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Review
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Bree Olson
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58.0
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Quite a few photo sets available for some of the corresponding videos (see first paragraph, though).
- Photos available as zip file (again, see first paragraph).
- Possibly some exclusive content.
- Lots of behind the scenes stuff if that's your thing. Maybe even exclusive BTS stuff if that's your thing. |
Cons: |
- The photo sets will have fewer than ten pictures.
- Broken links and other site foul-ups
- Lots of behind the scenes stuff that can seem like filler if that's not your thing. |
Bottom Line: |
There are photos and zips available for the scenes, which is good. Unfortunately, the photo sets and zips that I bothered to click on had fewer than a dozen photos. I'd say closer to eight in the ones I looked at.
There are 150 or so videos. Quite a few appear to be behind the scenes and interview type clips, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were exclusive. Because why wouldn't they be? Who else would want them?
I'd say fewer than 25 of the 150 videos are offered in HD. The rest are 360p.
FWIW, I didn't click on every single video. I didn't see the point after seeing that they appeared to be low res leftovers. I DID take a sample to make sure I was not being overly critical. One from 2008 is 360p. It looks like garbage and is mostly unwatchable. There is another video option, though. 160p. And if you think the 360p looks bad, just wait until you get a chance to see something that's half as good. Clicking on the last page to check the updates, you discover that the last "page" is a direct link to a video. Keep in mind that this is supposed to be a page full of other updates. Something with a number on the bottom to move to the other pages. Nope. It goes to a scene clip. But hey, who cares? You paid, so the site probably served it's purpose.
Are there positives? Yeah, sort of. If you are a big fan of her and want every single thing she's ever done, then you'll probably find an unwatchable clip or two here to never watch after you download them.
Would I recommend? Absolutely not. Just another Open Life cash grab. |
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11-19-17 05:20am
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Review
27
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Hanna Hilton
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56.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Some decent resolution photos with the video sets.
- Even better, photo sets in zip files for the ones I checked.
- Seems large-ish for an Open Life Network site. |
Cons: |
- Access/uptime is spotty. "Error 521 web server is down".
- Lots of filler behind-the-scenes/masturbation type clips.
- "Large" for an Open Life Network site still only means 50 or so videos.
- Crappy video resolution on the few samples I checked. |
Bottom Line: |
This seems like one of the larger Open Life sites. Don't misunderstand and think that's a recommendation or that this is some great, huge thing that deserves your money. Just that, when compared to the other tiny cash grab sites on their network, this one seems like a larger one.
I found the site down a couple of times. Not a huge deal, but also not something you like to see as a paying customer.
The worst part of the site is the low resolution videos. This appears to be a common problem with most, if not all, Open Life Network sites, and part of the reason I found it appropriate to review each individually. Someone joining Hannah Hilton might not check the broad network review, much less Ashley Fires, Abbey Brooks, etc., to know that each site is almost complete crap. Hannah Hilton is no different. There are some photos, and some decent photos, but the majority of the videos are borderline unwatchable. Maximum 360p clips are definitely unacceptable on a paysite in 2017, and of the three samples I grabbed (random video from page one, random one from middle of page list, and random video from last page), all of them were 360p. So yes, there are quite a few videos of the lovely Ms. Hilton available, but none are worth the time or effort to watch unless you're a HUGE fan or just like video quality from around 1998 or so.
There are ads on the site behind the paywall, but you discover you don't care because there's not really much to keep you coming back to the site, anyway.
There are quite a few photos sets, and the ones I saw had zip files available for downloading. That's nice, but it's not enough to justify spending any money or time at the site.
That's probably the ultimate bottom line, now that I think about it. I usually try to type out a summary, but I think that's it. Some good photo sets, but not worth the price of admission.
Very disappointing. Avoid. |
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10-31-17 02:22am
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Review
28
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Ashley Fires
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63.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- 100 or so videos
- Photos and photo zips available for some clips
- Some clips that I would guess are fairly exclusive |
Cons: |
- Small site
- Pages wouldn't always load or load correctly.
- Horrible 360p maximum resolution for most videos
- Of the 100 or so videos, there are fewer than 40 photo sets
- Lots of filler. BTS, masturbation, etc. |
Bottom Line: |
I'm a pretty big Ashley Fires fan, and this site was a disappointment to me. There were some keeper videos and photos here and there, but there doesn't seem to be much of a motivation to keep members. Or, I suppose, to get new ones when you factor in the notion that people might be leaving reviews telling other potential subscribers what to expect and why it's not worth spending their money on.
One of the worst things, and that's really saying a lot for an OpenLife Network site, is that there are more than a few photos that, when clicked on, are what appear to be the thumbnails blown up to whatever "photo" size they're supposed to be. Blocky and jarringly bad, and not something that someone would intentionally post as a photo. Think of the Japanese blurring of naughty bits. Now apply it to the entire photo. It looks like that.
If you're still not getting a good image (ha) of what I'm trying to convey, go to your picture collection, open any thumbnail image, and press ctl and "+" ten or twelve times.
That.
Pros? Sure. Pros include having some photo sets you may not have seen before, and offering what I have to assume are fairly exclusive video clips. The problem, at least regarding the exclusive video clips, is who really cares? There are video clips of performances in strip clubs, which I guess is fine. Somebody may really, REALLY want to see that sort of stuff, so good for them for offering it. Except it's in glorious 360p, which is nearly unwatchable. But that's not the worst of it. Part of the padding is giving subscribers the exclusive opportunity to watch exclusive video clips like film of the audience during the filming of said exclusive performances in strip clubs. In 360p.
Yep. You get access to exclusive video of old men with mustaches and balding heads as they stand behind the barricades to watch strippers. Even better, you get to watch the old, balding men in 360p.
(I'd never considered that low-res stripper POV, as in from the POV of the stripper, might be a fetish, but I guess you should join this site right now if that's your thing.)
There are some HD videos. It looks like about half, which is nice, but since the site doesn't appear to be updating any longer (there are no dates associated with the videos that I saw, and the rep confirmed it back in 2014), it will remain half for the rest of time.
Sadly, the webmaster's 2014 reply in the comment section to the right sort of sums up the problem. Quote: " I love Ashley Fires. Lets hope that she comes back with new content! That would be awesome!"
But IAFD shows Ashley is still working, and still doing work for myxxxpass.com as recently as this year, and myxxxpass.com is affiliated with the openlife network (more about that in my future tragi-comedy Manuel Ferrara review, though).
She has worked. She's apparently even worked for, if not THESE people, people directly connected to these people. It's never going to be on this site, though. This site is old, stale, outdated stuff, and it looks like there will never be any updates.
It's not the worst Open Life Network site I've encountered, but it might have suffered more because of it. They look like they sort of tried on this site, and it comes across as equally crappy when compared to ___________ (insert almost any other openlife blatant cashgrab site here).
They really, truly tried with ashleyfires.com, and it's still not worth joining.
Avoid. |
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10-17-17 07:10am
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Review
29
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Charmane Star
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56.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- A few HD video clips.
- Photos are available for some of the videos, and some photo sets are even available as zip files.
- I suspect some, or even all, of the material is exclusive.
- I think there's one exclusive HD boy-girl scene here if you're a hardcore collector with money to spend. |
Cons: |
- Most videos appear to be 480p or worse.
- Only a few boy-girl scenes.
- Small site.
- Photos for some sets appear to be screengrabs of the video.
- Ads inside the pay area.
- Lots of low-res solo stuff.
- Updates? Ha. Don't be silly. I saw no evidence of such things.
- Other sites offer more of her content, plus hundreds of thousands of other clips if you happen to enjoy other attractive women, too. |
Bottom Line: |
Mmm, the lovely Charmane Star. What a great opportunity to get some exclusive videos and photos featuring such a striking young woman.
Such a shame you should probably look somewhere other than charmanestar.com if you're interested in her material, though. Honestly. Videosz.com shows over 100 clips featuring her, and I'd be shocked if they don't look much better than the low-res ones offered here. Don't misunderstand me, though. I'm sure there are some exclusive videos and photos at this site, and I honestly wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that it's all exclusive content. I'm just not certain they're worth spending the money on unless you're a CRAZY big fan of this lovely young woman.
The site has 30 or so videos and a similar number of photo sets available. The weird part is that at least one of the photo sets looks to be a repeat. I didn't care enough to investigate and compare any further, but the thumbnail and titles are the same, so one can guess it's the same set being repeated. Is it intentional to pad the numbers or accidental and just an oversight? Or is it just incompetence and poor web design on a site and network that arguably shouldn't even exist in the first place? Hard to say. Can it be both?
The site appears to offer three or four boy / girl scenes, and only one of those was offered in better than 480p. The rest of the clips are solo, lesbian, and behind the scenes types. All of that is fine, too. Just know what you're subscribing to.
