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Club Red Light
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Large site
- Red Light District makes some great porn
- Access to lots of their catalogue
- Supports download managers
- Good download speeds
- Most of the newer uploads have good file resolutions |
Cons: |
- Scenes not associated with the DVD they were released on
- Scenes widely available on other pay sites
- Many ‘sites’ in the network are not updating
- Last update at all was almost a month ago
- Site may be dying or dead
- Some scenes offer no video
- File resolutions vary widely
- File resolutions not provided
- Photos offered are poor quality |
Bottom Line: |
I find that studio sites can be a gamble. For every one like Evil Angel that does it well, there are ten that come up short. Club Red Light is lumped in with the majority of studio sites and continues the tradition of being mediocre.
Most people will know the Red Light District studio well since they have been around for more than a decade and their material is widely available on DVD sites. As a mainstream porn studio they cover all of the regular niches. Their offerings are almost exclusively gonzo and are harder-edged. This really isn’t couples porn.
The site markets itself as a network by creating different niche ‘sites.’ But since the scenes are all from RLD DVDs and are all available on the main page then it really can’t be treated as a network. (While CRL is the name of the network, it is also a separate site within the network.)
The sites, with some stats (number of scenes / last update date), are:
Club Red Light – 1099 / Dec. 7, 2013
Addicted to Boobs – 188 / Nov. 16, 2013
Ass Crazed – 148 / Nov. 8, 2013
Choke on My Load – 79 / Oct. 27, 2013
Cumfart Cocktails – 38 / Oct. 31, 2013
Cum Stained Casting Couch – 191 / Oct. 28, 2013
I Just Fucked My Best Friend’s Mom – 88 / Sept. 21, 2013
I Just Fucked Two Chicks – 45 / Nov. 9, 2013
In it Goes Out it Cums – 137 / Nov. 1, 2013
I’ve Been Sodomized – 265 / Oct. 18, 2013
Sluts Fucking Sluts – 72 / Dec. 26, 2012
So You Think You Can Squirt – 41 / Oct. 3, 2013
Teenage Fuckholes – 350 / Nov. 5, 2013
Throat Gaggers – 110 / Jan. 24, 2013
Toe Service – 28 / May 29, 2013
Young Tight Latinas – 104 / Oct. 26, 2013
One caveat when counting the scenes: I have no idea because they aren’t labelled as such, but some of the scenes only offer photos and no videos. Another caveat on updates: you’ll note that the last update on the entire site was three weeks ago. Many of the sites haven’t updated in months. I won’t be the one to call for last rites, but maybe we need a porn priest on speed dial.
I really can’t understand why a studio who produces DVDs wouldn’t structure their website around those DVDs. To make matters worse, while some of the sites have some RLD series names, and the sites have scenes from that series, there are additional scenes in there too making it harder to sort. For others like me who have a large porn collection, not identifying the DVD title means that I inevitably downloaded a lot of scenes that I already had.
Apart from not having the scenes associated with their respective DVDs, the site is laid out in a logical manner. The main site shows thumbnails for 24 scenes per page spanning all the ‘sites. Opening one of the thumbnails brings you to that scene’s page where you can stream, download the scene (if video is available) and the photos.
There seems to be a point in March, 2008 when they started offering higher resolutions. Prior to that date the scenes were offered as WMVs in 640x480 and lower. I realize that a lot of these scenes weren’t filmed in good resolution so I can’t fault the site for this, but they are pretty poor quality. When higher resolutions were offered starting in 2008 they were first WMVs at 1280x720 at 4000 kb/s. A problem though, is that even though some of the scenes uploaded after 2008 are labelled “HD” on the thumbnail, they still only come in at 640x480. With file data not provided the best gauge for guessing resolution is file size. The last two years saw another change with the file type switching to MP4. For the past two years the files are offered as an “MP4 High” and an “MP4 Medium.” The “High” are 1920x1080 at 5000kb/s and 29fps. They look good, but not as crisp as on some other sites. The “Medium” are 960x540 at 3000kb/s and 29fps. I know this will sound really fussy on my part, but I do wish they offered 1280x720 to bridge the gap.
While there are photos offered (and singles or zips) there are only a few low-res photos offered with each scene, and some of those are screencaps.
The site supports download managers and I had no trouble with links timing out. Download speeds were good. I experienced a problem the first few days of my membership with the site crashing and giving me an “internal server error” message. Usually going back to the site and logging in resolved it. It hasn’t happened in the past few days so it may have been a temporary glitch.
I found that I had downloaded several scenes where the video and audio were not in sync. It may have been that with bad luck I stumbled on the few like that, but it is more likely that this occurs in other scenes too.
The bottom line is that this is a site that could have been great but isn’t. RLD makes some great porn but the cons really outweigh the pros here. Add to this that the site may be dying and I am certain that I won’t be back. The only people I’d recommend the site to would be a person who is just starting to buy and collect online porn and doesn’t already have many RLD titles. |
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01-03-14 06:46am
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Hustler Mega Pass
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- 1800 Hustler DVDs
- Supports download managers
- Many scenes are 1280x720 (bitrate varies)
- Files offered as streaming or video
- Files offered with some choice of type and resolution |
Cons: |
- Only the most recently uploaded scenes have good video quality (approximately 600 of the DVDs)
- Not really a ‘network’
- Trial membership is now limited to streaming 5 scenes
- Search function doesn’t work well
- Sort function doesn’t work well
- Scenes start streaming immediately – watch your speakers!
- Lots of ads
- Many DVDs have scenes missing |
Bottom Line: |
I’ll admit that this site probably hasn’t changed much since the last time I reviewed it, so the big difference in scoring and comments comes from how I’ve changed recently when it comes to collecting porn. I’ve recently deleted a lot of my collection because the quality was so poor and this site didn’t set a high bar for video quality. I think my approach to this site can be summed up by saying if you don’t care too much about quality and like lots of porn, get a membership here. If you prefer quality over quantity, the site is still worth a membership, but go into it with your eyes open as this is not a site that offers cutting-edge quality.
If you’re like me and prefer quality over quantity, allow me to save you some time and frustration if you take a membership here. Any DVD or scene labeled as HD is fairly good quality, though it is not among the best on the ‘net. The resolution is 1280x720 and the bitrate is 3000kb/s. Scenes uploaded after 2010 (which is about one quarter of what’s available here) that are labeled as ‘Super’ quality also come in at 1280x720 and a 3000kb/s bitrate. These also look pretty good. (I don’t know why some are labeled HD even though the specs are the same as files not so labeled.) That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the site must have changed codecs or made some amendments at some point in 2010 or 11 because even though the specs show 1280x720 and 3000 some of the scenes with those specs don’t look good. That’s bad because there is no obvious way to tell them apart other than watching each scene and deciding if the quality is good enough.
The ugly news is that the majority of the videos uploaded are still 1280x720 (older videos are lower) but come in at lower bitrates of 1700 and lower. On a 24” monitor I found these scenes to be unwatchable. Dark colors showed lots of pixilation and even edges like arms looked blocky. Movement made them look worse, and let’s face it, sex (and therefore porn) without movement would be kind of pointless. I tried downloading both the mp4 and wmv versions but both were equally bad.
The site does support download managers with long timeouts. There is no obvious download limit.
The site does continue to update at what looks to be a scene per day. I can’t be certain because sorting the scenes or DVDs by latest added doesn’t work well. I did that and found newer scenes mixed in with scenes uploaded a week ago. At least the updates are dated so you can figure out what’s new. It also appears that as long as the scene was taped recently the quality will be good. If the upload is a ‘classic,’ the quality won’t be there.
The site bills itself as a network, but it really isn’t in the true sense. The ‘sites’ are all listed on the main page but if you go to the main Hustler site you’ll get access to everything. One thing you’ll see lots of regardless of the site you’re on are ads. They aren’t obtrusive, and they aren’t pop-ups so I can live with them.
If you’re thinking that you can join with the trial membership and get in, get what you want and get out, think again and read my comment on that.
The search function works marginally well, but I found that it often returned results that weren’t even remotely related to my search.
My final major beef with the site is that scenes are missing on many DVDs. In one example, Taylor Rain is on the box cover but her scene isn’t offered. This is frustrating if you’re hoping to find a specific scene.
One quirk I found was that finding the member’s entrance was a real chore. The main page has links to join, but not for member’s to enter (that I could find anyway). The workaround was to go in through the back door using one of the ‘sites’ listed as being part of the network. This seems like an odd oversight.
The bottom line is that this site can be a decent value for specific purposes. The site gives you access to Hustler’s best known series, Barely Legal, and if you like parodies Hustler shoots lots of them. The biggest problem is that while there are 1800 DVDs on the site, only about 600 of them have video quality that most collectors would find acceptable in 2013. That’s still a lot of porn though, so the value is still pretty good. If you do join, at least you can say you were warned. |
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09-02-13 05:03pm
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Review
253
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Reality Kings
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- 39 Sites on the network
- Some interesting niches
- Streaming available
- Downloads in at least two formats and three sizes
- Pics and screencaps available
- Most sites update regularly |
Cons: |
- Several sites update irregularly
- Daily download limit (10GB +/- per day)
- Download limit appears to be applied unevenly to members
- ‘Cookie-cutter’ porn
- Download manager (Free Download Manager) wasn’t supported |
Bottom Line: |
RK bills itself as “the World’s Best Adult Network” but by subjective and objective measures I don’t agree with that. It’s not a bad network, but it isn’t the world’s best.
The network is made up of 39 themed sites. The usual porn themes are here, like big breasts, MILFs, and 18-year-old ladies, but there are also some fairly unique sites too. There are three sites that cater to scenes with multiple models in party settings (VIP Crew, In the VIP and Bikini Crashers). These are among my favourites but I can understand why others may not be interested in them.
The sites vary in size, with the more mainstream sites having lots of material (some have over 500 scenes) and some of the niche sites have only a handful of scenes. Each site opens into a separate page that list the scenes with a large thumbnail for each. On the left of that page is a column of filters for sub-themes. The scenes usually have a unique name and the main star is also listed. Opening the page for each scene brings more details and tags. You can access screencaps and pictures (which I didn’t download so I can’t comment on them) and you can access the video in any of several ways. Streaming is available, as are downloads. Downloads are offered in a few different ways, usually as a WMV and MP4. MP4 is available in larger sizes and smaller sizes for handheld devices. For some reason, even the newer scenes are frequently broken down into shorter clips for easier download, though the full scene is also available.
HD video is available on some scenes, though I didn’t download any because of the daily limit.
RK has been around for a long time so the quality of their videos has obviously changed. Older videos are low quality, but I can’t fault the site for that because that was the standard back when they were shot. Most of the older scenes are only available in three or four clips, which also made sense back when they were uploaded. It would be nice if the site took the time to stitch them together into one full file now that most people have high-speed internet connections. The newer scenes (in WMV) still aren’t great quality: 640x480 @ 1600kb/s and 768x432 @ 1600 are common. Subjectively they aren’t bad, but they aren’t great either.
Objectively, the site is decent, but not any better than many other networks. RK isn’t any better (or any worse) than places like Mofos and Porn Pros. In terms of quality they certainly can’t be compared to sites like ALS Scan and Diesel Access.
