Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Updated:
08-26-1105:51am (Update History) Reason: Minor score change in light appreciation of hardcore material
Pros:
- (Almost) daily updates
- Zip sets
- Recent videos are 720p
- Most photo sets have matching video
- Good quality photography
- Many well-known models
- Notes on shoots, and links to models' sites
Cons:
- Picture resolution of 1600px could be better
- Style arguably a little generic
- Some overuse of retouching and/or makeup
- Inconsistent/unhelpful naming of zips
- Often daft music in videos
Bottom Line:
Here's another site that's been on my list for a while and was accelerated - this time by getting an email from them with reduced pricing. The Randall name is familiar - I remember seeing Suze Randall's name on many photoshoots in, er, reading material procured in my youth, and while still going strong, Holly has been continuing very much in her footsteps.
The members area - although a little busy with a few too many ads and affiliate links - is good and informative. We have the expected timeline of all updates, model index, and separate photo and video lists, as well as searching by categories in each. It looks like there are approx 350 photo sets and 250 videos, and growing quickly with maybe 5 or 6 updates a week.
Some other features I like include:
- notes from the photographer on each set/video
- matching photo/video sets for each shoot, it's good to see both sides
- the model index has links to the model's sites - although I see quite a few missing there
- a fairly active forum, a good dialogue with the photographer
There are also links to the other sites in the network included in the subscription; about 15, a combination of solo model sites (including the ubiquitous Faye Reagan) and live/recordings-of-live videos of interviews and photo shoots. They may have some appeal to some; the one that mainly grabbed me was Forever Vamp, which I'll review separately.
So, generally, a good site, although I have slightly mixed feelings about the content. It inevitably draws comparison to Stagg Street, which I reviewed recently; both are sites of female glamour photographers, and in fact there are many of the same models and porn stars featured on both sites - including a few popular fetish/pinup models which was one of the main lures for me here.
On one hand, this is the better site; I found Stagg Street lacking in many areas - mainly fairly low-res pics and lack of zip downloads, the only videos there are low-res behind-the-scenes - fun in themselves, but of limited appeal.
On the other hand is the material - here is a bit more explicit, which is certainly no bad thing; we see sets and videos of masturbation, with fingers and toys; and some hardcore material which, although generally not my thing, is enjoyable, well-executed and well-balanced between the guy and the girl involved - likely as a result of being the work of a female photographer.
But at the same time, to me it's a mainstream, centrefold style of glam, that's arguably a little generic - admittedly with very good photography. To my eyes, Ms Stagg, although less explicit, takes many of the same models and gives them more personality, uses more inventive lighting/clothing/sets, and focuses a little more on the alt/pinup/fetish genres. However, that's very much a personal preference and this is still a good site - recommended if the material appeals to you, and as such I find myself scoring it a little higher.
Good review, thanks - I'd been thinking of this site, but am more into lingerie/nylons/legs rather than specifically feet - so seeing it go in this direction lets me defer it for now until I've tried some others.
Well, good point - it is what is is so I'm not really complaining as such.
It just seems an odd model; I can't see that the material is unique enough to warrant it when there are many sites around offering their whole catalogue to download from for a similar fee.
This caught my eye when listed on TBP, since I see a couple of models I like there. But a further look reveals it to be a bit baffling...
Pics are pay-per set - $5-$10; OR for $30/month, you get 50 credits, with 5 extra for each month you are a member. Sets require 3-5 credits, so you might only get 10 sets.
Plus, some of the sample pics are badged with the model's own name, so I assume they are not exclusive either.
Kinky to me means maybe some fetishwear, some light bondage, etc. So I took a quick visit here... it's rather more than that. The eponymous Jo seems to get involved in some quite extreme activities; I confess watching the trailer video made my eyes water and the one phrase that sticks in my mind is 'elbow deep'.
Anyway it seems worth a look for those of a (considerably) less sensitive disposition than me :)
Welcome, MsApril - we don't get nearly enough reviews from girls here so good to have you on board.
Just a shame that, based on the above review and your favourite site of the network, all those comments from girls about size not mattering could be white lies at best :)
Anyway, thanks for this and your other review - look forward to reading more!
Thanks for this helpful review, PP. I'm a huge fan of this kind of pinup/fetish/glamour content, and am very familiar (well, not quite as much as I'd like to be...) with Ms Max from various books, magazines and sites she appears in.
Great to know that her own site is also good, and that she's as charming as I'd imagined! Suspect I'll join Mosh's site before Masuimi's, but I'll be interested to see how it compares.
"Joining is like to be getting a member of some special community which despises the watcher of "common" porn"
Whereas I'm not that familiar with the site, I agree with you wholeheartedly, EP - especially as the webmaster has basically concurred with the statement.
I confess it was a bit of a step for me to admit I like smut enough to pay to join sites, but having got over that, I've learned a lot about what turns people on, and whereas my tastes are fairly restrained and/or vanilla, I wouldn't at all judge what others like in that respect - and although some porn is obviously mass produced, there is plenty that's not, and features amateur, real models, but that is still proud to be smutty and pornographic.
