If I remember correctly, there was a time when Evil Angel displayed all of their content - if you didn't like certain content, you ignored it. Then they put the check box there to see Trans/Shemale content - you clicked the box, you saw all of their content. They have now added another obstacle to seeing Trans content.
To start off, they don't display it. If you want to see Trans or bi content, you have to click those boxes. You click the boxes, nothing changes. Now you have to click the box or boxes that you want them to display the content of, reload the page and only then will it show you the content that had been left out originally. Perhaps they have found that a lot of their members are hostile to that content and even if they click the box in error, they're horrified if they see content they hadn't wanted to see.
I think it's incorrect to say that Mike Adriano left EA. He just released "Anal Booty Cuties" for EA on 6/10/18, but like Johnny Darkko was for a time, he is doing work for both companies now, with the bulk of Adriano's production going to Jules Jordan - 15 DVD's for Jules Jordan in 2018 vs 4 for EA.
19 DVD's of material in 7 months - makes you wonder if the guy ever sleeps!
I always say that the thing I find special about ATK is the amount of personality displayed in their photography, while other similar sites' photography looks rote and homogenized. A great example is the 5/22/18 posting of Harmony Wonder in bondage gear. Now any other site putting a model in bondage gear would have her do stereotyped expressions - she'd be looking tough - or terrorized - or something like that. ATK has her in big old black-rimmed glasses, looking like the sweetest, most content girl in the world, just squirming around looking lovely. It's a totally unique set highlighting the personality of this particular model. It's just an awesome set.
Excellent review - I've always thought this site's work was outstanding when I saw sample galleries here and there. Glad to see someone giving the site a comprehensive review.
They still have porn movie theaters? I had no idea. But yeah, in the 70's and 80's, when Pussycat Theaters were all over the place, I went many times.
These days, when it's so easy to access any porn one could want to see, pretty much, you'd have to have a particular fetish like "I love the smell of stale cum" to want to go to a porn theater.
On the other hand, gay porn theaters were well-known as cruising spots back in the 70's and 80's with lots of sexual activity known to be taking place in the restroom, so they have a whole other reason for being - though I really have no idea if they exist these days.
I'm a simple guy - give me a hot scene and I'm happy. I'm not a bare-cock fetishist so I have no great need to see a bare cock in order to consider the scene to be a good one. Wicked has done plenty of hot scenes and plenty of not-so-hot scenes - the fact that the scenes all had condoms in them really didn't influence whether or not I found them to be hot.
One thing I find disturbing among MANY porn fans - and I'm not talking about the group that frequents this forum, but other popular porn forums - is the urging - and by many guys - insisting - that women in porn need to prove their porn credentials by engaging in the most risky behavior possible - bareback, anal, dp, blow-bangs, gang-bangs, etc.
To me, it's fine if that's where a woman in porn wants to do. But no women in porn have anything to prove to me by engaging in risky behavior. They should do what they've comfortable with and make the hottest scenes they can - that's what turns me on.
I think this is at the root of the hate that August Ames experienced. It was all - "how dare you set limits at what you're comfortable with and who you're comfortable working with?"
I don't know who works as the "voice" of NA, but reading the forum, they come off as a complete asshole. Members - not just average people walking down the street, but members of the site that are trying to nail down how this whole thing will work are told - and I quote, "Everything will be constant flux. With your membership you will have options to make purchases as they become available."
When you click on a video on the site before joining, their big "sell" line is, "Get Access to Select Full Videos and Upgrades"
Ooh, boy, nothing like joining a site to get access to "select" full videos and upgrades.
It's kind of odd that NA is going in this direction when other sites are going in the opposite - Karups, Hard X/Lesbian X etc, Teen Fidelity/Porn Fidelity - all making the related network's sites available for one price.
My suggestion - give it a year. I would bet $5 - I know, I've never been a big better - that they'll go back to their previous all-inclusive model within one year - or lower their prices for the individual sites so that all combined they equal what the unified site used to be.
Good point about the price for joining the sites directly that VB offers as add-ons - all of them can be joined directly for less than the add-on monthly prices if you look around for promo prices at all.