One of the more amusing (and bizarre) elements of the site was that the photo section is titled "ASIAN PORN PICS" while other uh, less asian actresses on other Open Life Network sites just have "PHOTOS" at the top of their photo pages.
It looks like there are fewer than ten HD videos.
On the pro side of things, and so this doesn't seem completely contrarian (although it should certainly be read and understood as 95% contrarian), there were zip files available for the photo sets I clicked on, the photos looked nice and were professionally done, and I didn't encounter any download limits or very slow speeds. Full disclosure, though: I doubt they would enforce strict download limits on the 1GB or so that I downloaded. These positives are reflected in my score and raised the site five points to a solid 56.
If you like paying for five to ten mediocre high definition videos an extremely limited number of low-res videos and a few photo sets, this place is just right. Otherwise I'd suggest avoiding the site and network. |
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10-01-17 11:29am
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Review
30
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Abbey Brooks
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51.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- The actress' name is associated with a website.
- Photos are available for viewing for some of the corresponding videos.
- Not all of the dozen videos are "behind the scenes" or interview filler clips.
- No download limits that I encountered, but the entire site's total content is probably under 5GB (I'd wager closer to 2) so how would there be? |
Cons: |
- It will take you just about the same amount of time to read this review as it would to scroll through the entire website.
- Website won't load at times.
- Photos, but no photo zips that I could find.
- The photos are sometimes just screenshots of the low-res video.
- The videos are low-res 360p clips that aren't worth watching.
- It appears that they haven't updated in years. |
Bottom Line: |
I really don't see the point of this site. I'm not just saying that, either. I truly, honestly, 100% don't see why someone would go through any time and trouble to make a site that has a handful of clips, a few photos that you have to individually click, wait for the script to pull up, and then click a few more times to download if you have any interest, and little to nothing more. I especially don't understand it when it's... Okay, okay. That's not entirely true. I understand that it seems to be little more than a blatant cash grab and exists in the hope that there are a few suckers out there who might want to have all of Abbey Brooks' material, and that one of those suckers might spend the money joining the site for one month. Either that or it's just crappy padding for a similarly overall horrible network. Take your pick.
According to IAFD, Ms. Brooks is still working and has nearly 200 movies to her name. That doesn't count photos shoots, and I'm sure she's got well over 100 of those in her past, too.
So, If I had to guess, I'd guess that a studio/site bought up the name and owned a few licensed clips of the actress. There ARE some clips the studio owns of said actress, so it's presented as the actress' website.
The dozen or so video clips are stated as being 360p. It's probably technically correct, but I've seen 360p clips elsewhere that, while not great, are still fairly watchable. For simplicity's sake just think of a low-res tube site or a crappy gif flashing in an advertisement. That's essentially what you can expect for video quality of most of the clips here.
If that's too crisp and wonderful for you, there is a lower quality option as well.
Photos exist, but I never saw a link for zip files. If you like a set, be prepared to click through each image individually to allow it to load so that you can choose "save as" for every one you want. It looked like the photos were often just screenshots, too.
On the bright side, I didn't run into any download limits when downloading the three videos that looked worthwhile. They weren't, btw. The video quality was borderline unwatchable once I tried to watch them, although in fairness I knew it said 360p when I clicked to download them. Nonetheless, I didn't encounter any download limits when downloading the 300-500MB worth of clips.
Bottom line: It's an almost uniquely lousy site. It's either a cynical money-grab or filler for a network of similar cynical money-grab sites. It's the first site I've come across in a long, long time that deserves a score much lower than 50, and I only gave it the extra point so that it wouldn't be viewed as some knee-jerk score out of spite. That single point is there to show that some thought went into why this site is so bad. Frankly, the site shouldn't even exist. The unwatchable clips could easily be part of one of the studio's other sites as some sort of worthless "bonus" content that no one intentionally clicks on.
Avoid. |
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09-10-17 05:23pm
Replies (1)
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Review
31
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Kink.com
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68.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Huge. Even if you don't care about half the network, there's still tons of content.
- Good quality video
- Some storylines here and there.
- Big name and unknown models
- No constant logouts and re-login demands. Thanks, webmasters. Unfortunately, it makes the download limits much more obvious. |
Cons: |
- Strict download limits. Maybe not technically, but very much a thing.
- Lots and lots of wrestling. That may be pro to some.
- Pretty specific niches that aren't going to appeal to most.
- Lots of tattoos. It fits with the theme, I guess, but it's unusual to find models without them. |
Bottom Line: |
You've probably heard of Kink, even if it's just as a mental note to avoid. It's an enormous site. Like I said in the pros section, even if you don't have any interest whatsoever about half (or maybe even three quarters) of the content, there will still be tons of stuff for you to investigate.
The pros are pretty obvious. It's one of those binary sites that people are either going to say "yes, I'm going to join that eventually" or "nope, get me outta here." With that in mind I'm going to deal mostly with the drawbacks.
I was surprised to find lots and lots of rasslin. That might be a big draw to some, and if so then join right now, but it's a safe bet that if you find an actress you like, half or so of her scenes will be wrestling. That's fine if you're into it, but it begins to feel like filler after a while.
Tattoos seem almost tame here, but you'll see lots and lots of tattoos. Matraisse Madeline, a lovely dominatrix who has a great deal of work here, has them on her biceps now, which I personally think detracts from her very, very classic beauty. Oh well. That's fashion these days. Whatever floats your boats.
There are thumbnails that will be under an actress' page that you'll click and realize you can't access without paying more money at another site. Please stop this nonsense, webmasters. When customers who paid to view content at this site need to pay somewhere else to view content that is presented as available, those customers aren't excited and happy to learn that the thumbnail they just clicked will cost more money. If you insist on bothering members with ads behind the paywall, put the ads in a separate section that requires additional clicks. Don't pretend something is available to your paid subscribers when it's not.
There are traditional (not sneaky) ads in the site after you've logged in and are browsing, too.
And now the main reason for the below-average score.
The site is huge. Did I mention that already? Enormous. Years of content. And you won't be allowed to download jack. Sure, you can get a few movies here and there, but the download links time out very, very quickly. You'll get 403 errors on the next links in your queue after downloading something as small as a 250MB video.
I get the feeling they want to make it a streaming site. Eventually it gets to the point where you just give up. It DEFINITELY gets to the point where you aren't going to renew the expensive subscription for another month.
Webmasters, paying customers want to pay you for your product and to encourage you to make more of your product. Yes, I know there are pirates out there who don't want to pay for your stuff, and I'm guessing your approach is an attempt to limit that, but I'd suggest focusing more on people who want to, and will, give you money, because we'll just quit paying after we discover the inconveniences placed only on people who want to give you money. And then we'll forget about ever rejoining your site again.
Worse, we'll tell other paying customers how bad the experience was, and other paying customers will reconsider giving you their money, too.
Bottom line: Lots of content, but unless you're into streaming it's too much of a PITA. |
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08-28-17 07:53pm
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Review
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Naughty America
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52.0
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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Updated: |
06-18-18 04:15am (Update History)
Reason: Major subscription policy and cost changes
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Pros: |
WARNING SEE BELOW
- Huge site with years of content
- Frequent updates
- Easy signup/cancellation
- Big HD and 4K videos available
- Lots of old videos are being updated to modern resolutions
- VR. Quite a bit of VR, too.
- "On the go" clips are five minute best-of edits of the scene. Pretty good idea. |
Cons: |
WARNING SEE BELOW
- Ads, ads, and more ads.
- Pretty vanilla. Even though the models are gorgeous, it still becomes repetitive.
- Anything above the smallest "mobile" and "on the go" scenes are pretty large.
- Download managers work briefly, but links time out. Which brings us to:
- If you're on anything under 25Mbps you're going to be stuck with the smallest download options unless you want to babysit the downloads.
- Very much a pornstar site. Fake tits and tattoos abound.
- Requires frequent logins after irritating frequent logouts.
- Did I mention the ads? |
Bottom Line: |
WARNING
Edit 6-18-18
This has become one of the worst sites I'm aware of. They've switched to some sort of bizarre "channel" subscription so that your membership fee gives you a few new videos from that month, but otherwise only allows you access to buy other channels.
Here's where the trick is. Go to the "join" page and see where they say "Become a member for this month's new releases."
That's what they mean, too. You get this months new releases. Anything else and you pay extra.
Imagine being charged double digits to get in a restaurant, being given a plate of breadsticks and one Sprite (no refills), and then being given a menu for everything else that all costs additional money.
Their forum is open to the public. I recommend going to read about the debacle. It's a train wreck, and so bad that NA staff is arguing with members and daring them to cancel their subscriptions and comparing their subscription model to buying a base model Porsche and needing to pay extra for the options you want.
