Indeed, multi-month memberships do frequently hit that price range. It was more of an illustrative example as a lot of people won't drop a single payment of over $100 for porn, but yes it was slightly deceptive and done a bit for shock value (muhahaha). None the less, if I think a website is going to have the most freaking awesome porn ever (For example: Audrey Hepburn's secret hedonistic sex orgy parties filmed use Cinerama™ and presented to us in HD 1080p) I would indeed pay $150 per month for it. I really think that an individual user's perspective toward a monthly price very much demands on their financial situation and how much they value the potential product.
As a reviewer - I try to describe the quality of the service provided by the porn site. A general description of the content, the resolution of the content, how much of it there is, if can you see the content well (in focus, good lighting, good camera work), if the site is easy to navigate - so on. I try not to put personal tastes into the review too much other than the basic fact that I join sites I'm interested in rather than just plowing through a list in alphabetical order.
Cheers and happy a New Years to all of PornUsers.com tonight!
MET Art actually - it wasn't for just one month (though I have paid $50 for one month - I can't remember what site that was off hand though), but I did pay it one solid chunk. I got a much better deal when I paid that price - I think it was for 9 months or something - I don't recall exactly - it was years ago. I was really really into glamour photography back then - I paid $100 for a multi-month membership to Hegre Art too - though his stuff wasn't as good as it is now - kinda wish I had waited a few years, oh well.
I personally think price isn't a factor as each user has a different budget and different view as to what is expensive or cheap. I'll obviously point out strange price issues like with the 21 Sextury thing that had 3 different price - all for pretty much the same content - but I've paid as little as $9.99 to join a site and as much as $149.99 - so I think experienced porn users will take the review into account and then make their own decision as to if the price is still worth it or not. Also - the whole logistics factor of keeping up with the price as mentioned is just insane and not worth the time.
Also, I find most sites are the same price - in the $25 to $35 per month region - very few sites honestly stray outside of that - so it really doesn't matter in my opinion. The amount and quality of content is much more of a factor to me. Also search engines - I'm really saddened when sites don't have nice, customizable search engines.
Wow - what would the point be of having a porn collection if you hid it? My friends and family are happy Remoras when it comes to my collection. In fact, to this day I still get shit about when reformatted my porn hard drive so I could load it up with music for my brother's wedding. You'd think that would have been considered a worthy cause but my friends thought I could have just given him a CD or two. My brother was honored by the sacrifice. So yes - many many people have browsed my constantly changing collection for hours at a time. Friends (both male and female), family (ok - mostly my brother here though my father may have run across it once or twice - I don't even remotely hide it) even strangers back when I was in college and we had a make-shift peer-to-peer network going.
I definitely make no bones about my interest in porn to anyone - I figure if they don't like the idea, then I don't really have much in common with them and don't need to waste time on interacting with them. This x-mas the big joke in the family was that "porn bought christmas" because I paid for my Amazon purchases with my "$200 Tuesday" winnings (thank you PornUsers.com!!!) - in reality I only bought two gifts for family that way, but that isn't really the point. I see nothing wrong with porn and don't see any reason to hide it - so I freely share it with friends - just as I let them browse my music or movies. I never give my passwords away though - those are guarded under penalty of death.
I'm going to answer this in regards to my favorite ethnicity I like seeing photographed - because I find I'm less picky when it comes to video. Talent and personality becomes major factors in video - and that applies much less to photography.
I'm assuming that European means Eastern European as in a lot of the girls featured on MET Art or the Hegre Archives - that was at first my top choice. But I decided to pick African because lately I've been hunting for that. The only site I've found that really focuses on photography of black women (especially African black women) is African Goddesses and it really isn't awesome photography, only OK - but they are getting better. I would love to see a MET Art style site dedicated to dark skinned women of any nationality. I'll keep hunting.
"lab rat" - yes, that is a much more concise description than I came up with and really signifies just how alien the style seems to me.