There was a time a few years ago when VB was posting a lot of premier studios to the main site - Anabolic, Diabolic, Red Light District, New Sensations, Zero Tolerance, Jules Jordan, etc, as well as a nice amount of premier classic porn from VCA
These days they post a healthy amount of Jules Jordan & New Sensations, but other than that, there really isn't a lot of material posted from premier porn studios.
For people who haven't previously been members, though, there's an awesome amount of content here. - the scenes and then the clips, which are also fun to look around at.
The pattern at FN seems to be that they only have a small number of updates per site - they add new sites every so often and have some updates for the new site(s) but the older and not-so-old sites seem to be left as archives only.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Regular updates- usually 5 per day, which is as good as any site I can think of these days
HUGE archive - there's 20 pages of models whose names start with "A" - a few models only have one or two sets - many have 20 or more, so if you like a particular model, you'll have plenty to see of her.
PERSONALITY - I've got to make the comparison to Karups here. I recently joined Karups and - to me, there is no personality - just a bunch of licensed sets. Some of the sets are good, there, but there's no there there for me. I find that to be important because we're talking about attraction to the models here - and when there's no personality to the site or the sets - it's just - here's a set we got of this person - there's something really missing. ATK has its own in-your-face no-frills "bam" element to their stuff no matter which photographer's work it is - it still looks like ATK.
The site is maintained well through-out - a challenge for a site this large.
Cons:
The "con" side of the personality issue is a formulaic quality to the work - you're going to see so many images in clothes, so many pussy-spread shots, ass-spread shots, etc. What can I say? That's ATK for you - you get the bad with the good.
Not all the updates are new. Saturday's updates were all sets that had been posted to ATK Hairy back in 2008-2012. That seems to be what they do on Saturday's. What can I say? If the lord took a rest-day, I guess ATK can do so as well.
Unless you're an "every woman is gorgeous" kind of guy, you're probably not going to be attracted to every model here. There is a certain amount of jewel-hunting to be done at this site. But the good thing is that ATK appreciates the jewels. Skin Diamond is one of the most beautiful women alive - the site has 34 photo sets & 10 movies of her. Chloe Amour - 20 photo sets & 3 movies. Holly Hendrix - 26 photo sets & 2 movies, etc.
Vids aren't the highest res possible - no 4K res, etc
Bottom Line:
If you like a variety of ethnic women presented in a more pro-am, more real skin-tone, less glossy & slick and filtered way, this is a great site.
I would have given it a higher score if they were keeping up with the times in terms of vid quality. They're getting to be 5 years plus out of date when it comes to that, it seems to me. Plus the formulaic quality of their work cuts against the rating for me.
But I really like this site. I like the ATK style because the filtered stuff just depresses me. Women with no skin tone are not as sexy as women with skin tone. Sets that are just thrown out there and posted as "here's another one" are not as sexy as sets that feel like "hey, we really like this girl and we want to see lots more of her - here's a cute outfit we thought she looked good in and out of".
The PU price of $19.95 is a great one - and if you get on ATK's mailing list, they're doing occasional deals of multiple sites as a bundle, which is cool.
Count me in with merc77 - the tour is how the site wants to project itself to the people it wants to join the site. It's like a landlord having a building with peeling paint, cracked front steps, a visible broken window or two - what would you expect when you go in the building - a freaking paradise? I wouldn't! New Sensations is one site I can think of that had a tour at times where nothing worked. I never joined the site at those times. At other times, the site looked updated and fresh and taken care of, and I was very happy to join and see what was new.
Check out Holly Randall's Twitter account. I don't know what the issue is, but she posted that the Holly Randall site is not accepting new members currently and is not adding new material currently - she is posting lots of new material to her Only Fans site.
Again - for more info, it's best to go to the source - Holly is very active on Twitter and you can get all the details she cares to share from her there.
I've been a member of this site a few times over the years. My main issue was the general "anybody could be an ATK model" attitude. There were a LOT of models that I was not a fan of. On the other hand, they did tons of sets with Holly Hendrix, Sadie Pop, Skin Diamond and other babes I thought were incredibly hot.