One member pointed out that it would now cost over $1000/month to currently have access to all of the content that was $30/month just a short time ago.
Buyer beware.
DISREGARD EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE
If you've been around the internet and adult sites for any amount of time you've seen, and probably joined, Naughty America at some point. It's a very good, very large site with lots of big name actresses doing routine adult stuff in (mostly) well-lit, well-filmed, well-financed scenes and settings. It's worth joining at least once even if you're just looking to complete a particular actress' collection or are interested in virtual reality scenes.
There are a lot of ads. That's a bit of an understatement, really. There are ads everywhere. Beside the videos, beside the thumbnails, in the thumbnails as camoflauged "locked" links to other sister sites, etc. It's very excessive, and an automatic five points off of the score just for an unobtrusive presence. I should probably knock another five off for how blatant these are.
Streaming and photos are available if that's your thing.
The scenes, while formulaic, are very well done and often have the models in nice clothes and lingerie. The appeal isn't in groundbreaking new content but volume and predictability, which is fine. It's not a bad place to start a collection.
UNLESS you've got slow internet service. If you're puttering along below 25Mbps, you're going to be getting the small files. Even the small-ish 480p scenes are getting up into 500MB+ range. The larger 720 and 1080 files will push 2-3GB+, and the 4K and VR scenes are probably over 6GB.
Not a big deal if download managers worked, but they don't. Not for long. You'll get a few clips and then the links will die and you'll need to log in again. Why, webmasters? Is there not enough room at the table for paid customers? If I log back in, is it kicking another user off to make room for me again?
Bottom line: Not bad. Good, even, especially considering that it's reasonably priced. Far from perfect, though, and know what to expect going in. Would I recommend? Probably. |
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08-19-17 12:04pm
Replies (0)
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Review
33
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Blacked.com
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81.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Attractive, clean models
- No connection problems or other hiccups
- Competent direction (a step or two above typical pizza delivery porn setup)
- Very good videography
- Small file sizes are decent quality, which is good because of a sister comment in the cons
- Download managers are allowed
- No download limits that I encountered
- Photos are available |
Cons: |
- HUGE video sizes for anything HD.
- Site design seems really nice and clean until you actually try to download something.
- Ads. I paid to be here, guys. Want to run a site with ads? Run it at a reduced cost with the subsidies.
- Poor choices on site design
- Gets predictable after the first three or four videos you watch. |
Bottom Line: |
Blacked is, as you may have guessed, black men having sex with white women. It's a much different approach than Blacks on Blondes (and thankfully lacks the download limit that dogfart claims doesn't exist) in that the setting is usually a well-dressed, well-spoken woman in a nice home being seduced by, or seducing, a clean --- although often heavily tattooed --- black man.
It's a good site and I recommend it if you have any interest. The models are attractive and often dressed up in nice clothes or lingerie, and the scenes are filmed extremely well. It's a very good buy if you like the premise and or actresses.
It's not a perfect site yet, though.
It's still sort of small, although I obviously think it's reasonably sized and mature enough to join.
If you're on anything under 25Mbps you should expect to spend two or three months there if you want the HD and 4K clips. It's a bit ridiculous, really. I can't see much of a reason for there to be a jump from 500MB for the very crisp and clear SD version to a marginally better 720 version that is 3GB.
The videos are fairly predictable, and it seems like it's nearly the same script for all of them. This premise, the woman does A, the black guy does B, the woman and black guy do C, D, E, and F, and at some point around C or D the wife will say her husband never does that.
As I've said before, Want to advertise? Offer two prices. One slightly cheaper and ad-subsidized, one a couple of bucks higher and ad-free. If the ads are subsidizing a reduced rate/discount then I don't mind so much. I suspect they're there for everyone, though.
The most glaring problem is the site design after you click to download anything. Lots of sites are taking this complicated approach these days, but it's a problem on Blacked. Click the download link and a popup (java?) covers the entire screen to offer you your choices. Click on whichever choice you want and it will occasionally start the download. I'm not sure why it has so much trouble, but it's almost like the clicks register but the system doesn't care. Left or right clicks won't don't do anything at nearly equal rates. Eventually the link will register and give you the option to save, but often an error message will appear. It's almost like a timeout, but it happens within ten seconds or so. Very weird site choices.
TL;DR - Put download link choices on the page under the video, and don't require three or more clicks to get to the content. Done and done.
Would I join again? Yes. The good outweighs the bad by a large margin, and the bad is mostly little annoyances. |
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08-07-17 07:36am
Replies (0)
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Review
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Naughty Alysha
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63.0
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Status: |
Was a member approx. 4 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Fills a niche
- HD content is available in the more recent updates (720 or 1080 IIRC)
- Exclusive material
- Early stuff has decent energy.
- Um... Was easy to join and cancel?
- Let's see... Still updating every so often? |
Cons: |
- A listed download limit of 50GB/day, but it can and will apparently be lowered if you do unknown things that aren't mentioned in the terms. Good luck!
- Download managers aren't allowed.
- Not many updates
- It appears to have become a (lucrative, and good for her) job, and that has taken some of the energy and excitement away. It's not too hard for the different scenes to become similar, repetitious, and boring
- The same scene will be separated in order to pretend the single video is multiple updates because it was cut in half (or thirds). |
Bottom Line: |
Naughty Alysha:
The Naughty Alysha site is focused mostly on an attractive middle aged woman who enjoys large toys, fisting, anal, going to adult video stores to have sex with lots of men, etc. There are some gloryhole scenes as well as gangbangs, and there will often be footage of the semen-covered departure out into the parking lot.
There are some good scenes, but I found the early ones to be the best because it didn't seem to be approached as a job. 2010 and before, when her hair was shoulder length and occasionally curly, were the best clips for energy but, of course, the worse clips for quality and crisp resolution.
There aren't a lot of updates. Looking at the site, here are the most recent updates:
Added 07/03/2017 (toys)
Added 06/20/2017 (toys)
Added 06/05/2017 (toys)
Added 05/17/2017 (MF)
Added 05/05/2017 (toys?)
Added 04/25/2017 (MF, 2nd half?)
Added 04/06/2017 (MF, 1st half?)
Added 03/17/2017 (gangbang)
You get the idea. Two a month or so if you count the halves as separate.
The more recent clips are available in HD if you're interested in feeling out the download limits and potential 24 hour bans.
Alysha and Jenny Jizz are the most active sites on the affiliated network, and the two often team up in clips.
As is the case with all sites on the network, there is a 50GB or less download limit each day, and download managers aren't allowed.
The bad is covered in the overall network review. I gave a few points for exclusivity and the good older stuff even with all of the limitations and stagnant site, so that's where the 63 came from.
Speaking of the network...
Pornicate:
Pornicate as a network is, as I mentioned, seeming to only update Naughty Alysha and Jenny Jizz stuff recently. Jenny Jizz seems to be the most active, and Jenny does essentially all the same stuff that Alysha does. Roxy Raye and her butt-stuff is in the network, and there are some other minor players as well. The sites' content offerings are hit are miss. There may be some videos without photos, or there may be photos without videos, or there may just be a few photos for you to look at online and with no download options for anything. Worse, some of the choices would appear to just be poorly lit, posed, or captured shots that the photographer was going to delete before the webmaster or actress said, "Wait! Don't throw those in the trash! I can put them on my site!"
Some strange and surprising older clips/pics are used as filler for the network. A Nella photo set popped up (late '90s?). Another, and I don't remember who it was, I remember seeing was a photo set of a now well-known porn star when she was just starting out. Young, gorgeous, and with her natural breasts. There was no other content including her and it had nothing to do with anything else. It was just some old content that had been purchased and put on the site.
The elephant in the room? The download limit. In mid-2017 it's listed as 50GB/day.
The FCC classifies broadband internet access as 25Mbps. If you don't have that, your connection is the modern equivalent of dial-up back around the year 2000.
25Mbps can download 50GB of 1GB+ HD clips in four hours. So, if you have broadband access, you can potentially use the site for four hours each day. If you have 100Mbps service you can use the site for less than an hour.
I understand concerns about content theft --- and, if we're honest, trying to milk another month or two out of customers--- but making a site so inconvenient to use that legitimate, paying customers give up and will never consider returning may not be the best approach, either.
mbaya has a review on the Roxy Raye page if you care to read another opinion of the network.
Bottom line: 56 or so if I had a place to score it. Avoid. |
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07-24-17 10:53am
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21 Naturals
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70.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Very attractive models, mostly European
- Great video sizes/quality
- Site uses names in the videos now. A+, Gamma.
