I think it was posted on the forum link but those threads were deleted. I'm not for sure about the other two winners but I haven't received my gift card from the June 17th raffle.
The original administrator of PU, Khan, was a self-taught programmer who had been working online back before the internet was the internet or world wide web.
The entire site was nearly automated (points, badges, raffle tickets). Some examples:
When a member posted a review, Khan would either rate it excellent (2 points), good (1 point) or not acceptable (0 points). Just by clicking excellent, good or not acceptable the system knew how many points to credit to the reviewer and those points were tied directly to the raffle tickets. An excellent review received 3 (up to 10 per week)tickets, good received 1 ticket.
It was all set off by his action of grading the review. We also received 1 ticket per approved site comment (2 max per week) and 1 ticket for the first 5 replies left to others, 1 ticket for giving 5 trust votes per week.
That's where the complexity came in. The badges. I don't remember how many we had or could have so I will say 10. If a member did any of the above actions including just giving 5 trust votes, it activated their badges and you received 1 ticket per badge.
Khan had to do no work other than grading reviews and approving comments and replies.
The site was so precise in its count of points and. tickets there was a page that updated every members odds of winning the raffle that week. In the earliest days of the raffle we only had 3-5 members that were even eligible. You had to have 10 points to even be eligible and Khan was tough enough grader of reviews that he once hit me with three "good" grades in a row. There was animosity created as 40-50 members sat around trying to become eligible while the same 3-5 members won the raffle every week. I remember one member having 21 reviews and only 9 points. He had been trying for a year to become eligible.
It was all so automated the raffle would automatically draw itself at noon EST every Tuesday.
Something happened in 2011-2012, either a hacker or DDos and it screwed everything up so Khan went in and programmed everything as well as he could. I don't know if you know, but he unexpectedly passed away. Seems like he was posting and joking around with us one week and came up sick, then the thread about him passing away followed.
Sometimes when you see members like me getting a little upset or frustrated that's why. Khan was a close, personal friend of mine, on PU and away from it. The community here was one of the proudest accomplishments of his career. There's a brief history of PU.
I know you're new(er) to PU so I thought I would let you know I don't think members realize these announcements are even active anymore. One of the reasons Khan and Rick didn't use them much was the poor placement at the bottom of the main page.
It might help to post a thread in the forum bringing attention to this little used section. I have had 3 emails from members (just today) asking if I know what's going on. I directed them to this announcement area and all three (newer members) said they didn't even realize it existed.
Question could add a little more to it. Like if it has a download upgrade available. I say this because I once joined MoFos and paid $17.95 for the membership (not knowing it was streaming only) and then paid $15 more to get downloads. I was mostly satisfied with it.
I once joined Asian Sex Diary for $40 with no downloads and no download upgrade. I was not close to satisfied.
It also matters if the site has photos and if you can download those . Look up In the Crack's tiered pricing and you'll see one of the differences between the first 3 plans and the $34.95 plan is the first 3 don't have photo downloads.
No vote from me. Neither of these models are remotely close to being in the top model of the last 20 or 30 years conversation.
To put it in perspective:
Lana is currently the 396th ranked model in the world.
Aria Giovanni, 41 years old and rarely active is 77th, with nearly 20 years of content behind her.
Eve Angel, 36 years old, retired for 6 years, the only model ever with three separate solo sites dedicated to her is STILL 302nd, also ahead of Lana.
I'm not so much criticizing as I'm saying this hasn't looked like a "best model of the last 20-30 years contest". Maybe if it was the "Who's the hottest model of the last 5 years"
Most of the parts about James don't even go into the porn parts. Being a native of Los Angeles and not much older than him, there were always stories about what an entitled brat he was in everyday life. When you combine that with the allegations against him with female pornstars they both look true.
With Pierre it was a little more complex. He has since said he has changed. He has pictures with some of the models, not during a porn scene, but at conventions and events where they are hugging him to show how much he has changed and been forgiven. He went through a phase in his casting from 2003-2006 where if the model said she did not do anal, he would do it ... without lube. If they said they did not like facials he would grab their head and make them swallow. It was true exploitation but it was in Hungary and other former USSR countries. He would work it into the storyline to make it look fake, "Either do it or no pay". I never believed his change because it just so happened to coincide with new sex worker laws in Hungary.
He was a regular member here at one time. When I posted my negative review of his site, the original owner Rick and original admin Khan delisted his site after viewing some of the scenes for themselves. The site he has now does not have the questionable scenes on it anymore. Even so, anytime I see Pierre now I see him spitting in a model's face or making them swallow or the no lube anal.