Subjectively the network isn’t all that impressive. I’ll admit that a lot of that is personal taste because I’m not into large breasts and huge asses. Those attributes are better represented than most others. There are sites that cater to my tastes in smaller models between 18 and 22, and I will admit I like the number of relatively unknown models who appear here.
One serious and unforgivable sin, and I realize that this is entirely subjective, is that one scene was mis-labeled. No big deal normally, but I joined the network specifically to see one scene: a Tanner Mayes scene that was categorized as anal. It might be called ‘anal’ because she has an anus, but no real anal sex occurs in the scene. I will admit that the guy does insert the head of his dick a couple of times, but that doesn’t count as anal sex.
Easily the biggest annoyance with RK is their daily download limit. While the limit itself would be annoying enough, they actually make it worse but applying it randomly. The limit is described in the membership contract using vague language so I emailed the support staff to ask for some clarification but never received a reply. Why bother having a ‘contact us’ button if you’re not actually going to respond to member’s questions? On several days I was cut off from downloading at less than the 10GB 24-hour limit. On other days I downloaded well in excess of the limit. There are PU members who report never having had a limit imposed on them. A site can certainly impose whatever conditions they want, but those conditions should be clear and applied equally to all members. And in 2011 10GB limit is absurdly low.
Another annoying choice that RK made is to not support download managers. I use Free Download Manager to queue up scenes that I want to download so I don’t have to sit at the computer for an hour or more, but FDM wouldn’t work with this site. I can’t say how it works with other managers, but if they bar one I’d guess they bar them all.
I’d recommend this site for someone who really wants a particular scene or is really into a specific niche that is represented here. But… anyone who does join should be aware that they MAY have a download limit imposed on them and that download managers don’t work. So unless you have a real desire to see a certain scene or model here, RK has nothing special to offer. |
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12-26-11 12:17pm
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Review
254
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Mary Alicia
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Very good-looking, natural model
- Site appears to update (but that may end – see below)
- Supports download managers
- Simple design
- Pics and vids available
- Pics available as zips
- Bills through CCBill |
Cons: |
- Not full nudity (T+A only)
- The website doesn’t do the model justice
- Resolutions for photos and videos are poor
- Small site
- Material seems to be removed periodically
- Not a good value
- Many (25+) dead links
- No options for files sizes or types |
Bottom Line: |
First let me get this out of the way: I joined this site because I like Mary Alicia’s look. She’s petite, small breasts, beautiful bum, beautiful face (with freckles!), and captivating eyes. I have no complaints about Mary Alicia herself. The website, however, needs work.
I can’t tell how old the site is because it appears that not all material is kept on the site. There is a link for ‘archived galleries” where older sets are listed. That’s not a bad idea, but since you can’t actually access those sets what’s the point? Server space is pretty cheap these days, and the whole site has less than 5GB on it, so why remove material? The site reports that at any given time there are between 70 and 100 photo sets available, though there are closer to 200 now, which is a mix of updated sets and older sets.
I can say with some certainty that the site has been around since at least 2002 since one gallery announced that it was number 900 since that year. That also means that Mary Alicia may be pushing 30 now, but she doesn’t look it.
The site does appear to update, though not on a set schedule. The sets are dated by month and day, but not by year so it is impossible to tell how old the sets are.
Within each picture set there are varying numbers of photos, though to have more than 50 photos in a set is rare. The sets are described on the site, but the set name is non-descriptive so if you find some sets you like you’ll have to rename them on your own. The pictures are available as singles or as a zip file. The biggest letdown for the photos is the quality of the images. The resolutions would be considered acceptable by standards a few years ago but by today’s standards they’re barely average. The best resolution I could find on the site was 968x1400. Most are 968x1300. Maybe I’m asking for too much by wanting a higher resolution. It is also possible that the photos were taken some years ago and were high res then.
Videos are available though the problem with most of them is the camera. Apparently Mary Alicia does (did?) a regular webcast and most of the videos are simply captures of those webcasts. The resolution on those is just 320x240 at 140kb/s. There are a handful of videos that are posted at 640x480 at 2100kb/s, but those are rare. Several of the videos are just slideshows of photos. There are less than 40 videos on the site.
For all the photos and videos there are no options for files sizes. For videos, the only format is wmv.
One choice that Mary Alicia has made will likely limit her audience. This is definitely a softcore site. While there are other women on the site, there is only posing. Don’t look for hot girl-on-girl action here. And don’t expect to see Mary Alicia’s naughty bits either. I can understand a choice to not do b/g or g/g sex on camera, and I can even understand an unwillingness to do ‘spread shots,’ but if she’s gone this far, it seems odd to not let us have a peek at the Holiest of Holies. While I don’t understand it, I can admit that it actually does add something to her mystique.
The site itself is very simple, but it doesn’t need to be complex. There are links to photos and videos on separate pages. That’s pretty much it. There are ‘bonus’ links too, where Mary Alicia has a forum, some FAQs, and a few more photoshoots.
This site’s updating days may be coming to and end. Mary Alicia posted a message recently stating that she is pregnant and hasn’t yet decided if she will continue. If she doesn’t, I hope the site continues as she is a very beautiful model. If she does, the guys with a pregnancy fetish may want to take note. I’ll admit that it is entirely possible that this is outdated information as no years are given with the updates. She could have been pregnant two years ago for all I know.
So would I recommend this site? I would if you meet a certain criterion: if you go to the tour page and find that Mary Alicia is just your type (as was the case for me) then go ahead and join. With CCBill as the biller, you can be confident in security and ease of cancelling. At least you can go in informed and knowing the site’s limits. I don’t want to downplay this as an option: Mary Alicia is VERY good looking and I’m sure many people would agree with that. I certainly don’t regret taking a membership, but I wish there was more material. If, however, you prefer a different look in your models, then don’t bother. The site’s design and limitations wouldn’t make it worth your while to open your wallet. |
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11-05-11 08:55am
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Review
255
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Pamela Spice
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Super-cute, young model
- Video and photos available
- Photos available in zips
- Multiple options for downloads
- Part of a small network of similar sites
- Some girl-girl scenes
- Supports download managers
- Decent download speeds |
Cons: |
- Not updating
- Many of the other models on the network are topless only
- The only B/G hardcore scene costs extra |
Bottom Line: |
First, please note that I agree with everything that exotics4me wrote in his recent review. Read that first if you want to join this site. My review will attempt to expand on a few things.
I’m not normally a big fan of solo girl sites. I find them boring and repetitive and they tend to have a shorter lifespan than many other kinds of sites. I’ve also been burned by a couple (notably Little April and Little Summer) due to the terrible quality of the videos. Then one day I noticed the picture that accompanies exotics4me’s posts on the forum and I was hooked.
Pamela is an amazing looking young South or Central American model. She can’t be much over 18 in many of the photos and videos and her youthful appearance is further accentuated by her braces. She appears solo in many scenes and also does a lot of girl-girl scenes. Both the pictures and videos are well lighted and shot. The other models she appears with in the girl-girl scenes are also attractive in the same way that Pamela is.
There is one boy-girl hardcore scene available, but in a greedy marketing twist the site sells that separately. I like Pamela, but not enough to spend $20 for a 13 minute video of her having sex.
Exotics4me notes that several of the videos feature some exhibitionism. That’s correct, but I’d characterize it as ‘exhibitionism-lite.’ It isn’t promoted as being one of the reasons for joining, but there are some scenes of her teasing a bit in public places. But the exhibitionism is fairly tame and I wouldn’t recommend taking a membership for that reason alone.
The site is part of a small network of that includes access to six similar sites. The additional sites are also small and don’t appear to be updating. At least two of the sites (Selena Spice and Spice Twins) don’t even feature full nudity. They’re topless only with a thong or some other covering on the naughty bits. The additional models are attractive and young, but I think that Pamela is the best looking of all of them.
The technical bits are pretty simple given the small size of the site. There are 68 photo sets (zips available, 798x1200 resolution) and 108 videos. The videos are available in three formats: Super HQ, MP4 and Low Speed Video. I downloaded only the “Super HQ” size and found that while they may have been industry standard when they were shot, they certainly aren’t now. They’re all 720x480 with the bitrates ranging from 2000 to 8700kbps. The technical description mostly applies to the other sites on the network too.
Pamela Spice is definitely good looking and fits my usual style of model that I like. If you like young looking models you might be happy with a membership. The girl-girl stuff, the minimal exhibitionism and the additional sites all contribute to the value of the membership, but given that there are no updates I wouldn’t call this a good value. That’s not to say you shouldn’t join, but just join with your eyes open. |
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05-15-11 11:55am
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Review
256
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Legend Movies
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Offers a wide range of movies from their studio
- Full-access trial
- Membership gives access to a network of sites
- Multiple download options
- Decent quality and download speeds
- Good variety of videos available
- Many older titles (from the 90s) available |
Cons: |
- Not the full Legend catalogue of videos
- Some content is shared between the sites in the network |
Bottom Line: |
The Legend Video site certainly looks like it is the official site of the well-known studio, but I have my doubts. While the quality of the site is very good, I would hope that a big studio like Legend could do a better job and would also make more of their catalogue available. But it might actually be an official site since most other studios don’t do a spectacular job of their own sites and also aren’t very generous with their titles.
Having said that though, this is still a good site. It is well organized and finding specific titles isn’t a big problem. Many of the titles available aren’t widely available on other DVD sites so this is a good opportunity to access them. One thing I particularly liked was the opportunity to access some of the older Legend series’ from the 1990 and earlier in this decade. Series like American Cocksucking Championship, All About Ass and POV Casting Couch. However, while there are a lot of older titles available, there aren’t too many of their newer titles on this site. That’s another reason why I suspect that this isn’t a Legend-operated site. I suspect that they’ve licenced some of their older material to a third party.
The site is reasonably well organized with menu selections that help you narrow movies down by theme, or series name. I particularly like being able to sort be series. There are several download options available and during my membership I found download speeds to be slightly faster than I’ve seen with other adult sites. Not blazing fast, but somewhat faster than the industry norm.
One big advantage to this site is that it offers a full trial. For $4.95 you get unlimited access for two days. This is a great option if you’re only looking for a few titles and get in, get them and get out. I’ve used this option with this site and cancelled my trial almost immediately to avoid the recurring charges and the membership remains valid for the two days (unlike some other trials we’ve heard about from other PUs). This site is also part of a small network. I’ve had memberships at several of these sites in the past but haven’t really spent much time at them so I can’t really comment. They certainly add to the value of the site though.
The bottom line is that this site offers a lot of older (5+ years old, approximately) Legend titles that are not widely available elsewhere. The site is easy to use and the download speeds are good. The site is a moderate value for the monthly fee when you take into account the other sites on the network but is an exceptional value when you take advantage of the full trial option. If you’re looking for hard-to-find older Legend titles, I’d recommend starting here. |
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09-16-10 09:43am
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Review
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Nude in LA
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- This site provides material in a poorly served niche – U.S. Public nudity
- Some beautiful women strolling fully nude in public
- At least a couple of well known stars participate (Hailey Young and Veronica Jett)
- Daring and different (for the U.S., anyway)
- Simple navigation (but how could it not be in a site this small?) |
Cons: |
- Small site (but it may grow)
- Pics are available, but no zips
- Videos are broken down into smaller files (approx. 35MB each)
- No option for full-length videos
- HD is available, but you have to pay extra for HD VOD
- Download managers don’t work (I use Free Download Manager but not to bring in multiple files at the same time – just to queue up files so I don’t have to sit at the computer and click “save as” all evening) |
Bottom Line: |
Excellent Premise, Flawed Execution
I’ve never been so torn in writing a site review. This site provides material that is almost impossible to find anywhere else – U.S. full public nudity. The site is small now (21 photo sessions with each session having shoots at four to six locations) but it does appear to be updating. I’m not sure of the update schedule. If I figure it out I’ll post an update.
