My opinion of EA is pretty much the same as yours though I may have scored it a little higher if I wrote a new review. Like you, I appreciate that they give access to their back catalogue of classics. I'm also a big fan of their early stuff.
As much as I like EA (and I usually join it regularly and have kept a recurring membership for long stretches too) I've been rejoining less frequently these days. I think the biggest reason for that is that Mike Adriano left EA a little while ago and moved to Jules Jordan. That's probably a big loss for EA.
Two other minor things that people reading your review should know: while Bryan Gozzling's scenes from Hookup Hotshot are available at EA they are edited. The EA versions, because they are released on DVD, have the more extreme parts removed. However, for people who don't want to see watersports or models spitting up during a blowjob the EA versions are probably the way to go. Finally, while I am not 100% sure on this I think the BAM Visions videos are lightly edited for EA too. I now get my BAM fix directly through their site.
I have to confess that I joined Bang.com as a three-day upsell on another membership a few of times to get the original content. I really like a lot of their original stuff. I think I was on my third three-day membership when I 'discovered' their massive library on non-original stuff. I signed up for a full membership then. This is a great site. It's a great review too, as always!
Thanks for posting a detailed review. I've been a member at 21 Sextreme before but I haven't joined in a while. Now knowing that they are continuing to update with a lot of older men/younger women scenes I think I'll have to rejoin soon.
In Los Angeles, I only use Spectrum for internet service.
Which is why I'm paying $45 for a 100 Mbps connection.
If I bundled internet, phone, and cable, I would be paying about $29 for each service, with a 100 Mbps connection speed.
What's nice about Spectrum, and Time Warner before that, was there were no data caps.
So I never had to worry about using too much.
But since I don't belong to Netflix, I don't think I use all that much bandwidth, anyway.
I'm much more selective about the porn I download today.
Back in the day, I used to stream the videos or slide show the photo sets, then download almost everything. Now I rarely download anything except what I feel is very good to great.
I was born in Los Angeles. Spent most of my life here.
But I lived in Augusta, GA for almost 18 years.
Nice town, but the summer weather was hot and humid.
Winters were mild, though.
But the insects: you had large cockroaches running over the streets at night.
You step out in the yard in the summer without a shirt, and in a few minutes, you're covered in mosquito bites.
You take a shower, and 10 minutes later, you're ready for another shower, in the summer.
I know people are supposed to get acclimated to the hot and humid weather, but I never did.
I managed to find the scenes from the so-called strapon.xxx in sexyhub.com by searching for the model name as mentioned in the strapon.xxx video - it looks like the strapon.xxx thing is just a lure to attract attention and direct tube site users to sexyhub.com
I live in Los Angeles County.
I've been a member of Time Warner for internet for a few years.
I started with their slowest speed.
Paid around $30/month for 30 Mbps.
After 1 year, they raised the price to about $54/month.
While offering new subscribers 30 Mbps for $30.
I called the office, and they said that $54/month for 30 Mbps was the price for current subscribers, and that I didn't qualify for the new subscriber rate.
So I talked some more, and they finally offered me 50 Mbps for $40/month.
Which was faster and cheaper than the 30 Mbps for $54/month.
After one year, they said I no longer qualified for the $40/month introductory rate.
So I asked if I could have a cheaper plan, and they told me even if I dropped my internet speed, I would not qualify for a cheaper plan.
So I told them to end my service at the end of the current month.
And I paid T-Mobile for a one-month plan, with a slow internet connection.
Then I went into the Time Warner office, told them I was ending my service.
The sales clerk I spoke with, offered me a new plan at $45/month for 100 Mbps.
I was pissed, because I had already paid T-Mobile for a slower plan for 1 month.
But I told Time Warner to switch me to the $45/month for 100 Mbps plan. Then Time Warner changed to Spectrum.
Anyway, I now believe that 100 Mbps is the slowest speed that Spectrum offers in my area.
Which might explain why you got an upgrade to 100 Mbps, because that might be the slowest speed they offer in your area, as well.
The only surprising thing is that they did not charge you a higher price.
Unless you are on a contract that specifies the lower price.
I'm on month to month service, with the price locked in for 12 months.
That's the system they use in my area.
Thanks for your comprehensive reply, yeah I saw some pretty hot strapon.xxx scenes on a tube site which caught my eye. I was a member of sexyhub a few years ago and tried logging on just now, and I do have access to the site and all it's navigation but when I try to view a video, I'm offered re-activation of my account for $14.90 which is tempting considering the content added since my membership expired.
I did try a search for strapon.xxx and strap on but nothing found that's actually a M-F strapon scene. Maybe I'll ask the site's support team about the strapon.xxx angle.
One question on your review:
You write: "One day, I'm downloading at near max of 15Mbps, the next I'm barely getting 2Mbps."
Do you mean to write MBps, instead of Mbps?
B, with a capital letter, stands for Byte.
b, with a lowercase letter, stands for bit.
8 bits in a Byte.
2 Mbps, or even 15 Mbps, is very slow.
I'm with Spectrum (formerly called Time Warner), and I have a 100 Mbps connection.
There are slower and faster connections offered.
But 15 Mbps would be very slow, and Spectrum does not offer that slow a speed.
Whereas 15 MBps would be slightly faster than the connection I have.
Excellent review, as usual.
