My apology on the part about having no way to remove the interviews. I'll be sure to use that feature from now on.
Truthfully, I used to really like interview videos, but as I mentioned, ALS sites, a few of the ATK sites too, they were good. I think I just got burnt out on them similar to how I'm not getting much out of girl/girl content these days even though it used to be my favorite genre.
I'm going to add a couple points for the filter option.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- A long running site that offers good (mostly) amateur masturbation pictures and videos.
- Good TBP/PU discounted price, especially if you haven't been a member for awhile or even ever.
- Navigation is good, but can be a bit wonky at times, my main problem is the picture near the top of the main page, it scrolls when I try to scroll the website.
- Good technical quality, newer videos have 1080p option and photo sets are downloadable in zips, the XL photo sets are 3000 long end.
- Well above-average DL speeds, about 80-85% of my max download speed (on porn sites).
- Updates daily, most days have multiple updates.
- Maybe the strongest pro is the models, for the most part, seem to be real amateurs who bring themselves to orgasm.
- This could be a con for some, there's also some "bonus" content from ATK Exotics, ATK Girlfriends, ATK Hairy and Wet and Puffy.
- One of personal preference, most of the models dress in normal, everyday clothes to start the sets.
Cons:
- Watch me not win over any fans with this one. I really don't like ATK Hairy. I understand there are men and women who like seeing hairy women, but the underarm hair is just too much. One can look over at some of my old ATK reviews where I also complained about the Hairy content.
- Nitpicking here much like Raging Buddhist's recent comment, I don't like the interview videos. Seriously, why would I care what an adult model says about the adult video industry?
- One that all sites using amateur models runs into, a lot of the models are shy. That's a con for me, but could be a pro for others.
Bottom Line:
I last joined Yanks way back in 2011. I did enjoy the content back then, but I thought the site lacked a certain personality I like a site to have. I compared Yanks to I Feel Myself back then and still think they're similar. The "personality" I look for is the opposite of shy. The transition from dressed to fully nude is still lacking in the majority of the videos. Most I have watched start nude and end ... well, nude. That's just a personal preference and lets have some understanding here, I've reviewed and been a member of over 200 sites. At this point, there are just things that annoy me. I'll even explain the clothed to nude preference. It lets me see what the model would look like if I saw her in person at the store.
One place this site scores high with me is its picture sets. Which continues my clothed to nude preference. The vast majority of their photo sets do start clothed and end nude with flash/teasing in-between. I enjoy these photo sets as much as the videos.
I put a con on the Hairy sets. It looks like Yanks also has their own Hairy models. Believe it or not, burn me at the stake for it, but those turn my stomach. I've told it before, I shave my head, I hate most body hair and have been this way for most of my life. But, a little neatly trimmed bush is fine, see my all-time favorite model Eve Angel. We're not talking about bush though. We're talking hairier armpits than mine. And those models are right there in the updates with no way for me to remove them from my view.
Most of that complaining isn't that bad. I like Yanks and am glad I returned. They have a lot of models I really like. Was glad to see a little heavier model like Jennavive Marie. There's some older models too. And all in all, the masturbation and orgasms are about as real as you're going to see in internet porn.
Navigation is good. They even have the bonus content from the other sites in drop-down boxes so you can easily switch from Yanks content to whichever bonus site you like. There's another side too. Straight male masturbation site called Club Stroke. Which I think is an underused concept on porn sites these days. My wife likes porn too so she can check those out. I've always wondered why more sites don't try this gender mix format. Download speeds are very good across the sites.
There's a lot of content, by my count:
2,120 videos
1,353 photo sets
Those are just the Yanks only numbers and don't include the bonus content from the other sites.
Here's the problem and it's what Raging Buddhist commented on, those video numbers include interviews, playing around videos and what I would consider non-porn videos. Which is why the navigation is considered just good. There's no way to remove the videos you're not interested in. A quick fix? Put a masturbation tag on all of the masturbation videos and add a new option in the videos drop-down box that is just masturbation to filter those out or in, depending on your perspective.
Still, the content is good and the photo sets are very good. Sometimes photos can convey teasing better than video since it captures the model before she stops teasing.
The overall technical quality is very good for a site with this type of content. As far back as I've looked, 2011 or so, has at least a 720p option on the videos. And if I were to complain anymore it would just be to say they seem to be worried more about their overall video numbers than they need to be. This is a fairly underpopulated niche in 2017 porn world. No offense is meant to the models who tell their stories or talk about the politics of the porn industry, but to put it mildly, it's just not interesting. Some of the greatest solo girl websites have used interviews and behind the scenes with some effectiveness, the ALS sites come to mind and Twistys old content when Shap was still around. It's not a big negative to me. It's just once I get caught up on the content I've missed since 2011, it will probably be awhile before I come back. Though, I don't think I'll wait 6 years again.