- Images available (zips)
- Images available in both lower and high resolution, with appropriate sizes for both (30MB or 300MB). A+ |
Cons: |
- Locked videos.
- A pretty small site. All those videos you can't watch don't count towards site size, guys. D-.
- You'll get automatically logged out fairly routinely.
- Way, WAY too much cross-selling baked into the cake.
- I encountered some major variations in download speeds
- Too many "best of" compilations that seem to just be padding.
- Watch for auto checked additional subscription purchases at the payment page. SITE OWNERS- Is it worth that small percentage of affiliate or referral cash to never, ever have a paying customer return to your site after getting burned? |
Bottom Line: |
This is another offering from the 21sextury folks. Overall it's not a bad site. It's a bit small, but the quality is good and the models are beautiful. The major problem, as is the big problem with the other 21___ sites, is the preponderance of locked videos that you can't view without joining other sites.
On one of Kattie Gold's video's there are 15 advertisements for other sites. They're not discrete, either. The default "Recommended Videos" tab is automatically chosen and shows you the ads, and the "Kattie Gold" tab, you know, the actress you're interested in and are currently viewing, needs to be clicked to see more. Click it and you'll see the other major problem of this site: There are seven videos of the actress listed on the site, but one of them is for the page you're currently viewing, and four of the clips have lock icons on them. So in reality there are only two other videos available, but seven are shown.
A more obvious example is someone more popular and who has done more work. Click on Aletta Ocean's thumbnail to view her scenes, and there are 25 pages of the actress. Wow. Twenty five pages. Begin clicking at page one and you'll quickly realize most seem to be "best of" compilations that involve short clips of her along with other actresses in unrelated scenes, or that the scenes are locked and unavailable. I started at page five and clicked through page 14, and there was one clip available for downloading. Ten pages of thumbnails of the actress, and only one clip available for downloading.
Worse? It wasn't even really one of her scenes, but one of the "best of" clips.
I encountered some substantial speed fluctuations at times. I tested other sites and my connection and speeds were fine, so I'm not sure if it's a problem or an intentional measure similar to auto logouts. Not a dealbreaker, but something to be noted.
I don't really understand the automatic logouts. It seems to happen at least once a day. It seems like it would be more secure to allow the user to control the logout, because if a username and password combination is in continual use, an attempt at hacking and logging in using stolen usernames and passwords would be automatically rejected. I'm sure it's something related to bandwidth or the like, but I've also been logged out at the same time I was downloading a file on the same computer. It seems odd that a user actively and continually using the legitimate account wouldn't have to worry about such things.
I don't want it to appear that the bad outweighs the good, but the site has so much potential that the bad is extremely obvious. Overall I like the site and would recommend it IF only the available videos were shown and it required a simple click if the user interested in looking at other sites where you could spend additional money to see more work by the same actress. Having to scroll through and click past on the actual site I've paid money to join is very irritating, though, especially when one discovers that the listed, clickable actress only has locked scenes.
Would I recommend? Probably not as is unless you're looking for every piece of work from one actress. It's a bit small and irritating for the price. As a part of a combined network with all the ubiquitous locked-icon 21sextury and 21sextreme clips available? Yes. |
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07-11-17 04:18am
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21 Sextreme
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75.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Good looking (mostly euro) actresses
- Multiple sizes of videos available to download in newer clips
- No download limits that I encountered
- Good download speeds
- Kink brought to you by the folks from 21 Sextury |
Cons: |
- Video count is huge, but padded somewhat by compilations
- Surprisingly glitchy site
- "Lock" icons over unavailable videos (see below)
- No naming scheme for downloaded files
- Not terribly "extreme" |
Bottom Line: |
A decent but fairly vanilla "extreme" site. Granted there is some fisting, some bondage, some urine here and there, a couple dozen clips of older, lower-quality shemales with men and women, and an old/young angle with MF and FF scenes (and apparently some puking that I thankfully never came across according to another reviewer), but overall it's pretty tame. The eyeball test indicated a great deal of the site is simple female masturbation and stuff you'd find at the sister site "21sextury" or even Team Skeet (literally- it looked like the same filming and directing style). That's not bad, but the site presents itself as extreme while just coming across as an excuse to use content that would otherwise be fine on another nearly identical site or simply on a larger combined network including both sites. The site agrees with me, unfortunately, because I discovered more than a few of the 21sextreme videos with 21sextury watermarks.
It's another site without any naming system for the downloads. You can download clips, but you'll end up with a folder full of "88756_03_HD" type files. They work fine, and I'm sure it's convenient for the owners, but there is no useful information in that for the end user other than the first five-string number representing a particular movie that all the clips were pulled from (#03 in this case). That's a made up example just to make the point, btw.
Video quality is good even with the non-HD clips, and file sizes are appropriate for the resolution.
I ran into a glitch here and there. I would discover an unknown actress in a scene with a known actress, and clicking the unknown actress' name/link would take me to her page. Unfortunately, her page showed her thumbnail but not videos. When I would refresh or return to the page the scenes would appear. I suspect some sort of javascript / flash error. Some actresses' names/links would take you to pages other than #1 when clicking, too. Whee!
Biggest complaint: Similar to the sister site "21sextury," the site shows all the videos available across the owner's sites, and not just the videos available to view/download on the site *you* paid for. There will be lock icons over the scenes you can't have, and those locked scenes will quickly begin to irritate you. For example, there are four pages of 50 or so scenes of Cherry Jul available, but only three unique non-compilations are available for download. The rest have little lock icons over them indicating that yes, they exist, but no, you can't download any of them without paying for a subscription at a separate site. Cameron Cruz is the similar, with four pages totalling 40+ videos, but only four or so are available for downloading with the subscription you bought.
Bottom line- Would I join again? Possibly, but it would have to be at a greatly discounted rate OR after the three "network" sites are combined into the full network they clearly are meant to be. |
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12-19-16 06:37pm
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Girlfriends Films
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66.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Large site with lots of content
- Big name actresses
- Hidden gems are there waiting to be discovered (Jayma Reid, tons of Prinzess, Elexis Monroe, etc.)
- Download managers allowed |
Cons: |
- Video quality is absolutely horrible. The top offering often looks like what you'd watch on free popup-filled tube sites, and sometimes worse. More below.
- Logs you out a couple of times a day and you have to enter captcha to re-enter
- Dead links, repeated names, poor oversight of website
- Most video sizes are huge for such low-quality clips.
- Scenes are often fairly uninspired
- No photo options (view or download) that I could find |
Bottom Line: |
If you've seen any of the Mother Daughter Exchange Club clips you may understand why I was excited about this membership. They have 30 pages (w/30+ clips per page) of content going back to 1999 available on the site, so it held a lot of promise.
Sadly, it lasts right up until a day or two after you join. There were some technical issues like dead links, but those things happen occasionally and can be overlooked. The big problem was much more obvious.
There are lots of talented and attractive actresses, but often the scenes are underwhelming. Too often they come across as actresses getting paid to say these specific lines and lick these specific parts. That would be okay if the details were filmed better and showed more of the action, but unfortunately that doesn't happen very much, either. It ended up being a tremendous disappointment, and the reason is simple: The quality of the majority of their clips is pitiful, and it makes the entire site such a letdown that you'll probably stop visiting it less than halfway through your membership period.
Example:
One would hope the site has access to the source material for the films, but even if they don't I'm fairly certain the company has access to at least one copy of the DVDs they are making available for download. We'll use MDEC #6 for this. There are four clips offered, with the 360p options averaging 500MB or so. The 480p options are around 1GB each.
Don't miss that: A ~30 minute 480p option is one gigabyte.
Remember, the DVD itself would only be 4.5GB, but they have DVD or near-DVD sized files while still looking like free tube site videos. This makes no sense considering the DVDs are sharp and clear, and a quick google search would yield tons of free rippers that would convert the entire movie to 700MB and probably still end up with better quality.
(And who knows what professional options are available for ripping those same DVDs to offer on the site.)
Instead you get dark, bad-looking individual clips at 500MB-1GB that you'll probably only watch to see a favorite actress, and then it will be deleted and/or forgotten about soon after because it's simply not worth re-watching.
Of the 30+ pages of content, only the five or so most recent pages offer HD. FWIW, even those HD clips are way too big (2GB 720p scenes)
There is quite a bit of tribbing and old/young matchups, but eroticism is often lacking. Another problem is lack of attention to lighting and what is happening in the scene. Masturbation or oral action is often blocked, and when it is open and visible it's difficult to see because the lighting is usually fair to poor. Combine the lighting choices with bad encoding and you'll end up regretting downloading most of the scenes you decided to get.
Again, it's especially sad to realize you could just as easily have been offered the entire DVD at better quality and a similar size to one of the crappy 360p clips.
