Your plan has a 1024GB limit? Well that is interesting. I'm not aware of any limit here. Are you in a metro?
What I find is that if I use the Comcast speed checker, the speed given is usually faster than if I use Ookla. I attribute that to being internal to the Comcast system.
I've run several tests with a packet sniffer and can see that there is no overall bandwidth decrease, but download speeds decrease pretty significantly over the course of a few minutes for downloads only. This can be any downloads, not just porn sites and this is not site specific. I complained about it and they said it was my house wiring (CAT6 and a dedicated cable-modem link to the street...I don't think so). I forced them to come out. They ran tests and found nothing. Then when I complained again, they changed connections to the local demarcation point. Still didn't help. That's when I brought the sniffer home and tested. When I called them back, they said they don't do that. When the cable guy came back out, I showed him what I was seeing and he said...."It must just have something to do with where you live out here in the country." I live in a housing plan less than a mile from the Comcast relay station for the region. He didn't have a clue.
I called and kept asking for a supervisor. After an hour on the phone, the "supervisor" told me it was because I have an older cable modem and, of course, offered to sell me a new one. When I went to their site to see what other modems they had, I saw that they are selling the modem I currently own. Nice try. I own my cable modem and, just to be sure, went in to make sure that prioritization was turned off.
They are throttling. They might never admit it, but they are.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Huge quantity of material.
Many popular models here.
The girls are all very young, say, under 25. Newer videos are very good and in HD.
Newer photo sets come in high resolution.
Mostly solo/lesbian site but some newer B/G scenes.
The girls appear to be having genuine fun.
Sets are dated and are available all the way back to 2004.
Sets are scored
One update per day.
Navigation is good.
Search function is good.
Cons:
About 1 in 10-14 releases are actually re-posts or remastered sets of older material dating back as far as 2001...OK if you are a first time member but not cool if you are returning.
The narrow range of girl types, sets and specific types of odd fetish shots makes the site a little monotonous after a while.
The girls wear very little or no make-up, making some that are solid 10s at other sites about a 7 here.
Bottom Line:
I last reviewed this site back in 2012. Some things have changed since then. Most, not so much.
About 4900 photo sets/videos
Several thousand models
1 set a day (many recycled)
Combination of US and Eastern European models
Most videos are of photo shoots
Solo girl, lesbian and fetish sets
ALSScan is primarily a lesbian and off-beat fetish site. Nearly every girl is young, petite, small breasted and, of course, shaved. Many of the girls from older sets and some from newer ones are truly beautiful. A few headliners like Kimmy Granger, Gina Gerson, Dakota Skye, Caprice, Malena Morgan and Franzeska, are easily recognizable from other sites even without much make-up.
ALSScan "screens" a lot of models, evidenced by the proliferation of casting shoots throughout the sets, but only a small percentage of these girls are above average looking. The really great looking ones have sets that are re-posted, which is serious cheating. There is a lot of new content, but the way the site re-uses content, you can't really tell if it is new or not. Considering there is no recycled content anywhere else within the Met-Art network, this sin takes about 10 points off of my score for the site. This would be a much better site if they stopped recycling content.
But the success of the site must mean that many people like the signature items they provide, even if some of it is recycled.
Until recently, there were NO boy/girl sex scenes. None. Lots of girl/girl scenes, though. Just since 2016, a very small number of B/G scenes have appeared. In typical ALS style, though, many of these scenes are unusual in that the guy inserts something into the girl, like a bottle, her fist, his fist, a vegetable or dildo, before he inserts himself into her. There are only a couple of B/G scenes so far.
Practically every model gets fisted at some point. If you like that, this is paradise.
There is an odd fascination with otherwise unviewable areas of the female anatomy. Examples include almost every model agreeing to use a speculum so you can see what her uterus looks like. Many models agree to use an embroidery hoop with clothes pins spreading the labia to provide a more detailed view (think dental headgear for the pussy). Some models use glass tubes allowing a view deep inside the vagina or rectum. I guess folks are into that. I find it neither sexy, nor flattering. In a word, this stuff makes the models clinical.
Just about every model has to pee at some point. The photographers show you exactly when that moment is.