This isn't a comment on the site itself; again there are different types of porn that appeal to different folk and if this works for people (it may well do so for me) then great. But this is a site where folk pay to see girls masturbate and I can't really see how that's not porn :|
Concur with Denner - thanks for a great review, this looks like a fine site, but the content is perhaps a bit too, er, focused on the business end of things for me. I am, however, looking for a slightly racier-than-my-usual join so will bear it in mind!
Good review, thanks. I will likely subscribe to one Japanese site at some time, so this looks like a potential; although it seems a bit disorganised. I'd like to see some mature content too and not sure if there is much here; have you tried any others? I am tempted by All Japanese Pass...
I've seen a few straight tickling sites around too - to be honest, although quite amusing, it's lost on me a bit... but OTOH I'm glad there is room for such a relatively harmless and bizarre fetish :)
Hi messmer - good review as always! I loosely plan to subscribe to a Japanese site sometime - but I suspect you are right in saying that this may not be under Japanese control, due to the uncensored content - there is probably more original content in sites that show censored content.
If you are after more mature Japanese girls, then DTI has one, I think - among many others (a couple are listed here such as 1pondo.tv and Caribbean com), I think it is Paco Paco Mama. May be worth you asking for it to be listed here.
Thanks for the review - good to know it's a decent site. I quite like Ms Jensen, but I'm even more smitten with Aria Giovanni - who is adorable - so it's interesting to know there's quite a bit of content featuring her too!
Thanks for the helpful review, and welcome :) I hadn't heard of this site - easily confused with (intentionally?) Jerkoff Instructors - which appeals to me since as well as the dirty talking, it heavily features nylons, and some great models.
I'll confess to finding this appealing for some reason... there's kind of a pretty intense teasing aspect to the whole premise (as well as the nylon angle, which always works for me).
But having seen the sample, I agree with TBP that the quality could be better (although I don't think it matters on photos - stills are missing the point of this, which is the girls talking).
And $30 is a little high for a relatively small site - not bad for the whole network, but there's not much else there that grabs me. Still, will keep an eye on it...
Hi Parsnip - another good review, of a site which so far is my favourite sex site. Although SexArt is pretty close, I found the styling, lighting, colours here good and evocative - and the scenes erotic but not overly pretentious or artsy.
I recently received their newsletter on the subject of anal sex - like you, it doesn't really work for me but as and when I rejoin, I'm pragmatic enough to ignore it if there isn't too much. I just hope that further to your exchange with the webmaster, they don't overdo it - there's plenty of places for folk that like it to see it; not so many for those of us that don't and it would be a shame to lose one.
Many thanks for your reply - great to have some webmaster feedback here, especially from one of my favourite sites. Good news on the back button etc - I'm a web developer myself and try not to overuse the AJAX as stuff like that can be a bit glitchy.
On the regional pricing - it's not really valid to compare to eg Apple - they are dependent on local costs - rent, wages, etc - and even for digital content they have the rights holder involved. On top of which, here in the UK we have 20% sales tax, which unfortunately has to be taken into account also.
But I'm pretty sure that adult sites like Joymii do not incur any per-sale additional costs when selling to a user in Europe or elsewhere. Please let me know if I'm missing something! If you are eg VAT registered in Europe, than I'll gladly (well, begrudgingly, but not to you) take the 20% hit...
I'm a fan of Joymii also - probably my favourite site with G/B content - and I plan to join again sometime soon, especially now that they have Connie exclusively (for G/B).
I wasn't really bothered by Nasos's problems, but I did find the site a bit too AJAX-heavy - with symptoms like the back button not working as you'd expect etc.
While we have the ear of the webmaster though... I know it's a little churlish to complain given how good the current TBP price is... but why must you do regional pricing? Admittedly charging the same EUR as USD is better than when you did GBP, but still...
I agree that Joymii has something that the others may be missing. I've been loosely tempted by Sex Art, especially as there are some tempting offers as I am currently a member of TLE... but it does strike me as slightly artsy nonsense :) Not that's necessarily a bad thing - but still, not always what one is after. Babes is OK - a little formulaic and very similar to Digital Desire, just with hardcore - a review will follow.
Interesting that you mention the jarring when seeing the same model with different partners - one one hand the whole porn thing is a suspension of disbelief, so it doesn't bother me quite as much. But on the other, one of my favourite models is Connie/Josephine - apart from her quite jaw-dropping figure, she only seems to do hardcore with the same guy; I guess they are partners and to me it shows, and makes the scenes considerably more believable.
Glad you like it! I'm generally more into softcore, but the heartcore genre has won me over a little - this site remains by far my favourite so far.
I find it has a bit more personality than X Art, which is a bit too perfect-teens-dreamy for me; I especially like the camerawork at Joymii (although I find the photography lacking in atmosphere comparison to the video direction). For me it as the right balance - is a bit arty and sensual but not too seriously or at the expense of actual excitement or fun.
I'm currently a member at Babes.com - it's good, but still has half a foot planted in more typical porn. After that, my next one will be Dane Jones, perhaps?
I've not joined Sex Art, but have been a member both at X Art and at Joymii. They are very, very similar sites, so if you liked X Art, you should like this. But for my money, I prefer Joymii - the difference is subtle, but the photography just seems better - the sets, colours, angles are a bit different, a bit more interesting.
