Good review - their oh-so-specific niche does get boring to me, but there's no denying the quality of their work - and the choices of pricing are a good thing in their clarity of what you're getting for what price and letting people choose from there. One of my favorite videos on the whole site was one where they just got Cindy Starfall talking. She's got such an interesting story and has such a great personality that it was really enjoyable, even if not the most sexual video on the site. I'd love it if they did more of that kind of thing.
I suppose it could turn into a problem for them. On the other hand, I've seen ALS Scan post similarly blunt assessments of scenes, or shoots, or particular models with no blow-back that I'm aware of.
My big con in regard to this site - too damned specific - the "now we're going to do a scene devoted to the puckering of her asshole" stuff just does away with any element of surprise and adventure that, to me, is what eroticism is all about.
It's very subjective, because there are certainly sites I like that are predictable and usually rather repetitive, but they have enough variety within that repetition and predictability that they don't kill the eroticism, and despite the high quality of this site, for my tastes, they just do - way too much of the time.
It's why I like the tendencies of ALS Scan to try different things - like a bit of b/g (I haven't liked it on their site) or fem-dom (I fucking love the fem-dom stuff on their site!). Even when they don't succeed, it's clear they're trying to get somewhere new. The specificity of sites like In The Crack and the Kink.com sites mean that they'll NEVER get anywhere that they didn't specifically plot out to begin with.
I just joined for my first time and like williamj, I'm getting very fast download speeds. I'm a Comcast.net customer and Comcast must have something that controls download speeds because 525 kb/sec is as fast as I can go - the downloads from In The Crack start at approx 670 kb/sec and get reined in back to that max speed - and stay there - they don't decrease or slow down unless I'm doing multiple downloads from various sites.
As you say, a lot of factors affect download speed. I've had conversations about this with Alex of ALS Scan, because they are very proud of their work to have the fastest download speeds available, while I, with a cable connection that tests very fast, often experience download speeds of 200 kbs/sec with ALS Scan, not impressive at all.
My ISP is Comcast, and I understand that Comcast itself sometimes slows down downloads.
Savannah was definitely an 80's porn star - right at the point when video took over from film - that stuff looked like shit!
If you go to rame.net, they have a whole section on porn performers and directors that have passed away and how - a number have been suicides, most recently Jon Dough, who became huge (no pun intended - yeah right!) in the era when Vivid was king, with Raquel Darrian, Asia Carrera and an incredible number of other beauties on their roster.
I've been a member, though not for a while. I don't know what the wait time is, but if you look through the updates, it's not unusual to find vids being posted referred to as a Member-Requested video, especially the kinkiest ones that they post.
Are you talking about the photosets? It's really not that way with Japanese gravure photosets. They're more a random collection of photos than a progression like people are used to with US or European photosets. There will be a number of clothed shots, then some nude, then semi-nude, then clothed, then nude, etc.
If you're looking for a progression as you describe, you might be disappointed. The Japanese stuff is just different.
A correction - It isn't Videosz that has Asianatrix, it's Porn.com
Porn.com has the 2 Asianatrix (well, the 2 that count - there was a 1st one that was pretty much bondage/fetish only) and the 2nd Asian Noir, which is not at Videobox.
All of these DVD's are recommended for people who are looking for Asian porn that is non-standard - whether you'll like them or not, I have no idea, but they're pretty quirky - Asianatrix has all kind of stuff of personality transference and other metaphysical themes.
It's no great revelation to say that porn is formulaic.
I was sorry to see that one of my favorite US-based Asian porn auteurs, David Aaron Clark, passed away at the end of November.
If you want to see Asian porn that is much less formulaic than most, check out his Asian Noir DVD's (I think that Videobox has some of that material) or Asianatrix (Videosz has that, I'm pretty sure)
His newest one, Pure, which came out just before his death from a pulmonary embolism, is supposed to be very good - it's a porn version of the story that inspired Nagisa Oshima's excellent In The Realm Of The Senses in the 70's
But Japanese porn has different qualities than US porn - I like the long extended groping scenes in Japanese porn. I like the relentless vibrator attacks. I LOVE the dancing scenes. I LOOOOOOVE the Oil Dancing scenes. I think Asian women are really freaking hot and I like the cosplay and the extended tease in Japanese porn - they get the eroticism of wardrobe more in Japanese porn than in most US porn.
And the Graphis and other photography posted at JSexNetwork is much more erotic than the stuff at The Black Alley or most of the other asian-centric sites that I've looked at.
Interesting perspective. I've found this site to be among the more varied of the Japanese adult vid sites, given that they have the softcore photo sets and vids as well as the most popular censored adult vids as well as the uncensored stuff.
There are a number of sites that I've seen around that post their stuff in scenes. That seems more like a ripoff to me than a site that posts the entire vids, but then I've never been downloading enough stuff to breach their download limits.
As far as download managers, it was a very helpful customer service guy at this site that first encouraged me to use a download manager when I was having slow downloads.