You are also right about their softcore work - it is pretty universally top notch stuff - often a little too softcore for my tastes, but undoubtedly artistic and impressive. Unfortunately the photography on Teens From Tokyo is quite limited.
While I believe gifts should be things the giver wants to give not gifts the receiver wants to receive - I certainly am not one to deny somebody porn (excluding situations that restrict it for obvious legal reasons). So of course I answer "I would if someone asked" however, my favorite gifts are pleasant surprises - not request fulfillments. I loathe gift registries and never use them. Ever. In fact I have a history of bizarre gifts for weddings now. First was an Animatronic Deer Head, then a foot an half tall Egyptian Cat with hoop earrings and nosering. Then a miniature modernized catapult that can send golf balls 300ft (the Scorpion II). You get the idea.
Have I given anyone porn for this holiday or any prior. No. Am I open to the idea? Sure - but frankly, it would have to be very very special porn. For example, I would be "dancing on the ceiling" happy if someone got me an autographed, 8 x 10 inch photo of Sylvia McFarland - being that she hasn't been in the porn industry for - oh, 30 years - this would be a hell of a gift.
So just any old video of any old porn stars that they can hope online and buy - meh, that is boring. It has to have some backstory, some sort of hunt had to have taken place - there has to be a real damn good reason as to why you are giving this person porn. Plus you better know them very well - because porn is nothing if it isn't good at causing trouble.
I guess you could also give a subscription to a site or network - but that is a lot like giving someone a gift card. Sure it is appreciated, but it isn't a wildly cool gift. Even I know gift giving can be hard - tomorrow I have to run out in the morning and pick up a gift for my Mom, my Aunt and my Grandma - I have no idea what I'm going to get them - granted I know it won't be porn - though my Mom might find that funny. She tried to watch my Insatiable DVD a while back - some how the name didn't clue her in - at least she would have recognized the star, the incomparable Marilyn Chambers.
Anywho - I know not every gift can be perfectly tuned to the receiver's needs as you see them - but I guess I feel you should try. I don't think every kid should receive the video game of their choice - they might not like it at first, but a book on how to build shit would provide way more fun if you then took initiative and help them make whatever bizarre project they find the most interesting. It is a gift they would never choose in a million years, but it is a gift that they will like if they give it a chance - so, again give the gift you want to give, not the gift they want to receive. If you want to give porn, give it - it may just hit the spot.
Or it could fly off target and make an utter mess - you never know.
No problem - I gotta admit that I was curious which of the batch were what price myself. I'm probably going to join up with the network today so in a few weeks or a month I'll start putting out reviews. Should be interesting, its a lot of sites with what looks to be a wide variety of content. It'll be a daunting task, lol
Ok - against my better judgment I went through the entire list of sites and came up with these sites. The following sites have a starting fee of $24.95, recurring at $24.95:
Bootyfull Babes, DP Overload, Enslaved Gals, Intermixed Sluts, Lust For Anal, Lusty Busty Chix, Oral Quickies, Sex City Asia, Squirting Files, Teen Bitch Club, VIP XXX Pass.
Be warned about the following sites that have a starting fee of $38.85, recurring at $38.85:
The remaining sites all start at $29.95, recurring at $24.95. Again, each site has its own custom mix of starting sites and you'll slowly gain access to the rest of the sites as you stay a loyal member.
"The Tome of Erotic Photography and Lighting: An In-Depth Guide by Denys Defrancesco" - now that is a book I would pre-order on Amazon.com for sure! It would be especially cool if it was made in the big, coffee-table style hardcover, so it would not only be an important technical reference, it could also be an interesting conversation piece that people could pick up and leaf through. Each instructive photograph printed on glossy heavy-weight paper - built to last a life-time.
While gnarled feet can definitely ruin my interest in a model, I have nothing more than a passing interest in attractive feet. So sucking of toes and whatnot doesn't really excite me - I only like watching it if the model that is getting her feet molested really appears to be into it - but I'd watch a beautiful model organize a filing cabinet if she appeared to be really sexually aroused by it - so that's not really saying much.