I had to check your join date since there is a chance you didn't know this part. Back before 2011, a member could get a raffle ticket by placing 5 user trust votes per week. If they had badges they would also get a ticket for each of those. Some members were getting 11 tickets per week just for posting 5 user trust votes. It caused a lot of randomness. Back then, it never felt like those were being handed out for any other reason other than raffle tickets. There would be members with 0 reviews that had 20+ trust votes. It was one of the negatives in the old raffle system. It was built to create a community and interaction between members. A person could also get tickets for 5 replies. That too led to a lot of silly randomness like replies to a review that said, "Love this site!" I thought it was interesting that I checked your trust votes since you only have 5. I noticed your first one was from an anonymous member. I logged in and saw the "edit your vote" button. Meaning anonymous was me. It now shows my vote as your newest. I guess where I added a comment to it.
Sometimes the teen models just look too young for my taste. The ones in their 20s usually have gained a little weight and filled out more. My favorite models are usually in the 24-35 range but there are exceptions both ways. A trend that I admit I don't like and this is in regular life too. The women that are coloring their hair gray/silver. I see it a lot around the colleges in this area. I saw one the other day that had her hair full-on silver. She was walking in front of us and I thought, "Man, that old woman has a nice body." She turned around and looked to be about 20.
I have tried to go back and change any of my anonymous "yes" votes to show my name. I used those back in the early days of PU because I would notice if I gave someone a yes vote they would give me one. I didn't want members "trusting" me just because I gave them a yes vote.
As for no votes, I haven't to my knowledge, given a "no" anonymous vote.
Part of this is probably because you haven't heard me complain about my vision. I grew up in LA in the 90s, all around the bloods/crips gang war. When I was a teenager, I was stabbed just above my eye. I was okay but that was 20+ years ago. My eyesight is still okay too but there's a slight blur on any screen I look at. That blur seems to take away the visual differences between 4K and 1080p. One of the games I tried it on, Tomb Raider, was supposed to be one of the easiest to notice differences on and I did see small differences but I haven't been able to make out the differences my nephews see. It's why I have a PS4 Slim and Xbox One S and bought them a PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. This also goes into any talk of VR. My eyes go crazy when trying to focus on VR games or movies. To even further the experience I have with my vision, I don't like televisions or monitors bigger than 32". And those curved televisions make me motion sick. All of that has something to do with the eye injury and how my eyes process colors and movements.
The television/monitor I use is a Samsung 32" it does up to 1080p but I only download 720p unless 1080p is the lowest option.
I bought my nephews a Samsung 55" 4K television to go with their XB1 X, they swear there's a huge difference but this past weekend, they were out of town, so I tried it with both video games and porn. I don't see a big enough difference in either to justify the file size difference. I'm down to two 4TB My Passport external hard drives that are powered through the USB and have 1 older external also 4TB that has to be plugged into power that I keep in a closet as a backup. I also have two externals that are plugged into my PS4 and XB1.
The 4K porn files I watched were 17 minutes and 23 minutes each. Their size ranged from 9GB to 13GB, the 720p versions of those were 660MB and 923MB. I just can't see that trade off in size for what is only a negligible difference to my vision.
I was a member on it awhile back and it had a lot of foreign porn from the 60s, 70s and 80s on it. There was also some very unusual content on it. Maybe amateur from Brazil, 70s. You can browse and even preview most of their videos.
And as someone that's moved from Los Angeles to Miami to Dallas to Tennessee, I can tell you, I sometimes can't understand English.
My favorite accent from a woman is North Texas. Met this woman in North Texas, we were talking, I hadn't noticed too much of an accent, so I said, "You from here?" She smiled and said, "Yea, I'm from Tax-us". To me, accents and the body language that comes with them is sexier than the words.
I originally picked "others" but switched it to "new fetishes". Some examples:
Ashley Fires - A somewhat vanilla solo model that seemed very held back by the genre. In the Crack showed her insane flexibility (physically), and now she's a dominatrix. I'm positive her career saw a boost from those new fetishes.
Isis Love - To me the very best example. Isis was a mid-tier Latina hardcore model. She seemed out of place in most scenes (typical man dominant, woman submissive). She landed on Kink.com and started doing mostly dominant scenes and I think she has as much content on Kink as just about anyone. She was also well into her 30s when the switch happened.
Brandi Love - I can remember seeing her back in the early 2000s. She was a dime a dozen, blonde, stereotypical airhead model. Ten years pass and she's doing seductive roles as the older woman seducing younger men and women. And that too saved her career and made her a huge star.
I've always preferred fingers. There are even scenes that I could use to show how good fingers can be.
