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TTOO was the first Kink site I joined several years back and it remains my favourite. Most BDSM sites put a woman in bondage and inflict some pain. Some sites have a unique theme (Water Bondage) but the underlying premise is the same. TTOO is different: there is bondage, humiliation and pain, but the premise is the training of a submissive woman. The niche is the making of a sub, not what can be done after the sub is created.
The traditional TTOO shoots are broken down into days, with the normal training regime being conducted over four days. The intensity of the training is increased as each day passes. Bondage, humiliation, demeaning work, pain and training are all here. Sex occurs in the shoots. The sex is very well done but isn’t the main focus: it occurs as part of the training, not just for the sex itself. The end product is near four hours of some intense video per shoot with exceptional production values.
In the past couple of years TTOO has added a new kind of shoot to keep things interesting. This is still about training, but they’ll bring in multiple girls to audition to be trained. These can last from one to four days and involve much of the same kinds of training as the main scenes, but have an extra element of competition. These share the usual high production standards that Kink has. These are innovative and a welcome addition to the site.
The technical stuff is standard for all Kink sites. Each scene has its own page where the video can be streamed or downloaded. Downloads are available in either WMV or Mp4 format. Two resolutions are available for both formats. The highest resolution for both comes in at 1280x720.
Like all Kink sites, TTOO offers photos as singles and zips, but this really isn’t a photo site so I won’t go into any detail.
I’m a HUGE fan of the Kink sites and I may have been blind to some faults because of that. The faults are fairly minor but just look more serious given the overall quality of the site. I think that for a site to be exceptional it has to provide excellent porn, make that easily available to members and has to be well organized. Obviously the first element is the most important, and Kink delivers: this is incredible porn. They succeed in the member access by allowing download managers and having servers that never slow down and give some of the highest download speeds I’ve encountered. Where Kink falls down is in site organization.
To keep this succinct, here are my specific concerns:
- Limited search function – the search function is limited and doesn’t work well. The problem appears that when you search a term the only thing it searches is the scene title, not the performers. So searching for star X won’t get you a scene if the scene is titled “Rope Slut.” You can search the model index but that isn’t great either. You can locate scenes on specific Kink sites but you can’t download them from there. The solution is to take a few key words from the title and go back to the main site page and search those terms.
- File names vary and are of limited use – this is likely subjective, but the file naming convention has no standardization. If you want to have any hope of organizing the scenes into related groups you’ll need to do it as you download. One bright note is that each scene has a unique shoot number as part of the name and that can be searched. The issue is you may download “1234_Bobbi” as the Day 1 scene in Bobbi Starr’s training, and then download “1100_Bobbi_S” as Day 2. The problem is that unless you rename the files as you go, the Bobbi in day 1 might not be Bobbi Starr, and if you’re sorting your files numerically you’re apt to get Day 1 and Day 2 mixed up. In most instances, model’s last names aren’t included as part of the file. I think a file-naming standard that captured the shoot number, model’s full name and day of the shoot would work much better.
The lack of a search function and odd naming are bad enough when dealing with the traditional multi-day shoots, but organizing some of the multi-girl, multi-day shoots is a lot of work.
While this sounds like I’m being overly fussy, keep in mind that TTOO goes out of it’s way to produce multi-day shoots. These are amazing, but grouping the whole shoot together is a lot of work and their own file names make organizing the files difficult.
Other more minor concerns are the lack of tags. I’m not saying that they need tags for everything, but for narrow, specific and hard to find niches they could work. Finally, while rare, there are missing scenes. The training scenes lose continuity when a day is missing.
The bottom line is this: when you weigh the good things about TTOO against the things that need improvement there is no contest. This is compelling, unique porn with stunning models in high-quality scenes. The negatives pale in comparison. If you have even a passing interest in BDSM I’d highly recommend a membership. |