I'm giving the site a boost from my 2011 score since this type of content isn't easy to come by. And I'll continue to stress how important the pictures are to my score. It's a very good site to me or at least to anyone like me who hasn't been here in awhile. There's even some girl-girl content in there too, but I've mostly burnt out on girl-girl. I believe if they incorporated some type of tagging system to separate the non-porn videos from the masturbation videos, I'd add a few more points to the score. The biggest point reduction right now is there are a percentage, 20% or less, of models I don't like at all. I could see this site scoring a 90 or higher if a few things were fixed. I would recommend it for a monthly join. Especially if you like photos. I've looked over dozens of the photo sets and liked everyone of them.
I do believe I made an error on my first ticket. I submitted a second one and you replied to it in less than a day, so the cancel went through. I will edit the original comment here to say that the problem was resolved. As I was saying above, the last thing I wanted to do was give you all negative, undeserved feedback based on something that wasn't your site's fault, but on the other hand, I try to give our members here a heads up of any potential problems in case they then run into them too. It's always appreciated by most of our members here to see a webmaster doing their best, like you have here, to be active with your members and helpful. Thanks again.
I do understand that problems like this will happen and I'm fairly well-known around this site for being really laid-back and easygoing. I'm not going to be one of those customers that panics and goes into a cussing frenzy, though it probably would humor the members here!
As I told the others above, I believe you all are a honest company and honest mistakes happen. I do see where the cancel page for netbilling customers has been changed to send potential canceling customers to a support ticket system, but I opened a ticket, estimating around 32 hours ago, still haven't received a ticket number so I can't check the status of the ticket and don't have any type of cancel confirmation. At this point, I feel like I'm being the annoying one since I'm accepting that maybe I did something wrong in the opening a support ticket part. It's entirely possible that I used my work email instead of my personal email address in opening the support ticket. Though the account is registered to my personal email address.
I'll blame those damn auto-fill in the blanks settings on that since my wife and I both use the computer and four possible emails pop up when I come upon an area to fill in email.
So my question now is, should I open another ticket just in case I did use the wrong email? That's me trying to be respectful of your staff by not opening more than one support ticket. It did hit me though that it's possible I could have clicked on the wrong email address. And thanks for the fast reply and working on this issue. It says more for your site's support than the majority of sites these days.
The worst part, I've sent the email/support ticket, but still haven't gotten it canceled or any confirmation of it. I don't understand these sites either. I know that it costs them more to have the top billers, but like with this site, they have ccbill and epoch listed, why not just let everyone join through those? Would make it much easier for us customers. I'm still holding onto the fact that I believe this site is a reputable one and we're just having crossed-up communication, tech problems maybe with their site, etc...
Heck, at this rate, I can probably cook a meal, eat it, sleep, go to work, take a weekend getaway and it will be still be trying to cancel! I really hate to be this negative with a site that seems to work hard on delivering what they promise their site has, but it's getting harder by the day.
Getting ready to reply to their webmaster below because I opened a support ticket on Monday morning. The cancel option takes you directly to the open a support ticket area now, but here it is 5 PM EST on Tuesday and I have yet to receive a ticket #, check both email inbox and spam box. This ticket # is required to access their reply to my ticket. The only thing that's stopping me from being too infuriated is that the subscription still has 10-11 days on it, so surely they will get something worked out by then. If the problem persists the scoring will continue to go down.
Edit: Just wanted to edit to say the webmaster helped me get canceled, but will leave the rest of the comment in case it happens to a future member so they can reference it.
Going to take a few points off my review for the frustrating cancellation process. Here's the steps and mind you, I still have NOT been able to cancel my account.
First, they have four different billing processors, netbilling, ccbill, epoch and netcash. I don't know if certain ones are used based on the country you are in, but my account was processed by netbilling, who I have used a time or two in the past.
In my subscription confirmation email there is no link to cancel. I go to netbilling's homepage, have a member ID, but there is nowhere on netbilling's homepage to cancel. Went to Yanks support, clicked "cancel" it asked which biller I used. Clicked on netbilling. It tells me to put my username and password in. I do this and click "cancel account".