You cover the network sites in a comprehensive manner that clearly explains what each site does.
And you mention your own preferences, but try not to let them color your site review over much.
I don't remember when I was a member of most of these sites, but what I do remember is that I thought: many of the Dane Jones videos were high quality, with attractive young women in some hot scenes.
Dane Jones was a good site, with attractive young women in some hot scenes. Massage Rooms was also an very good site. Lesbea was a good lesbian site.
My vague impression is that the videos are excellent in technical quality: sharp focus, well lighted, good sound control, etc.
And like I said, some of the videos were hot (or that I really enjoyed watching them).
One reason for that is I like watching pretty girls and women. Doing sexy things.
I don't remember Girlfriends or Mom XXX or Fitness Rooms.
Mom XXX and Fitness Rooms don't fit into my preferred tastes.
Back in the early 1970s, before the internet, it was rare to see pretty girls in porn.
But since at least the 1990s, the floodgates have opened.
And it's hard to keep up with all these lovely girls.
The bottom line: an excellent, comprehensive review of a network.
You put a lot of time and energy and thought in writing this review.
Very impressive.
Does this site include content from strapon.xxx? I've seen content under that name and claims to be part of sexyhub.com
Scenes basically include a strapon, if in a G-G scene then one girl fucks the other using it, otherwise a B-G scene will involve him DPing her with the strapon, or she'll fuck him with it.
I recently bought a subscription to Videobox and was handed an unpleasant surprise. Within 24 hours of joining I was billed over $200 for webcams by VideoBoxCAMS, which I never viewed. My card was processed by Meta-billing.
Needless to say I will never join another site that uses Meta, even though I got my money back.
There IS an EASY solution to your Dillion Harper dilemma - Videobox offers a unique opportunity to join ANY of their premium channels at a REDUCED, PRORATED rate. . . . For example - If you have a monthly subscription, and you want to join a premium site that costs $15/month. . . wait until the last week (or the last few days) of your membership, and join the premium site (for that limited period) for a COUPLE of bucks!!. . . The price would drop 50 cents every day.. . . Download everything you want, and then cancel before the week is up. . . . This is all legal (that`s the way they have it set up). . . You can do this with ANY premium site. . . Dillion, here you cum!!!!!
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.
I read your review carefully hoping for something that might induce me to join VB again but you weren't able to provide that. I haven't been a VB member in a few years and it sounds like nothing has changed. The duplicate scenes probably shouldn't bug us so much, but like you, that really got under my skin.
VB remains an excellent option for someone just getting into porn collecting and moving away from the pirating sites, but for collectors like most of us here, it makes little sense. I see VB as a being like a buffet when you're a foodie and want gourmet.
This is probably the 5th or 6th time I`m mentioning this, but, apparently the message is not getting through. . . Anytime (at least, so far for me) you see Epoch listed as a secondary biller, you CAN AVOID the primary biller VERY easily and use Epoch to join the site. . . . When filling out the credit card info on the Primary biller's membership page, simply make a "mistake". I usually put the card expiration date one month past the actual date. . . . It may take 2, 3, or even 4 tries, but, eventually you will be redirected to the Epoch page. . . and all will be right with the world. . . I know for a fact this works with MOFOs and, also with the crooks at BangBros. . . Try it - you`ll like it.
I was looking forward to this review! Really detailed and I love the way you write these (keep up the goodwork).
If the content is as good as this review makes me feel, this site alone could be worth the membership and putting up with some of its less ideal features.
Thanks for the extensive reply! Yeah, those typical upgrade buttons are what I'm worried about haha. They're usually very convincing and look like the content will be better than what you already have. But in the end they're usually not worth the money. So tempting though, easy to keep falling for it.
Definitely looking forward to that separate Oye Loca review. There's not a lot of Latina sites out there that are able to stick out in the niche, except for some of the more believable amateur sites.
Took a brief look at Black Valley Girls after reading this review but didn't really convince me.
One thing I was wondering, would you say these "upgrade" sites you have to pay extra for are the ones that get update most regularly? Or is it about the same as the ones included in the main membership?
Excellent review, per usual.
But this time you seem to have put extra humor and insights into the review.
Almost like a teenager who's madly in love with a girl, yet realizes she might not be the one for him after all.
Nice to see an old PU member with that kind of passion.
Have you seen the recent PU thread: "Ran out of porn...."?
Seems like you haven't fallen prey to the "been there, done that, I want something exciting for a change" syndrome.
Wonder what percentage of these are amateurs as well. I don't recognize any actresses but it's clear a lot of them are pros. Some really do seem to be amateurs at first glance though. Still think the best scenes are when you really believe they're just some girl who could live next door.
I think I can explain it, but ALS Scan is a site I went cold on five or six years ago. Actually, I know I can explain why. I'm not a fan of solo stuff even though a vast majority of the models here are exactly what I prefer. Your description of the scenes as being hard softcore is accurate. I don't like any porn that strays too far into being gynecological and some of these do.
For me, the biggest reason why I went cold on the site was because I really liked when they did Caribbean shoots and especially liked when they did some risky public shoots. I don't think they've done any of those in going on 10 years now. But I can understand why they've stopped the Caribbean shoots - they were probably prohibitively expensive even though they'd get dozens or more updates from one trip.
I think the last time I was a member there was 2015 so maybe it's time that I check them out again.
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