I give full marks to the models on this site – they put themselves at some risk of getting caught. The material itself is very good if you’re into this thing. If not, it will seem tame and even boring. My only complaint about the material is that the editors have managed to strip away a lot of the titillation too. The site presents women nude in public but never shows the set-up or the girls’ nervousness, which can be a big part of the draw for some people into this niche. The sense of daring is absent, much like it is on European sites. It shouldn’t be absent here though, since the models are at some risk doing this in the U.S. Otherwise, the women are beautiful and they get fully nude in public.
But… the owners or managers went and fucked it all up. This site is a credit to websites of 10 years ago. There are pics, but no zips. There are videos, but they are low resolution and broken down into smaller files. Download managers are not supported. They claim that HD videos are available, but you’ll have to pay extra for those once you’re inside the site.
There are things I’m willing to excuse: the site is new so there won’t be a lot of material yet. I understand that. But why put the models and crew at risk and then present the material in such a poor way? This is an under-served niche and those of us who like it would support a well done site. With changes, this could be a great site.
For now, this site is only a good value if you are a die-hard nude-in-public fan. If, as the grow the site, they improve the video quality and provide full-length videos they could be an amazing site in a poorly-served niche.
UPDATE March 30, 2010: in the one month of my membership I saw no obvious updates. There is still some decent material, but the site doesn't seem to be updating regularly. |
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03-04-10 09:07am
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Review
258
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Family Lust
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73.0
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Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Part of the Tug Pass network
- Adds to the popular ‘step’ niche
- 10 sites in total
- Appears to be updating
- Bills through Epoch
- Supports download managers
- TBP discount |
Cons: |
- Streaming only (the other sites on the network allow downloads)
- Undated updates
- Generic porn
- Generic file names |
Bottom Line: |
Family Lust was recently listed in the “What’s Hot” section here as an addition to the Tug Pass network. I didn’t do any due diligence on the site or network and ended up joining. It’s not a bad site but it isn’t great. At least the TBP discount kept the cost low.
I’m not necessarily a fan of incest or ‘step’ porn except that as someone who likes the scene setup as much as the sex these kinds of scenes often do that well. The setup usually comes from the need for some explanation as to why step-siblings or step-parents and step-daughters are having sex. Or maybe I just lead a sheltered life and this is normal.
In the excitement of seeing a potentially new ‘step’ site I went for my credit card before doing even basic research on the site or network. I have to blame Alyssa Hart and Hope Harper for this too though, as they figure prominently on the tour pages and I’m smitten with both of them.
This site is part of the larger Tug Pass network. The site layout and navigation aren’t bad but they aren’t class-leading either. This is a pretty middle-of-the-road site. This site is likely better suited for someone who takes a buffet approach to porn since there are better sites out there generally and in this specific niche.
The site currently has 44 scenes available. I can’t give clear information on when and if the site updates because the dates given for the scenes only give a month and day and nothing on the year. Many of the models in the recent scenes are still active so it is possible, and even likely that the site still updates. If it does update, however, the latest scene is listed as “Mar 21” and the one before that as “Mar 05” so it’s at least two weeks between updates.
The scenes here are all relatively generic for the niche and while they have some good looking models the scenes themselves are just average. There is nothing that caused me to immediately run to my keyboard and encourage others to join. The models here don’t really fall on a range so much as they fall on one end or the other of a range. They are either 18-20 and petite or MILFs. Likewise with race: the models are overwhelmingly Caucasian.
The biggest disappointment I had on joining the site (and admittedly the information was there for me to read) was that Family Lust is streaming only. The odd thing about this is that it is on a network of 10 sites where all of the other sites appear to allow downloads. I get that streaming is popular, but as a porn collector I prefer to download.
I’m not able to give an indication of the resolution but even the oldest of the scenes look pretty good so I’d guess that the lowest streaming resolution is 720p. Some of the new scenes look like they could be 1080p. This reveals another issue though: there are no options for resolutions. You take what you’re given.
The site also offers screenshots. I don’t collect photos but I can say that these alone aren’t worth the price of the membership. My preference is photos apart from the screenshots which are usually going to be different from the scene I can view.
There are other sites as part of the network (and those allow downloads). Most of those are listed here with the specs so I won’t drag this review out. Of the scenes I downloaded throughout the network the older ones were of lower quality. The three resolutions I saw were 1920x1080 (4000 kb/s), 1280x720 (3000) and 720x480 (2000). I found no scenes where there were any options for file resolution and an annoyance is that all of the files have a generic name so you’ll need to rename them as you go.
One scene on the network that isn’t listed here is Tease POV. Honestly, this site saved the membership for me. This site has 59 scenes with sensual, erotic blowjobs from some of the hottest models in the business. I am confident in saying that this site is updating even with the date limitations noted above.
The site allows download managers and I found the download speeds to be fast and consistent. Another plus is that Epoch is the biller so you can be confident that your information is protected.
Deciding to recommend this site or not is difficult. If you aren’t a big porn collector and you don’t have a lot of experience with porn paysites then this is a good site to consider, especially at the discounted price. But if you are a more serious collector you can find better easily. If you are a collector looking for ‘step’ porn then you need to know that this site is streaming only. This isn’t a bad site (or network) it’s just that it could be so much better. |
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04-09-18 05:33pm
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259
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Brutal Pickups
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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: |
- 12 Videos
- Fresh, A-list models
- Some element of public nudity / sex
- Can be joined as part of a network
- Rough sex, bondage
- Good acting
- Discount if joined through the network |
Cons: |
- Hasn’t updated since May 2016
- Very little scene variation
- Likely too rough for many porn buyers
- Stand-alone site is more expensive than the network |
Bottom Line: |
Make no mistake that this site is definitely not for everyone. Even if you like D/s and BDSM scenes from sites like Kink this site takes the fantasy to an extreme by playing it as if there is no consent, at the beginning at least. (The possible exceptions with Kink would be Bound Gangbangs and Hardcore Gang Bang where the fantasy is also forced sex.) I have to confess that as someone who often likes these scenarios, this site made me a bit uncomfortable. But that’s as much the quality of the acting as the forced-sex scenario.
The scenario used in each scene follows the same formula. I’m usually willing to live with scenario-based porn when the basis for it really doesn’t allow a lot of variation. For example, if you subscribe to a massage site there is little variation possible. It would be like the recent stepfather and stepdaughter scenes all starting with the stepdaughter wanting to model an outfit. The ‘step’ premise allows for many variations. That’s the problem with how the scenes are set up on Brutal Pickups: there are other possible variations but the same one is used, often with no modification. The scenes start on a dimly lit Miami street at nighttime and we see a creepy looking guy standing in the shadows. No one in their right mind would approach this guy in these circumstances but along comes a scantily-clad 18-20 year old who happens to be lost and needs some help. Hello? My recommendation is flagging down a police car rather than seeking assistance from a guy who looks like he just go released from prison that morning!
As you can imagine, this shifty looking young man helps our damsel in distress and faith in humanity is restored. Or not. What really happens is a forced-sex scene with bondage.
As the scene progresses the female models begin to play it differently. She begins to play it as if she’s enjoying it and by the end of the scene she’s a willing participant. (I should also add, that like most other sites that make porn like this there is an interview with the female model after the scene where she makes it abundantly clear that she fully consented to everything.)
If there is a positive element to how these scenes are played it is that the actors tend to play the roles well. There is an inherent creepiness to the whole business. In a good way.
The female models are some of the newest of the A-list girls in the business. Having models like Jojo Kiss, Anya Olsen and Gina Valentina really adds value to the site.
As an aside, a complaint I have about this site, and most of the sites on this network, is the utter lack of anal scenes. It seems to me that this premise lends itself well to including some anal sex.
I wouldn’t suggest to any prospective member that this site should be classed as a public nudity or public sex site but there are elements of those here. As someone who likes that rare niche it does add heat to the scenes. The scenes begin on the streets of Miami with cars driving by. The model is pulled just in off the street, bound and fucked in a way that in many cases it’s obvious that there is some risk of getting caught.
The obvious downside to the site is that it is small, with only 12 scenes, and it hasn’t updated since May, 2016. I think a reasonable interpretation is that the site is dead. While that’s bad, there is a silver lining. While the site alone is a $39 fee, if you join the network (Fetish Network) you get all the sites for the TBP discounted price of $29. But as networks go this one doesn’t offer a lot of variety and many of the sites haven’t updated in years.
Like the other newer sites on the network this one has three download resolutions. This is a big improvement over what some of the older dead sites offer. There is “Hi” (1920x1080, 8000kb/s), “Medium” (1280x720, 6000kb/s) and “SD” (854x480, 2000kb/s). Framerates are 23fps on all of those. I downloaded the 1080p scenes and subjectively they look good. They are crisp and show no obvious pixilation.
I’m going to do something unusual for a review and not make or deny a recommendation because I think the scenes here will appeal to such a narrow group of porn buyers that the cost and value-for-money proposition aren't really relevant. The scenes are a bit creepy, they’re well-acted and they have some hot models. But on the other hand there are only 12 scenes. I’m glad I joined and if the site ever adds new scenes I’ll likely rejoin. If you’re tastes run to this niche you should have a look. |
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12-12-16 04:56pm
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260
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Teen Creeper
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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: |
- 8 videos
- Three available download resolutions
- Rough sex fantasy (with full expressed consent)
- Fresh models
- Photos available
- TBP discount (if you join through the network) |
Cons: |
- Small site
- Hasn’t updated in over a month
- Photos by singles only, no zips |
Bottom Line: |
Prospective members take note! Teen Creeper is affiliated with the Fetish Network and my membership to FN gives me access to several new sites on that network, including Teen Creeper. That’s important because joining Teen Creeper costs $39 USD but TBP has a discount on the network for $29 USD.
Even though I’ll assume that anyone reading this would likely join through the network to get more porn for less money I won’t turn this into a review of the full Fetish Network. I posted a review of the network last year and only scored it at 65. Had I just joined the network now I might score it at 70 to account for the addition of a few new sites that are a big improvement over the older sites but the flaws with the older sites remain: they no longer update and the file resolutions are low.
One major improvement over the older sites is file resolution. Teen Creeper offers three download resolutions that reflect what you’d normally expect in a commercial site like this. The scenes are available in “Hi” (1920x1080, 8000kb/s), “Medium” (1280x720, 6000kb/s) and “SD” (854x480, 2000kb/s). Framerates are 23fps on all resolutions. The scenes look good on a 24” monitor and a 50” TV.
There are currently only eight scenes available on the site. That’s the bad news. The worse news is that the site hasn’t updated in over a month and since it is one of the newer sites on the network I had high hopes to see regular updates. It seems those hopes were misplaced.
