Fetish Network (0)
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| Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Large network (44 sites, close to 4000 scenes)
- Wide range of fetish niches covered
- TBP discount
- Updates often |
| Cons: |
- Scene resolutions mislabelled
- Most sites no longer update
- Many scenes are repetitive with a specific site
- Download speeds drop off occasionally during every download
- Huge gap between top resolutions
- Can only advance through the almost 100 pages four at a time (but there is a work-around) |
| Bottom Line: |
This is a difficult network to write a detailed review on because it’s so large and covers a wide range of fetishes. In some ways that’s good, but in other ways it means that many members will find a lot of scenes that they have no interest in.
By no measure is this a small network. There are currently just under 4000 videos spread across 44 sites and those sites cover a broad range of fetishes and offer some subtle differences between the sites within a fetish. The number of sites and the fetishes available are:
• 17 BDSM / Bondage (sites with coercion, kidnapping, rope, devices, amateur, etc.)
• 2 teen (brainwashing, step-siblings)
• 3 spanking
• 6 femdom
• 2 footdom
• 5 smothering
• 3 smoking
• 1 Taboo (step-father – step-daughter)
• 3 legs and nylons
• 1 jerk-off instructions (Seriously? Maybe I’m unique, but I think I have that pretty much under control…)
• 1 girl-girl domme
The update schedule is erratic as sometimes there is a new video uploaded every day but sometimes it can be three or four days between an upload. It should also be noted that not all sites update so if you join for one specific you may not see regular updates at that favorite site for weeks as the updates are spread among all the active sites.
Mbaya did a review of one of the sites on this network (Brutal Castings – which you should read even if you have no interest in that specific site but are thinking of joining the network) and noted that this site was very repetitive. I agree with mbaya and can report that this is an issue with several of the s active sites. Brutal Castings is probably the worst for being repetitive, but it isn't alone.
While no one can argue that the network offers quantity, quality may be an issue for many. The first videos on the site were posted back in 2007 so no one is expecting 2015 standards for these, but they should be better than what they are. For even newer videos many of them are only available in lower resolutions.
A beef I’ve had with several sites recently is that they have a wide chasm between the two top resolutions available. To make matters worse here though, the stated resolutions are far off what is really offered. The newest videos boast an available resolution of 4320p (does that exist yet?) which are actually 1920x1080 with bitrates that vary from 3000-9000kb/s. The next resolution available on newer scenes is billed as 1080p but those only come in at 960x540 and 1500 kb/s. Apart from false promises, this is a wide chasm between resolutions and for someone like me who likes to split the difference between appearance and file size this makes for a tough choice.
Slightly older videos (2013) still say they’re “4320p” but come in at 1280x720. By 2012 the best offered in 800x450 at 1500kb/s. By 2009 and older the resolutions range from bad to worse. Unless you really have a thing for a specific fetish these older videos are generally very poor quality.
Two things worth noting are that you can only advance the page views by four at a time, so if you’re looking to go to page 50 of 94 you’ll be in for a lot of clicking and waiting. The good news though is that you can enter a page number on the URL and go directly to a page. A site shouldn’t make you have to find a work-around just to advance multiple pages though.
The other issue is a bit more of a problem. On every video I downloaded I faced this problem. It occurred throughout my membership and occurred regardless of the time of day or day of the week that I downloaded: the video download speeds varied from very fast to abysmal during EVERY download. I would see speeds as high as 25MB/s and they would drop to 14kb/s for times during the download. Overall, the time to download a scene was about average even with the speeds dropping off occasionally.
One point that may be of interest to some is that the network site called Taboo Sex Diary is done by the same crew that now has the Desperate Pleasures site. For me, who likes the incest theme, this is good news. But the bad news is that these are possibly the lowest quality videos on the site, even though they’re dated 2014. My guess is that they were shot a while ago and only uploaded in 2014. Even though the thumbnails are branded as “HD,” the best resolution available on this site is 480x270 at 700kb/s. I guess their definition of HD is different from mine.
As for a recommendation, I’m really on the fence here. Some of the scenes are good if you’re into the specific fetish but that’s all this site has going for it. There is a TBP discount but considering the full price is $40 and the discount price is $30 it’s still expensive. I realize that fetish material is more expensive to make, but other sites do it better for the same fees. The deal-breaker for me though is the low scene resolutions on many of the scenes. My advice is that unless there is a site, niche or scene you can’t live without you’re better off spending your porn dollars elsewhere. |
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