Well, the browser sits there with a working spinner going, "Connecting..." I go outside, take the trash out, come back and still is working and saying, "connecting". It finally pops up and says, "Cannot find account". I'll never understand why a biller gives a customer a "member ID number" but doesn't have a place to enter that when canceling.
I'll never understand why a site would hire a biller that doesn't allow direct cancel on the biller's homepage. You're just asking for dissatisfied customers.
And this is not just a one-time thing. I've tried it 3 nights in a row. There is an option to email the site's support with any cancellation problems, so I guess I'm going to have to do that. Whether fast reply or not, I don't think I should have to email the site to cancel when they have a cancellation system in place. It goes back to, I didn't have to email the site to JOIN the site so why should I have to email the site to cancel it? Go back to my review and see the part about my main frustration with the site itself being that it could be much better than it is if some time and effort was put into updating the way the site itself works. Looks like that carried right over into the billing too.
And here I was thinking I would never use 5,000 character limit, but ended up cutting a line or two out just to fit everything in. I at least wanted to get something up for anyone that maybe wants to try it out. The expired reviews seemed to be before they merged their sites together so it made a huge difference in the amount of content.
The male site worked for me since my wife likes porn too, but not the real hardcore sets. She did say the videos she watched were okay, but said the camera was too far away in them, in her words, "making the dicks all look tiny". I think from reading the forum on their site that's kind of what they were aiming for by having a male and female site. A few sites have tried this in the past that I can remember. Though I do want to mention that I still don't know what all I have access to. Things become really confusing once away from the Yanks main site since they list "our sites" but have a "join" page on them. It could just be that the sites are older in design and require a join verification instead of going straight to them, but it's confusing nonetheless.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Updated:
08-12-1106:49pm (Update History) Reason: Problems with canceling
Pros:
- A site based around mostly amateurs, the female orgasm and real masturbation. As a plus, if you have a wife or girlfriend, that likes porn, you also get access to their site that is focused on male masturbation.
- Price is good through TBP
- Newer videos are 1280x720, will further this in BL
- Newer pictures are near 3000 long end and come zipped.
- Taking a shot at around 400 models, surprisingly, for an amateur site, nearly all the women are attractive. I think that's a big plus. Even the older (mid and up 40s) models that would normally not appeal to me, do here.
- Call it a pro or con, there are some pornstars on here. Ramona Luv seems to have been on nearly all amateur sites in 2004-06 and she's here, Aaliyah Love is here as a guest model, I don't mind them, but some might. I would love to see more Ramona.
- Decent search, it works, but the whole navigation of the site could be updated, reminds me of Little Mutt in how the site works.
- Very good download speeds
Cons:
- The videos are not that clear, not even the 1280x720 ones. It could be lighting, could be the amateur "effect", but the older videos are hard to watch on a big monitor.
- Inconsistencies, one model, Isabella, has a high video download option, it's 720x480 and a bit blurry. A newer model doesn't have high video download option and the medium option is clearer than Isabella's high option.
- If I could convince them of one thing, please stop the video from streaming when I click on it to download. Firefox users should turn to No Script, trust me, some of these videos are orgasm focused so there's nothing like one starting and a loud moan roaring through your house at 4 in the morning.
- My main feeling here in the cons is that it needs updating, not the actual content updates, but the site. It took me 10 minutes to find the download link for photo sets.
Bottom Line:
We had discussed a little about this site being like I Feel Myself. It's not a lot like it, but it does have short 40-60 second videos of the woman's orgasm face that are spliced from the actual full body videos. So if you're into I Feel Myself and just seeing the face during orgasm, you will like those, I really didn't since they are so short.
Next up, interview videos. They're everywhere. Since they don't an interview tag, I scanned through the videos archives and these interview videos look to come about every 5th update. I really don't like interview videos and they take up the space of an update too. I do understand the use of them on a site like this since it's more convincing that these girls are not pros, but the pros have ruined interviews for most of us. For what it's worth, most of the girls on here seem genuinely sweet and playful.
I don't know what the deal is with the videos not looking good.
But wait a minute, the content is really good. If you're into strip, tease, which I am, you may not like these videos. There is almost no tease, it's get naked, masturbate for 7-10 minutes, orgasm. This isn't as bad as it sounds. It does add to the girls probably being filled with anxiety, nervousness. Some of the girls are much more confident and have more fun with it.