Ladies, care to have your nipples, clitoris or entire vagina vacuum pumped? Yep, they do that a lot here!
The first time I saw a set where a model put a lollipop in her vagina I thought it was cool. That was about 200 lollipops ago. Now I find myself wondering what flavor the lollipop is.
This is not a glam site. As such, the girls don't really wear much make-up. You get to see every pimple, freckle, sore, scar and bruise, whether it is on a face, a leg or a butt.
To be fair, each set, new or old, starts out with the girl wearing a skimpy outfit or ALS signature tiny bikini and the girl undresses, lubes up and spreads. it can be quite nice up to here. Then they break out the bottles, vegetables, fists, vacuums, inflators, speculums and embroidery hoops. You might like it, at least at first. In one video, Gina Gerson uses an inflator dildo and the photographer keeps saying "Are you OK?" That about sums up my thoughts when I see the stuff they insert into the girls.
Alsscan has a sister site called allsangels that is not within the Met Art network. The "Director" has no qualms with showing you a set of girls in his blog and picking out the more attractive girls to send over to ALSANGELS in an effort to sell you membership there. Models at THAT site include Lucy Li, Dillon Harper, August Ames.....all it does for me is piss me of that these good looking, curvier girls are there instead of here.
The photographers here have a tremendous rapport with the models as the models are usually having a lot of fun. I think this is because the models are not forced to please the camera so much. (heck, they hardly even LOOK at the camera.) Instead they are encouraged to please themselves and any other girls that happen to be nearby..and perhaps they are encouraged to experiment, which they do.
There is a section where some of the girls go to a tropical island. Once there, they run around naked and have sex with any girl they want. Unfortunately, the last time anybody went to one of these tropical islands was in 2009...doesn't stop them from re-posting them as new daily sets though.
Bottom line: I've been to this site about 10 times since 2001. For the last few times, the material has been so similar and so many sets have been recycled that I can no longer tell what is new and what is not. It is a great site to visit once. Just once. I keep forgetting
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Nice collection of excellent quality VR videos
Attractive, popular US and European models
Includes a large non-VR network
Includes several female POV VR videos
90% of these videos are particpatory.
Many 2-girl participatory videos.
File sizes are listed
VR videos are dated
VR videos are scored thumbs-up/down with a percentage.
Good file naming for VR videos.
Good download speeds
Cons:
Not many negatives...
Navigation is basic
No photos except representative thumbnail for each video.
Most videos are shot in one position, prone, but there are some notable exceptions.
Most non-VR material in network is not dated.
Non-VR sites not quite as well done as VR site.
Bottom Line:
This review and score is ONLY for the VR site, compared to other VR sites, but I will mention the other network sites as appropriate.
This was one of the first sites I joined when I got my HTC Vive, but somehow in the rush to try things I failed to write a review. I just re-joined the site on a $79 annual membership, which is a pretty good deal considering they publish VR 3 times a week.
WankzVR is a top-notch VR site probably among the top 2 or 3 on the Internet. The additional network is not quite as sophisticated as Wankz VR, but there is some good stuff there as well.
Stats for WankzVR: (as of 2/15/2017)
About 108 VR Videos
About 65 models
Updates every 3 or 4 days
Formats include Gear (H/L), phone (H,M,L), Oculus(H/L), Vive (H/L)
60 FPS typical
Highest resolution is 3840x1920
Typical video is about 45-70 minutes!!
Typical HD file size is very large, about 5-10 gigs. Some are as large as 16 gigs.
All videos are 180 degrees.
3D Video format is Left/Right
About 95% of these videos are participatory (i.e. you fuck her...)
Nearly all of these videos start with the male prone and he stays in that position through out the video with the girl(s) doing all the work. One unique, often pleasant thing to this site is that the girls often get very close to the camera and spread. Other sites spread, but usually not 10 inches from your nose. A few other sites offer "face sitting" but those scenes are considered fetish do not end in sex. Here, the close-up is practically part of the typical strip, show, blow and screw sequence.
The gawker in you will love it.
The girls are often quite beautiful and fit, but a few are just a bit more full figured, nicely curvy. There are pretty much no "mature" models here, which sets the range to the 18-25 up-and-coming porn stars. Make-up is usually well done in an American or Met-Art near-glam but not overdone style.