Teen Creeper is no different from the other newer sites on the network in that they all share the same theme of domination/submission, rough sex and forced sex. This site is not for fans of couples-oriented porn. Teen Creeper has the specific theme of a young girl (18-22) in her home, her back yard or by her pool while she is being stalked by a ‘creeper’ in a hoodie. The creeper calls or texts and frightens the girl and then he sneaks up and forces himself on her. So it’s pretty much a scene involving a four letter word starting with ‘r’ that means the criminal act of forcing someone to have sex. But this is just fantasy…As you might expect, the sex tends to be rough. To ensure that any viewer fully understands that these scenes aren’t reality each scene ends with a brief interview of the model where she makes it clear that her and her partner were acting and everything was consensual.
The site is only a couple of months old so the models are some of the freshest popular girls working today. That’s a definite plus to the site.
The site (and network) allows download managers to queue-up scenes but it doesn’t allow downloads to stop and resume. File sizes are under 2GB for the highest resolution so that shouldn’t be a serious problem for many.
Photos are available but they are not zipped. Given that this is a video site I doubt that will be a deal-breaker for many.
A value-for-money or an overall recommendation is hard to pin down on this site but I’m going to give it a qualified recommendation. For someone who likes rough sex videos this site may be worth considering as long as you consider that the site is small and not (apparently) updating. It’s also worth considering that if you join the network, especially is it is your first time, you have access to other similar sites which increase the overall value of the membership. |
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12-07-16 02:30pm
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261
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BFFs
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73.0
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Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Interesting scenes with fun-to-watch scenarios
- 57 videos currently posted
- Updates
- Allows DL managers
- Video options
- Pictures and screencaps available
- Good mix of all-girl and b/g/g/g |
Cons: |
- No performer credits
- Wide chasm between file resolutions
- Slow page loads
- Irregular updates |
Bottom Line: |
This site seemed to have a lot of things I look for in porn so I recently opted to join. I like scenario-based porn (but not plot-based) and I prefer young and petite models. The site definitely offers those. The fact that it is affiliated with Team Skeet was a plus too.
All of the scenes offer scenarios that play well into the ‘BFF’ theme with playful 18+ models in setups that include carwashes, sports, slumber parties, etc. Yes, some of these can be repetitive but when done right they still work. This is porn after all. This site offers a lot of material for people who like group all-girl scenes as about half are this. The remaining scenes throw a guy or two into the mix for some hardcore sex.
The scenes use a similar practice that sites like In the VIP use, namely that while each scene here has at least four girls usually only two of them engage in sex. The others usually get naked too.
The site currently has 57 scenes available. I think this is good value if you join through TBP (for the discount) and while the site is updating it doesn’t update as often as many other sites. The site started in 2012 and I’d normally expect a four-year-old site to have more scenes available. The update schedule has been a bit irregular in the past but they seem to have settled into one update every two weeks.
Probably the biggest negative on the site is that there is a wide chasm between the available resolutions. The top resolution is 1980x1280, 12000kb/s and 29fps and those look great, but the file size averages around 4GB and some top out at over 6GB. That requires a lot storage. I usually look for a compromise between resolution and file size and often that’s found in 1280x720 but on BFFs the next lowest resolution is a pretty dramatic drop down to 960x540, 3000kb/s, 29fps. The next step is even lower at 640x360, 1000kb/s, 29,fps. This is purely speculative, but I wonder if the site sees their members as either wanting as high a resolution as possible OR something they can watch on their phones.
To make the file size / resolution issue even more cloudy is the fact that the file sizes between the top and the middle quality isn't always that much different on the older files. If the top quality file is 4GB then the middle might be 2GB. That is still a lot of data but it isn't reflected in the resolution or bitrate. The 960x540 files look like you’d expect but they take up a lot more hard drive space than you’d expect for those specs. That issue does appear to have been resolved in the past year or so. The 960x540 scenes are now encoded so that they have file sizes more in line with the specs. (Though I really do wish they offered 1080p.)
This probably isn’t a negative for everyone, but I catalogue my collection by model name and here all of the models are uncredited. If I’m looking for scenes by a specific model in my collection I can find them pretty quickly. This normally isn’t an issue because in almost 20 years of porn collecting every site or DVD I’ve ever had lists the models. BFFs is the only site I can think of that doesn’t list the models in the scenes. That makes no sense to me and I wonder why the stars (many of whom are A-list models) would want to be uncredited.
The site has no search function and doesn’t use tags. Finding a niche you’re interested in is a matter of luck. And speaking of niches, my favorite one is unknown here. It appears that when a young lady is hanging out and fooling around with her friends that anal play or anal sex isn't on the menu.
Recommending this site is tough as it does more wrong than it does right. The porn is great and a lot of fun to watch but the site lets the porn down. The site has no real organization to it and no way to look for anything specific. That it doesn’t even credit the talent is unusual, baffling and annoying. The lack of compromise with file resolutions is another annoyance. I’d recommend the site as a one-time join for someone interested in the overall theme but I with only two updates a month I can’t see hanging around for long. |
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08-21-16 10:40am
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262
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POV Porn
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72.0
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Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Attractive semi-amateurs
- Multiple sites in the network
- Playful scenes shot in Hawaii
- Scenes available in multiple resolutions
- Photos available
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Site design is a decade old and it shows
- Scenes aren't dated
- Doesn’t appear to update frequently
- Scene resolutions are just okay
- Photos not zipped
- No TBP discount |
Bottom Line: |
For the purposes of this review I’ll treat POV Porn, Peter Girls and Beach House XXX as a network since a membership to one gets you access to the others. At least one other site also used to be included with this membership, Lap Dance Gone Bad, and while that is still shown in the tour pages I couldn’t find any way to access it.
I last joined this site in 2010 and I really liked what they had to offer so I rejoined recently. The porn is still very good but the site hasn’t grown much or improved in the past seven years. In fact, it’s hardly grown at all since all I could find that seemed new over those years were approximately 50 scenes.
One thing that I really liked about the site was that most of the scenes had a really playful nature about them and allowed the model’s personality to show through. I’m a big fan of outdoor scenes and there are a lot of them here as the site is based in Hawaii. Several scenes are available with beach nudity, blowjobs and even sex.
This network had a lot going for it in 2010: it offered some hot solo, lesbian and hardcore scenes with many models who didn’t seem to appear elsewhere. While that is certainly a positive aspect it can also be seen as a negative one because it is less likely that prospective members would be enticed to join to get access to scenes from a specific model. The only well-known models that I saw on the site were Cody Lane and Taryn Thomas, both of who have been retired from the business for many years. (As an aside, when I first joined this site seven years ago one of the scenes that I particularly liked was a scene shot very early in Taryn’s career. She wasn’t even using the name Taryn Thomas at the time.)
Assuming that a prospective member would be looking to join for the first time in 2017 the biggest detriment to the site is that it really is a relic from 10 years ago. Whether you are looking at the tour or the member pages you are likely to be struck with how dated they look. Unfortunately, this late 2000s feel to the site also shows up in many of the scene resolutions. While many of the newer scenes do have acceptable resolution you don’t have to go back too far into the past to find resolutions that were probably just marginal even 15 years ago. To make matters worse, many of the older scenes are only available in segments. I’m not technically astute, but it seems to me that a webmaster would want to consider remastering some of the older material or at least stitching together into one download. To be fair, some of the resolutions aren't bad. The best I saw was 1440x1080. Interestingly, this resolution is usually offered with two bitrates, one around 3000kb/s and the other around 8500kb/s. These higher bitrates are only offered on the few scenes posted in 2013 and 2016.
While the heyday of the site was certainly the late 2000s there have been some more recent entries. While a majority of the scenes show a copyright mark from 2009 or early there are some scenes that have copyrights from 2013 and a few that have copyrights from 2016. I have been a member at the site for just under a month now and can report that there have been no updates during that time. On the main page there is a list of 17 future updates but there is no timeline for when those may be uploaded.
Further indicating that the site is not particularly active is the fact that the site owner, Peter Romero, has a blog on the site where the most recent entry is from 2009.
The site does also offer photos and it is entirely possible that back when the site was active that the intention was that it would appeal equally to video and photo collectors. Unfortunately, that probably didn’t work out all that well because for some reason the photos are not offered as a zipped download. Like the videos, the photo resolution varies widely.
The site supports download managers and I had no issue using one. This is largely irrelevant, however, because the file sizes are not particularly large. I didn’t encounter any download limits but given that I downloaded fewer than 40 scenes it is unlikely that I would have hit one anyway.
Deciding on whether or not this site merits a recommendation is difficult. On the one hand this collection of sites offers some exclusive porn featuring some beautiful ‘amateur’ models who don’t seem to appear elsewhere in scenes shot on location in Hawaii. On the other hand this great porn is let down by a site and technical aspects that belong in the last decade. My opinion might be different if the site offered a generous TBP discount but at full price I just don’t think it offers enough for anyone other than a serious collector to consider it. |
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03-22-17 05:29pm
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263
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Sperm Mania
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Very rare niche (cum play)
- Good bukkake too
- Starting to use European and American models
- Genitals not pixilated as in many Japanese productions
- High quality video and sound
- 220+ videos
- Updates weekly
- Site is well laid out
- Many options for sorting scenes
- Download and streaming options
- Photos available |
Cons: |
- Unreasonable download limit (less than 10GB per day)
- Lots of variation in price
- No TBP discount
- Relatively unknown biller (Vendo)
- Did I mention the download limit? |
Bottom Line: |
I really like this site and would have scored it in the low 90s but for one serious and easily fixed flaw: it has an unreasonable download limit. I downloaded less than 10GB of data and was then throttled. I went from download speeds of 70MB/s to around 200KB/s. This lasted for 24 hours. Then the cycle started over. A 10GB limit in 24 hours in 2020 isn’t reasonable.
Streaming isn’t throttled at all. You can continue to stream when your downloads are throttled.
I’ve been subscribing to porn sites for over 25 years now and it isn’t often that I’m surprised, pleasantly in this case. I read that Kristen Scott had shot with this site so I checked it out. It appeared t be a bukkake site and since I like those I joined. It is a bukkake site though there is some vaginal sex. The site’s main claim to fame is a niche I wasn’t aware of: cum play. I’ve seen cum play between models in b/g/g scenes many times, but I’ve never seen scenes or a site that focus on the model playing with cum as a main scene driver. I was surprised, but interested too.
I’ll assume that I’m not alone in not knowing what cum play can entail with only one female in the scene. There are scenes where multiple men will come on the woman (face, breasts, vagina or ass) and she’ll rub it all in. What I wasn’t expecting were the scenes where there are multiple men and the woman will use the cum from one as lube to get the others off. In some cases the guy will come in the woman’s mouth and she’ll dribble it over another cock and get the second guy off. There are scenes where the model is wearing panties and she pulls them down far enough so that a man or men can come in them, which she then rubs all over her pussy. I’ve never seen those things before. There are enough traditional bukkake scenes with facials or body shots to keep members happy too. This isn’t strictly traditional bukkake where the men jerk off on the woman. In most scenes the woman gives head and in some she gets fucked too.
The scenes have no plot or setup. The model may pose a bit and then the man or men come in and there may be oral, vaginal or handjobs but the focus is always on the cumshot(s) and the cum play afterwards.
