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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. |