These videos are acted out a little more than most and always have a story-line of sorts...as much as you can in porn. Leah Gotti has a terrific scene in an acted-out casting-couch-like story. She comes in thinking she is interviewing for a non-porn scene, ends up stripping and getting her lights fucked out (very active scene) and leaves insulted as the guy says he'll call her. In another scene called "Dear Diary, Jackpot!" , two cheerleaders (Naomi Woods and Bella Rose) end up in a competition for Bella's boyfriend. The scene is really top-notch. Bella's jealous glances add a nice touch. These two scenes are probably among my top-10. Come to think of it, there are a LOT of two girl scenes where you get laid by both girls. This is much more satisfying than just watching two girls do each other.
The videos are well done and the sets are good quality but not overly luxurious or distracting. The girls ALWAYS seem like they are enjoying the scenes, which you can see through the acting. I can even say that some of the acting is good. The fact that these guys put together pretty good skits is a good indication that they are all having fun and aren't afraid to try new things. It reminds me a little of Twisty's in that regard.
The rest of the network is also good, but not quite as well done overall as WankzVR. The VR site feels different and is more up to date. The other sites don't all include dates and file sizes. I might do a regular Wankz review a little later.
Bottom line: For VR, WankzVR is a top-notch, best-of-class site well worth the $20 for a month or even $79 for a year! Go check it out!
Although I do not have a cap, it is fairly clear that Comcast throttles my download speed after a few minutes of downloading. They probably have prioritization turned on for streaming.
Hey, guys, if you are going to include a price in your review, especially a discounted price, you REALLY need to explain that it is for streaming only. You SHOULD NOT quote a streaming only price, and then list "NO DOWNLOAD LIMIT" and go on to describe file formats in your review summary section. Either quote a full price that includes downloads, or OMIT THE INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT APPLY TO THE PRICING YOU GIVE! I have seen this for almost all of the reviews you have done for the MG Billing sites and that is A LOT of sites. This is the only site management group that has a bait-and-switch hidden tier. You sort of mention it in the body of the review, but the pricing and review details are contradictory. PLEASE START HIGHLIGHTING IT IN THE PRICING!
I just want to warn you that Babesnetwork.com/Babes.com is doing the same thing that Twisty's is regarding tiered pricing. (They are all run by the same group.) They offer discounted pricing and then when you sign up, you learn that the price you paid is for STREAMING ONLY and there are no zip files for photosets. If you want to download, it will cost you another $10 a month for the VIP membership. Nowhere when signing up does it explain any of this.
There is also a very expensive "premium" membership, but there is no real information on what that is other than additional material. Both Babes and Twisty's have removed a lot of old material so the premium membership may include that. Not sure.
That $10 a month extra applies regardless of the length of subscription you purchase. So if you find the super-cheap annual membership for $59.00, you will pay an additional $10 a month/$120 a year for the privilege of downloading, making this a very, very expensive $179 annual membership. This is one of the sleaziest money-grabs I've seen lately.
Twistys/Babes really needs to be more forthcoming with their pricing structure and what is included. The guys at TBP mention the download thing in passing, but the tiers need to be up there with the pricing.
I just noticed they are offering a Valentine's special for $59.00 a year for the regular membership. I looked and this is for the current material only, NO DOWNLOADS level. To get downloads, you either pay $34.95 a month MORE at sign-up for a "premium" membership or $10.00 a month more for the "VIP" membership once you join. I'm not sure what else the premium membership includes since they don't explain levels anywhere.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Good selection of videos.
Many different sources.
Amateur and pro material.
Preview images provided
Cons:
Site is a pay-per-download marketing venue for other VR sites.
NO original material
VERY SLOW download speeds
Frequent download failures
Bottom Line:
This is one of a growing number of pay-per-download sites. Downloads average about $10 each and come from various other sites that are seeking additional ways to get their videos seen and/or are looking for extra revenue.
