started collecting online porn the internet wasn't fully evolved and there wasn't a lot available. As the offerings expanded and we got better internet connections I did okay in just taking one or two memberships per month. One thing that changed that was finding TBP/PU that offered discounts to sites. With discounts I'm able to join several sites per month. And with the reviews I can avoid crappy sites and scam billers. My most recent case at Christmas wasn't too bad financially because of the discounts offered. Many of those memberships were bargains. | |
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| 01-19-19 12:12pm - 2164 days | #3 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Mmmmm... Val Dodds...  | |
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| 01-19-19 12:11pm - 2164 days | #3 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Thanks for the comments. I do keep a record of my subscriptions. I use a table in a Word document. I track the site name, the join date, username, password, biller, the date I need to cancel and the date that I do cancel the membership. This has been a great tool for me. I can easily keep track of all my subscriptions and at a glance I can see when I need to cancel a membership. It also has the added bonus of allowing me to see past subscriptions dating back four years. That means that if I want to join a site I can check the last time I was a member there so I know where to start searching for new videos when I do join. And in some cases where I've been burned by a bad membership I can add a note so that I won't ever rejoin it. | |
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| 01-19-19 06:38am - 2164 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I’m not posting this as a humble-brag, I’m interested to know if anyone has ever made this mistake. Over Christmas I took advantage of several of the great deals that TBP offered and it turned out that for the first time in my porn-collecting life I got burned out and it seemed more like work. I joined Reality Kings which has around 20 sites that are active. I joined Nubiles Porn with around eight active site. I joined Team Skeet with around 20 active sites. I joined Mofos with a dozen active sites. I joined Naughty America with a bunch of active sites and I joined Kink with around 20 active sites plus a bunch of affiliates. I joined Tushy, Tushy Raw and Blacked Raw. On top of that I joined Amateur Allure and Black Payback without TBP discounts. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I got burned out. I had to force myself to go online at Kink and see what I wanted to download. My memberships are all drawing to a close and I’m glad for it. I think I might take a month off. Has this ever happened to you? (And I see that TBP is offering discounts to mark the AVN awards. Christ… can’t a guy get a break?!? | |
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| 01-16-19 10:10am - 2167 days | #5 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Ummm... you guys can keep Justin Beiber and Celine Dion. They're our gift to you! We'll take Shatner back any time though.  | |
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| 01-16-19 10:07am - 2167 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
That reminds me of a segment in the recent show by Sacha Baron Cohen called "Who is America?" In one segment where he is disguised as a Mossad agent and interviewing a pro-gun guy he talks about an Israeli program to arm pre-schoolers that they call "kinderguardians.' | |
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| 01-15-19 03:00pm - 2168 days | #3 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Okay, I know you're referring to a movie or TV show (I have almost zero modern cultural references) but that's pretty offensive to the PU members from the Northwest and Canada. I'm in Atlantic Canada and can confirm that WINTER IS HERE!!! If you like, however, I can send a few truckloads of snow your way...  | |
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| 01-14-19 04:49pm - 2169 days | #10 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Thanks for the link pat. I'll check that out and will probably take the plunge and buy it. I like Anastasia and collect first anals so this fits. I read some of the same posts that Hannah wrote last year. I agree that she'd be better off in terms of wellness if she found another line of work, though I will miss her when she does retire. | |
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| 01-12-19 07:51am - 2171 days | #8 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Damn it... I have no idea how I missed it, but I mistook Anastasia's second scene at True Anal for her first and somehow missed the first one entirely. It looks like I may need to rejoin TA sooner than I expected. I had heard that Anastasia did an anal scene for her own site but I hadn't heard any details about it so I mentally dismissed it with the expectation that it was likely poorly shot. I'll have to check it out. I agree with what you've said about Hannah. As much as I love to see her scenes she'd probably be better off in another line of work. | |