Probably the biggest difference between the site now and when it was last reviewed is that they have expanded beyond Japanese models. (The men are still Japanese with a few exceptions.) They expanded to include models such as Alexis Crystal, Apolonia Lapiedra, Kira Thorn and Tera Link. There are 16 scenes with Kristen Scott. I’m hoping this bodes well for more American models.
The site is logically laid out and it is easy to find something that interests you. The site can be organized with all of the updates chronologically. I preferred to sort by model which allowed me to easily download everything that model had. The scenes can also be sorted by sub-niche, which is a great idea. If you really want to see all the scenes where cum is used as lube to jerk other guys off you can do that. A model taking all the cumshots on her ass? You can sort those too.
There are currently 50 models on the site with 220+ scenes, with all but seven of them being Japanese. All of them are young, petite and beautiful. A new scene is added weekly.
As this is primarily a Japanese site it is worth noting that there is no pixilation used.
The scenes are all available for both streaming and download in 480p, 720p and 1080p. Given that the scenes are all relatively short, the longest being 30 minutes with the average around 15 minutes, I downloaded only 1080p scenes. Those have a bitrate of 6000kb/s and a 30fps framerate.
There are photos available as well as singles and as zips.
TBP lists CC Bill and Vendo as the biller. I ended up with Vendo and have found them to be safe in the past.
I did use a download manager to queue downloads and it worked well until I hit the limit.
There is no TBP/PU discount and the site is relatively expensive. I prefer to buy memberships through TBP but I first went onto this site directly on a tablet and was offered a join price of $20 USD. I linked through the TBP page and was offered the $34 price listed there. I did a Google search using another browser and the cost was $40. I have no idea why I got a deal on my tablet. I didn’t use a referral, it was just a Google search.
The bottom line for me is mixed. I really like this site. The porn, the women, the sex and the cum play are all hot. The site is well organized and it updates regularly. I would score this site in the 90s and highly recommend it but for the unreasonable download limit. It pains me to score a site this good so low for something that is so easily fixed. If the site drops the download limit, or even just raises it to something more reasonable I would boost the score immediately. |
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02-10-20 03:38pm
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264
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My Very First Time
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Some fresh models early in their careers
- Lots of download and streaming options
- Good production values
- TBP Discount |
Cons: |
- Small site
- Updates are very slow to arrive
- Site will remain small unless the update schedule is increased
- Download speeds varied
- Would be better off as part of a network |
Bottom Line: |
When I saw this site listed as a new site on TBP I signed up. I’m a big fan of collecting ‘firsts,’ and especially collecting first anals. I knew this would be a small site since it was just starting out but I had high hopes that it would develop into a great site for this rare niche. And the fact that the site is affiliated with Porn Pros gave me some comfort too. I went into the membership with my eyes open and the scenes are good but unless one fatal flaw is fixed this site isn't worth the membership right now.
There are currently only nine scenes uploaded. For a new site in a narrow niche that’s to be expected though. The problem specific to this site is that it appears that they only add one new scene per month. When the site started they added one new scene every three days and then they went a month before a new scene was added. Unless they pick up the pace this site will be a low value for a while.
The scenes themselves are well done. All of the models are typical porn cupcakes in that they are young (18-20), petite and natural. Several of the models will be added to my list of favorites and I hope to see a lot more of them in the future.
Of the nine scenes one is billed as the model’s first scene ever, one is the model’s first interracial scene, two are each model’s first (vaginal only) gang bang and five are the model’s first anal scenes.
The videos are available in streaming or as a download. Streaming is available in two resolutions. Downloads are available as MP4s in 1080p, 720p and 480p, as a 480p MPG1 and as a 720p WMV. I downloaded the 720p MP4s and those come in at 1280x720 and 2,600 kb/s. While the bitrate is low there is no pixilation at all and the video looks sharp.
Photos are available too – as singles or as a zip. The zipped photos are 1500x1000.
The site allows download managers and I didn’t have any issue using one. Download speeds varied from average to poor – I often saw download speeds drop below 1MB/s. (The site seems to be affiliated with Porn Pros and I have that same issue there too.)
So would I recommend the site? Probably not, unless you really need to have one or more of the scenes. Even with the TBP discount this site isn't a good value and unless they start updating more often it’ll be a long time before it is a good value. This is an under-served niche and the site could be a great stand-alone site if it was updating more frequently. As it is now, however, the site would be far a better option as part of a larger network. |
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05-10-15 11:56am
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Review
265
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Punish Teens
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Excellent quality scenes
- Appears to be all exclusive
- Download options
- Supports download managers
- Updates weekly
- TBP discount |
Cons: |
- Very small site
- Relatively tame for this niche
- Grossly misleading tour page
- Big gap between HD and hi res |
Bottom Line: |
I know not everyone will agree with me on this, but I think that small porn sites can still offer good value. I regularly join mega sites and like those, but I also like joining new niche sites to see what they have and support the site owners who have taken a risk and opened a new site. This is a niche I like so it seemed like a good fit and the TBP discount coupled with a reputable biller took a lot of the risk out of the equation.
I’ll address the gorilla in the room that often occurs with new sites: this one is still very small with just seven scenes currently available. A new scene is added once a week so it will be a long time growing too. I realize that for many people having a site this small would be an instant deal breaker and I’d agree with that if the site aimed at the middle of the porn market. But it’s different, or at least should be, with niche sites. Unfortunately the site missed the target on the niche and created their Achilles heel.
The problem with the scenes is that they fall on the tame side for this niche. The reason I think that is a problem is that with a name like Punish Teens they are not likely to get artcore buyers interested and for fans of this niche these are about the most tame I’ve seen. This isn't Kink or Society SM (and I realize that this site doesn’t market itself as a BDSM site) but it is likely that a prospective member would expect more than the light bondage and D/s play found here. These teens aren't really being punished as much as they’re being mildly reprimanded.
The scenes themselves have high production values and appear to be exclusive. Six of the scenes have American models while one appears to be Russian or eastern European. The lighting and editing are top level.
The site itself is simple and effective, but with seven scenes why would be it be anything else? The main page has a large photo taken from the scenes and the options for streaming or downloading are all right there. There are several download options: MP4s are available in 1920x1080 at 10,000kb/s, 960x540 at 2500kb/s and 640x360 at 700kb/s. One WMV is available at 960x540 at 2500kb/s. This may be a bit nit-picky, but there is too big a gap between the highest resolution and the next highest. I’m not normally one to criticize having options, but it seems to me that they would do well to offer a 1280x720 option to bridge that wide gap.
Photos are also available (photos and screencaps) as singles or zips. The photos are 1350x900 and they look okay but photo collectors aren't likely to be overly impressed by those specs.
One thing that does deserve a comment is that the tour page is grossly misleading. A prospective member sees 42 thumbnails on the main page which would seem to indicate that there are 42 or more scenes inside. I read the TBP page so I was aware that this was misleading and didn’t have a nasty surprise when I joined. Further, the site uses the annoying tactic of sending you to the join page wherever you click. There is no tour that might better reflect the true size of the site.
I used a download manager and had no problems with it. I didn’t encounter any download limits but that isn't a conclusive answer since I downloaded all seven scenes in HD and that was only 15GB of data.
This is purely subjective and I won’t factor it into the score, but there is only one anal scene here. Anal sex is common in this niche (apparently it’s an effective way to punish a teen…) but not here. This should be another indicator that this site leans to the softer side of this niche.
The biggest dilemma for me is whether or not I’d recommend this site. On one hand I like to support new sites and they do have some high quality porn here. But on the other hand the site is still very small. Size alone wouldn’t be an impediment to my recommending the site since it is a niche site, but the real deal-breaker is that the scenes miss their target. I think they’re too hard to attract the artcore, couples-oriented buyer but they aren't hard enough to keep members like me coming back. As much as I’d like to recommend the site I can’t because they missed the target by a wide margin. |
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03-29-15 10:55am
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Hardcore Doorway
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Small network with a couple of unique sites
- Some HD scenes
- Photos offered in some scenes
- Photos offered as singles and zips
- Streaming available
- Options available for downloads
- Good mix of known and amateur models
- TBP / PU discount |
Cons: |
- Three of the ‘sites’ can’t really be considered as such
- Only one (or maybe two) sites MAY be updating
- Some scenes don’t support download managers
- Older scenes are sub-par quality
- May be a bit too misogynistic for some |
Bottom Line: |
Hardcore Doorway is a small network of ten sites. Most of those sites are relatively small and three of them don’t really deserve to be called sites. Most of the sites haven’t updated in years and the most recent updates cause me to question whether the entire network is dead. The good news, however, is that some of the material is pretty good if it happens to be the kind of thing you’re into.
This network is the one of two affiliated networks, the other being Adult Doorway. AD may be better known since it happens to be home to one of the most abusive, misogynistic sites on the ‘net”: Facial Abuse. The sites on Hardcore Doorway use the same male talent, the same sets and many of the same models, so it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that much of the material here is pretty extreme. This is definitely NOT porn for everyone.
The site is made up of ten sites, but I’d only apply that label to seven of those. These are (including some current details):
• Sperm Suckers: 258 scenes, last updated three weeks ago
• Latina Abuse: 135 scenes, last updated almost three months ago
• Amateur Throats: 26 scenes, last updated almost two years ago
• Anal Recruiters: 33 scenes, last updated about two and a half years ago
• Huge Rubber Dicks: 20 scenes, last updated about three and a half years ago
• Lesbians Love Sex: 46 scenes, last updated almost four years ago
• Sexy Suck Jobs: 26 scenes, last updated almost four years ago
So it appears that only Sperm Suckers may be updating. The earlier updates were posted about once a week so I can’t be sure if they’ve stopped given that the latest scene is now three weeks old. It is also possible that Latina Abuse is updating. The update schedule there is sporadic with past updates being posted as frequently as one every three weeks and sometimes just once every five weeks or so. I think it’s fair to say that the others are now dead.
The remaining three ‘sites’ are:
• Monster Cock Madness: 16 scenes
• Fuck Me POV: 11 scenes
• Her First Porn: 27 scenes
The last update for each of these ‘sites’ was four and half years ago. The reason I don’t think these should be considered sites is because they offer limited scenes, those scenes are not exclusive, there is no scene information available, the scenes are only available as a series of small (20MB +/-) clips and they’ve obviously been abandoned.
I think given the fact that only two sites MAY be updating it is fair to say that no one should join this network expecting to stick around for a while to get more updates. So the question then becomes is this network worth a membership at all? Obviously the answer to this question will be different depending on what you look for in a site, but given that the material on the seven main sites is fairly rare (rough, hardcore anal with lots of genuine creampies and oral cum-play, for examples) and appears to be unique a membership here can be pretty good value, especially if you factor in the $20 price offered to TBP / PU members.
All of the sites (excluding the three non-sites as noted above) use the same simple but effective layout. There are 20 scene links per page in each of the sites and those links open into a separate page where you can stream or download the video. Streaming is in one resolution only, but the latest scenes do offer a lot of choice for downloads. WMV files are offered in 720x480, 640x480 and 320x240. There is usually an option for low-ish quality MPEG and MOV files too. In many of the newer scenes there is at least 720p offered and in a lot of scenes there is 720 and 1080p on offer. The 1080p comes in at 1080x720 at 5000kb/s and 30fps. Each scene is also broken down into smaller clips if that happens to be your preference.
Photos are available as singles and zips and they are pretty good at 1440x960.