In this new age of unlimited downloads, I don't really approve of this type of site, but there are a few that provide independent material on behalf of their clients. This site is NOT one of those sites. This site resells videos that are otherwise available from other websites. They make a few bucks for distribution, the author-site makes a few bucks in roylaties and they also get their name out there. Unfortunately, what these author-sites don't realize is that it is far too easy to provide a negative impression when a pay-per-download site does a poor job like this one does. My impression of Badoink, for example, is somewhat worse than it was when I wrote a review on them last month.
Bottom line? Considering that 3 downloads here equals a one month subscription to most sites, check to see the SOURCE of the video you are purchasing and go there to see if simply subscribing to the site would be a better option. If the content-source site looks like a better deal, sign up! If not, go ahead and download it here but be prepared to wait longer than you should for it to download.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Young attractive models.
Newer sites seem to have found a niche.
Newer video quality is good.
Site layout is pretty good.
Navigation is pretty good.
Videos are user scored on a 5 point scale.
Updates are dated.
Download speeds are OK.
Current sites are 1080p.
A few videos are 4k.
Cons:
Many older sites no longer update.
The newer sites are not BDSM sites, they are "Simulated Peril" sites. (Can we coin that phrase, maybe?)
Only 1 update a week across all sites.
HUGE video blocking watermarks on every video
Infuriating page load delays until you scroll down to view the next sections.
Images but NO ZIP FILES!
File resolutions and sizes not listed.
Video file naming could be better.
Repetitive nature of themes is unfortunate.
Very limited set and male actor variety.
OH. Cancellation process is worst on Internet!
Cancel fine print says you have to cancel at least 30 DAYS prior to next billing. That's nuts!
Bottom Line:
I'll start by saying that my review is primarily about the dedicated, updating micro-sites in this "network".
When it comes to BDSM material, I think the gold standard is probably the Kink network. That network provides a lot of really raw, tie-the-girl-down-and-make-her-come-a-million-times true BDSM that is consensual but incredibly intense. Some of it is a bit too brutal for me, though, although it is clearly all consensual.
In the middle, I don't know, several sites where a model/actress is tied down and you can't quite tell if she is acting or not when the guy puts a vibrator to her clit. BBB comes to mind, but there is a moderate amount of acting there.
Then there are these "simulated peril" sites. The girl is tied up loosely or only has her hands tied together during sex, with a backstory that implies peril. Sites in this category include the main micro-sites here and those on the sister site punishteens.com. These sites may have popular models and porn stars, but the scenes are nowhere near as intense as scenes found on true BDSM sites. (The best of this simulated type that I ever saw was on the Hustler site. Guy breaks in and attacks the girl, girl gets a gun, girl makes guy seriously fuck her, then at the end the girl points the gun at him and after fade-to-black, shoots him. Awesome Karma!) Sorry, I digress, but it was best-of-genre and memorable.
All that said, there are 7 micro-sites here that I consider current and not a purchased collection.
They are: (scenes in p
Teen Creeper (8 )
Teens in the Woods (12)
Helpless Teens (42)
Brutal Casings (56)
Brutal Pickups (12. last update: 5/16) Sexual Disgrace (130. last update 8/16)
Strap-on Squad (60. last update 9/16)
Sexual Disgrace is a pretty good traditional dungeon-style BDSM site with a lot of content. Strap-on Squad is an all girl dungeon-style site. Both of these seem to be no longer be updating.
Note that there is 1, one, one, ONE primary male actor on all of the sites listed above, except Teen Creeper, and he is also often found on punishteens as well. He is a very, very busy guy.
There are also 11 "collection" sites that do not update, many of which are so old (i.e. 2011) as to be all medium to standard def. There are a total of about 1,130 videos in these collections. There is some true BDSM here and some good images.
Just in case you can't guess, here are the themes:
Teen Creeper: Break-in and forced sex. 1 or 2 girls. A few of these scenes are pretty good but all are nearly identical in format. This site uses a different male actor who is a good creeper.
Teens in the Woods: Girl(s) in the woods find their way to a house where a forest ranger serial rapist lives.
Helpless Teens: Stranded girls who need a ride do stuff in the front and the back of a van for that ride. Many get dragged back to a dungeon-like bed for additional sex.
Brutal Castings: Exactly as it sounds. Starts out nice, then the guy goes ape-shit on the girl, ties her hands and screws her.