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| 01-10-19 04:25pm - 2173 days | #416 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I'd support the idea of scrapping the third place prize in place of a monthly membership at a site. I realize that PU is user-generated as opposed to TBP which is a commercial site, but what about the third prize being a membership to a site from the list of sites waiting for a review? Perhaps the better option would be to offer the membership to a site from that list but not require a review. Most of us would write one anyone I'm guessing. Just a thought. On another note, I've certainly written re-reviews of sites I've reviewed earlier but I always try to play by the rules and make the review different. Actually, for me to write a re-review something major has to have changed with the site or with my thoughts on it. That happened with Hookup Hotshot, for example. | |
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| 01-09-19 03:47pm - 2174 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Oddly though, I'd still like to explore where that octopus is coming from...  | |
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| 01-08-19 02:55pm - 2175 days | #6 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Like you, Burning Angel isn't a site I should like but I do. I like it a lot. | |
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| 01-08-19 02:53pm - 2175 days | #411 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Woo hoo! This works out great as I have a review close to being finished. (Is there an emoji for crossed fingers?) | |
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| 01-07-19 02:00pm - 2176 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I've never been a fan of tattoos but I've learned to accept them. They're just part of the current generation of women who would be looking to get into porn. If I'm going to lust after the 18-22 crowd then I'd better get used to the ink. (Though it's always a treat to see a new model with few to no tattoos.) | |
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| 01-07-19 01:57pm - 2176 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I hope she does come back into mainstream porn though she could probably make a lot of money on OnlyFans and stuff like that given she's got a big fan base. I've seen a photo of the new boobs and while I object in principle they aren't out of proportion to her overall body size. | |
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| 01-07-19 01:55pm - 2176 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I was pretty impressed with my memory too. I would have preferred to remember more of my favourite scenes but that's life. Just don't ever ask me what date my wedding anniversary is. I can get the month but the day and year, well, those are just a crap shoot. | |
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| 01-03-19 02:53pm - 2180 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Well... on the plus side I certainly did (and still am) enjoy all the memberships I bought. The downside is I spent three months of my porn budget in a few days.  (But I did get six months worth of porn.  ) | |
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| 01-01-19 06:01pm - 2182 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I had been keeping a running list of scenes and sites that were my favourites in 2018 but I somehow managed to delete in in the past few weeks. Oh well… I can remember some of it. I’m hoping this thread gets more posts. I appreciate reading what people have found good (and bad) in the past year in the business because it might allow me to ‘discover’ a new star I hadn’t noticed before or hear about and then source a scene that sounds interesting. So please add your thoughts to this thread! And I’m not proposing any structure even though my post will be structured. This can be a free-form thread. Favourite scenes (this would have been longer had I not accidentally deleted my list): I think this was an early 2018 scene – it’s on Daughter Swap and stars Samantha Hayes and Sophia Grace. One thing I really like about this site is it frequently has interesting scene set-ups and this is one of the better ones. Samantha and Sophia are being pimped by their fathers to make some money. One girl is encroaching on the territory of the other and a shoving match ensues. The pimps/fathers intervene and it turns out they’re long-lost friends so the four of them head back to home of one of them to work this out. They decide to go into business together and each father gets to ‘test drive’ the other daughter. Samantha has always been on the periphery for me but I really like her performance (acting and sexual) in this scene. That she looks amazing doesn’t hurt either! There’s a model who only has two scenes that I know of and both of them are amazing. The model is Baby Goth and the site that has both of her scenes is Hookup Hotshot. In May they released her first scene and in October she her first anal was added. I like this site a lot and there are certain parts of the ‘formula’ that make it work for me. These are two great scenes! Last week I downloaded a 2017 scene at the Reality Kings site RK Prime. It features Kelsi Monroe. That rocketed to one of my favourite scenes because it has some amazing public flashing and nudity in the Miami Beach area. Favourite new stars: This is a tough call because we saw many new stars join the business. My preference is skewed to younger models (18-20) and petite so the list of favourite new stars is skewed heavily in that direction. Probably heading up this list would be Anastasia Knight (she started in late 2017 but I didn’t find her until early 201  . She fits the image