Other minor issues are that some of the files wouldn’t queue up for downloading with a manager. But others would queue up. I have no explanation for this and can’t say exactly how many files fall into either camp. The other problem I had was that I fairly frequently got kicked off the site and had to log in again. Both of these are minor, but still frustrating. (Additionally, I always had to log in through the site I joined even though the network join in page was identical AND the network provided me with a link to sign in through the network. That was frustrating until I figured it out.)
So is this site worth the membership? My answer is a tentative yes. Tentative because there are few updates and much of the older material is low resolution, but on the plus side this is porn you won’t find elsewhere, and it is definitely some of the hardest stuff available. Add in the discounted price and I think this network is worth a look even if only for a one-time membership. |
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01-03-13 06:34pm
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267
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Anal Recruiters
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Interesting niche material
- Good mix of known and unknown models
- HD available on newer scenes
- Photos available on most scenes
- Real anal creampies in many scenes
- TBP / PU discount
- Part of a small network
- Most scenes have download options |
Cons: |
- Problems with download managers
- Site kicks you out regularly
- Small site
- No longer updating |
Bottom Line: |
I’ll deal with the 800lb gorilla in the room first: this site is not for everyone. This is a site affiliated in some way with Facial Abuse and Facial Abuse is well known here as being among the most abusive, misogynistic sites on the ‘net today. Prior to joining this site I knew that there was an affiliation, but was unsure as to how close the connection was. The connection is close enough that this site and Facial Abuse use the same sets, the same male ‘talent’ and many of the same models appear.
First the good news: the scenes here are pretty interesting if you like this stuff. This is not porn that you’d sit down and watch with your wife or girlfriend unless you wanted her to leave you. The males in these scenes go out of their way to make the women feel degraded and abused, both physically and emotionally. For those readers who aren’t into BDSM material there is a vast difference between BDSM and abuse. Sites like those on the Kink.com network might be seen as abusive by the uninitiated but it is clear that the women are consenting and enjoying what is being done to them. At Kink, the models they use seem to genuinely get off on being submissive and those dominating them are actually giving those submissive models a lot of pleasure. Not so with Anal Recruiters. These guys abuse women for their own pleasure and either these female models are some of the best actors in the business or they are genuinely NOT having a good time. (As an aside, many of the models are quite attractive but I’ve not seen them elsewhere. I wonder if shooting for this site turned them off from porn.) The scenes don’t really follow a formula except that each scene involves finding ways to physically and emotionally degrade and abuse the models. Many of the models here seem to be in obvious physical pain. But… to be fair I have to point out that there are just as many who seem to take some enjoyment from their shoot here.
The other good news is that over half of the scenes on the site are offered in HD. (The bad news is that the HD scenes are only offered in WMV format.) Both 1080p and 720p are offered in most cases where HD is available. The 1080p comes in at 1080x720 at 5000kb/s and 30fps.
The newer scenes have download options available, though the standard format seems to be WMV. WMV files are offered in 720x480, 640x480 and 320x240. There is usually an option for low quality MPEG and MOV files too. Then there is the above noted HD option. (I don’t understand coding, but the 1080p files aren’t much bigger than the 720p so those are a good option.) The download options are reduced with the older files. The scenes are also available as smaller clips and streaming (in one resolution only) is also available. You can’t fault the site for providing options for members to access the material.
Photos are available, either as singles or as zips. Regardless of when they were uploaded they come in at 1440x960.
The site itself is small with only 33 scenes. And since it hasn’t updated in over two years I don’t hold out any hope for the site to keep growing. I know that’s an instant deal-breaker for some potential members, but if this is a niche you’re interested in or you want a scene with a specific model (for me it was a Veronica Jett scene…) the site might interest you.
The overall layout of the site is simple, but I found it literally ‘clunky.’ I’m assuming that this is a choice that the webmaster made, but the main page is set up so that when you scroll it doesn’t flow smoothly but clunks along often causing you to overshoot where you want to be. The main page shows the scenes available and you have a link to either the photos or the video which then opens into a new page with the available options for each.
Other problems are that I kept getting kicked out of the site and had to log in again. This may be a means to protect the site, but it is definitely annoying, especially since at one point my password stopped working too.
I can’t conclusively say that download managers don’t work, but I couldn’t use Internet Download Manager to queue scenes. It would work to download individual scenes and it would speed the process up. Download speeds were a bit less than average but still pretty good at 5MB/s on most files.
The site is part of a small network (Hardcore Doorway) which certainly improves the overall value of the site, though any prospective members should be aware that the abuse theme runs through most of the network too. Also adding to the value is the $20 monthly fee for TBP /PU members.
So would I recommend this site? Probably, but only to people who join with their eyes wide open and knowing that the site does at least as much wrong as it does right. This is a rare niche (thankfully!) and if it is something you’re interested in then it is probably worth a look. Otherwise, I’d steer clear. |
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12-31-12 08:12am
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268
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VCA XXX
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Part of the Hustler Mega Pass network
- Access to many ‘classics’
- Looks like it hadn’t updated in two years, but it may be updating now
- Several formats and downloading options
- Supports download managers
- No obvious time-out issues
- Excellent download speeds
- Site bills at $19.95
- Bills through Epoch |
Cons: |
- Many scenes are unlabeled for performers
- Many scenes have the wrong thumbnails
- VCA must have a huge ‘classics’ catalogue, so why so few here?
- The curse of the modern porn site: streaming that launches automatically
- Some dead links
- Many titles are incomplete
- Search / sort functions don’t work well
- No pictures
- Many titles are ‘bargain bin’ compilations |
Bottom Line: |
I’m a big fan of ‘classic’ videos. I realize that’s a term open to some interpretation but my preference for classic starts in the mid-1980s and goes through the mid to late 1990s. I’m always open to taking a membership on a site that offers me some titles to expand my collection. So with this in mind I signed up for the Hustler Mega Pass network through VCA XXX. I should note that while the website is definitely called VCA XXX, on the site itself the banner says VCA Classics. The DVDs on the site seem to fall within my preferences. There is little here if your preferences are earlier than the mid-1980s.
The site is relatively small, offering only 111 DVDs as of this writing. It appears that the site stopped updating in 2010 but may have started again recently since there was one update per month in the first three months of this year. There is no update for April.
The site is obviously a video site, so no pictures are offered that I could find.
The primary page is divided into two main segments: one for individual scenes (listed by performer) and one for DVDs. Clicking on the performer in the scene section obviously opens that scene for viewing or downloading. Clicking on a DVD cover open that DVD’s page where you get one thumbnail of the star per scene. Clicking on that thumbnail opens the scene page for viewing or downloading.
Streaming options are for MP4, FLV and WMV. You can also choose the quality of the stream as Basic, Medium, High or Super. Super is not often available.
When you roll over the download button the options for that scene appear in a dropdown menu. Downloads are most commonly available as WMVs but sometimes there are MP4s on offer too. This site has very little in high-resolution on offer. My suspicion is that because we’re dealing with ‘classics’ the quality of the originals is a limiting factor. For that reason, correct or not, I’m won’t hold the lack of HD availability against the site.
The more-recently added videos (I download WMVs) are at 720x540 at 1200kbps and 30fps. WMV Codec is 9. Videos uploaded a while ago (as far back as 2003) are lower resolution.
The site (and all the other in the network) commits a sin that seems to be more common now: opening the scene page starts the streaming automatically. This presents the obvious, though easily fixed problem of being surprised when your speakers suddenly blare out the sounds of sex. That’s solved by turning your speakers off. But in my opinion the problem is bigger than that: the fact that the scene starts downloading as a stream hogs bandwidth and slows the downloading process.
I used Free Download Manager successfully and had no issues with timeouts. Download speeds were excellent.
The site is not without flaws. It is clearly an add-on to the network and not intended as a flagship site. The updates are sporadic. My biggest beef with the site is the size of it. VCA has a huge catalogue of titles so why not offer more and update more often? What’s worse is that many of the titles added when the site was new are bargain bin European compilations that Hustler put out.
Other beefs are in how the DVDs are presented. Each DVD opens into a separate page that provides one thumbnail per scene and lists the star. Or that’s the plan anyway. At least 25% of the scenes don’t list a star. This doesn’t make sense since these are the guys who uploaded it. Why not make the site complete and make sure names are associated with every scene? In some cases, the thumbnails don’t even match the scene. I saw instances where, in a movie from the mid-1990s the thumbnails were clearly from a movie a decade newer. In several cases, the five or six thumbnails were even taken from the same newer scene. It just looks sloppy.
There were some dead links for the highest resolution available which meant having to download a lower resolution. This isn’t a huge issue as I may have encountered a dozen of these dead links on the site.
Many of the sort functions don’t work well. If you select to sort by “Pornstars,” for example, you’re given a list of pornstars on the entire network, not just on this site. What’s worse though, is that all you get is a brief bio – there are no links to scenes or photos on the site or network.
TBP notes that there is a full trial. I can’t speak to that as I took the full membership but I wasn’t charged the $30 price listed there. I don’t know why, but I was only billed $20. I don’t know if that was a special offer or whether that’s the price now.
If this were a stand-alone site I couldn’t recommended it. It is too small, updates infrequently and has a lot of low grade material mixed in. I hoped for a better classics site from a company with Hustler’s resources. As a secondary site to the network it makes a decent addition but I do wish someone would create a better site than this. These older titles deserve better. |
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05-04-12 10:31am
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Club Amber Rayne
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Fast download speeds
- Pics available for most scenes
- For Amber Rayne fans, it has a lot of behind-the-scenes and interview scenes
- Some scenes have several download options
- Video quality is very good |
Cons: |
- I seriously doubt that Amber has any connection to this site
- Only 40 scenes (a mix of hardcore, lesbian and BTS stuff)
- Doesn’t appear to be updating
- Tour pages are misleading – they suggest a much bigger site |
Bottom Line: |
I’m a big Amber Rayne fan and was hoping that this site would give me access to a lot of unique content but it doesn’t do that. My suspicion is that this is simply content licenced from a studio that the webmasters lumped together under the “Club Amber Rayne” title. As a fan of Amber’s work and being pretty familiar with her career, she certainly seems like a model who wouldn’t give less than 100% on a site she actually had some control over which leads me to believe that pat362 and mbaya are correct in assuming that Amber really has no hand in this site. As any fan of Amber knows, her career is pretty diverse – with some serious fetish stuff going on – and this site gives no real indication of that. Apart from a few anal sex scenes there is nothing to even hint that Amber has a side to her that is anything but mainstream.
For a site that has been operating for a while it is extremely small. When mbaya reviewed the site over two years ago he reported that it had 28 scenes. In the 25 months since that review there have only been 12 scenes added. There are no dates given with the scenes so it may be that the site stopped updating quite a while ago.
The scenes that are available are fairly good, though they aren’t really representative of Amber’s career. There is a mix of solo material with toys, some b/g scenes, a couple of b/b/g and b/g/g scenes and several behind-the-scenes and interview clips. Most of the hardcore material doesn’t appear to be exclusive though I can’t say that for certain.
The technical bits are okay, but not great. Most videos are only available in one format (wmv) and in two sizes (low and higher resolution).
Navigation is pretty basic, but then with only 40 scenes there is no need to have anything that is more than basic. Thumbnails for each scene are really small and not of much use.