Your point about the repetition is true throughout the ATK universe. They don't have near the variety in types of shoots one could hope for. You find a model you really like and you see basically the same set repeated over and over in different outfits.
There's something about the ATK "in your face" style that I find appealing though - mainly because it's got its own personality, which is lacking from Karups' shoots and I often find more appealing than Nubiles' more generic approach.
I haven't been a member in a LOOOONG time, but when I was a member, the vids were full-length. My favorite period was when they were doing some really looney unique stuff with Susanna Spears. There was one where she gave a very hostile school-girl strip-tease "class" - it was 10-15 minutes long and was one of my favorite Susanna Spears vids. She did another as a drunk super-hero busting up a bar. Then there was one she did with a "swamp-girl" theme. They were all about the same length. Then there were all their post-apocalyptic world vids they did in really stark environments - demolished warehouses, etc. They included hot women being hunted, used as slaves, with slave rebellions, etc - Sylvia Saint had lots of great vids with her handling various weapons. There was lots of content like that - must have cost a whole lot to do - with the demise of the porn DVD market, they stopped doing that expensive stuff - the more recent stuff I saw would be one girl doing a strip tease against various green screens - really low budget compared to the stuff they did in their prime.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Part of a network - so you at least get TeenFidelity and PornFidelity - and there are inexpensive deals available where you also get KellyMadison.com
There are deals available to get this site for a great price
The site's been around for years and has had scenes with most top porn babes
Their recent scenes are flat-out STUNNING! The quality of the production is first-rate. The camera-work, the editing, the sound, the music, the set design - everything involved in the production is just beautifully done.
The sex is hot! They don't just give you great production standards with a scene that makes you wish someone else had shot it. It's really hot stuff!
The early stuff holds up very well. It wasn't as high in production values, though I haven't seen a scene here that I thought looked bad in any way, but the main thing about the early scenes is how much fun everyone involved seemed to be having. If there's a category called "Happy Porn", the early stuff is in that category.
Cons:
I don't even know - uh, there aren't 25 scenes with Alina Li? I guess I consider that a negative. But the scene that they did with Alina Li is one of the best that she ever did, so...
if people don't like rough sex, they might not like this site. There isn't anything in this network that I would characterize as brutal, but if you don't like choking, you might not like what they're doing here these days.
Bottom Line:
It seems like people here have been really sleeping on this site for some reason, including me. Maybe they don't care for Ryan or Kelly and stayed away for that reason. I certainly had no idea the site was anywhere near as good as it is. I had seen the Alina Li scene somehow, and the Holly Mack scene, and I thought both those scenes were excellent, but there's a massive amount of great material - between TeenFidelity and PornFidelity. Ryan's not in every scene these days. Of the 20 most recent boy/girl vids posted since 11/13/17 - which is a whole hell of a lot of new high-quality vids in 6 weeks - Ryan was only in 6 of them - less than 1/3.
What else? Two other things I really like about this site - great BTS material - sometimes, as with a really cool early Veronica Rodriguez scene - it's part of the main scene. There's also a lot of photos with each set. There's also really good use of sexy clothes - if a girl's wearing sexy outfits, you'll get to see her show it off before it disappears. I'm a big fan of great tease before the sex scenes and they give you a lot of that here.
What can I say? High-production, hot babes and hot sex is about as great a recipe as you can get for hot porn.
The real answer for me - if she stopped being attractive to me, I'd stop watching a fave. I'd still go back and watch the stuff she did when I thought she was hot.
I prefer a "scenario" rather than a whole scripted plot. Kris Kramski might be the 1 porn film-maker that I believe created entire scripted films that held together as films in a way that I found compelling. I can't think of a porn comedy that I found funny, though I can think of porn scenarios that I found hilarious - especially that inter-racial milk scene that Jay Sinn did that got Evil Angel in such hot water - incredibly funny stuff, much funnier than any of the billions of porn comedies out there. I like Rocco and his cousin's approach - create a fun, unique scenario with hot babes and then go for the sex after the opening set-up. Or just go for an extended hot tease with no set-up. Either one makes me happy.
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