Brutal pick-ups: Girl on a street gets pulled into an alley, hands tied and screwed.
They all sound pretty good, don't they? Well, although the first one of each of these that you watch will be entertaining (Ava Taylor in Brutal Castings, for example, or Gina Valentina in the first few minutes of Teen Creeper), they are all so similar that they quickly get boring. Add that the girls are usually not really tied up and are clearly just doing their usual porn acting stuff, complete with the usual porn sequences from blow job to money shot, and the whole thing goes pretty limp. Honestly, the best part of each scene is the moment when the guy "grabs" the girl and you can't quite tell if the initial reaction from the girl is acting or not. (That sounds really creepy, but, hey, that's why I joined!) The limited themes and settings, the repetition and the occasional re-use of an actress on different micro-sites, detracts from the overall entertainment value.
Overall, the sets are well done and well lit. The guy does a pretty good job of acting and the girls' acting varies. Video quality on these is good,although the actual video size is not consistent across all the sets. You don't know if "HD Hi" is 2K or 4K until you start the download and file sizes are not listed.
The newer sites have a frustrating "feature". When viewing the 4-8 sets on a page, the section of the page that is not visible does not load until you scroll down. So you spend a truly stupid amount of time waiting for the page to load as you scroll. This is unnervingly slow during peak internet hours. 4 to 8 sets per page? Why should I have to wait?
Oh, and there is no easy way to cancel.
Uh oh. Ran out of space. I would recommend this site to those who really like the simulated BDSM style, or for anyone looking for a bargain in older true BDSM. I downloaded what I wanted and will probably not be back
I store pretty much everything by site and year but have created a few image "collections" folders of my top 5 or so favorite models, a few of whom have different names on different sites. I'll use the most common name. These days, most sites do a good enough job of naming files that I can just search my hard drives to find specific girls.
You know you've got too much stuff in your collection when you notice a hot girl, seemingly for the first time and then realize you've got other great sets of her that you never really noticed..... Not sure if that is more like Alzheimer's, or finding a lost $10 bill in your jeans pocket.
I joined a few days ago after seeing this site on the TBP frontpage. Saw the other messages here and thought I would get a jump on cancelling. Support page is totally useless for cancellation. Waiting on response to my email cancellation request. Hopefully, the part that says (exact quote)" All cancellation requests MUST be made 30 days before the next billing cycle." is not correct because if it is, they will almost automatically get everyone for 2 months.
Update: I did get an email back from support today confirming they had cancelled my subscription and I will not be charged again. Email request was on the 8th. Response was on the 12th. Keep that lead time in mind if you sign up and decide to cancel.
I'm looking at this "interactive" micro-site on 21s called "21role.com" It is a POV choose your option game-like video stream reminiscent of Bob Guccione's "Penthouse Interactive Photo Shoot" from 1987 or so. In 21role, the first few choices (i.e. let Kimmy Granger sleep or wake her up) are free but then you have to PAY CREDITS (at 10 cents a credit) to continue to progress to the actual sex scenes. You have no idea going in how much one scene is going to cost you. Has anyone actually tried this? Anyone have anything good to say about it?
I joined 21Naturals from one of those "deals" pages that comes up on another site. It was $9.95 "for the next 12 hours!" I had never been to a 21 site so, thinking I was getting access to the entire network, I joined.
When you get to the main page, which is called 21members, 95% of the videos are locked! Across the top are 21Sextury, 21Sextreme and 21Naturals with a lock next to the first two. Turns out, the landing page for 21Naturals is sort of a bait page to get you to join the other two networks. (I'll bet the other sites land here, too.) The cost to join either of the other networks from here? $19.95 a month, the price I would have paid anyway. The videos here on 21Naturals are good, with a lot of SLOW sex and some foot fetish stuff, but I gladly would have paid the extra $10 to join the entire network. You should pay the extra $10, too. Eventually, when I fork out the $20, I will probably say it is worth it.
When looking at the "special deals" links, remember that if they look too good to be true, they are.
Nice review. Still trying to figure out how they decide something goes to WowGirls or WowPorn. Much of the content seems completely interchangeable.