of perfection for me. Emily Willis has a couple of scenes in 2017 (at Girls Do Porn) but her mainstream career began in 2018. Emily hit the porn world like a storm in that in one year she shot over 100 scenes and became known for some pretty raunchy hardcore and can be seen as an anal queen. Jane Wilde would be another in my Top 10 favourite new stars. Others, who are tops in my list are Emma Starletto, Harmony Wonder, Kiara Cole, Naomi Blue and Paige Owens. Rounding out my list of favourite newbies is (in alphabetical order) are Addee Kate, Ana Rose, Asuna Fox, Baby Goth, Bambi Black, Chloe Temple, Gianna Dior, Hannah Hawthorne, Kiara Cole, Kitty Carrera, Megan Winters, Mi Ha Doan, Piper June, Rosalyn Sphinx, Sofie Reyes and Victoria Gracen. It’s probably fair to say that this isn’t an exhaustive list. Retirees in 2018 that I’ll miss: • Cadey Mercury (Her Twitter feed said she had a stroke) • Elektra Rose • Jada Stevens • Kylie Martin • Lana Rhoades (semi-retired, doing cam and chat stuff) • Megan Rain (who may just be on hiatus after becoming pregnant and giving birth) • Melissa Moore • Natalia Starr • Nina Skye • Piper Perri • Quinn Wilde • Tara Ashley Favourite first anals: As anyone whose read my reviews here, you know I love anal scenes and I’m always near the head of the line to buy a scene when a model I like decides to start doing that. Probably the biggest one for me was relatively recent when Lily Adams gave up her ass to Mike Adriano at True Anal. I had been praying for this to happen! It was a strong scene and I hope it’s the beginning of a lot more anals. Hannah Hays and Anastasia Knight would be a tie for the next big deal for me. Hannah did her first scene in Anal Newbies 7. She’s said more recently that she’ll likely not be doing more anal. I can respect that though this scene will remain in my collection and get watched regularly. Anastasia did her first at True Anal. Fortunately, Anastasia has the makings of an anal queen. Rounding out the top ones for me would be Carolina Sweets at Tushy. Some others that I really liked were Kenzie Reeves Emily Willis and Paige Owens, all at Tushy. Tara Ashley did her first anal at Mofos. Hookup Hotshot had three favourite first anals: Baby Goth, Ava Parker and Kyaa Chimera. Brett Rossi did her first anal for Tushy as well and that was probably among the most anticipated scenes like this all year. Jane Wilde lost her onscreen anal virginity at Hard X. Vienna Rose lost hers at Perv City. Zoe Bloom at Tushy was another. Honourable mentions are River Fox in Eager for Anal 2 (available at Evil Angel), Athena Rayne at Holed, Ember Snow at Hard X and Kitty Carrera at Hookup Hotshot. I recently discovered a set of Hungarian twins named Nicky and Kitty Fox. (I’ll be posting a site review where they have several scenes soon.) They’ve done their first anals for Pierre Woodman at Woodman Casting. I haven’t rejoined to see it yet but I will be soon. Favourite sites: These aren’t necessarily sites that started in 2018, they are just the sites that continued to impress me and that I join regularly. Hookup Hotshot is my #1 favourite again this year. I just keep a recurring membership there because I like it so much. I know this site isn’t to everyone’s tastes as it does lean to the extreme end of the spectrum. Oddly, my #2 favourite is probably as different as you can get from HUHS. It’s Amateur Allure. I first joined this site in 2014 and have been a regular subscriber since, even buying an annual subscription once when it was too good to pass up. It’s definitely on the tamer end of the spectrum but I really like the models they have and their formula works for me. Daughter Swap would probably round out the Top 3 for me. I like the scenarios and I like the old/young niche so this site is one of the few that hits both targets for me. Other sites that I subscribe to regularly because I like their work are: • Bam Visions • Bang • Blacked • Blacked Raw • Evil Angel • Exploited College Girls • Jules Jordan • Perv City • Swallow Salon • Swallowed • True Anal • Tushy • X Empire I can’t think of any new sites in 2018 that are on my list of sites I return to over and over. That may be due to me deleting my list. Some trends that I’ve liked over the last year: Rimming at Hookup Hotshot. Yeah, I know this is really specific but while f-on-m rimming had been in some of the earlier scenes it really has become part of the main event for almost all the scenes now. I like this niche and this is some of the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what effect this will have on the business but 2018 saw the continuation of models moving away from the traditional agent and studio business model and onto online platforms that allow them to cut out the middlemen. Sites like Clips4Sale and OnlyFans are examples of this. The problem for us porn buyers is that this can be very expensive. Another trend similar to the one above is that there are some studios that are now offering uncut versions of some of their scenes at Clips4Sale. Perv City is doing a lot of this. Admittedly what they’re releasing isn’t for everyone since what they’re selling there are unedited scenes when Mike Adriano worked with them and where the model barfs during oral. In some cases though it is entirely intentional as in a scene with Cali Carter and Tiffani Taylor where they each drink a banana smoothie before getting facefucked. In another related trend, and this may just be where I’m headed personally, though it does seem this is becoming more popular, is the trend to harder-edged porn. Models barfing from facefucking was rare even a couple of years ago and now it is more common. Hard anal with lots of gaping seems big now too. I remember 10 years ago when gaping was rare and now it seems common. As an anal fan, I’m not complaining though! A personal downside: Due to several factors the Canadian dollar has slipped to some of its lowest levels in a generation. It was only 10 or 12 years ago that the Canadian dollar was stronger than the American but those days are over for now. For me it makes porn buying more expensive. Oh well, I guess I can always eat less. Please weigh in with your own favourites from 2018, whether they’re new that year or new to you. | |