The unusual masturbation techniques used in some are interesting, erotic even, but I'm not for sure how sexually arousing they are to watch. Maybe that's me, I don't find a girl rubbing her clit against the corner of a bathroom sink to be arousing. I'm guessing what is being shown here though is that this is how the girls are comfortable masturbating. I don't believe there is a fake orgasm on the site. You get some squirters, some that make a milky mess in minutes and what I think they have going for them the most, the girls are really good-looking girls. There are few here and there that don't really appeal, but most look like regular, cute to really pretty girls.
They're all not skinny or in perfect shape. I was really surprised that I liked the 45 year old Barbie Lynn's bathtub shoot. I think they are going to sell most of these models on being real, erotic instead of drop dead gorgeous.
These are the numbers I'm coming up with based on their search engine.
Nearly 1,000 videos, and as said earlier the interview ones and short orgasm face ones are included here. Still, the site has grown since I was last on it. From the way I read it, they had several sites and decided to put all the content on them on this site. I don't remember them having over maybe 400 videos last year.
I will say they could be more clear about what you get. When I click "our sites", it shows me having access to the male masturbation site Club Stroke and having access to Whispering Lily, this is a community site that has a forum, shows the new updates at Yanks.
This is where it gets confusing. Also listed in "our sites" is Solo Touch. This shows as being a male and female masturbation site. Well, to enter it, I have to register a profile on Whispering Lily. When I go to Whispering Lily it says that all their content has been put on Yanks or Club Stroke, so I have no clue what this Solo Touch is or if its female content is already on Yanks.
A little frustrated that some of the models only have pictures. I understand that not all are willing to do videos, but I still want to mention that to potential members. Another frustrating one that I think is very important, some of the picture sets are only 15-25 pictures. Again, I understand that those are older sets.
May sound like I have mostly negative feelings here, but it's not true. The frustration comes from how good this content is and how much better it could be.
They stick with the solo theme really well. There are even dozens of videos of two girls masturbating together, but not really touching each other. This is a whole other level of erotic since you get the feeling they are drawing some inspiration from looking at the other masturbating. A few do go into girl/girl and those scenes are really good if you're into lesbian porn.
Updates don't seem to follow a set schedule. For the last month there are 25 updates, those 25 breakdown like this, 8 photo sets, 10 masturbation videos, 5 interview videos and 2 of the orgasm face only videos.
Overall, I really like the site because of the models. I will be keeping the majority of what I download, which is rare for me. And it's nice in a way that the videos are short 7-10 minutes, even at HD, are only 200 MB or so.
On recommending it, if you need tease in every video then maybe not. If you're looking for something different than the normal porn these days, this site is highly recommended. I think it's much better than I Feel Myself and would compare it more to Little Mutt or maybe even FTV in some ways without the glam. I would recommend it. I'm enjoying it and it will slip into my normal rotation of sites. More of Ginger P would be nice too!
Hey GCode, got good news, bad news and more good news. The good news is, I was a member here about a year ago and the content was better than I Feel Myself, in the sense that it was more pornographic, but kept the real, erotic feel. The bad news, I was only on it for 3-4 days before we moved and ended up not really digging into the site. Also don't think it came with the other sites it does now. Looks like they have combined them all into one now, which would be a big plus. The "more" good news, I had forgotten all about this site and am in a serious site rut right now. So, since I don't have any of the content after the move, I'll give it a shot. I'll get a fairly quick review up of it since I do have a good idea of what the content was like when I was there before. I'll try to list as many of the numbers as possible.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Multi-stie network unlike most on the internet
- Features individual sites of some of the most popular internet models, Anneta Keys, Veronica Vanoza, Silvia Saint
- Movies are generally average or above quality, nice bitrates 2,000-3,000 range, worst res on the network is 440x360, from what I've seen, best is 640x480
- Scenes are available in one big file instead of piecing them together.
- Some hardcore sites on here as well!
Cons:
- Pics might as well not be here, no zip downloads, small resolution.
- Most of the individual model sites have in the range of 20 pic sets, 2-5 videos, you can get more of each of these models on sites like PixandVideo, 1byday.
- Did not notice any new updates if they are even updating.
Bottom Line:
This network has an interesting idea. Take the seductive Veronica Vanoza, the cute as can be Anetta Keys, the exotic Zdenka, and the ever popular Sylvia Saint, combine individual sites of each with hardcore (Czech Wives), masturbation (Chicks and Toys), hardcore blowjobs (Deep Throat Hell), MILFs (Fucking Hot Moms), cumshots (Jizz Hell) and two fetish sites (My Sexy Nurses and Stocking Foxes).
