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776
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
I don't like daily limits as i tend to concentrate most of my downloading on 1 or 2 days a week when i'm not working, its a real pain in the ass having to schedule time to download every day. I don't mind working within a sites limits if they are upfront about it, what i find really infuriating is getting locked out of a site for breaching a download limit i knew nothing about. I've never had a membership at a site where the download limits have stopped me getting everything i want within a month so i really don't see the point of them. I've paid for the content and i'm only going to download it once so why is it such a big deal to the website whether i download it all in 2 or 3 days or spread it over the month...it all amounts to the same amount of bandwidth at the end of the day.
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01-11-12 02:39am
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777
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The Life Erotic
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Reply of
otoh's Reply
Yes unfortunately there's quite a few models who only have 1 photo set or 1 video. Sadly that Valentina set here is not even exclusive, i'd previously downloaded it from Babes.tv although here it is in a larger resolution so i did keep it. There are much better sites around for finding Valentina Vaughn content
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01-08-12 12:20pm
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Review
778
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The Life Erotic
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79.0
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| Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Billing by CCBill
260+ models
Daily updates since 6th December 2011 usually 6 photo sets and 1 video per week, prior to December was updating 4 times per week
Currently 423 photo sets and 114 movies online
Photos offered in 3 sizes, 1024px, 2048px and the largest size varies quite widely from around 3000 to 5000+ pixels on the long side.
Zip downloads offered in each size.
Several video options including HD 1080p MP4s, WMV, AVI, mobile downloads and Flash Streaming
Model info provided |
| Cons: |
Lots of non exclusive content
Those looking for anything other than softcore solo content will find little of interest here apart from a handful of lesbian photo sets/videos
Some older vids don’t look HD quality
Most videos contain music backing track
No file sizes listed for zips or video options
No scene description or preview for videos, all you get is 1 thumbnail picture to decide if you want to download a scene.
Some small photo sets, only 30-40 photos
A lot of models only have 1 or 2 updates |
| Bottom Line: |
As a current member of Met Art I was able to add a membership here for less than $12 so couldn’t resist the chance to see what’s on offer here for that kind of price. The Life Erotic claims to be a nude art site with an erotic explicit edge to it. The archive here goes back to May 2009 so there’s a little over two and a half years worth of content already online.
The models here tend to be a little older than the nubile teens you will find at Met or MPL, most here according to the ages given in their model info tend to be early to mid 20s. You’ll find quite a few established models who have been around for years such as Ariel, Eve Angel, Nella, Lucky and Peaches to name a few.
The navigation is fairly basic with the usual options to browse by updates, images, movies or via an A to Z model index. No other categories or options to search the models by age, location or breast size etc as far as I could see.
My primary interest in any site is always the photo collection and I must admit as I browsed through the collection here I was struggling to see the erotic and explicit side that they promised in much of it. Admittedly they do have a few sets that contain some pussy play, toy use and even a couple of fetish wear and light bondage theme sets but 90% of the photo sets I would say are not much different to the kind of content you would find at Met Art or MPL Studios. Take today’s update of Nika N, 120 photos and not even a decent spread shot, Thursday’s update of Kira, 55 photos standing against a rock face, barely a glimpse of her pussy. Where is the erotic or explicit in that?
Many of the videos however do contain a little more erotic action with many of them featuring some masturbation and toy use. The wmv files I downloaded came in at 1280 x 720 @ 4128 kbps and mostly looked pretty sharp. Average run time of videos is usually between 5 and 10 minutes and overall they look professionally shot with decent lighting and camera work. All the videos I’ve watched so far have a musical backing track to them.
The most disappointing aspect for me was the amount of non exclusive content I recognised from other sites. Anyone who has had a membership to the old Eve Angel solo site will instantly recognise some of her content here as Exotics4me mentioned in a recent comment. There’s also stuff here I’ve previously downloaded from Teen Dreams, Viv Thomas, even some old licensed content seen on Eurobabez that must be nearly 10 years old and my initial excitement on discovering the model named Elise here is actually Young Legal Porn’s Gloria soon turned to disappointment when I realised her sets here are the same ones I already downloaded from YLP. There’s also a lot of content here carrying the Walter Bosque copyright mark and although I’ve never had a membership at Walter Bosque Art a quick browse of the tour there would indicate that there seems to be some duplication of sets between the two sites.
Overall some nice content and can’t really complain too much for the $12 it cost but 79 is the best score I can give for a site padded out with so much non exclusive content. |
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01-07-12 03:36pm
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779
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
Being a pictues fan on sites like Met Art where i have a membership now and most similar sites i prefer to go for a decent mid size picture size around 2000px where that option is available to save on download time and hd space.