The producer/site that does fingers best is Viv Thomas. Any lesbian scene from his site featuring Eve Angel, Sophie Moone, Sandra Shine, Jo and Lisa, are some of the most "touchy" lesbian scenes you will see. If I ever had a major problem with dildos it's in solo porn. It blocks what I want to see.
I have a 32" Samsung Smart TV hooked up to my PC and to my Xbox. You have to be careful doing it this way because a lot of these newer televisions are cutting corners, so some only have 1 HDMI and others max out at 720p (terrible as a PC monitor, for my settings). I ended up returning 2 before paying about $125 more for the highest end Samsung 32" Best Buy had. It's very good as a PC monitor, near perfect for Xbox games and watching porn.
I'm taking the walk of shame for the "girlfriend's best friend". Many years ago, I've told it before but it was a long time ago back when we talked about our screennames. Being from LA, I mostly knew the typical California girl (before I was 20), blonde hair, tan from sunbathing, cute, perky but they had so much attention from guys that it would take an act of congress just to squeeze a boob. My girlfriend's best friend wasn't American. She lived next door to her but had been out of the country for the summer to visit family. The first time we met, I didn't say it but felt "exotics4me". She had a medium (natural) complexion, dark hair, long dark eyelashes and deep green eyes. I'm guessing the average man would have preferred my girlfriend. But she brought more than the exotic look. She was bold, she made the first move on me with her best friend in the next room. We got caught in the act but would you believe, it didn't hurt their friendship even though I dated the "best friend" for 2 years? The girlfriend even said to me, "I saw how you looked at her. It's not how you look at me."
Since then, I don't pick women by race or ethnicity but you can bet if there's an exotic woman in my eyesight, I've either already flirted with her or I'm getting ready to!
The cleaning lady one still makes me laugh too. If I hired a cleaning lady and she started trying to be seductive, I would tell her to wait until after she's finished cleaning.
This is one of those "you have to be kidding" ones. I've never received a traffic ticket. Not even a parking ticket and I attended 3 different universities. I will add there that one of the schools was very well-known for giving parking tickets. When I told one of the professors that I hadn't ever received a ticket at the school. He said, "Do you check your student mailbox at the campus post office?" I replied, "There's a post office on campus?" But I would think those would have come up when I graduated.
And I think the "catch masturbating" might not be specific enough. I used to "let" girlfriends, wives, catch me and they would do the same, especially in the shower. Thank goodness for porn or else I would wonder what the big deal is with owning a shower head with massager.
I voted for nurse because the nurse uniforms they use in porn aren't realistic at all.
Police are very realistic.
Office are very realistic.
Teachers are very realistic.
Maid? Never had a maid. I thought those were just for fantasies! But to be honest, I might be upset if I paid a maid to clean and she showed up trying to seduce me.
At this point, for me, I look at the content/theme as much as anything. I saw a site recently that has been around awhile called, Lost Bet Games, that has a somewhat unique theme, average, mostly amateur looking models that I am considering joining just because it looks like something different.
Does sex not count as hands-free?
Based on Merc's answer it's going into stopping while masturbating but still being able to achieve orgasm. I have had an ex or two that liked to stop their hand or mouth or body movement right as orgasm neared, then it would "accidentally" happen without stimulation. If it means without any stimulation, then I would say no, unless I had wet dreams many years ago.
I'll credit my first serious relationship with a non-American woman for helping me discover it. She came from a country that repressed women. I couldn't understand how she could be insecure (what I thought), so I started showing her some porn and it was like she became a whole different woman. Turns out it was her seeing that I wasn't going to get mad or condemn her for looking at porn that helped. The problem that eventually showed its face was she didn't know when/what was too much. She would see a exhibitionism/flashing type porn scene and want to go out into public with a skirt and no panties. It made for a very exciting sex life but we were young (early to mid-20s for me, she was 19-21) and when I wouldn't want to do risky things she would take it as me not being interested in her. In the PU forum thread, "Top 5 or 10 favorite scenes", I listed a handful of scenes that are in my favorites just because women love them. I think from the male perspective you have to be prepared for something a lot of men say isn't true. Women like women, they find women sexier than men, which is understandable to me but it can be hard for a man who realizes if she is that much into women he really can't compete. So, those scenes I shared, they focus on the woman in the scene being in control with men or a man. Those scenes have never failed me. Including one woman who told me she despised porn. Those type of statements are often what a woman thinks a man wants to hear. The confusion that can come in there is some women are like that towards their boyfriend/husband watching porn because it bothers them that he's getting off over other women so they believe he will be bothered by her getting off over other men and women in porn.
I've found it opens up communication and that helps with trust.
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