Also, just FYI, in Met Art and a growing number of site on their network, there is an "options" link in the upper right hand corner on the main page that allows you to personalize you preferences. One of the options to sets whether or not images open on separate pages. Personally, I like the "open images in new tab" option, although it can create a lot of tabs of the images are really good. :-)
Easy enough to turn it off, though.
Thought I'd mention two things here. First, the VR porn videos are generally pretty good. I did a separate review of TMWVR here on PU if you are interested. Second, all of the recent videos that are shot for VR are ALSO available in non-VR. That is really pretty smart for a site like this. So if you are reading the prior comments about frequent VR updates at the expense of non-VR updates, don't worry about it. All of the newer sets are available in non-VR.
Thanks for the response. It means a lot when a representative from the site responds.
From what I can see, your VR videos are well done. It looks like your intended audience is lesbian (as opposed to a girl-only "view" site like In-The-Crack), correct? I think it would probably clear things up a lot if you just come out and say that. Nothing wrong with that at all. Call it Sapphic VR. You will still get a lot of men and it will be clear that it is girls only sex. (Of course, I'm a guy and I'm pretty dense so it wasn't obvious to me when I made my first comment.)
When it comes to straight sex, I truly believe that using VR to shoot strictly observational scenes is not the most effective use of the medium. You shouldn't shoot a VR of a roller coaster from the ground, you don't create a VR game in the third person, you shouldn't shoot a VR car demo from the street watching the car go by and you shouldn't shoot straight porn VR sex from a chair next to the bed.
That said, I understand that it is incredibly difficult to do sapphic sex in participatory VR because there is no common position or orientation to shoot from. There are a few non-VR POV sites that do it pretty well, but I'm sure there is less gear involved and the actors are often pros. In your case, it would probably interfere with the genuine lovemaking that you are striving for. Your girls are not pros so working around and staying close to a fixed rig would certainly have an adverse impact on your videos. I can appreciate all of that.
As for the price, yes, 30 videos is just about average or maybe just shy of average. If you look at my review history here, you will see that I've joined nearly every VR porn site out there and am constantly joining more. The price for your site is 30-50% higher than any other VR site out there, even the ones that are approaching or exceeding 100 videos and are part of a large mixed network. But I understand. You've got a budget. You've got expenses. You have to determine how to stay solvent, what the market will bear and what your unique niche will support.
Rather than reducing your price universally, may I suggest reaching out to the folks at The Best Porn and working out a discount deal? It will almost certainly get you positive reviews and will help make your site a bigger blip on the VR map while limiting the discount to the most savvy viewers. Please consider that.
I applaud your efforts and truly hope you succeed.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Good quality images and videos
Popular,attractive US nude and porn models
Huge selection
Nobody is the least bit shy here.
Cons:
Bait and switch up-sales
Downloads cost more (videos AND image zip files)
Access to old material costs more
Streaming videos, although they say HD, are not.
You are not TOLD any of this when you sign up.
Cash-grab cross-checks (i.e. upgrade for an additional $39 at sign up. Upgrade is only $10 after you sign up.)
Up-sale landing page at login
Up-sales at every click.
Did I mention bait and switch up-sales?
upsales
upsales
Annoying? Yes, it is.
Main biller is MBI-Probiller. Only way to cancel is to contact them.
Bottom Line:
I have been a member of Twistys almost every year since about 2002. For some reason, TBP/PU decided to start a new listing when they changed the name from Twistys to "Twistys Network". I have a prior review from 2015 listed under just "Twistys" that is still fairly accurate but it isn't here because...no idea.
Twistys, Twistys Network and Twistys Hard are all the same site. It isn't a network at all. It has been this way for over a decade. No one site has material that isn't on at least one of the other sites.
This time, when I signed up using the Porn Users discount, I learned AFTER I joined that downloads of any sort cost extra. The "VIP" option was $39 a month at sign up. Once I was in the site, it was only $10 a month. And every time I login or click a page, I get a "One time offer" for access to everything Twisty's has to offer for "only" $59. Wow, what a bargain... If this were Met Art or Kink or any of the dozens of other true networks, I might jump on that. But it isn't. What they are giving you is the ability to download material that you should already be able to download, and access to mostly lower resolution archives that you should already have access to. It is a money grab and it sucks.