Sounds good? Not really. As a collector of Anetta Keys, I had seen all of the pictures and both (yep TWO whole videos) of her. The majority of the content on the individual sites is not exclusive. I'm not for sure if the other sites are exclusive since there is so much porn available. But the non-individual sites were all new to me.
I really like the idea they have here, though. I've always wondered why someone didn't start a group of individual models sites network. Then, I realized, 1byday, pixandvideo and many other sites from the same cloth are just that. The top models for me on this site are Anetta and Veronica, never was that big on Zdenka or Sylvia Saint. Both Anetta and Veronica have more content of 1byday than they have on these individual sites that are just about them.
Even if the content was exclusive, there is no option to download zips of the pictures so it wouldn't have mattered anyway. With little to no updates that I have noticed, there is little reason to stay on this site or to even think about recommending it. My first in a long time, not recommended!
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- 13 solo models network, I went for Victoria Valens, a Mexican jalepeno of a model!
- I don't know if my timing was right or if they have changed policy, but I was able to get the whole network for $24.95, by joining through Victoria's site. Though the TBP price states $39.95 for the network, and even now, I have the network coming up at $34.95. Either way, I must have been lucky or maybe they are using different prices on different days?
- Some of the other models besides Victoria are very attractive as well, all amateurs.
- Pictures do come in zips on each of the sites.
- Download speeds are above average, believe they are based out here on the west coast of US.
Cons:
- I personally didn't care for some of the models, one named Echoe Matthews, reminds me of what will happen if Sandra Shine lets herself go, go see for yourself if you don't believe me!
- Overall quality is below average, pictures are 1200 at tops, some are only 1000.
- Videos are terrible quality for 2008, how about 320 high end with below 1000 bitrates?
- Going from site to site can be a little frustrating, since I kept going to the wrong site because I forgot which girl was named what, thumbnails please!
- Very little hardcore to speak of
Bottom Line:
Victoria Valens is the biggest reason to join. She is a Mexican amateur model that I would be willing to bet will one day be the next Daisy Marie or Jenaveve Jolie. She has a very innocent, girl next door quality to her and she is far from perfect. With a little more weight in the hips than her body should hold, but that is how I like the Hispanic models.
Out of the other 13 sites on this network, I will give a score from 1-10, with 5 being average of each model. Parker's Panties a 5, Echoe Matthews a 4, Hailee Jordan a cute Anette Dawn lookalike gets a 7, Candi Malone a 6, Claudia Nichols a 6, Danni Chase a 7, I Dream of Janie an 8 on body, 5 on face, Lainey Moore a 3, Mandy Wright a 3, Sarah Dreaming a 5, Skye Mcallister a 5, Suzy Stevens an 8 and Victoria Valens a 9.
Guess which two they have the least content of, Suzy Stevens and Victoria Valens of course!
What really frustrated me is the inconsistency from site to site, some had full movie scene downloads, others had split files, and they count each of those split ones as a whole scene.
As you can see from my above breakdown of the models, in the end, the average of those models would be at best average.
The video quality is just terrible and for the most part are a waste, 320 high end. Picture quality isn't much better, but do come in zips.
Victoria and Suzy are worth joining for their pictures if you like them, but overall, I wouldn't recommend this network, especially at the higher price that TBP shows.
Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
*I am re-reviewing sites I have scored 100, in the past, to see if those perfect scores still hold true*
- Zenra offers one of the largest collections of subtitled Japanese porn.
- Japanese models are some of my favorites and fall into that, nearly all are very attractive group.
- Fun, quirky porn is a trademark of Japanese porn and there is some available on Zenra.
- Exclusive Japanese DVDs you won’t find anywhere else.
- Very good download speeds (85% my max).
- Billing uses CCBill
Cons:
- The complicated process of picking a membership. It’s enough to make some people not what to join it. I will explain it in the Bottom Line
- Download limits combined with memberships that only allow access to parts of the catalog, makes for some frustration unless you join the most expensive option for 3 months but even then, you still have download limits to deal with.
- A few other Japanese sites have started using subtitles and that evens the playing field out when compared to Zenra.
Bottom Line:
Subtitled Japanese porn was a surprise for me. I don’t even think I ever thought about subtitles until I joined Zenra, a few years ago. Once I watched scenes with subtitles, it started becoming clear to me how much creativity the subtitles give the producers of the scenes. It’s not like the subtitles have to really say whatever the model is saying in Japanese. Some would know, but they would be native Japanese speakers. The subtitles, alone, was enough to push my original score of Zenra to 100 and to become the first ever site I rated a 100. It was that different. It made the scenes more exciting and fun, even more intense.
