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After two memberships to sites that I’d not normally have joined due to their focus on older (25+) and busty women, I figured I’d better join a site that I knew I’d like: a DVD-based, raw hardcore site with a healthy dose of anal scenes.
Jules Jordan is probably one of those producers who’s work you either like or don’t. He started with Evil Angel many years ago and has continued to produce some excellent porn if you like your porn with a rougher edge and heavy dose of anal sex. He’s no Max Hardcore though, and his work was certainly a good fit for Evil Angel. If you like EA stuff you’re apt to like JJ stuff.
The site is organized in a straightforward way in that you can sort by all scenes, older scenes, HD scenes and by models. Clicking on either of those will bring up a list with large thumbnails that you can further open to get what you’re looking for.
The individual scenes open to a new page with a large window for streaming (which, thankfully, doesn’t start automatically). There are links for streaming choices and for download choices. In the newer scenes streaming is available in HD, SD and mobile, and the same is usually available in HD (1080p and 720p), SD and mobile for downloads. The only file type is mp4. The videos looked good (I downloaded 720p when it was available). Obviously older files shot in SD don’t look as good but they’re still watchable.
The site supports download managers and links don’t time out quickly. Download speeds were usually good at 6+MB/s using IDM though there were times (infrequently) when it could be half that.
The good news is that you have access to 124 DVDs. I’m not sure how many DVDs Jordan has produced but IAFD doesn’t seem to list too many more than that. This means that you have access to a lot of his older titles and still have access to new releases. The newer releases seem to get uploaded shortly after they hit the DVD market. The bad news here is that with only 124 DVD titles this is still a pretty small site. And it’s destined to stay that way for a while since the site only updates with one scene being added every two days. On some days two scenes get added, but that isn’t frequent. The other downside to this is that if you’re looking for a specific scene in a movie you might have to wait a while to get it.
I’ll admit this may be subjective, but on a DVD-based studio site it seems logical to me that the scenes be arranged by the DVD they appeared on. For example, if you want to check out Ass Worship 3 you should be able to sort by DVD title, select that title and see the scenes in that movie. But for some reason the site isn’t set up this way, even though the DVD title will appear as a tag in a scene. Not to get too confusing here, but let’s say you open a scene with a star you like. The thumbnail and link will give no indication of which DVD the scene is from, but when you open the link there will be a tag with the DVD title that you can then click on to see all the available scenes from that title.
An obvious work-around would be to just enter the DVD into the search function, right? Sort of, but if you search “Ass Worship 3” be prepared to scroll down past the first four or five links because those first links won’t be scenes from the DVD you’re looking for. Aim for the fifth or sixth scene and open it and you might just have a scene from Ass Worship 3 with a link to the DVD that you can then follow through to see the other scenes from that title. My description is confusing partly because the process is confusing.
To make this even worse, the tour pages have a “Movies” link which will take you to a page with thumbnail covers of all the DVDs on the site. When you enter the member’s page though, that link is gone.
What really hurts the value of a membership is the way that the studio has decided to release the videos. Besides this site the studio also has The Ass Factory. We can debate whether a single studio the size of JJ really needs two sites (I’d debate that they don’t) but the problem is that for most JJ titles you might get three scenes here and two at The Ass Factory, which means that to get more complete access to the JJ library you need to buy two $30 memberships. But I suppose if there are enough people like me who will pay for both there is no incentive to merge the two sites into one.
So is the site worth a membership? It depends on who you are. If you really like Jordan’s stuff it probably is. If it’s merely a passing interest for you there are probably better places to put your porn dollars. The porn is excellent, but the site needs a rethink on a couple of key problems and the fact that the site is small and the DVDs are spread over two sites makes the value lower than it should be.
(As an aside, if you want a membership to only one JJ site I’d recommend this one over The Ass Factory. AF is a much smaller site for the same fee. I’ll try to get a review to that up soon.) |