Yes, this site has the widest range of Japanese adult material, pics and vids, presented in the highest quality way, of any site that I've run across - actionjav.com comes in 2nd - their advantage is very consisted 5 dvd/day updates, while jsexnetwork is more quirky in their updates - and actionjav.com has no uncensored vids.
I've got to follow up and compliment the Support at J Sex Network for helping me solve this problem. They had me run a trace on my connections and e-mail them so they could examine that, then they suggested a free download manager/accelerator - Getright.com - that has me downloading at a speed of 516 kb/sec
I'm neither an employee nor do I have a commercial interest. I think that excellent sites that present their material in advance as much as this one does - and then delivers that material in high quality - deserves props. There is nothing deceptive about this site, in my opinion.
This is a site that presents itself as presenting the full range of authentic Japanese porn. This is a site that allows non-members to view lots of samples and read lots of descriptions of the material (much more than most other sites of any category) in order to get a good idea of what to expect before they join. If you didn't read the descriptions available and didn't acquaint yourself with the standards of authentic Japanese porn, that's not the fault of the site - that's your fault. A good read of the descriptions where they describe the minority of the vids being presented as being "uncensored" ought to let a potential new member understand that the vids being presented that are not described as "uncensored" are, in fact, censored. That's the way it is with authentic Japanese porn, which is what this site is all about.
I'm glad to hear that their tech support is helping you with the log-in issues. I found this site to be excellent when I was a member - very high quality material in this site.
As to the log-in problems, I can't speak to that - as to the issue of censored, uncensored Japanese vids, on the very first page when you browse the site, they say, "Looking for uncensored XXX Japanese porn videos? We've got it too !"
That ought to tell you that much of the Japanese porn vids that they have are censored - because that's the standard for Japanese porn vids. As to the uncensored stuff all being old, they just posted 2 new uncensored vids on 5/27/09. I see several other uncensored vids having been posted in May as well.
They also have quite a bit of information for non-members to read about their updates and the various sections of the site, a number of which describe themselves as soft-core.
As far as the censored aspect, it seems to me that you're blaming this site for your lack of knowledge about the censored aspect of Japanese porn. I don't know if you browsed this forum for info on the site before you joined, but if you had you would have been informed in most, if not all, of the reviews and comments that most Japanese porn has mosaic/censoring.
As to the log-in issues, that's on them. If sites are going to charge for access to their sites, they owe it to their members to assist them to get that access.
All true - and the quality downloads from this site are the best I've found - I don't know, 15 gb limits doesn't seem like it's some crazy draconian restrictions to me so it's hard for me to go along with the outrage about them. I never had a problem when I was a member and I'll probably join this site again someday.
There definitely seems to be a back-and-forth conversation between Japanese and US-porn. My fave US-porn guys, like Jules Jordan, have definitely shown signs for years of being influenced by Japanese porn, and watching some of the more hard-edged rough and kinky stuff being produced by DAS and Attackers, it seems that they are repaying the favor by picking up on some of Jules' ideas - since in both cases, they're picking up tips from the best rather than the most mediocre people working, it's a really good thing, in my view.
I raise the "unattractive guys" thing as a con mainly as a response to the sentiments that I've seen expressed in this forum.
For my tastes, being an ordinary-looking guy, there's actually a cool element for me in all these ordinary looking guys having naughty fun with these hot girls in Japanese porn.
The bigger turn-off for me is seeing the Wicked and Vivid-style stuff where they're just looking for the guy to be a hard dick to use with the girl and there's no groping, stroking, squeezing of the luscious bods of the girls or any sign of attraction by the guys. The guys in Japanese porn definitely seem interested in all the pervy things that they are doing with the girls.
If you like Digital Playground material, joining DigitalPlayground.com is a much better deal. Frequent updates of a range of their material, including the Jack's stuff, with lots of photo set updates as well as vids. They don't allow downloading of scenes, though, it's all streamed - and the streamed display is decent, though not great. They also rotate material out without warning. And if you're joining to see Pirates, well it's not there.
I think when I joined Digital Playground, it was $19.95/month, then I was going to leave after 1 month and they offered me the site at $10/month. I stuck around a while. Then I got bored and they rotated out my favorite scenes - Nautica Thorn from the first and second Mission Teen America's - so I really had no reason to stick around since I've never been a big fan of Jesse Jane - and they're producing so much stuff that's just not hot.
As I said originally, this is an active site - the pic sets aren't in the thousands of pics, but they are average size pic sets for an internet model site. This is a professionally done site. I was a member for a month, had no complaints. If you can check out her cam shows, those are really fun. She'll talk about anything you want to talk about, leads rather a crazy life - gets kicked out of hotels at adult conventions for being too rowdy, etc. And her bod looks awesome on web cam.
You don't see evidence that it's an active site? What about the detailed listing on the home page of photo set updates on 11/17, 11/14, 11/10, 11/03, 10/31, 10/27, 10/24, 10/20, 10/17, 10/16, etc? That isn't a clue? Then there's the cam show schedule, which is accurate.
I'm not currently a member, but there was at least 1 new vid a week, sometimes more.
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