I would definitely prefer to be behind the camera instead of in front of it - but if there was one week school on porn - hmmm. Well Skip Barber Racing School charges 3 Grand for a two day, high-performance driving school, not including transportation or accommodation - so for 6 days of porn - 6 Grand would be a pretty damn reasonable - I would have to save for a while to build up that much cash, but that would be an interesting experience. Learning the technical side of pornographic photography: composing shots, setting lighting, directing models, editing photos, choosing locations, and so on. That would be worth the money!
Maybe one of these days I'll organize a Photography Course with famous guest photographers teaching various classes for a week - like those always advertised in PopPhoto - except this one will all be famous pornographers! That would be awesome! I'll have to keep that idea on the back burner...
I wish I could afford even an 8th of the equipment he is using - that camera alone is worth more than 4 grand! (Let alone knowing how to use it) You know, DDF Productions should start a porn photography course - that is something I'd save up for a trip to Hungary for, lol (hmmm... $900 for the plane ticket...)
ooooh - free stuff! I like :-) Well that is certainly good incentive to rejoin - as if the content weren't enough :-P
Your point about the brides & bridesmaids really puts a different light on all those camera ads featuring them. I always assumed they were trying to say that with this or that camera your client's glamorous wedding would look even better - maybe instead they were saying your glamorous porn shoot would look even better! lol
I was browsing through my old Hands On Hardcore collection and just noticed a really interesting detail I thought I'd share. Their maximum resolution photos are the original photos edited for posting. This means all of the extra information that the camera records about how and when the photo was taken is still in the file. If you look in the advanced properties of the image files you'll find boat-loads of info.
For example, a set posted on 12/18/2006 with Jennifer Love was shot on 11/14/2006 at 8:48 pm on a Nikon D2X at ISO-100 at 1/100 of a second and F/10 f-stop and manually set exposure and flash set without strobe return. Also, the last shot in the set was taken at 10:52pm and everything was edited on Photoshop CS. It has been a few months since I was a member, but my guess is they still process their maximum res photos this way. As an amateur photographer I was psyched to see this information was available. It goes to show that Nikon may not be just the ultimate Wedding cameras - perhaps they are also the ultimate Porn cameras! lol
Also - I'll definitely be returning to Hands on Hardcore - a great site that has wonderful customer support. The photography is amazingly crisp and well lit and the video is very much HD. Beautiful women, serious hardcore and a company that cares about its customers - good stuff. I'll give a full review after I've rejoined for a bit.
This poll has been rather enlightening in the replies it has provoked. I'm always curious about the socio/political beliefs of the porn community. I think exotics4me's variant of the question would have been more fitting - but it was interesting how provoked some were by the poll that was posed.
I come from a very liberal background, as a child I was allowed to watch R-rated (and Unrated) movies with my parents as long as the films weren't too heavy on violence. Sexual material was previewed by them but not heavily restricted.
Not too surprisingly I agree with this policy - I'm bothered how much violence is gleefully blasted across TV and yet a nipple at the Superbowl brings the nation to arms. That seems a little ass-backwards to me. I would much rather a child know how to put on a condom than know how to turn-off the safety on a Glock.
Would I take my kids on a day-trip to a porn shop? No. But I don't think I'd be all that upset if I caught them looking at porn unless it were particularly extreme. I don't believe kids should be allowed to surf the web or watch TV or Movies with out parental supervision. I think too many parents are lazy about monitoring their children and would rather have convenient laws tell their kids what they can view instead of controlling it themselves. How about this? Don't give your kid their own computer and TV. And use Net Nanny or a similar service. With the internet's porn shut-down and their TV access restricted, the worst they'll probably run across is a playboy or such - depending on what their friends families allow of course - freedom does have its risks.
If parents were a bit more frank about the topic with their kids I think there would be a few less problems. One way or another kids will educate themselves on the subject - you can be a part of that education or not. Personally I'd rather have some influence on that matter if I consider myself responsible for raising the kid.