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| 01-01-19 02:59pm - 2182 days | #16 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I had no idea that this was an issue with SSD. Thanks for mentioning this. | |
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| 12-22-18 06:03am - 2192 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I stay put at Christmas. Both my wife and I have very small families and everyone is local so there's no need to go anywhere. I have a cottage on a lake about 45 minutes from home. I have to shut the water off in the winter but if time and weather permits I'll spend a night there over the coming week. Sitting by the fire with a drink will be the best Christmas gift I can give myself. Merry Christmas to all here at TBP/PU! | |
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| 12-21-18 03:21pm - 2193 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Thanks to all the staff here for some excellent discounts. I ended up spending a lot today but I got a ton of great sites. You guys make it easy to stretch my porn budget! | |
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| 12-21-18 03:19pm - 2193 days | #12 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Elena is definitely a favourite of mine too. I collect everything I can find with her. | |
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| 12-19-18 02:34pm - 2195 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I get so much pussy that I don't need to masturbate. I only watch porn for the story lines. | |
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| 12-17-18 04:41pm - 2197 days | #11 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I've been contemplating something similar but haven't done it yet. The closest I've come to that is during my last major overhaul I compiled all of the scene from one site that were spread across multiple drives on one. The idea of having one drive with all my favourites is something I've thought of though. The only downside to that is that I regularly watch obscure stuff buried in my collection that then becomes a favourite. If I had a drive just for current favourites I'd probably stop exploring the far corners of my collection. | |
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| 12-17-18 04:37pm - 2197 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I apologize to all of you. I ruined Tumblr. I am solely responsible for that. I discovered it one day and joined the next and then a day later they announced they were ending porn. It like no one wants to be behind me in the grocery store lineup because everything is going smooth until I get in line and then the person in front of me wants to pay with a third-party cheque and has no ID. It happens ALL THE TIME. So apologies... | |
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| 12-16-18 07:42am - 2198 days | #9 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
It does sound like the first issue you need to resolve is how your collection is organized if it already isn't. This probably depends on how much porn you have too. I have 24 WD external drives so organizing the stuff is essential. There are lots of options, and probably a lot of them better than what I do, but I started organizing my collection this way back when VHS tapes were the 'in' technology. All I use is a Word document. Well, two Word docs to be precise. My organizing starts with how I name the files I download. I create a separate folder for each DVD (if I'm downloading from a DVD-based site like Evil Angel) or the site name. Then I download the scenes into that folder naming it for the female star(s). That’s pretty simple but it's worked for me for years. My primary Word document has a table for each drive. The table has three columns. The first column is the DVD or site name, the middle column lists the female models in that folder on the drive and the last column gives the drive number. That last column is redundant since I group the tables by drive but it's a hold-over from when I had just one table and alphabetized the whole thing. It eventually got so big that the alphabetizing tool in Word wouldn't work so I opted to break it down by drive. (That document is currently 235 pages long.) A second way that I organize my collection exists within the primary structure. As with any porn collector there are certain things that I really like so I use a simple way to flag those scenes. For some reason I like sex scenes on boats so if I download one I put it in the appropriate DVD or site folder and name it for the model and then I include "check boat" in the file name. The word "check" acts as an easily searchable word. I can plug in any