FWIW, I've seen clips for sale at VOD sites, so I'm fairly certain decent, and likely even high, quality examples exist.
Bottom line: The site has so much potential. Newer videos, while still overly huge, are okay quality-wise, but the total content isn't worth it. If you do join I'd probably suggest only downloading clips from 2015 and on, but so much content is excluded with that caveat that it saddens me to say I probably wouldn't recommend joining in the first place. You're likely better off finding the actresses you enjoy and just buying the single scene or the cheap DVD they're in. |
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12-09-16 01:40pm
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Girlsway
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91.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Big name actresses and some less well-known performers
- No download limits
- Good production values
- Clean actresses in tasteful settings and clothing. Or not, depending on the story requirements.
- Multiple download formats/sizes
- Photos available for viewing and downloading |
Cons: |
(All fairly minor complaints overall from a person who thinks he's usually overly critical)
- Large-ish, but not huge, site that's still growing.
- Some scenes seem a bit repetitive, but that's likely unavoidable considering the content.
- Logouts/captcha logins.
- Fake tits and tattoos, but that's the state of the industry these days.
- Videos sometimes shot intentionally in lesser quality just to promote a particular fantasy. Explanation below. |
Bottom Line: |
I'd joined almost entirely to add to a certain actress' collection, and this site has been one of the most pleasant surprises I've discovered in a very long time. The scenes are filmed well, the lighting is good, the action is visible without being noticeably direct (legs or arms aren't at odd angles just so the camera can get a shot), and there is even a bit of acting here and there.
The thing that surprised me the most was how much many of the videos reminded me of older Sapphic Erotica scenes before the site lost some of its mojo. Remember back when the scenes would have eroticism, tribbing, entire-mouth-on-labia deep sucking, and somewhat forceful, involved oral sex between the women? Remember seeing clips and the entire thing seemed fairly believable? That's what quite a few of the Girlsway scenes reminded me of. There is sexual energy in a lot of these videos that rivals those old SE clips. I'm sure that's in large part because of directing, and kudos to the people responsible. Keep it up.
One of the better premises and filming techniques is the lesbian POV scenes, but they're a bit worse than they should be because often they switch to the POV perspective by showing what they film with the ipad or whatever tablet they're holding in the scene. While this is true to the fantasy aspect of the girls filming themselves with the device, it's a bit jarring to go from a crisp HD image to what appears to be a less-than-HD, or at least a less-HD, video setting (not to mention one would think the devices would look much better than what is presented). I appreciate the idea of giving the POV angle a bit of graininess for the sake of the fantasy, but it's sort of disappointing to have a POV scene of a favorite actress pleasuring another gorgeous woman and not have every available pixel working to its fullest to show what's happening.
And then there are other clips where the site truly shines. One memorable example is a scene with Mindi Mink and (IIRC) Samantha Hayes that is probably worth the price of admission. The two seem to actually enjoy themselves, and the oral attention given to Mink is not only convincing and enthusiastic, but also filmed in a way that shows Hayes' long hair falling onto the stomach and hairy pubic mound of Mink. Those are the types of inspired scenes and small touches that make this site worth joining.
Bottom line- I'm surprised at how good this site was, and I'm sure most of the credit for that goes to whoever is in charge of directing the scenes. If you have any interest in girl-girl scenes involving beautiful college-aged women (which seems a bit silly to even write, doesn't it?) and the occasional MILF thrown into the mix, have a look at this site.
Would I recommend? Absolutely. |
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12-02-16 05:26pm
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Wankz.com
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83.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Large site
- Epoch as payment processor
- Lots of variety in actresses, scenes, etc.
- 4K content
- Didn't encounter any download limits (FWIW, I don't have the speeds to churn through the site and grab a bunch of 4K vids like the other reviewer mentioned)
- Photos often available for download
- Lots of variety in skin tones, sizes, hair, etc.
- Good exposure to some really great stripper/porn star names. My personal favorite: Strokahontas |
Cons: |
- "Embed" instead of a download link was encountered more than once. Not really sure how that's supposed to work on a paid subscription.
- I'm not positive it's not just a clone of the Lethal site. It looked very familiar. Can one of the PU admins confirm with the owners?
- Photos would be an option, but there would be no photos on the linked page and nothing available to download
- Listed video sizes and .zip file sizes were consistently wrong. |
Bottom Line: |
The less-good. None is really too bad and none are deal breakers, but it was noticed more than a few times:
Pics and vids organization is a bit of a mess. Sizes will be listed beside the downloads, but 50%+ are incorrect. 1080p sizes will be listed as the same as the 720p clips, and photos' zip sizes will often not seem to correspond to anything in particular. It was nice to have the sizes listed, but many (most?) of the time the sizes listed for the larger video and photo download options were wrong. No big deal, but it was always very noticeable.
I had been a member of Lethal a long time ago, and quite a few of the videos looked familiar to me. I'm not sure if they weren't just similar scenes with the same actresses, but I left wondering if Wankz and Lethal are the same or at least share a lot of content. Maybe admin can confirm with the sites.
There were some dead-end links that led to photo pages with nothing to view or download, and there were occasionally download links that led to tiny ~4kB files that were clearly not the 30 minute clip you were trying to download.
The good:
One of the best parts of this site is the naming structure. Yes, I know it has little to do with video quality or quantity, but let's consider it a rare quality-of-life situation. I run into so many sites that allow download managers and unlimited downloads, and after you load your queue up with clips you discover the video that came from a page titled "Beautiful Milf Kayla Synz Gets Some Help Folding Her Laundry" ends up being saved in your download folder as something like "39030_01_HD" or the even worse "video." Not Wankz. If you download a clip from a page titled "Sexy Secretary Alana Evans gets drilled just right," you will end up with a video titled "sexy-secretary-alana-evans-gets-drilled-just-right."
Even when the video doesn't mention the actress by name, it will at least give you an idea of what is happening in the scene. For instance, "an-office-romance-gets-really-hot-and-heavy" is an actual name of a clip. You might not immediately know who is in it, but at least you have an idea of what's happening compared to 77327_02_HD.
Well done, Wankz.
They offer 4K downloads. I don't have anything that is able to properly view or oherwise take advantage of downloading those huge clips, so I can't comment on quality. Many/most of their newer clips offered portable, SD, 720p, and 1080p download options, and the older clips would often be a choice between two fair-to-decent quality options. They looked okay and the quality was acceptable considering they were older scenes.
Content-wise it's fairly standard stuff you'd see at competitors like Reality Kings, Brazzers, etc., but I never got the feeling this was on the same level. It's still a good site, but it's like watching your local college play football before going to see the playoffs. The first guys were fun to watch and did a good job, but the top teams are almost playing an entirely different game on an identical field.
Would I recommend? Yes, and what especially lifted them out of the "average" range is the recognizable naming of files. I understand it's a little more work, but the coordination between files seems like it would be easy to do when setting up the system, and it's a shame we can't see that from websites more often. |
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11-21-16 02:44am
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Evil Angel
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87.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Big names like Veronica Avluv, India Summer, etc., and less known actresses as well.
- High production values (very much not a romance site, fwiw)
- Attractive models doing raunchy things
- Great value. Lots of content on each site plus additional large network access
- Good PU discount
- Download managers work
- Photos available |
Cons: |
- Niche. Be sure you're into what they're offering
- Doesn't seem as responsive with more than one tab opened
- Photos zips are huge.
- Videos seem to be padded a bit with BTS and "best of" style compilations here and there, but still an enormous network. |
Bottom Line: |
Very much a gonzo network.
Enjoy anal, choking, matted-hair, running mascara, etc? Enjoy spit, gagging, ATM, stuff coming out of throats and noses, feet-on-head during the anal sex (even when it's lesbians using strapons) in your adult films? Like a few shemales alone or with men and women here and there? This is the network for you.
The site/network will log you out every so often. I couldn't see a particular pattern, but you'll want to check in every so often if you're hoping to grab some videos with a manager.
The video quality is good to excellent, although I didn't see any 4K. That's not an issue for me, but the highest offering I saw was 1080p. One of the best things about the network is that most of the newer clips are offered in everything from 160p to 1080p for download. I thought the 540p offered the best size/quality tradeoff, and the HD clips often weren't significantly better looking to justify the three or five times size differences. The older clips might only be in 360 or 480, but that's fairly acceptable considering their age.
Production values are generally high in the newer scenes.
Actress-wise, There are some good scenes with stars like Lou Charmelle, Courtney Cummz, Dana Vespoli, and others. BUT, if you see an actress you like, you'd best want to see her doing some pretty degrading stuff. If that doesn't float your boat, reconsider pursuing your favorite actress on this network. Again, anal is ever-present, as are choking, gagging, drooling, etc.