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01-07-12 12:24am
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780
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Young Legal Porn
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Reply of
bloomoon's Comment
Absolutely no problem downloading when i was there and that was only 2 months ago, although i can't speak for the rest of the network as i only had single site access to YLP. They had a couple of issues with download speed on a couple of occasions which made the site almost unusable but that only lasted the odd evening or two.
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01-05-12 11:25am
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781
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N/A
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
No not at all for me, I seem to remember some of the ATK sites had a pregnant niche, i did take a brief look but was never moved to save anything.
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01-05-12 02:16am
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782
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
Well I do regularly read the forum posts that interest me but seldom participate. I don't really have a lot of opinions to give on most porn related topics as i just enjoy my softcore photography sites so any discussions like who prodeces the best anal scenes or deep throat blow jobs or similar topics just goes straight over my head.
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01-04-12 03:05am
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783
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A Measure of Curiosity
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Reply of
Capn's Comment
Is the site even still going? When i click on the link here it goes to something called Strip Game Central.
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01-02-12 10:23pm
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784
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Karla Spice
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Reply of
Marcus's Review
I've been meaning to join some of these Latin Spice websites for a long time but they are quite pricey so keep getting bumped down my list by other sites with special offers.
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01-01-12 03:15am
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785
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Bryci
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Reply of
Marcus's Review
It's quite amazing that a paying customer should be called a thief, I would suggest it's the website who are thieves if they took your 28 bucks then booted you off the site. The terms of service seem a bit ambiguous to me especially the section under "downloading" where they talk about average daily quotos across the membership database. How the hell is anyone supposed to know what other members are downloading and what an average daily quota is. Also the daily download lmit does not make it clear if its per site or for the network. It does look like a nice network of sites that might interest me but being a photo freak myself the lack of zip files means i'm unlikely to ever join.
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01-01-12 03:06am
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786
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She Don't Blush
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Reply of
otoh's Comment
Yes it certainly works out an expensive site when you consider its probably 15 euros for one evening's entertainment because that's all it would take me to download and view 50 odd photo sets.
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12-31-11 05:04am
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787
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
Yes sometimes I do find the non nude tease a turn on and have joined several sites over the years which feature a lot of non nude content. Next Door Nikki is one of the most well known and hottest non nude models but would you call her an amateur? As Rusty said i'm not quite sure how you'd define an amateur NN model from a professional one. Next Door Models had a lot of NN content that i enjoyed and I remember the old Teen Stars Magazine site had some non nude models along with topless and full nude content.
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12-30-11 01:36am
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788
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N/A
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
Probably a bit less because of visiting family.
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12-28-11 03:52am
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789
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N/A
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
No i haven't before as i usually only subscribe to one site at a time but i am tempted to treat myself to a second subscription this christmas as there are so many great offers around at the moment. I'll probably take up an email half price offer to The Life Erotic to add to my current half price Met Art subscription.
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12-25-11 02:12am
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790
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N/A
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
I join sites for their past archives and have joined several sites over the years in the knowledge they are no longer updating.
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12-22-11 01:00pm
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791
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Club Seventeen
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Reply of
Capn's Reply
I look forward to your review Cap'n especially knowing if they've zipped all their photo sets now which the webmaster said they would look into in reply to slutty's previous comment about zips :-)
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12-20-11 11:13pm
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792
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MPL Studios
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Reply of
RLane's Comment
Damn....that's just typical after i went and paid $35 for a membership a few months ago. Times must be tough with all these sites clamouring for our christmas porn budget. I'm already sorted though after taking the thanksgiving half price offer at Met Art and as its my first time there i think it could keep me busy for up to 6 months trawling through their huge archives. Anyway I'd highly recommend MPL at that price to anyone who has not been there before.
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12-20-11 11:07pm
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793
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N/A
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Reply of
Cybertoad's Poll
I don't spend a lot of time on videos but tend to stick with windows media player wherever possible except when sites force me to use something else through the lack of a wmv option.
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12-20-11 10:59pm
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794
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Watch 4 Beauty
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Reply of
Khan's Reply
Yes it's working now thanks.
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12-18-11 10:32am
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795
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FTV Girls
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Reply of
LePornoisseur's Review
A good first review. Although i've never been a member here you summed up the issue that puts me off joining which is basically the price. For me it's nearly 35 bucks to join here and being a pic collector i'm not even interested in their videos so i can't bring myself to pay that just for their photo collection which is far inferior in resolution to sites like Met Art of MPL Studios. At $20 i probably wouldn't think twice about signing up. Welcome to PU by the way.