When I contacted support, they said there had been piracy so they changed the pricing. Nice try since Chrome plug-ins allow one to download all the videos on the site that can't be downloaded without paying extra. So by not allowing downloads they are actually creating piracy. Smart.
OK, enough bitching. Clearly I am pissed off at being treated like shit by the owners of this site. Let me tell you why I wanted to rejoin Twisty's in the first place.
Twistys is one of the last of the old 90's style creative glam sites. The photographers (or photography studios) are world famous folks that shot for Playboy and Penthouse. Names like Holly Randall, J. Stephen Hicks (Digital Desire Studio) and others. They know how to shoot images and videos so the material is generally top notch. The lesser known photographers here follow the teachings of these great, great photographers. So you get perfect sets, perfect lighting, perfect make-up, absolutely no distractions from the reason you are here and a come-hither effect that you only see on a few sites these days.
The other thing you find here is an old-school creative vibe that is reminiscent of Danny's Hard Drive from the 90's. Many sets have themes like politics, some kind of fantasy scenario or just general whimsy. Sometimes this works. Sometimes it doesn't. but you have to give them credit for being good enough to try things.
And lastly, the models/porn stars are nearly all popular, English speaking and typically very attractive. They strip, they play, they fuck, they masturbate. They do everything you want in a straight-style porn website. Many of them talk to you while they are doing it and the best of them look at the camera in a way that makes you think they are looking right at you. When it is good, it is very, very good.
Those things are what has kept this site alive for the last 15+ years.
Now, there are a few nitpicks.
Many of the porn stars here are on the more mature side. Although some are new and on an upward trajectory, many are beyond peak and a few are really well beyond peak.
Physical enhancements are plentiful. It seems that as porn stars mature, they decide or are coerced into doing things that ultimately damage their natural beauty. A few girls, like August Ames with her lip work, (Sorry, August) are sometimes uncomfortable to look at. Porn stars age. Some gracefully, some not so much. Both types are here.
Subscriber scores sometimes don't seem to matter. I first noticed this several years ago. The site has something called "Twistys Treats", which is a long, long standing monthly profile that includes an interview and several photo and video shoots. They used to pick the treat based on the highest number of subscriber votes. The highest voted model became the Treat. Then there were a few months where the highest vote DIDN'T become the Treat, then they stopped the voting. I think this may be a porn studio thing and not a subscriber thing. My guess is that Twistys is as much a venue for the studios as it is a site for subscribers and studios are paying to profile their stars. I can't be sure about this, but it FEELS like it. If you don't know the history, it isn't a huge deal, but I do, so it is to me. So I don't trust any scores now.
So...bottom line. Is Twisty's worth a visit? Well, if you haven't been here before and you like high quality glam-style porn, absolutely. It is still a very good site with a huge volume of excellent material. But if you are a returning subscriber, be prepared to be annoyed by the up sale and bait and switch tactics that they use here now. In other words, be prepared to be treated like shit instead of the valuable customer that you are.
If you look at the reviews I've posted here, I'd say anything that I rated above about an 85 gets a visit every year or 2 years if I don't already have an annual subscription. PLUS a few specialty sites, like VR sites, that I like that are not rated as high. So that's about 15-20 sites a year. Wow. That is still cheaper than a night or two in any metro strip club.
I'll chime in on that and agree also. These sites are walking away from money if they don't offer a deep discount to returning customers for a longer term membership. For the most part, though, looking at it from their perspective, if you are interested enough to come back at full price, why should they give you a discount?
What I have found is that some sites offer a re-join discount through their biller. Sometimes the cancellation email you get will say "If you want to rejoin, you can do so at $" and they provide a link. There is no time restriction on a lot of these so it never hurts to try. You can also sometimes go to the biller's website and find your original subscription and see what the rate is if you rejoin from there.
Here's an interesting one. Going to my old membership through the biller is my first choice for rejoining. I have been able to do this a few times when a site's rate has gone up. That probably saved me $60 last year. Once I even opened a chat and asked about it and was given the lower rate. Only the best billers will consider this, though. A few are complete asses.
