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 very good value for fans of the earlier 2000s style of porn.
-- Includes Karups PC, Karups Hometown Amateurs and Karups Older Women all for one price. Those used to be $29.95 each.
- The combination of the three sites is massive and they update everyday.
- Can browse by all sites, by any of the three sites and can do this with videos, photos and model list. Complicated navigation but highly effective and intuitive once you get used to it.
- One of the few sites I see anymore that still uses CCBill as their biller.
- All videos over the last year have 4K option.
- The archives are still here. There are scenes here from 2001 including one that warmed my old heart of a very young Eve Angel and Sophie Moone.
- Major points for collectors of Euro and amateur models. |
| Cons: |
- If they are remastering any of the old scenes I haven’t noticed. The oldest scenes are 360p.
- It’s overwhelming even for me. I know the majority of this content and was a member of Karups PC at least 10 times prior to 2012. I still find myself feeling like I’m drowning in content.
- The bottom line will go more into this, this is a traditional earlier 2000s studio and site even though they are still updating. It’s only a con if you’re not a fan of that era of porn. I am and enjoy the site because of it. |
| Bottom Line: |
What’s an earlier 2000s porn site like? Karups PC was the big site for me. I didn’t get into the amateur models until 2013 or later. Karups like DDF’s old sites, like 21 Sextury’s old sites before they become a network featured almost exclusively solo, male/female and lesbian scenes. There’s no way I could go through the 17,000+ video scenes to see if there are threesomes or group sex but I haven’t seen any. It was a more focused era of porn where the action took a backseat, the storylines took a backseat and even the quality of performance took a backseat to the attractiveness of the female model. You could say it’s shallow in that regard. It never bothered me and still doesn’t. I’m paying money to look at naked and teasing women. I’m pretty sure that makes me a little shallow!
The numbers here are going to scare away newer potential members. There are over 17,000 videos, there are nearly 35,000 photo sets and close to 6,500 models. Separating the three sites does make it a little easier to deal with the staggering amount of content but when you separate the content you are running the risk of missing a model’s content who maybe started on Karups Hometown Amateurs then moved up to Karups PC. I believe they do a better job than most sites when it comes to sticking to their niches. The PC models are the pro models and you will recognize most of them by name. The Hometown Amateurs brings in the typical downside and upside of amateur sites. There will be some models you don’t find attractive, some that you will wonder why the model didn’t keep going or become better known and some will be models who did, in time, become more famous and known. The Older Women site mostly is older women by porn standards. I don’t want to be disrespectful but a lot of the models on their older women site have a (looking for the least offensive word possible) sluttier look to them. I think they would rather be called sluttier than older. There are some on the older women site who don’t look old enough to be on there but when did porn models start being honest about their ages?
A few things you have to accept with this combination of 3 sites is many of the PC models are going to lean more to the glamorous side. I still like glamorous models, just not as much as I used to. The Hometown Amateurs and Older Women models are going to possibly have traits known to annoy porn fans like tattoos and implants. I think if you picked 6,500 women off the street there would be a fairly high percentage that either has tattoos, implants or both. It adds to the authenticity but will be a negative to some.
Considering the size of this site, with the 3 sites combined on it, the navigation is good. It does require more clicks than I like but that’s one of my personal problems most members probably won’t even notice. You can search the entire site which includes results from all 3 sites or you can specify which site you want to focus on. They have well thought out buttons like when you go to Karups PC right at the top of the screen is “Hardcore videos”, “Softcore videos”, then 7 buttons like “Teens with toys photos” for the the different basic niches of photos.
This has been a gripe of mine for many years with Karups, personally, I don’t even look at their hardcore videos. It’s like when Nubiles started adding hardcore. It’s not what they excel at and the scenes are redundant. I won’t even say their solo videos are that great. The pictures are a major strength on this site and the videos are just like the icing. I believe that is even more true on Hometown Amateurs.
Something I don’t think you can look over if you’re a collector of specific models is how much exclusive content they have on this site. One of the examples of a now classic model Eve Angel, she has 5 videos and 23 photo sets. Using the word exclusive can be risky with this content since the models often wore the same outfits in their different photo and video shoots. Once you look at the photo sets you see it is different from a photo set you may have of the same model in the same outfit. You also get something I know myself and another longtime Porn User once talked about and that’s “new finds” in models. There’s one right now who is in the newer models on Karups named Luna Mills. I don’t know if she’s known or has content elsewhere but Karups just introduced me to this model I probably wouldn’t ever have known about. She looks possibly Hispanic, slightly thick and has high energy in her 2 videos and very good posing in her 2 photo sets.
You get that treasure hunt feel. You’re going through hundreds of models you have never seen before and there’s that one who jumps out at you. A lot of the older Porn Users will say one of the favorite parts of joining porn sites was the hunt for new models or exclusive content we hadn’t seen before of an old favorite. That’s what Karups does best. |
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