So back to the question: I don't care what age looks at softcore - it is just naked bodies. The softer hardcore - I would hope the kids had hit puberty before they were waltzing through that content. Definitely at any age we'd be having a discussion about it when I found it. Gonzo content I'm not sure what I'd do - it would depend on lot on the kid, the content and so on. I guess I can't prepare a game plan for that one yet.
Thanks for the warning - sounds like a site I'll skip over. That whole advertising a lower price than what they charge is really sketchy.
The best site for British porn (well non-boy/girl hardcore porn) that I've found is still Simon Scans. I haven't reviewed it because I've been gone for too long (March, 2007). Cheers!
LOL - I may have gotten a bit off topic but I guess I was trying to point out that domination/submission fantasies can be solely sexual and have no interest in panning out into other aspects of life. The mixed-gender military rant may have confused the topic a bit rather than providing an enlightening addition, oops. Cheers!
I've been planning on joining this network for quite a while and will most likely do so next week. My research into the site, and also looking at the webmasters comments has gleaned some useful information I wanted to make available.
Preview each site they have to offer (there are 49 of them now) - on each preview page, the site will list what other sites in the network you will get with membership to this site. Most of the sites give you access to a total of 33 sites immediately (for the monthly memberships). These 33 sites vary though (and sometimes you get less than 33), so be careful to make sure the site you are signing up with has all the sites you are interested in included, or you might be waiting a month or two to get access.
The most important difference I've found is that the monthly price can vary quite a bit depending on what site you sign up with. Most start with $29.99 and then recur at $24.99 - a few start at $24.99 and stay that way. But be careful, Pee and Blow for example, starts at a whopping $38.85 and recurs at $38.85!
Long story short, check each site, make sure the included sites are what you want, and make sure the price is agreeable.
Alright - I'll take the bait. Ass-to-Mouth (ATM) is another fetish along the lines of the various aggressive submissive / domination role-play gonzo sex style that has made certain studios, both state side and abroad. "Unclean Practice" - at home, yes you are probably right. Professionally, not necessarily so - most professional stars that do anal have enemas performed before hand so there aren't any unwelcome surprises when the dick is removed.
Do I like watching ATM's? Actually I would be one of those freaks - yes, lol. Not a big surprise to people who have read my German Goo Girls review, I'm sure. I also am a big fan of Brandon Iron - he combines ridiculously dominate and sexually aggressive behavior with a very polite and almost quiet talking style - it is strange, somewhat disturbing and quite cool in my opinion.
Now when I review sites I try to evaluate the quality of the content, not necessarily how much I like the content (if I had more space I would do both) - but as for my personal tastes, well they are a bit contradicting. I love softcore glamour, I love extreme hardcore (with submissive females) - I'm not into pure Bondage though.
I don't know that I've explained the appeal of ATMs exactly. It lies definitely in the fantasy realm for me. It is something I wouldn't necessarily try, but the very taboo nature of it, combined with its domination/submission characteristics, make it fascinating. Half of me saying "holy hell! She is actually sucking that! I wouldn't!" and the other half saying "Damn. That's hot...".
I wish I could really pin down a specific nature of the act that appeals. It is similar to cum shots, Freaks Of Cock proved to me that just like in Hentai, the cumshot doesn't need to be real for me to like it - it is the idea, very much in the same manner of how I can happily enjoy AIF (Adult Interactive Fiction) as much as a full screen video. Porn is a very personal experience, much of the experience is in the brain, not as much a sensory experience as one might think.
I guess for me I like to fantasize about sexual dominance - I have no interest in dominating women in any other aspect of life at all. It astonishes me that people have physically or verbal abusive relationships - and really annoys me when I see women being put down for their intelligence or other ridiculous things people come up with. Granted there are physical difference between the genders, but this just means different strengths and weaknesses. I think it is silly that we don't have a 100% mixed gender military - as women have distinct physical advantages for certain military activities. So going back to the topic at hand - one can be interested in sexual domination and not be obsessed with domination across the board. It is simply role-playing, nothing more. (Again, in my opinion.)