OK, that makes sense. Maybe porn is like Chior or drama in high school. If we had known the ratio of straight girls to straight guys in those groups, we almost certainly would have joined in when we had the chance. :-)
Interesting. I joined Diesel network in December, was only given a $29 option and was not given a streaming only option. Then I was offered access to the other sites for an additional $20 a month, so I took it. I let that one lapse as I only drop in for one month a year. I don't mind being told a full subscription is $29, but getting a $19 offer only to find that it isn't a full subscription is criminal.
One thing I noticed is that Twistys prices vary a LOT for no reason at all. For Twisty's, I got 3 different rates from the same computer by going to the join page with different browsers. PU price was $19. Regular price via Chrome was $29 and regular price via IE was $25. And of course I could not tell if any of them included downloads. I would be really pissed if I spent $29 and found that downloads were extra.
I recall that In The Crack has a view-only rate and they have different rates all the way up to 4K downloads, but the information is absolutely clear when you go to sign up...clear enough that I remember it without looking. View-only starts at $10. The rate including 2k HD downloads is $39. I even asked them if they have an annual rate and they said it didn't fit into their pricing structure...so I go back once a year.
If a view-only rate works for web sites, I think that's great for all involved. But changing a regular price to a view-only price in an effort to quietly raise prices, or worse, using a bait-and-switch without telling customers up front, like Twisty's is doing, should not be tolerated.
I take comfort in knowing that historically, every site I've ever seen where the webmasters get too greedy has either failed or dropped in ratings to a C level site. Judging from recent comments and ratings, clearly Twisty's is well on it's way.
I just rejoined Twisty's using the TBP/PU discount and when I went to download my first video, the damn site is telling me I have to pay $10 more a month? That REALLY sucks! So they basically are saying FUCK YOU to the Porn User discount. Nowhere when I signed up did it say that this was a limited membership or provide any information about a required upgrade to download videos. (There was an option for Twisty's premium for $39 extra a month, but no explanation so I unchecked it.)
The TBP review over here at "Twisty's Network" mentions it, but my prior review and my link to the site was from the twistys.com review page. (TBP/PU folks, don't move reviews to a new page, merge them! It is not a new site.)
I spent a few minutes chatting with support and they said it was "because there was a lot of piracy." Really? How does paying an extra $10 eliminate piracy? There didn't seem to be any other options, so I cancelled while I had the guy connected.
I went back into the site and discovered that there are no options to download images either. Apparently that also requires the upgrade. What a sleazy, sleazy way to screw your customer base for a few extra bucks.
Sorry, you just lost me as a subscriber, Twistys. I've joined pretty much every year since 2000 and have written pretty good reviews. Looks like that will be ending this month.
I think I will write a review based on the value I get with the non-VIP membership compared to the 30 or so other sites I've been a member of within the last year. High score? I think not.
I just rejoined Twisty's using the TBP/PU discount and when I went to download my first video, the damn site is telling me I have to pay $10 more a month? That REALLY sucks! So they basically are saying FUCK YOU to the Porn User discount. Nowhere when I signed up did it say that this was a limited membership or provide any information about a required upgrade to download videos. (There was a cross check to Twisty's VIP for an extra $39 a month (really??) which I unchecked since there was no information about it anywhere.)
I spent a few minutes chatting with support and they said it was "because there was a lot of piracy." Really? How does paying an extra $10 eliminate piracy? There didn't seem to be any other options, so I cancelled while I had the guy connected.
I went back into the site and discovered that there are no options to download images either. Apparently that also requires the upgrade. What a sleazy, sleazy way to screw your returning customer base for a few extra bucks. Why would anyone want a membership to a site full of videos and images that they can't download? Oh, wait. Your not telling anybody that until after they sign up! Wow. Clearly something thought up by Dr. E-vil to make...hundreds of dollars.
Sorry, you just lost me as a subscriber, Twistys. I've joined pretty much every year since 2000 and have written pretty good reviews. Looks like that will be ending this month.
I think I will write a review based on the value I get with the non-VIP membership (read that as NONE) compared to the 30 or so other sites I've been a member of within the last year that allow unlimited downloads. High score? I think not.
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