drive and do a search for "check" and it'll dig out all my favourite scenes on that drive. I follow that up by having a separate Word document for my favourite scenes. That's a three-column table as well. The first column is the DVD or site name, the second is the model name and a brief description of why I flagged it (it's something simple like "Lily Adams - first anal). That way if I want to see a specific thing I can just do a Word search within the document. I can search 'first anal' and the list will show all those that I've flagged. The key is being disciplined to catalogue the scenes frequently and to use the same descriptors. My system isn't fancy but it works. Let’s say that I want to watch a Megan Rain scene. All I have to do is open the primary list and search “Megan Rain” and I can click through to each entry. Once I find one I want to see the list tells me what drive it’s on. Or if I want to watch a scene from Holed I can just search “Holed” and see what drive I need to plug in. Or, let’s say I really want to see a Megan Rain scene where she rims a guy. Rimming is something I track in my favourites list so I can go to that and search “Megan Rain.” There will be multiple entries but since I include rimming on my favourites list I can easily click through and see that I have ten scenes where Megan rims the guy. I find the one I want to watch and my list also tells me what drive I need to watch that scene. As for backing up my primary drives, the backups are simply a mirror image of the primary drive. If I download a few scenes from DVDs from Evil Angel I first put them in a main folder that indicates to me that they haven't been added to my lists or backed up yet. Once I add them to the list and back them up I move them into the main folder on the drive. If I rejoin a site I simply create a folder outside the primary one that I label as needing to be added to the lists and backed up. That would be something like "Add to True Anal.” Once or twice a month I take a bit of time and update my lists and back up the new stuff and then move it into the primary folder on each drive. Not to get too anal on you, but I also keep a Word table of sites I have and have had memberships to. I originally started that list back in 2012 because I had lost track of a couple of memberships and got frustrated digging around in emails trying to find information on them so I could cancel them. That document has seven columns – site name. join date, username/password, biller, cancel date (I list that five days before the rebilling date), cancelled (where I confirm the date I actually cancelled it) and comments (where I put a membership number and other comments that I may want to refer to if I ever rejoin). I should also add that I put the drive number in brackets with the site name. For example, “Amateur Allure (17)” so I know what drive to plug in when I rejoin that site. That way I don’t have Amateur Allure scenes scattered all through my collection. They’re all together on drive 17. After I cancel a membership I highlight the row in red so I know at a glance that it’s cancelled. After the membership expires I cut and paste the row to the bottom of the document. My membership list has several advantages. The primary one is it allows me to see at a glance what memberships I have and, more important, it allows me to quickly check if I need to cancel anything to avoid rebilling if I don’t want that. A second advantage is that it allows me to see when I joined a site in the past. For example, I can use a word search and see that the last time I joined Tushy was on August 5, 2018 and I cancelled it on August 31. When I rejoin I’ll know that I’ve already downloaded everything I want prior to September 5 so I only have to go back to that date. And I’ll also know at a glance that when I rejoin Tushy I need to plug in drive 21 because that’s where my Tushy collection is. I’d plug in drive 21, create a folder called “Add to Tushy” and then start searching and downloading scenes from early September to now. Then at some point I’d add them to my primary list, add any favourites to my favourites list, back them up and move them to the primary Tushy folder on that drive. Yes, I’m a bit obsessed but to be honest, the cataloguing is a lot of fun for me. And given the size of my collection there is no way I could just dump random scenes on a drive and have no organization. (Not to drag this out any longer, but starting a few years ago I occasionally go through my collection and delete stuff I don’t watch. That frees up space so I don’t have to buy new drives very often. Once I cull my collection I need to update my lists to remove any listings of the deleted scenes. The final thing I do is delete the culled stuff from my backup drives.) Hmmm… this was a longer post than I expected. I’ll be interested to see if anyone else weighs in on how they organize their stuff. | |
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| 12-15-18 09:01am - 2199 days | #6 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ I agree. It adds some extra allure when a model goes from softcore to hardcore. | |
