Karups (0)
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| Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- A classic group of sites now available with one membership. Includes Karups PC, Karups Hometown Amateurs and Karups Older Women.
- Excellent navigation, will detail in Bottom Line, maybe the best I have seen on a network.
- Over 6,000 models, over 33,000 photo sets, nearly 17,000 video scenes.
- User-friendly favorites section, bonus section includes 4-10 bonus sets/scenes from 18 other porn sites.
- Hardcore, solo, lesbian, teens, MILFs, mature and amateurs. There is a good blend of all of these.
- Download speeds are good (75-80% of max).
- Choice of who you want to bill with, I picked CCBill.
- Multiple updates per day, looks to be 2-3 updates per day on average.
- Newest videos have 4K option, there's not a lot of those but the newer videos do have 4K option.
- Photos are downloadable in two sizes, bigger size is 3000 long end.
- Complex but accurate (when I have used it) tagging system. |
| Cons: |
- There's a little confusion on the main hub page. There is a list of upcoming webcam shows and a row of live chat models. No idea if any of those are included in your membership or need to be paid for.
- The numbers listed in pros can be overwhelming to cover in one month. That's known as a not really a con but could be seen as a con.
- Probably could use more tags in the hardcore scenes. |
| Bottom Line: |
Much like the ATK Network, I had no idea there was such thing as the Karup's Network. You need to take a deep breath before joining a network like this one. Karup's PC (Private Collection) and Karup's Hometown Amateurs have been around since 2002. Karup's Older Women has been around since around 2005. That is around 50 years when combined into one network.
I'm going to try and explain what you're getting before I go into the specifics of this network. Karup's PC is a site like the early to mid-2000s sites covered European models. They still have their archives where you can see now retired stars like Eve Angel, Sophie Moone, Sandra Shine and all the other A-list Euro models in their early years. Karup's Hometown Amateurs is what it says. These are the Karup's Amateur models, they are not all amateurs, you will see a few well-known or at least known models. Karup's Older Women is what it says. Most of these models are over 30.
I thought the ATK Network struggled thanks to a lack of a hub page. Karup's has a hub and the amount of excellent navigation deserves to be covered in detail.
You have the option to use the tabs at the top of your screen: Sites (You pick from the 3 sites), Videos (All, Featured, Behind the Scenes), Photos, Models (can specify which site to see just models from the selected site).
This is where the navigation becomes more complex but very usable. When you select which Karup's site you want to browse, you receive a list with these tags in it: Softcore videos, hardcore videos, below those there are 7 tags for photos, "amateur photos", "exotics photos", "girls with toys photos", "hardcore photos", "models photos", "older women photos", "teen photos".
The complexity shows when you select "older women photos" while in the Karup's PC site, it shows the older women just within Karup's PC. The accuracy once you go this deep into the search looks to be good but I doubt it is perfect. You can always just jump around those tags and look through the newest updates.
The model list is accurate. If you are watching a scene with a model in it that you like, you click her name (tagged) and you will see all of her photos and videos on the site. That is impressive considering there are over 6,000 models. The one part that still lingers from the old days of Euro porn are the aliases and multiple models with the same name. That is where the model list is accurate. If you select Nikki 3, it takes you to her page and you won't see any Nikki 2 in Nikki 3. Most of the aliases are not much different than the names we know the models by.
For me the big question is if there is a place for this type of porn in 2019. I like it but my favorite porn came from the pre-2009 years. There is a lot of solo porn here. The hardcore scenes are not going to win hardcore fans over. They are similar to hardcore scenes you see on Nubiles and other sites that were more known for solo and lesbian scenes.
Which is one of the cons. It doesn't bother me but there is no way to search within the hardcore scenes. This is just from June 2019, there were 20 hardcore video updates between the three sites. Over that same time, I am counting 67 solo updates. I just think the lack of tags on hardcore scenes might make those a bit frustrating for a user. You definitely can't fault the amount of updates but I will mention there does not seem to a be a schedule to the updates.
Back when these types of sites were at the top of the porn world, the users knew all the models. You knew which models you were looking for. You're going to have to put a little more time into it now by going through the new updates to see which models catch your eye or just start at A and go through the model list.
Karups was always in the same area as the ATK sites when it came to photo set quality and how they shoot the photo sets. I'm not surprised that my favorite photos on here are the Karup's Hometown Amateurs. You are more likely to get the fully clothed at the beginning photo sets with the amateurs.
Overall, for the price especially, these three sites are a very good deal.
I will throw this in too. If you just go to "photos". It shows all the photo sets across the 3 sites and each one has a logo in the corner so you know which site is from. KPC - Karup's Private Collection, KHA - Karup's Hometown Amateurs and KOW - Karup's Older Women. It's a nice little touch they have added to make it easier to find your preference. I think with a little fine-tuning they could be up there in the top of their category, especially with a legitimate amateur site included. I wanted to give it higher than I did but I think my score shows it is a very good site. Especially for those into pictures of amateurs.
It's good to see a classic brand like Karup's climbing back up the porn ladder. Of note, I experienced no download limits/speeds that others reported in previous years. I was downloading at nearly 80% of my max speed. |
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