Hustler Unlimited, formerly Hustler (0)
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| Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- 12,000+ scenes
- Videos update daily
- Photos available
- Choices in scene resolutions
- Supports download managers
- TBP Discount |
| Cons: |
- Illogical site design
- Decent porn let down by a poor site
- Difficult to sort scenes
- Updates are often older scene
- Photos haven’t updated in months
- Scenes start streaming automatically
- Hustler scenes are available on other websites |
| Bottom Line: |
Warren Buffett is reported to have once said that it is good to learn from your mistakes but it is better to learn from other people’s mistakes. Sadly, I’m more Homer Simpson than Warren Buffet, so if I could title this review it would simply be called “D’oh!”
I recently had an email offer to join Hustler that didn’t make a lot of sense to refuse. I didn’t bother to do my usual due diligence and read the TBP/PU reviews. Had I done that I’d have seen that the overwhelming opinion was negative and the most recent review was from one of the best reviewers here, exotics4me, and he scored the site low. But I figured what could I lose by signing up? It turns out I lost $5 that I could have used towards a membership at a good site.
I’d say that Hustler is badly organized but that wouldn’t be entirely accurate as that implies that there is at least some attempt at organization. I don’t get that sense here. Let me give an example…
Hustler has been around for a long time and one of their showcase series is Barely Legal. Like it or not, any porn collector knows of it. So if you ran the Hustler website wouldn’t you want to showcase that? Apparently not. Barely Legal is exactly the kind of porn I look for and if there was a way to separate those scenes I wasn’t able to find it. On many occasions I opened a scene that had no obvious connection to the BL series and it was only on playing it that it was identified as such.
Speaking of playing the scenes, be warned that the scenes start streaming immediately when you open the page. I really wish sites wouldn’t do this.
Scene resolutions are all over the map and even the usual indicator of upload date has no real bearing on this. I encountered scenes that were relatively new (based on the model) that were available as high as 480p only. Many scenes are available at 720p but there is no way to sort by resolution. Some scenes, but not many, also offer 1080p. These look good but are few and far between and finding them is a fishing expedition.
Trying to sort by models isn't a big help either. When using the model index many don’t have a thumbnail photo – even though they are well-known stars. Sometimes the same model will be listed side-by-side with a different alias or spelling, as is the case for the late Amber Rayne who is also listed as Amber Rain... on the same page.
Some of the scenes are so badly edited for the site that they start as the sex is starting, though on the DVD there would be something before that. For example, in one Angel Smalls scene there is a dick in her within one second of the scene starting. Clearly this is just editing and all the set-up and foreplay has been removed.
Hustler is primarily a DVD company and while some of the videos can be identified by the DVD there is no way that I could find to sort the scenes by DVD title. If there is a title that indicates something you like, you may or may not find other scenes from the DVD. Sometimes those scenes are at the bottom of related scenes but sometimes they aren't.
The site does have a couple of things going for it. For one; it’s huge. There are currently over 12,000 scenes available with a new scene being added daily. There are sub-sites but I suspect that those are rolled into the overall count. (But that isn't exactly clear.) I should be clear that while a scene is added daily, that doesn’t mean the scene is new. A recent update featured a model who retired five years ago.
The other great thing about the site is that it offers all issues of the famous Hustler magazine from 2008 to the present. These are available on an easy-to-use interface that allows users to flip through the pages. I know this is nit-picking, but magazines aren't the draw they once were. As someone who discovered porn as an early-teen though Playboy, Penthouse and then Hustler, I would have relished the opportunity to see editions from the late-70s to the early-80s.
Unfortunately the positives of this site aren't many, so I’ll start back in with the negatives. I collect and catalogue scenes by the model in them and I was disappointed that a lot of scenes here simply don’t have any credits. While it isn't entirely accurate to say that these are non-exclusive scene (since they are Hustler scenes on the Hustler site) many of these are available elsewhere.
The bottom line for me is that this is a site that has some good porn that is seriously undermined by the site itself. In some reviews even when the site isn't well laid out I still feel comfortable recommending it to someone who is looking for a specific niche that the site fills. But in this case I can’t do that because the site is so poorly laid out that finding something specific would be more about luck than organization. I rarely give poor scores and reviews, but this site deserves it. Even with a TBP discount this site isn't a good value. |
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