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12-18-11 10:30am
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796
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Petites Parisiennes
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Reply of
lutin's Review
A good first review. I think you summed up the site perfectly and i can't really disagree with anything you said. Welcome to PU.
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12-18-11 10:10am
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797
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Glam Deluxe
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Reply of
Capn's Reply
It's a bit of a mixed bag really. There are plain nude shoots but i would say more often than not the models start out wearing something but in many cases not what you'd call fully clothed so whilst there is some stripping its not what you'd call a long slow striptease.
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12-18-11 10:06am
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798
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Watch 4 Beauty
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Reply of
LePornoisseur's Comment
According to TBP this is supposed to be a new deal added 12-16-11 but its also not working for me. The only price I see is close to $35 with regional pricing....I also tried clearing my cache and tried again but still no joy.
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12-18-11 06:29am
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Review
799
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Glam Deluxe
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80.0
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| Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Billing by CCBill
Bonus solo sites Helen’s Planet and Ema’s Place included.
76 beautiful models, mostly 18 to early 20s
Mostly exclusive content (see also cons)
Good quality high resolution photos with some of the latest ones as big as 3168 x 4752px although sizes vary quite a bit with most being in the 2-3000px range on the longest side.
Zip downloads for photos
Videos have choice of high or low quality wmv and can also be streamed.
Some nice info provided on each model.
Responsive and helpful webmaster |
| Cons: |
A little pricey for the amount of content compared to similar sites in the niche.
Site barely updating, I’ve only noticed 1 new photo set added in the last 3 weeks
Content not date stamped so difficult to establish recent update history
Only 29 videos
Video quality poor to mediocre by todays standards
Site may be too softcore for some tastes although not a con for me
Only 1 size available for photos and with the high resolution that means some large zip downloads sometimes 400+MB
Undisclosed download limit, was 2GB per day but raised to 8GB after I got locked out and contacted webmaster so not really a con for me as I feel 8 gig is more than adequate for what is mainly a picture site.
Some non exclusive content noticed, Naomi here is also Jolina at Teenage Depot with some of the same photo sets although in a larger resolution here.
Ugly watermark/site logo on photos
A few low resolution photo sets at 1024px |
| Bottom Line: |
Glam Deluxe is a teen glamour nude art site featuring a nice collection of models posing naked in what is 99% solo content with just the odd two girl set thrown in. The main photographer here is Thierry Murrell whose work you may have come across before if you’ve had a membership at Met Art. The overall theme is very softcore but most models do get fully nude with some spread shots. Just bare in mind that some don’t show everything particularly Emanuelle one of the hottest looking models who will rarely give you a glimpse of her pussy. Other favourite models for me included Kate, Nadja and Helena of Helen’s Planet. Currently there’s a total of 360 photo sets at the site giving you 25,000+ photos.
The navigation is pretty basic. You have a nice model index where clicking on the model will take you to all her photo sets and videos or you can simply browse through the updates list or a separate video listing. They don’t provide any extra search or sort tools and to be honest I didn’t really feel the need for it as it’s not the largest of sites.
Whilst there is some nice content here to please photo fans I feel there is little to offer for those in to videos. Going on past reviews there has probably been nothing added to the video collection for several years. The quality also would suggest they are not very recent with most being 640 x 480 or 720 x 576 in the highest resolution and bitrates ranging from usually 900 to 2000 kbps with a small number a little better at 4000 kbps.. Out of the 29 videos 10 of them are of Nadja and another 10 of Emanuelle so not much variety if you don’t like either of those models. Most videos 3-5 minutes long and often feature the model just dancing around with some naff music playing, certainly lacks any erotic appeal for me.
I did have a problem here at the start, first evening I was locked out of the site after downloading only 16 photo zips, no explanation as to what the problem was, just presented with a blank error page. Turns out I’d hit a 2GB download limit I knew nothing about, however after contacting the webmaster got a fast response and resolution to the problem and an increased limit to 8GB so a big thumbs up to Radik for excellent customer service.
Overall I enjoyed the high quality photo content here and think it’s worth a 1 month subscription to anyone who likes Met Art style teen glamour but without constant updates I doubt you’d want to stick around any longer. The deal here is clearly a little improved since lk2fireone’s 2008 review with the addition of zip files and two nice solo model bonus sites added to the package so for me that is worth a few extra points on the score
TIP: Sign up via Helen’s Planet or Ema’s Place to save $2 on the price, not much but every little helps. |
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12-12-11 05:06am
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800
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ATK Premium
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Reply of
PinkPanther's Reply
You might get lucky, they seem to be doing the rounds again with promo emails for the atk sites, i've already received discount offers for hairy and petites sites in the last week.
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12-11-11 02:39am
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