There were some surprises in the actress list, too. It was nice to discover some unknown work by Jessica Nyx, Alysha Rylee, and others. It's always pleasant to stumble across those kinds of things at a site you were visiting almost entirely because of previously unknown work by another actress.
There are photos and photo zips available, but the sizes seem way too big for what they are. 300MB for a set wasn't uncommon, but 50MB would've been more appropriate for something that is essentially complimentary to the video. The lighting in the photos was worse as well, and often too dark. It was a strange contrast to the overly-bright videos.
Bottom line- Anal. Choking. Drooling. Running mascara. Sound good? Join. |
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11-07-16 09:08am
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Dark X
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78.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Multiple download options
- No download limits
- Attractive female models
- Above-average production values |
Cons: |
- Small site
- Doesn't seem different enough to warrant a separate site
- No epoch or CCBill option that I could find |
Bottom Line: |
This is a fairly short review because it's a small site that probably should just be a part of a _____x.com network. I have no problem paying for smaller sites, btw. This one just seems way too close in style and substance to other _____x.com sites to merit a standalone / additional cost site.
If you are looking for well-shot, attractive people having fairly vanilla sex but with anal instead of vaginal intercourse, these are probably decent sites to consider.
Bottom line: Look at the hardx review to get a feel for the good and bad for darkx, too. This seemed pretty much identical except for having black male leads and fewer clips. |
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10-31-16 06:55pm
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ATK Archives
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75.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Billing through ccbill
- Lots of models
- Lots of different bodies, hair styles, colors, etc.
- Quite a few stars before they were big |
Cons: |
- Not entirely exclusive?
- That ATK underarm thing.
- No distinct names of downloads
- Ads inside
- Fairly frequent logouts |
Bottom Line: |
I thought it's a pretty good idea to have an "archive" site for content going back ten plus years. I'm not personally convinced it should be priced as high as it is considering the quality of the older stuff is often fairly low, but there is a large amount of overall content available.
I'm not sure it's exclusive material. I don't doubt it's likely exclusive to the ATK brand, but some of the sets looked like I've seen them before on the other ATK sites.
More of the ATK underarm fetish present. I've joined three of their sites now, and it's definitely not coincidence. It's not so bad to be offensive, but it's very noticeable if you're not into underarms.
As long as we're here, there are some hairy underarms in there as well. Again, not enough to be a deal-breaker even for those of us who aren't into it, but know you're going to see some when you're browsing. Or, if you're into hairy (or not) underarms, go buy an annual subscription right now because this is an excellent resource.
Numerous different studios taking the photos. I thought it was interesting to be able to pick out specific photographers/studios before even clicking the link to take you to the sets. It's neat how distinctive DDF (and others) methods and styles are, and also neat how you might not have noticed it until you see them lumped together with other studios'.
There are videos here and there, but it's very much a photo site. The quality of the sets I looked at varied from okay to good, but it's an archive site so that is forgivable. Even in the videos I'd guess the majority of the content is interview and/or masturbation with a bit of lesbian or BG hardcore here and there. Don't go into it for the videos. Accept them as added benefits of the models' sets that you liked.
It's fairly common to have 50+ images in a .zip file that is only 5-15MB in size. Don't expect zoomable MetArt shots. Again, everything is tempered by the fact that these are archives and you joined an archive site, so it's forgivable.
The files will often share a name, so if you download a hundred sets featuring "Jennifer," and there are a dozen models named Jennifer, you'll have no idea which Jennifer is which or what is happening in any of them until you go through each individually.
Bottom line: Not a bad site, and a lot of pleasant surprises finding models I'd forgotten about or didn't know about at all. Would I recommend? Sure, but. The "but" being if I found out all the sets were shared with another larger ATK site. It would be silly to not just join that site, wouldn't it? |
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10-16-16 11:16am
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Harmony Vision
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68.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Attractive models
- Epoch as biller
- Photos available for some sets
- Quite a bit of fetish variety. DPs, rubber, dungeons, etc. |
Cons: |
- Definitely a pornstar site. Fake tits, tattoos, etc.
- Frequent logouts, have to go through captcha to get back in
- Photos intermittently available. When clicking the "download" link for a set's photos I was redirected back to the homepage on more than one occasion.
- Questionable lighting choices in a lot of scenes. S&M = abuse your eyes.
- Download managers work, but are kind of pointless since the links die when the site logs you out after letting you get two clips.
- No distinguishing names for videos. You'll have a folder full of "scene_sd_high" clips and no idea what's in any of them.
- Models listed but have no scenes
- Missing videos |
Bottom Line: |
Lots of decent content but a fairly irritating site. Better overall than Stiffia.com, but still obviously a stiffia site because of site decisions.
Possibly the first time I've seen interactive S&M. You're part of the action as you realize your eyes are hurting from bad lighting and poor focus in many of the scenes.
Click on a scene and you'll get four video download options, but there is little to no rhyme or reason regarding sizes. Some 1080p clips will be 2GBs, and other similar-length 1080p clips will be 500MB. It doesn't make any sense, and the video quality isn't drastically better between the clips, either.
Some download links will be missing after you click on them. ipod, SD, 720p, and 1080p will all be offered, but 720p might have nothing there.
You'll be logged off fairly often as well. I'd estimate I could download two or three 500MB scenes before getting kicked out and needing to re-login to the site I paid for.
"Size mismatch" errors when trying to download videos.
Bottom line: Maybe join if you get a discount and see something you need to complete a collection, but expect to be irritated and disappointed. |
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10-07-16 02:54am
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Hard X
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84.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Good lighting, video quality, etc.
- No download limits that I encountered
- Multiple video sizes available for download
- Big names and up-and-comers.
- Decent mixture of white and non-white actresses
- The anal isn't the degrading foot-on-her-head gonzo style that is so popular these days. |
Cons: |
- Checkbox cross-sales when subscribing (webmasters, is that one-time $30 or so worth a user never, ever subscribing to any of your sites again?)
- Anal in almost every scene, although that's probably a pro for some. "Hard" in this usage = anal.
- Photos intermittently available for downloading. Seems odd for such a new and well-designed/planned site. |
Bottom Line: |
A good looking, responsive, polished site featuring attractive women having anal sex or being gangbanged. I'd guess there are 200 or so videos. There is a decent mixture of college aged women and MILFs. Occasional tattoos but not really prominent. The same with fake tits (why, ladies?). There is some running mascara here and there, but even the gangbangs didn't really strike me as gonzo-style porn.
If you're not into anal/DPs/gangbangs you'll get bored pretty quickly. I'd guess there were only a dozen or so videos out of what I glanced at that didn't involve anal sex, and it makes one wonder the "analx.com" domain was already taken when this site was developed.
Video download options went from small portable-friendly clips to 1080p with four or five options in between, and even the middle option (540p) looks very good considering the size and quality tradeoffs compared to the larger HD files. Kudos to the site for this.
I think offering a "best of" HD clip of the major points or finale similar to what Naughty America and Team Skeet provide would be beneficial to this site. Offering a clip with the anal and ATM edited out might increase appeal to more subscribers as well.
Would I recommend? If you're into anal, yes. It's an attractive, well-done site with high quality videos. |
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09-22-16 05:34am
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ATK Premium
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76.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Good search engine
- Tremendous number of models and sets.
- Downloadable .zip files for photos, download links for videos
- Looks like the newer sets have three resolutions available for .zip downloads
- Links to site's sets by specific studio/photographer
- Great selection of women, body types, hairstyles, etc.
- No retouching that I could see, although that could be a con in some cases.
- No problems opening multiple tabs of a model's sets. |
Cons: |
- Underarm fetish is prominent
- Ads inside, and not just to other ATK sites
- Logs you out fairly often.
- No distinguishing features for downloads. A dozen photo .zips of Charisma will each be named the same "Charisma_all.zip"
- Art =/= "holding fruit and/or wearing a hat" |
Bottom Line: |
A pretty good site with most of its focus on photos but quite a few videos available as well, and some videos are available in HD (newer clips I'd imagine). There are lots of hidden gems, and you'll come across early sets from models like Lucie Theodovora and Addison O'Reilly in addition to hundreds of unknowns.
Lots of girls, and lots of different bodies. It's a nice way to appreciate all the various shapes and wonderfulness.
There are links to the photographers' sets, so if you like the way one set looks you can click on the photographer's name and see his others on the site.
Less good:
Lots of average girls, so you're just as likely to see below average as you are above.
If videos are available they seem to be mostly masturbation. That's not all bad, of course, but know what to expect going in.
I think I saw some of the same models' sets in Aunt Judy, but I'm not 100% positive. They may have just looked extremely familiar. This didn't happen often, but there were one or two models' sets that I'm pretty sure I'd seen elsewhere. Maybe the webmaster can verify this.