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| 12-14-18 04:34am - 2200 days | #6 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ I hadn't thought of factoring in the upload speed. That's a good point. As for backing up the backups, I have my fingers crossed that it's a one-in-a-million chance that a primary drive and a corresponding backup drive would fail at the same time. I don't re-purpose old drives as backups though; I buy new drives. But a new drive is just as likely to fail as an older one... For me, apart from not trusting the cloud yet, the cost of backup storage is the deciding factor. I bought my first 250MB external drive 12+ years ago and now that same price gets me 6TB. The low price of data storage has changed me from a porn collector to a porn hoarder (with a 100% backed-up collection). | |
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| 12-13-18 01:10pm - 2201 days | #4 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Agreed. I'm not aware of anything else she's done besides the two Hookup Hotshot scenes. If you know of any more I'd appreciate the tip. (And not to be, ummm, anal, but to be completely accurate Baby Goth was actually in three HUHS scenes. She had a brief non-sex role in Pepper Hart's second scene at the site. That non-sex role was her first appearance. It's not likely that this will ever come up in a trivial question, but if it does we can all be prepared!) | |
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| 12-13-18 01:07pm - 2201 days | #4 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ It depends on how much porn I've been downloading but I usually back things up monthly. But keep in mind that if I have a membership to a few sites that may only mean that the drives with new scenes from those sites on them need to be backed up. It isn't a big job to back things up monthly. For me I added an extra element of protection that may not be available to everyone. I have my backup drives stored somewhere else. If my house burns down then the only hardship is replacing the hardware since the data is all backed up. So the answer to your question is that I only plug those in when I'm backing things up. In years of using the WD drives (the small ones with no AC power) I've only ever had one fail. It happened to be the drive with some of my favourite stuff on it. With the backup it was just an annoyance - I had to buy a new drive, bring the backup drive home and plug them both in and let them run overnight. Without the backup it would have been a crisis. Depending on how much data you have the drives could be cheaper. | |
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| 12-12-18 05:45pm - 2202 days | #2 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Is ‘all of them’ an acceptable answer?  Don’t shoot me if some of these aren’t new in 2018. I’m not THAT obsessive so I can make a few mistakes. If I had to choose just one favourite newbie for 2018, well… I couldn’t. It’d be a tossup between Danni Rivers and Vanna Bardot. (If I was allowed to mention a late 2017 addition that I didn’t discover until 2018 then I’d also add Anastasia Knight.) 2018 has been a great year for new models. The three above may top my list but there are many others too. And to keep from ranking them I’ll just list them alphabetically: Addee Kate Ana Rose Asuna Fox Baby Goth Bambi Black Chloe Temple Emily Willis Emma Starletto Gianna Dior Hannah Hawthorne Harmony Wonder Jane Wilde Kiara Cole Kitty Carrera Megan Winters Mi Ha Doan Naomi Blue Paige Owens Piper June Rosalyn Sphinx Sofie Reyes Victoria Gracen | |
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| 12-12-18 05:26pm - 2202 days | #2 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I know this doesn't answer your question, but bear with me. I'm firmly into middle-age and don't trust the cloud yet. And with a collection probably north of 25TB (I'm more of a hoarder than a collector) I'm not sure the cloud would be a viable option. I have multiple external drives that I use as for my primary collection. Most of them are WD 2TB but a couple are newer and have 4TB. I also have a bunch of the WD "My Book" drives. Those are the ones that are physically bigger, have more storage, require AC power and tend to be cheaper than the small ones. I have enough of those to have a complete backup of my entire collection. I guess it would depend on the size of your collection and how much you trust the cloud, but consider WD's My Book drives for a backup source. They're up to 6TB now and here in Canada they're somewhere around $130 so they'd probably be around $100 or so in the US. Good luck! | |
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| 11-21-18 12:33pm - 2223 days | #4 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
 But Thanksgiving was last month!Seriously though, Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends here. | |
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| 11-20-18 04:31pm - 2224 days | #382 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Woo hoo! I love your holidays because I get some great deals on porn! | |
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| 11-19-18 03:36pm - 2225 days | #24 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ Yeah, whatever you've done it seems you've attracted more trolls than we've seen here for years. Odd... | |
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| 11-07-18 02:35pm - 2237 days | #9 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ They don't I should have mentioned that. | |
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| 11-06-18 04:18pm - 2238 days | #7 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
^ and ^^ - I gotta agree with mbaya on this.  | |
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