Many of the scenes also have photos available. The photos are available as a zip.
Bottom line is that even though there are no other Amber Rayne sites out there, this one isn’t worth the price. There isn’t much material here and what is here doesn’t give a good example of how diverse Amber’s career really is. The only real advantage to this site is access to some interview material that is interesting, but maybe not exclusive. This is only a site for die-hard Amber fans. |
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03-13-11 04:20pm
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Ass Smoothie
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70.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Unique, interesting concept
- Part of a larger network of unique sites
- Membership to one site gives access to the entire network
- Trial membership (2 days @ $2.95) gives full access
- Videos available through different options
- Decent download speeds
- Videos available as one full-length video
- Pictures too |
Cons: |
- Not exactly as advertised (see below)
- Expensive full-month subscription |
Bottom Line: |
Ass Smoothie is a site that is part of a group of sites sold as The Hardcore Network. This includes access to a total of 22 sites, many of which are as unique as Ass Smoothie. For a review of the entire network, badandy400 and wittyguy have both written reviews back in 2008 and 2009 which are still accurate, except that some sites may have been added.
I joined the network specifically to get access to Ass Smoothie because the premise intrigued me. The set up is that a girl (usually a well known porn star) is asked to make a smoothie in a blender and then she’s put in the pile-driver position, a speculum is inserted to open her ass and then the smoothie is poured in. Then, to complete the weirdness, she squats over a glass or other container and squeezes out the drink, which she then drinks. If this is something that might interest you it is well done. And let’s face it, the internet is not overburdened with ass smoothie sites. But there is a serious flaw in the site, which littlejoe pointed out in his review: most of the videos on this site are not ass smoothies but the girl being asked to participate and rejecting the idea. Yes, this is a site mostly made up of women saying that they won’t do what the site wants to show. Some of it can be a little interesting to watch, but not interesting enough to overcome the fact that you just got duped. Wouldn’t this be like if a site like Ass Traffic mostly featured vaginal sex and when the guy asked for anal the girl refused?
To make matters worse, there is no reliable way to tell which girls do the smoothie and which don’t. A drink recipe is listed for all models, not just the ones who later take the drink up their asses. File size is usually a good indicator that the model goes all the way since most of the rejections are short videos. Still, after looking at file size I had to download the low resolution version just to make sure it had the goods.
Of the full site there are approximately 30 girls who get the full smoothie treatment. Most are well-known porn stars like Allison Pierce, Amber Rayne, Faye Runaway, Jamie Elle, Kelly Wells and Veronica Jett.
The best news about this site, and probably the whole network, is that there is a two day trial that gives you full access. If you had an interest in some of the other niche sites on the network then the full month membership might be good for you, but if all you want is quick access to this site you can easily check out all the girls who actually do an ass smoothie in two days. At the very least, the two-day trial gives you the opportunity to see what the network has to offer. |
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05-04-10 12:37pm
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271
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Massive Access
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69.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Large catalogue of DVDs and scenes
- Rarely served niches available here
- Huge range of tags for sorting scenes
- Access to many older titles
- TBP/PU discount
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Very little HD material offered
- Most scenes are low resolution
- Over-reliance on compilations
- Scenes aren't linked with the DVD where they appear |
Bottom Line: |
The last time I reviewed this site I scored it fairly high and I saw it as more of a network with a collection of sites. Now, three years later, I’m rethinking both of those positions. I’ve scored it lower because it now does more wrong than right, and when a ‘network’ also offers one main site where all their material is available I now view those niche ‘sites’ as being more like tags for sorting.
I really don’t recall what the site looked like or how it was laid out three years ago when I was last a member but it now comes across as wanting to be a competitor to Videobox. If that’s true it misses the mark by a wide margin. MA has many of the weaknesses of VB without having any of its strengths.
The site currently has 7,475 DVDs uploaded. They also show 39,745 scenes as being available. For a DVD-based site they have a serious flaw in that if you open a scene it isn’t linked in any way to the DVD where it’s from and there is no information the DVD either. It appears that all the scenes are on DVDs but I can’t say that for certain. I wouldn’t join on the expectation that you’ll get access to the DVDs AND get access to a lot of scenes too. I don’t think the site works that way though it isn't obvious. (I also have to admit that while it appears that all the scenes offered in the niche sites are taken from DVDs on the main site I can’t be certain that they all are. The way all the sites are structured makes that determination impossible. The effect may be that the site looks much larger than it really is.)
While the numbers of DVDs (and/or scenes) is impressive they only have 140 DVDs in HD. Where no HD is offered there are four resolutions of MPEG4 files available and listed as bitrates: 2000, 750, 500 and ‘portable.’ For the few HD scenes here those are offered as 1080 and 720 (1920x1080 6000kb/s and 1080x720 4000kb/s, respectively). The highest bitrate scenes in SD come in at 640x480 and 2000kb/s. To be fair MA has access to a lot of older porn from the 1990s and 2000s (which I see as a great asset for the site) so I can’t expect a lot better, but when VB uploads two HD DVDs per day MA looks to be lacking. Don’t join here expecting a lot of quality because you won’t find it. (Of the scenes 39,745 only 2020 are in HD.)
Updates are another area where MA is lacking. But with the way the site doesn’t link scene selections with the DVDs they’re from it can be a little hard to tell. If sorting by DVD it appears that a DVD hasn’t been added in almost three months but when sorting by scene the update schedule is better. There doesn’t appear to be a regular update schedule but it appears that at least one scene is added per week and in some cases two scenes may be added per week. When you contrast that with VB’s upload of five DVDs per day MA comes up short.
One weakness that this site and VB share is an over-reliance on compilations. It’s less acute here at MA but it is still obvious.
MA has a broad tag system for selecting scenes with approximately 115 niches tagged.
The site supports download managers and I had no problem with links timing out, though with the file sizes being so small that shouldn’t be an issue anyway. I also found no download limits were imposed.
One advantage that MA has over its competition is that they offer porn in a lot of niches that aren't widely available on other similar sites. For example, they offer a lot of black-themed titles. Not interracial, but actually black-themed. Also, there is what I would call ‘senior porn.’ Not old men fucking young women or vice versa, but actually titles where all the talent is older. Finally, the site offers some gay material too, which seems odd on a straight-oriented site.
The bottom line is that I’d only recommend this site to get access to some specific titles or studios that aren't offered elsewhere. Other than that this site comes up short in more ways than it succeeds. While it offers a low price through TBP/PU that low price isn't enough to offset the low resolutions for most of the videos. If you’re looking for an all-you-can-eat-buffet approach to porn you’re better off joining Videobox. VB is a much better value for your porn dollars. |
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12-13-14 01:20pm
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272
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Naked Gym Girls
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69.0
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Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- 9 videos, 7 picture sets
- Unique niche
- $20 membership
- Videos in three resolutions
- Photos in zips or singles
- Photos in two resolutions
- High-res photos look amazing
- Supports download managers for queuing files
- Definitely all exclusive |
Cons: |
- Small site
- No obvious update schedule
- Music replaces sound
- Would be much better value packaged as part of a network |
Bottom Line: |
Leave it to the folks at The Best Porn to expose me to a niche I neither knew existed or liked it: girls getting naked while working out. There is really only one reason why I joined, and that’s to get access to a scene by a model I like who has only done a small amount of stuff. The fact that the site isn’t terribly expensive at $20 and billed through CC Bill sealed the deal.
The site is very small, with only nine videos and seven photo sets offered. While that’s definitely small, you need to keep in mind that many of the scenes are well over an hour long and one falls just short of two hours.
The site has a very narrow (and unique) focus: girls at a gym, solo, who begin a workout, strip off their clothes while working out and complete the workout while naked. There is little variation: there is one scene with two girls with some sex, and one scene is shot outdoors, but other than that it follows the same formula. Consider this more a nudist site than a sex site.
The scenes are undated so I can’t determine what update schedule, if any, exists. The site allows member comments on the scenes and the most recent scene has comments. Yesterday when I checked the comments the most recent said it was posted three months ago. Today it says it was posted on December 2, but doesn’t give a year. I think it is safe to assume that if the site is updating there is no set schedule beyond glacial.
The site offers videos in three resolutions: 1920x1080 (9000 kb/s), 1080x720 and 640x360. While I found most of the video to be crisp and clear, I did find in some of the videos that where there is fast movement the edges become slightly pixilated. I don’t understand the tech side of this so I don’t know if this is something the site could even avoid.
A unique feature is that you can download an ISO version that can be burned to a DVD to watch on TV.
The site permits download managers for queuing scenes and zips.
The photos are available as singles or zips and in two resolutions: 3744x5616 and 1200x800. The high-res pics look incredibly good. If you’re a photo collector these might be worth joining to get. Photo sets range from 100+ photos to 800+ photos.
My biggest complaint about the scenes may be subjective, but I suspect that many others will agree with me. I’ll let any potential members decide on their own. The site has chosen to overdub the sounds of the workout with music. This isn’t that there is music playing over top of the sounds; the sounds are gone and completely replaced by music. To make matters worse, in my opinion, is that the music is that techno-shit that seems to be overplayed in gyms. You might be able to convince me that this crappy music belongs in a gym (but don’t bet on it) but you’ll never convince me that it belongs in a porn video. Even a solo video where the intention may be to create a sort of gym atmosphere. I’d rather hear the interaction with the crew than the music.
This site is one of ten that was added to TBP recently from a company called David Weisenbarger (David Nudes, HD Studio Nudes and more). I do not have memberships at any other of these sites but it appears that they are all relatively small (though some are fairly big), that they feature mostly solo models with rare g/g sex. My role in the porn biz is as a customer, and as a customer I am unlikely to join any of their other sites simply because they aren’t a good value at $20 to $25 per site. (And keep in mind that production costs here are at the low end of the spectrum: no expensive locations, solo nude, no sex, no masturbation.) All the sites added together would make a fair-sized network and by charging a fair price they’d probably generate exponentially more business. This has nothing to do with the review, and I’m obviously only speculating.
The bottom line? the site is small, but it is relatively inexpensive at $20. It bills through CC Bill so you can join in confidence. If this is a niche you like or there is a model here that you want to see then you may be willing to spend the $20 to join. For everyone else, the site is too small with no predictable growth to make this a good choice. As it stands now, and with no obvious changes coming, this site isn’t a good value. If this site ever becomes part of a network or package deal I’d reconsider my opinion. |
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02-18-14 03:55pm
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The Ass Factory
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69.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- All scenes available in HD
- All anal (which might be a negative for some)
- Top porn models
- Bills through Epoch
- Supports download managers |
Cons: |
- Small site (72 scenes and 17 BTS scenes)
- Only updates twice a month with one scene being added
- Really shouldn’t be a stand-alone site
- Expensive for what is offered |
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I’ll cut right to the chase on this: this site shouldn’t exist and likely only does because of greed. The reason I say that is because The Ass Factory (AF) has Jules Jordan scenes only and since Jules Jordan doesn’t have that many titles what he does have is split between AF and his main site, Jules Jordan. I don’t think there is any real justification for having two sites since neither of them is very big, and to make matters worse, these are even the same DVDs on the two sites with three or four scenes from a DVD on Jules Jordan and one or two on AF. So if you’re looking for all the scenes on a specific DVD you may be out of luck because you may discover that one scene you really want is on the other site. And since each membership is $30 this is a little expensive.