Like Aunt Judy's, it's sort of comical to watch for the models lifting their arms within the first dozen or so frames. It becomes so obvious that you notice when the girl DOESN'T do it more than when she does. There are some fairly hairy women in there, too, so be aware of what you might stumble across if you join. Not my thing, but I do think it should be advertised more. Of course, it might already be a known quantity in the underarm community and it's a way of not pushing away other customers.
Apparently you get a folder when they haven't made a .zip file for a set, and you can't create another zip file until you delete one of the .zip files you had to make because they didn't. "You have more than five zips in your folder. Please delete some of them to continue your custom zip selection." That seems like a weird way to do things. Frankly, not having a simple zip file to download without "creating" when the majority of the other sets on the site have one seems pretty weird, too.
Models will be in multiple scenes but link associated with her name leads nowhere. (Amber in Paulina scenes for example).
The majority of "artistic" photos are amusing. They look a lot like all the other sets, but the lighting is worse and there might be fruit, hats, or a barn in the frame. Because art. That's not really what the site seems to push itself as, so it's forgivable.
Would I recommend? Sure, why not? It's a decent photo site with a lot of variety. |
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09-15-16 07:08am
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21Sextury.com
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77.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- No download limits (data-wise) that I encounterd
- Multiple video sizes
- .zip photo sets for shoots |
Cons: |
- Actress thumbnails with no content available
- Videos have no names, only numbers.
- No limits, but download links in DTA die when the site logs you out every day
- Newer photo sets are huge to enormous |
Bottom Line: |
Not a bad site, but pretty disappointing when you spend any time there.
You'll get a folder full of 32234_01_HD type videos, and no idea who is in them or what they're about.
Actresses are listed and thumbnailed even when there is *NO* content available. Example: Eveline Dellai shows three scenes, but every scene has a lock icon on it. If you want them you'll need to join these other TWO sites. Betty Style has four pages of videos, and there are up to nine videos on each page. Here's the problem: On page one there are two videos actually available. One on p2. One on p3. One on p4. So five videos available out of thirty shown, with the rest all having lock icons on them and you don't have access to them unless you pay to join the other two sites.
I understand wanting to show users that there is more content available and that you'd happily sell them another subscription, but it would be better to have a "MORE CONTENT AVAILABLE AT OUR OTHER SITES!!!" link below her image.
If an actress has zero scenes available on your site, which happens to be the same site that I paid money for and have access to, don't show her photo and don't have a clickable link pretending you do. Don't do it dozens (hundreds, maybe thousands, when you count actresses that may have a scene or two but the rest locked) of times, especially.
Strange choices regarding what's on the site, too. You get ladies wrestling in an actual ring with your membership (saw a lot of those offered), but a middle aged MILF having sex has a lock on it.
It automatically logged me out every evening around 8pm, and queued downloads in DTA would fail. This isn't exclusive to this site, but it was much more noticeable since it seems to be on a schedule. Is it like a restaurant where other users can't have a seat at the server until I leave, or is it just a good way to try to make people stay one more month? FWIW, it does the opposite for me, and I doubt I'm alone. More than likely I'll get the actresses I like and remember "Oh yeah, their site logged me off and killed my downloads every evening" when I'm tempted to re-join.
A lot of the non-euro content looked very familiar and like scenes you'd find at Videobox. I'd be shocked if it's exclusive. On the bright side, they don't have pages and pages of thumbnails with lock icons on them that let you know you can buy scenes at Videobox.
There are often photo sets available for viewing and downloading, but the .zip files are as big as a video clip. 250MB or the non HD, and 1GB for the HD wasn't unusual. Someone with a fiberoptic connection will have to chime in on quality comparisons, but non-HD photo zips should be under 100MB. I think even at MetArt the big files were only occasionally 500MB or so, and that's a photo site.
Overall it's not a bad, and it has a lot of content, but it's tainted with bad decisions. Would I recommend? Maybe. It's a decent resource for some good euro actresses.
Would I join again? Definitely not at full price. PU's $20? Doubtful. $5 for a month? Maybe. |
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09-06-16 05:45am
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Tug Pass
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73.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Decent sized site/network with lots of clips, but not very large data-wise since the videos aren't huge
- Improved video quality since last review
- Allows download managers
- Good download speeds
- Pictures sometimes available along with videos, although sometimes just for viewing and not always as .zip |
Cons: |
- Ads behind the paywall.
- All videos are named the same thing ("high")
- Some links to photo sets that go nowhere other than a "back to video" page.
- No video quality choices.
- Directing/editing isn't well thought out at times
- Older videos are still really low quality
- $30 seems a bit overpriced. |
Bottom Line: |
I was a member years ago and was unimpressed, but I thought I would give Clubtug another shot since I saw some bigger names listed as models. The network/site has definitely gotten better. It still comes across as amateurish in a lot of ways (yes lots of amateur models, but also an amateur site), but it's improving.
My feeling was that it's mostly a handjob network with a bit of intercourse (Tease POV IIRC), but don't expect much beyond masturbation and a bit of oral here and there.
There was a large popup ad for other sites after you login that you have to click "no thanks, continue to the site" (or similar) to get to the site you paid for, and ads throughout the site. Each site on the network required an individual login as well, but the sites don't seem to log you out frequently, so I'm okay with the individual login requests.
One of the big problems with the site in the past was tube-quality videos (or worse). This has improved, and according to VLC the newer clips are 720. There are no video quality choices, however, and the old tube-quality clips are designated as "high" exactly like the new 720 clips, so there's no way to know which you're getting until you view it.
The videos are fairly watchable now, although there are some bad choices like stationary filming, poor visibility from bad angles, or attempting to use a macro ring to light up-close scenes similar to Amateur Allure. I don't care much for it there, and it's even less successful here. The lighting washes out the models' skin and they lose most detail in their face/body, and the cumshot washes out the same way on the stark white, flat face. I appreciate trying something new, but it's a shame the actresses like India Summer and Alexis Fawx weren't just filmed with a good lens on a mid-level Canon SLR with decent natural lighting.
Other problems are things like models giving a handjob while fully clothed and then abruptly wearing bra and panties before abruptly being naked. I don't think a storyline is necessary, but 30 extra seconds of transitioning through the models undressing would help the scenes overall.
That said, there are some good choices like POV scenes with a naked model sitting between a (laying on his back) man's legs with HER legs open as she masturbates him. Those scenes are fairly inspired and were nice to see.
I think $20 is probably a more appropriate non-promo day-to-day price, but the site's owners have brought in some bigger names like Veronica Avluv, Dava Foxx, and India Summer, so the $30 isn't unreasonable in light of attracting and paying talent. I personally would recommend the owners get more of Christina Sky(e?) and the actress named Harley. Both seemed fairly interested in what they were doing, and that goes a long way in making the scenes believable/enjoyable. Not to mention you can probably get five or more scenes for what India or Avluv charges for one. FWIW, there are still some less attractive models and the videos from my first review are still there, but the quality of models has improved over the last couple of years.
Bottom line: I reviewed the network under Clubtug last time and they only earned a 62, but the details have improved enough that I'm adding ten+1 points for them putting in the effort and making it a decent site. It's not an especially innovative or outstanding site, but if there are more than a few actresses there doing things you enjoy watching, it's probably worth checking out at least once, especially if you can get a discounted rate. |
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08-27-16 05:21pm
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MetArt
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97.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- The obvious: Beautiful models.
- Easy to navigate, easy to use.
- No download limits that I encountered.
- A surprising number of models with very natural tan lines. I'm going to type it again just because they're so attractive and I'm surprised no one has started a niche site based on them. Tan lines.
- Not the same setting for every model. FWIW, I didn't recognize any repeats.
- Very few, if any at all, fake breasts.
- Did I mention tan lines? |
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- Aliases for some well-known stars.
- User tags not as complete as they could be.
- Pretty limited in age, color, and body type.
- Naming is a bit odd. Lots of single letters after first names to differentiate from models. Made up example: Lori B., Lori G., Lori H., and Lori L. Not a big deal, but noticeably unusual. |
Bottom Line: |
For perspective, my average site rating is 77 and the best score I've ever given is a 91.
I decided to finally see what all the fuss is about, and I'll be damned if the site didn't live up to its reputation.
Know what you're getting into. It's not hardcore. It is gorgeous women photographed well by people who know what they are doing.
This is the first time I think I've really experienced a hydra. A very, very pleasant hydra, but a hydra still. You can click to look at a model's set, and either the "previous set" or "next set" thumbnail will show a different model's scene that you're going to click on to look at, too. And then it will happen again with that set and another model. And again. And again. And again.
