Thanks for a great review. I'm a recent convert to this genre, but this has helped me priotitise this site a bit; much as I like creative photography and camerawork, it sounds like they've erred on the arty side a bit much here. Much as I enjoyed X Art, I'm a bit suspicious of any sites with Art in the name; it's good to add aesthetic value, but we're still here for porn!
Oh, and I'm glad it's not just me that recognises that, although beautiful, most of the 18-22 year old models need just a few more years before being genuinely sensual...
Yeah great review you have done here and I've not yet been a member and don't think I will to be honest, it does look at tad too waterered down hardcore for my taste. I didn't think I'd like X-art but loved it in the end but seeing some of the previews here, it just looks a bit too arty for my tastes. I may join if it gets more steamier,I guess it is still a relatively new site.
Intresting to hear all 4 of your female friends said it looked too soft, I guess if you wanna be hardcore you have to put in some raw passion.
After reading your review and looking at the "about" section on the SexArt home page I'm surprised TBP categorized this site under the hardcore category. I agree that the # of boy/girl videos is a big indicator if a site is "hardcore" or not. SexArt also sells the site as catering to women, which really isn't emphasized in the TBP description or review.
Thanks for the helpful review. I would have taken this site to be something different than it is without it! (Though the cheesy preview movie may have deterred me as well.)
Great review. Thanks for taking the time to explain clearly what this place is about. I have been considering joining this kind of site for a while. Now I hsve to decide which one.
Well, that's still more than me, I only have about 3TB of total space, and at least 1TB is taken up with music, movies, and TV shows. I also much prefer the smaller videos, 1 or 2 GB is just too much of a hassle, even if the quality is better.
I won't say anything more about it except download it and enjoy it.
By the way, I saw Skin Diamond feature at my local strip club this past Thursday night. As hot as I thought she was before, I had no idea! This woman is staggeringly beautiful. She's got that model can't take your eye off her thing and her bod is just stunning!! Watching her on stage was a total thrill. I only wish I were a large Black or Latino guy, since those are the guys she most gravitated to and virtually every large Black and Latino guy sitting stage-side - and there were several ended up with their faces deep in her pussy.
Evil Angel is a GREAT site! If you haven't already seen it, I HIGHLY recommend the "Nacho Vidal Sexual Messiah" scene with Skin Diamond being trained by Nacho and Sandy of Club Sandy fame. It's hands-down my favorite porn scene of the past year.
I'm sure perfomance of your machine can make a difference, although I was merely just joking since you said 200-300 GB (gigabytes) for a video, which is freaking HUGE! Sorry if my attempt at humor in pointing out your typo was not so obvious - I just thought it was funny for some reason. 200-300 MB for a 10 minute or so HD video can be pretty good if the encoding is well done. I wish more sites did this, as I absolutely hate downloading videos that are like 2 GB, it is just such a nuisance. Even though space is cheap these days, I'd still much prefer to get more on less.
Thanks for the info, exotics. That bitrate is sort of low, even for h.264 for full HD, but I'll trust your opinion if you say it is crisp. I still don't understand why sites brag about native resolution, as it doesn't really matter - it is the bitrate that matters.
I certainly hope the file sizes aren't 200 GB with that bitrate ;) or something funny is going on. I do agree it is a shame that the sites that try to be more 'erotic' tend to have very short videos. Not really sure why that is, and I guess in this case didn't do so well on the erotic side of things either way.
Yeah, I was not excited by this site, I have to say. There is some nice photography and they're using some models that I really like, but it's too "cool" for my tastes. I want hotter and kookier and more silly and more unpredictable generally. I like Met Art because with all the variety and with all the depth of history in the site, there's always something to enjoy. This site is just a bit too "meh" for me.
I'm not a big fan of X-Art either, which is probably a close parallel to this site.
The Kamikaze Love stuff was probably some of my favorite stuff on this site, because, while it was formulaic, it had a very definite mood - and, with the exception of John Stagliano, who is posting "Voracious" in excerpts at EvilAngel.com - nobody else is doing full feature material of this sort on a web site. Brazzers dabbled a bit in it a couple of years ago, would have done well to have continued to do so.
I know you guys all have raid arrays and crazy hard drive space, but 200-300 GB certainly isn't small to me (I know its a typo).
X-Art and orgasms.xxx both also have relatively small files, although the full HD ones are typically 400-600 depending on length. Are they crisp, what bitrate and codec are they using?
Hey exotics4me, thanks for the prompt reply. That bitrate does seem a bit too low for 1080, 6500 is about the limit for acceptably sharp full HD. Do the 1080p files seem soft to you or are they okay?
Babelicious isn't bad its the sites that are affiliated with it. I reviewed them together and that's why I said there are only two websites that are really worth your time which were babelicious and sex babes. I have noticed that if you look deeper there are some models like Ember, Swan, Tawney Roberts to name a few on sexy babes.tv that have old footage which are grainy, poor picture qaulity resolution of 320. That is what I meant by lousy footage. I have videos from Sexy Babes for example that I have seen from cyberage.com and their galleries you can get from Karup or ATK. If I was going to review Babelicious on its own it would probably get a 75.
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 sure know what you mean about things looking the same. But I did some checking through my personal collection, as I had been a Paul Markham member once, and I did find some of the same stuff.
The very recent pics at SexyTeenParadise have been coming in 1600px, so that's a plus, but it's always the same kind of stuff: strip it off and stick it in (toys). The vids are fair to downright crummy, quality-wise.
Maybe if we had the girls stripping out of Halloween costumes of celebrities and political or historical figures and then have them fondled by those dwarves ... Nahhhhh.
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