The site has only 72 scenes available now and that won’t be growing by leaps and bounds any time soon since the regular update schedule seems to be that a scene (yes, a scene, NOT a DVD…) is added every two weeks. That’s just two scenes added per month. I will admit that the most recent update was added just one week after the previous one so maybe they’re stepping it up a bit.
AF suffers from the same problem that baffled me about Jules Jordan: Jordan’s material is all from DVDs and yet the scenes aren’t organized or named by DVD. You can determine what DVD each scene is from by clicking on the scene where you’ll find that information, but it seems odd to me that the site wouldn’t be organized by DVD title. Maybe the reason for this is because organizing it by scene makes the site seem larger than it really is.
Once you get past the fact that the site isn’t a very good value you do realize that you have access to some great porn. Jules Jordan is consistent (though his older stuff is definitely better) and makes great porn. Jordan’s work definitely isn’t couples oriented with his scenes having a fairly hard edge. Much of Jordan’s work also features anal sex, which I know isn’t a good thing for some people. If you don’t like anal sex scenes, this isn’t the site for you since every scene posted here features anal sex.
With Jordan being one of the better known porn producers / directors in the business he’s able to get the who’s-who of porn in his movies. Most, if not all, of the models he works with are A-listers.
Another positive about AF is that every scene is available in 1080p. Each scene only offers mp4s for download but there are four resolutions available for each: mobile, SD, HD 720p and 1080p. I went with the 720p on most because file sizes on the 1080p were quite large and the video quality is excellent so I can imagine that they’d look that much better in 1080p.
The site also offers streaming in mobile, SD and HD resolutions. Thankfully the scenes don’t start buffering and playing until you actually select that option.
A quirk with the site is that there are 17 behind-the-scenes scenes. I say this is a quirk because there are none posted at the main Jules Jordan site. I’m a fan of BTS material so I appreciated having access to them but I realize that not everyone likes BTS stuff.
The site supports download managers and I had no problems using Internet Download Manager. I didn’t have any problem with links timing out.
The bottom line is that I can’t recommend this site unless it really has something that you absolutely must have. I know the porn business can be accused of being a little unethical sometimes and I think that splitting a fairly small DVD catalogue between two separate sites and charging $30 for each site might cross the line into being unethical. There is no reason to have done this: it isn’t like AF offers any specific niche that isn’t also on the main JJ site. Yes, this site promises all anal, but there is still plenty of anal on the main site and the scenes at AF are from DVD titles that that are also on the main site. At $30 for access to just 72 scenes and 17 BTS scenes The Ass Factory just isn’t good value.
(As an aside, you know how some high-end European car manufacturers and even the Corvette allow buyers to take delivery at the factory? Well it occurs to me that the way to improve the value of this site is if Mr. Jordan were to offer a factory tour here. Being such an ass aficionado I KNOW I’d like that. I’ve always wanted to see where they make these things…) |
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11-17-12 07:39pm
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Broke Model
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68.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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Pros: |
- Good mix of models
- Appears to update regularly
- Videos and photos available
- Streaming and downloads
- Options available for streaming and downloads
- A few pregnant models (if you’re into that)
- Supports download managers |
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- Model treatment leans to Misogynist side of scale
- Six-hour download limit (but reasonable)
- Some recent uploads are full scenes of older segments
- Some models have only photos |
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This site follows the same formula used by several other sites where it appears to be a small operation. The scenes are shot by a mix of POV and tripod mounted cameras and the models are relative unknowns or are at least in the beginning of their career. This style is used successfully by sites like Exploited College Girls and Amateur Allure and with less success by sites like Broke Amateurs. Unfortunately I have to add Broke Models to the lower end of the scale for the same reason that Broke Models is there: while the porn itself is decent the site is flawed. As an armchair critic I’ll never understand why site owners make some of the choices that they do.
First the good news: the site does offer some good porn if you like this niche. I like that the models are relative unknowns and range from nervous to confident. Their looks and body types exist on a range but all are relatively petite. If you like some color in your models you won’t find it here as they are almost all Caucasian with a few Latina women thrown in. For those of you who like pregnant models you’ll find a couple here. (Dani Jensen and Jodi Taylor seem to be this only A-list models here.)
The scenes are structured in the same way used by many of these sites (and I should add that the male’s voice is familiar so he may be behind other sites too). The scene usually starts with the model fully dressed on a bed while she is interviewed. Eventually her clothes come off and the fun begins. The camera work isn't bad, but POV and tripods have limitations so don’t expect award-winning camera work here.
A trait I don’t like in my porn is common here, namely rude treatment of the models. This could be staged though. I contrast the written scene descriptions at Amateur Allure, which may say something like “Here today is a stunningly beautiful model from Florida…” to the written descriptions here which tend to be more like “Today’s skanky whore is from Florida…” The same goes for their on-screen treatment. Admittedly, AA and BM aren't really competitors but I used this for a comparison. I also have to admit that for comparison choosing AA may be unfair as they do use some stunningly beautiful models whereas sites like this seem to recruit from a lower strata in the model hierarchy.
Another trait I don’t like (mostly because it adds nothing to the scene for me) is the use of the ‘surprise’ creampie. This is used a lot at Back Room Casting Couch too. These may be staged, but the premise is that the models aren't expecting to have the guy come in them and some of them aren't happy about it. I think the intended effect is further debasing the models and that isn't something I’m into (unless it’s part of a BDSM scene where it fits into the context).
I can’t say for sure how many actual scenes are available on the site through its safe to say there are about 65 scenes. The reason I can’t say for sure is because of a bit of a fast one the site pulls. With older uploads (and they’re not dated so it isn't easy to give specific details) the scenes were broken into segments. But in some cases the more recent uploads are simply those segments joined together as the complete scene. Apart from passing off an older scene as a new one, I downloaded duplicates without realizing it. Several times I was pleased to see more by a model I liked only to be disappointed that it wasn’t different. The other problem with this practice is that the site has a download cap of approximately 15GB per six hour period. I’m no fan of download limits but I can live with reasonable ones like this. But when there are duplicate scenes that aren't labelled as such that eats into your allotment.
Another problem with the download limit is that while it is supposed to reset automatically after six hours on one occasion it didn’t. Given that there is a message telling the user how to contact support for this very problem I assume it occurs fairly frequently.
I can’t give an exact update schedule but it looks like a new scene is added weekly. The most recent update is a new scene and not one stitched together from older segments.
There are three listed download resolutions though for some reason two of them are the same. I downloaded the highest available (WMV) which came in at 1280x720 and 5000kb/s. They look good on a 24” monitor.
The site offers photos too, and while I’d normally consider that a good thing in this case I was disappointed to see that many of the models only have photos and no videos. The photos are 1800x1200 and are available in zips.
I had no trouble using a download manager.
The bottom line is that this is some good (but not great) porn that’s let down by the site. If you like scenes like this with relatively unknown models in well-shot amateur scenes then this may be worth a look. The price makes it a fair value but I suspect that this will be a one-time-only membership for me. |
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01-02-15 12:36pm
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Fellucia Blow
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65.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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- Sensual blowjob videos
- Exclusive
- 27 videos
- Part of a larger network
- Allows download managers |
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- Poor site design
- Videos aren't dated
- No idea if and when the site updates
- Slow download speeds
- Download limit
- Two file types and only one resolution per type
- Models aren’t identified
- Overly edited scenes
- Heat is lower than it could be
- Swallow or spit? We’ll never know
- No TBP discount |
Bottom Line: |
I recently developed an interest in porn featuring sensual blowjobs or ‘edging’ and went looking for sites that offer this. Fellucia Blow seemed to fit the bill perfectly, and it mostly does but it also misses the mark in some key ways too.
The good news is that the site offers 27 sensual blowjob videos that can be streamed or downloaded. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much the extent of the good news. The videos themselves, in my subjective opinion, lack in a couple of key areas, but the biggest flaw is the site itself.
The videos are all quite short, with most of them averaging around 5 minutes. Some of the videos start with the female approaching the male and dropping to her knees and getting to work while others start right in on the action. The videos don’t have any dialogue and have a music soundtrack playing. As advertised, the blowjobs are slow and sensual. They’re well lit and filmed with most of the camera shots being fairly close to the action. All of the videos conclude with an oral cumshot. This is where I think the site really dropped the ball on making these scenes the hottest they could be. Most of the scenes are edited so the viewer never sees if the cumshot is swallowed or spit out. The bigger flaw is that the videos end too quickly after the man comes. I think an important part of the sensuality these kinds of scenes offer is seeing the woman spend some time with the cock after the man comes. I like the sensuality of seeing her continue to lick, suck and nibble as the man’s dick goes soft. I also think that a little come-play adds to the sensuality of the scene. But with FB we get none of that: the guy comes, the camera angles are edited in a way that hides what happens and then the scene ends. I really think that FB lost the opportunity to make these scenes even hotter.
This is also subjective, but I prefer these kinds of scenes to be as unedited as possible. If the woman licks down the shaft to give the balls some attention I see no need to edit that out. I find the act of the woman licking her way down the shaft is hot. But the FB scenes are all over-edited. One moment the model may be licking the head and then we have an edit and she’s at the balls.
The models themselves are good looking. Many appear in multiple videos. The models are unnamed and (to me) unknown.
The real flaw here is the site itself. If you’re reading this you’re also a porn collector and you’ll understand what I mean when I say that the site has the look and feel of a badly-designed, decade-old site even though there is some evidence that the network is much newer than that. The entire network suffers from this.
The videos are offered in both MP4 and WMV formats but in only one resolution for each. Both are 1920x1080 with a bitrate around 7000kb/s with the MP4 files. The bitrate seems to be a bit higher with the WMV files. The scenes look good with no pixilation. Most of the files are around 300MB.
I had no issue using a download manager to queue-up some downloads but I did find that the download speeds were much slower than I get with other sites. I averaged about 1/10th the speeds I normally see.
The network has a daily download limit of somewhere between 20GB and 25GB per day. I only hit that once and the downloads automatically reset the following day.
The scenes aren't dated so I have no idea how old the site is or whether it is even updating, and if it is what the update schedule is. The site lists a copyright of 2016 and given the modern specs of the videos it seems reasonable to assume that the site was new in 2016. My membership expires in a few days and I haven’t seen a new scene added since I joined.
FB is part of a large network but that network really doesn’t add value to the membership since the whole network shares the same flaws that FB has. Further, it looks like most of the sites on the network haven’t updated in a while and a lot of them look to be licenced porn rather than exclusive. There are 80 sites available but none of them really interested me so I can’t really offer any opinions. Many of the sites feature amateur solo models and those can be hit-and-miss as so much depends on the viewer’s personal preferences. As with Fellucia Blow, I can’t give any clear information on updates within the network as the scenes aren't dated.
The bottom line is that this is a classic case of good porn being let down by a mediocre site. As a blowjob site there are reasons to recommend it but the videos themselves could be better and the site itself needs a redesign. The network doesn’t offer enough (in my opinion) to support the full price of the site. When you factor in that the site (and many of the sites on the network) doesn’t seem to be updating and the lack of a TBP discount this is a site/network best joined only by people with a specific interest. For the general porn buyer your money can be better spent elsewhere. |
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04-27-17 02:41pm
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