Most websites find you browsing through multiple scenes to see the ones you DO to view. This one is the opposite. You'll realize that you are having trouble finding sets you DON'T want to see. Word of warning: If you join, you won't just be a member one single time. It might not be month-to-month, but you'll probably be joining this site again.
Beautiful models. Not "hey, those are beautiful models for an adult site," but beautiful in the women-in-general sense. I prefer older women, but there's no denying that almost every single model would turn heads in any room she entered, and more than likely be the prettiest one there. Even the models you decide to skip over are attractive, and if the skipped-over one were to approach you at the beach or grocery store (much less a bar) and began chatting with you and showing even the slightest bit of interest, then you'd do your best to see her again. And she's one you'll skip over on the site.
Every shoot I saw had small (10-ish mb), medium (50mb or so), and large (80-500mb) zip files, and the images can also be viewed on-screen with a choice between small, medium, and large as well.
Did I mention tan lines yet? It's indicative of why the site is so good. It's not simply tan lines, but all-over tans, pale skin, hairy pubic areas, completely shaved, etc. It's so great to see different women look like different women.
Everything isn't perfect, though. Letting users add the tags is a pretty inefficient system. While "sexy", "gorgeous", "pretty face", and "perfect 10" are nice, they're very subjective and not extremely useful. Very basic tags from the photographer/webmaster like curly hair, brunette, lingerie, etc. would be appreciated since the tags can be clicked on to pull up any other set that has the same tag.
There is very little ethnic variety, and is 95%+ beautiful white women. That's not a big deal for me, but if you prefer women that are more towards the darker side of the spectrum be aware that you're not going to find too much variation here.
You'll recognize a few stars here and there (the lovely Lorena Garcia comes to mind, and I was very glad to see her), but for the most part it's unknown amateurs.
I didn't download or otherwise investigate the videos at all so someone else will need to give input on that, but I have no reason to suspect they're anything other than superb.
Bottom line:
A great site. If you have any appreciation for the female form, join. Will I join again? Definitely.
Webmaster: Do you run (or does anyone else know of) a MILF website with similar photography? Anilos is great and I've been a repeat member off and on for years, but there's a definite difference in styles and I'd really like to see some older women handled with Met Art's artistic approach. |
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08-13-16 09:17am
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Club Seventeen
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67.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Lets you choose models by breast size, which is a nice touch and pretty unusual in my experience.
- You can create your own video clip from the larger scene (looks like a 5 minute size/time limitation)
- .zipped photo sets available for many / most scenes.
- Good PU discount
- No DRM or download limits. |
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- Ads, ads, and more ads.
- More than a few technical issues.
- There isn't enough room here. See below. |
Bottom Line: |
I even ran out of room here, too. I'll touch on some of the main points, though.
- 540p and 720p clips are identical sizes when downloading. (Catherine E, Carol A., Carina E., and many others). Sorry guys, but that's not possible. And it kept happening. I'd say 70%+ of the clips that didn't have 1080p as a download option were the same size when I checked. It would be okay if the rest of the site were outstanding, but as it is it only serves to make it appear even worse.
- Photo sets for many scenes are laughably small (600KB). I understand that many shoots are old, but one would think the images were archived at the best quality, and it doesn't seem likely that it would yield a web-page-promo sized set. Which brings us to:
- Not a whole lot of content considering the brand has been around for a very long time.
- Wrong actresses pictured in name/scenes. "Jeanine" (Rihanna Samuel) uses a photo of someone else entirely for the main thumbnail, which is a very bad thing on a site where the actresses use aliases.
- Scenes' pages have different formats. Some might list download options as "1080p, 540p, and 720p" while others list "High, Med, Low". It looks like it's different because the former is .mp4 while the latter is .wmv. Which brings us to:
- Multiple formats, but not in a good way. Streaming for one clip uses jwplayer (java?) but you're prompted to get silverlight for the same model's other clip on the next page.
- Lots of ads in the scene listings. Yes, they're listed as "bonus" videos, but you can't download them unless you pay somewhere else, which means they're advertisements for other sites sprinkled directly within the model's scenes.
- No useful naming structure or any meaningful identification of files. Oh no, one of the downloads failed. Which one? Who the hell knows, and you'll never, ever know unless you cross-reference each video in the folder full of "540p_fullcomplete" files you've been downloading against the hundreds of available videos on the site. Good luck. What was I looking for again? Oh yeah, her. Hey, there it is. That one. 540p_fullcomplete. Thank goodness I found it. Oh no, it's not that one. Maybe it's 540p_fullcomplete. Nope, not that one, either. 540p_fullcomplete, maybe. Nope. Not that one. 540p_fullcomplete? Crap, no.
It's especially irritating since each and every video is clearly given a name on the page you download from. "Christina Sits by the Pool" or "Jenny Is Home Alone" or something similar (each of those is made up, btw) is listed above the download options for every video. What do you get when you click them? 540p_fullcomplete and 540p_fullcomplete.
Other than grabbing a specific actress' clips and images, I can't see much of an advantage of this site over just joining Videosz or Videobox. They might not have the *exact* same content, but they appear to have lots of similar content if you just want to sample (24 pages of "Video Art Holland" clips, ~700 or so scenes at VB), and I bet the names have SOME defining characteristic, even if it's just the title of the movie. Not to mention thousands of other scenes from dozens of other studios, too.
- Actresses are often not credited and you only know the name because a comment was left by a user who helpfully tells everyone who she is.
- "Girl of the Week" repeats. Weeks 193 and 353, and 174 and 108 (and somehow amazingly the same as "Request 348"- why wouldn't the fan who made the request just go to the model's page and download the scene that already exists?) are an example, but there are many others.
- Lots of technical annoyances. For example: If you click on an image to view it it will load with the website darkened in the background. If you then press the right arrow to move on to the next image, the background (the website) will shift to the left. If you continue pressing the right arrow to view other photos in the series the website will shift entirely to the left side of your monitor, almost disappearing, and you'll need to move it back to the viewable part of your screen to continue.
- On the plus side, there are a few standout videos you should definitely get if you decide to join. 1080p_fullcomplete was almost perfect, with great models, good acting, and really nice action. 1080p_fullcomplete was another one that is a must-get, too. And if you like lesbian scenes, do not miss 1080p_fullcomplete. The energy between those two is amazing.
Bottom line:
This site, like Private, has such potential, talent, and name recognition that it could easily be competing at the level of the other big-name top tier sites, but the combination of "meh" quality, slipshod site design, and indifference to user experience / user friendliness is really disappointing.
Would I recommend? Sure, why not? It's cheap, it's not absolutely horrible, and you could complete a favorite actress' scene collection if that's what you're after.
Would I rejoin? Unlikely. |
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08-05-16 06:44pm
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DogFart
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80.0
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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Pros: |
- Large site with lots of content
- Average to attractive women being seen to by black men with large penises
- .zip files of photos for every set I looked at.
- Epoch is payment processor.
- Simple site with simple navigation. Other sites could learn from this layout.
- Reasonable video sizes with good quality
- Deeply discounted rate was offered after canceling. |
Cons: |
- 10GB/day or so download limit.
- A bit too heavy on the "they're all thugs playing dice in the alley" black guy stereotypes, but I guess that's part of the fantasy. FWIW, it would be nice to see some (legal) businessman scenes incorporated, too.
- Lots of fake tits and thigh tattoos, although I recognize that's the direction the industry has moved towards.
- Scene tags don't help much. "Hairy" is anything from a full belly-to-bottom bush, or just a little landing strip. And sometimes it produced scenes where the actress was fully shaved and bald as an egg. Or maybe it's the guy in the video. Hard to know for sure. |
Bottom Line: |
Good site with good content.
Attractive women servicing BBCs, and different scenarios / fantasies spread over a number of sites on the network. MILFs, cuckolds, black on white, white on black, individual actress sites (Ruth Blackwell, Spring Thomas, others), etc. It's one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, players in the niche, and it has years of content available using lots of big name actresses as well as unknowns.
Quite a few of the "big" downloads failed before they finished, and links/pages don't stay alive more than 30 minutes to an hour, so download managers don't work too far beyond the most basic "download this single file and nothing else after it" functionality.
I ran into a weekly download limit (somewhere around 10GB/day if I had to guess) that is not mentioned in the terms or on PU/TBP. You still have access after you go over, but you can only stream until their clock resets. I don't remember the reset time limit (sorry), but I'm guessing it's at the end of the week since the page telling me I couldn't download any more since I'd hit the limit specifically mentioned "week".
Bottom line: I liked it, but note that it's aimed towards non-collectors with fast connections who are interested in streaming the majority of the content and only want to keep a few items here and there.
Would I join again? Yes. |
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07-23-16 12:39pm
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