Fujiko Kano has actually made a bit of a name for herself over here and apparently worked in the Japanese AV scene for awhile and, if I remember correctly, a Japanese brothel before that. However - yes, it is definitely a cultural style - and unfortunately one that I've never really gotten into. No doubt, with how rapidly porn is expanding, somebody will start a Western-styled Japanese porn site in the future - I'll just have to wait, lol.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
*Beautiful Japanese Models
*Explicit, Uncensored Hardcore
*Diversity of Content (Gangbangs, DPs, Bukkake, Squirting, Cosplay, et cetera)
*Well Filmed - Good Lighting and Camera Work
*Exclusive Content
*High Resolution Video (640 x 480, 2000+kbps, WMV, No DRM)
*Matching Photo Sets for Many Videos
Cons:
*Videos Only Available in Parts (< 200MB)
*Only One Download Stream at a Time
*Weekly Updates
*Medium Sized Collection
*Most of the Male Performers are Under-Endowed
*Ads for Sister Sites
Bottom Line:
This site features many beautiful Japanese models in explicit hardcore sex. The sex ranges from simple boy/girl to lesbianism, gangbangs, Bukkake, threesomes (with DP), solo (with squirting), Cosplay and so on. The camera work and lighting is good and the video quality is near DVD - very consistent, 640x480, 2000+kbps WMV without DRM (copy protection). Photo sets are often included with the videos as well.
Unfortunately no subtitles are provided, if you care about the plot. The videos cannot be downloaded in one part but instead are available in chunks of less than 200MB. A total video weighs in at 1GB, sometimes 2. You can only download one part at a time, so a download manager with acceleration turned off is a must for the sake of your sanity. Also the site loves to log you out periodically, so you must monitor your downloads somewhat regularly.
The male performers that at are featured are usually (in typical Japanese fashion) quite under-endowed – which can be off putting for some. The content however is creative with the models doing many things that aren’t seen in most western porn (e.g. filling a vagina to the brim with lubricant jelly and putting 20 egg vibrators in it). Plus the content appears exclusive.
Updates are once about once a week and the collection is medium sized (easily download it all in 2 months) and the site features ads for its sister sites – while charging $30 a month. The content is 90 material, but its flaws hurt it.
I'll be posting a full review of this site with all the usual factoids I include - but I wanted to provide my personal opinion and issues with this site and Japanese porn in general. I definitely like the look and fashion style of Japanese AV models - I think they are some of the hottest women in the world - and this site has many fine examples of that beauty.
That said - I do not like the truly submissive, near rape-play style that nearly all real Japanese hard-core features. Very rarely do the girls look they are enjoying sex - and sure they are hot and doing many of the same things other porn stars are doing - but they whimper, whine and cringe the whole time. I would love a Japanese site that was filmed by a European or American director - someone who got the girls to smile, be energetic and enthusiastic.
While I like girls as the submissive partner - I guess what I like I'd call aggressively submissive (see German Goo Girls for an example) - this site is just submissive submissive. That said - it is well filmed and some of the girls are crazy hot - check out the model "Hoshino Mai" - she could easily be a fashion model. I'll cover all the important facts in the review now. Cheers!
It depends a lot on the style of porn, but my first response was twenties as fit teenagers generally are smoother than fit girls in their twenties. That layer of "baby fat" disappears (just due to the maturation of the body) and you can get girls that look like fashion models without the disturbing dietary requirements.
That is for the glamorous style of porn - but if you are going for hardcore gonzo, well some European productions still have glamor model types doing that as well, but in most cases I'm much more lenient with hardcore because I think enthusiasm and skill is more important in a model than perfect looks. I guess that would be the difference between photography and video for me - if you are doing a photo only site, I expect women with jaw-dropping looks, whatever their advertised attribute is, it has to be stunning - with video I'm looking for character. If the action has multiple performers there needs to be a connection between them - everybody needs to appear to be having a good time, otherwise I lose interest quickly.
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