Continuing the saga of regional pricing on this site...
It seems to persist, by way of the $25 site being €25 in Europe. BUT with the new TBP discount - I received it in the PU newsletter and it seems the same when clicking through from the site - the $15 offer seems to apply even in the UK.
This is a great site - for me it slightly wins out over it's closest competitor, X-Art - and worth joining at this price.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Attractive, mostly natural models
- Good mix of US/European models, broad-ish age range
- Clean, modern design
- Videos and photos come in matching updates
- Consistent updates - 2 photosets + 2 videos per week
- Modern, tasteful, interior locations
- Atmospheric, well lit and creatively shot videos
- Some cute interviews
- At least as yet, no anal material (could be a con for some)
- 4 sizes of pictures, up to 5K+
- Quality improving
Cons:
- Needs better filtering options
- Regional pricing
- Would like to see a few asian/ethnic models
- Some fake boobs
- Site too AJAXy - a bit glitchy with back etc
- Volume resets to max for each video
- Picture sets lose something that the videos have
- Video is 720; some folk may want 1080
Bottom Line:
This site is a bit of a departure for me - I'm usually into softcore photography but every so often I have a hankering for a bit more action. However, I prefer something a little more... arty is the wrong word, because we're still talking about smut here - but perhaps balanced. There are a few of these contemporary, tasteful (again, previous comment applies) sites around now, such as X Art - I went for Joymii since at least to me it somehow seemed to have a bit more character, and focused less on the 18-21 models, I prefer a broader range.
A roundup of the content: this is hardcore/midcore content; a mixture of solo, GG and GB scenes. Each scene has one movie update - generally about 10 minutes, available in a few formats up to 720p - and one photo update, consisting approx 50-70 pics, a good online viewer and 4 sizes of zips up to 5K or so. Updates come fairly consistently at about 2 pairs per week, and there are approx 150 of each, featuring perhaps 70 models. The models are both US and European, with many popular girls - the former including Holly Michaels, Marie Macray, Dani Daniels, Shyla Jennings, Karlie Montana, Celeste Star (a favourite); the latter including Caprice, Eufrat, Ariel, Connie (Josephine here, another favourite).
The site itself is generally good - although note it has regional pricing; $20=£20 does not compute. It's odd since sister site Femjoy doesn't seem to; either way, I was somehow able to circumvent that - I have no idea how! The form just suddenly decided to offer me the $ price. Once joined up, the site has a clean, contemporary design; which actually hides a few shortcomings. It's a bit too AJAX-heavy (pages which change without the actual URL changing), which leads to glitchy back button behaviour and the like. Links time out so if you have a page open for a while you need to refresh for the download link to work. The filtering is also quite lacking; the only real choices being 'Popular' and '2-3 some' - the latter including B/G and G/G material, which for some folk is quite a big distinction; it could do with a few more options there.
What sets this site apart, though, is the quality of the videos. Although they don't go up to 1080p, they are really sharp; but over and above that, they are just so well done. Gone are the gaudy colours of most porn; these are well lit, bright, but muted and subtle. The videos usually start off with a little music; it's fairly unobtrusive and fades out after a few minutes. The camera angles are often creative and interesting; lending a bit more context to the scene; showing closeups where necessary - but not necessarily of the obvious bits, but better for it!
The locations too are good - I don't mean to come across all metrosexual, but I find the interiors (not *those* interiors) in most porn really offputting; all those chintzy bedspreads, or faux-deluxe regency-type interiors... here we have bright, spacious rooms, nice contemporary furniture, lots of natural light. And similarly, although the models tend to be naked more often than not, where they do undress the clothes are nice, casual and flattering - nothing tacky or faux-glam.
None of which gets in the way of the explicitness - there's plenty to see, but the hardcore is done to make both partners seem to genuinely equally enjoy it; if you had a likeminded partner, this is something that's easily couples-friendly to watch. And on top of all that, they seem to be getting better at it; the newer videos have more character, and although they still use toys, they are relying less on them than the earlier videos.
On the other hand, the photos, although I can't quite put my finger on it, are missing something. Technically they are good - the same locations, models etc, sharp pictures, well-lit and high resolution. But somehow they don't have the same atmosphere; they don't have the same creative angles, selective focus and closeups that the videos do. For instance, I like a bit of context, something that helps put myself in the scene - in one video the model is masturbating while on a steamy phone call, it's very exciting; the corresponding picture set features the same model, outfit, location; but no phone, and mainly just posing for the camera. The photos are obviously shot separately from the videos; I just feel they could could bring a bit more to them. But again, they are technically good and I found plenty to keep.
This, then, is an easy one to score, agreeing with both TBP and the previous reviewers; although let down on a few small fronts, I really like the content, and I may well be a convert to the genre. Suspect I shall find myself at Orgasms.xxx sometime soon!
Sadly no feedback from them, elephant. However, I did somehow manage to subscribe at $19.95! I don't know how, I tried again and the CCBill form showed me $. After subscribing, I tried again and it was back to £. YMMV...
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