Zenra does something rarely talked about. Japanese porn is scarce here in America and it’s either censored or in all Japanese with no subtitles. Making it less accessible to those of us who want to know what the models are saying or who hate the censored mosaic. They don’t stop with the subtitles. Zenra also uses very familiar and trusted billing processor CCBill and unlike many Japanese sites, Zenra has very good download and streaming speed. Which is a completely different form of making it accessible.
The different subscriptions are still making it less accessible. They have a streaming only option that is $29.95. They have a downloads and streaming option that is $39.95. But, there is only streaming access to their “VIP” scenes even if you pay $39.95 for downloads and streaming. Whether I can get around that or not, that should have been a 5 point deduction. If you want to download everything including the VIP scenes, you have to join the $39.95 option for 3 months. You then have to send an email to their customer service and request VIP access. To me, that’s just a bit much to go through while paying $109.95.
The quirkiness that makes Japanese porn unique is available in some of the scenes. You’re also going to get a full selection of some of the prettiest models from Japan. The newer DVDs have up to HD downloads and they are still updating with new DVDs. An oddity for a porn review and site is the site comes with relatively unbiased reviews of each DVD. How unbiased? One of the newer DVDs has these cons according to the Zenra staff, “Missing male moron classmate. Movie felt a bit quiet without one.” and “MIHINA NAGAI is pretty, but needs to stop the stuttering sex freak dialog. We apologize for the subtitling quirks of her scene.” That is at least honest and tells some of the things you may wonder about when watching a scene.
The different types of memberships are confusing even for someone who has joined it before. The exclusive DVDs are near 600 and that’s around 50% of all their DVDs, The only option for downloading those is joining for 3 months at $109.95.
Really, joining any of the memberships except the 3 month one. You’re going to miss out on way too many scenes you’re going to want to download.
I don’t regret scoring Zenra a 100 when I did. At that time, it was arguably the most unique site I had ever joined. It’s even still very unique, but a network like Japan HDV comes to mind, with subtitles and uncensored scenes too. If Zenra improved their subscription options and made those easeir to understand, the site would be a legitimate threat to score 100 but those problems stop it from being a perfect site.
It is a top of its class site. Japanese DVD sites are relatively rare, and even rarer to find one that has subtitles. The censoring doesn’t bother me any more but I know it may bother others. I have theorized why I believe the censoring mosaic requires the producers to be more creative and I do believe that. My last thought is I just wish they made joining the site as accessible as they have presented the content. You’re looking at a $109 membership to have downloads available of all the scenes. I would like to see them offer a 45 day downloads included membership for $55. The 3 months membership is longer than most of us porn fans join sites, but is required if you want those VIP downloads. I am going to score it a 94 this time.
I am guessing the broken infrastructure of the site stops even a review counter being added. The one way one can still see the experience is click on "browse users". It lists the users in order of amount of reviews. I would wonder if they could maybe put a star system beside our names that would be a way to show the reviewer's experience. I have been running forums for 17 years and can say once the software is becoming hard to work with it's very difficult to find workarounds. The main forum I have right now has been reset and started over 4 times this year just because of buggy software. Most of the forum software being used today was programmed 15+ years ago. It would be like trying to run a new high-end computer on Windows 95. The funny thing is I have almost no formal training in programming and neither did Khan, the original administrator here at PU. We used to joke around about being "trial and error" programmers. We would try something, look at the result, if it didn't look right we would remove what we programmed in and try something else until it worked. The downside of that is you rarely remembered what you did to make it work!
The price is steep, but I was getting to the point that I didn't see any other sites I hadn't joined that I wanted to join. I also signed up for 3 other Japanese sites for 3 months each. The others were much cheaper including one for $29.95 for 3 months, Jav HD. I think the pandemic has slowed or stopped so many sites it was worth the one time risk on Zenra.
Of note, you can just join for one month for $40 and receive downloads. The 3 month requirement gives you VIP access which allows you to also download the exclusive DVDs. If you do the one month one you can download all the non-exclusive DVDs without the download limit and can stream the exclusive DVDs.
I used to didn't really like Japanese women that much, but then I met a Filipino woman (engaged to her) in real life and started looking more into the Asian porn. Of course, I am weird. I for some reason like to watch porn that reminds me of the woman I am with in real life. It was Latina women for a long time. My ex-wife was Latina. One thing I will add for Asian porn is the amount of oral/tongue work far surpasses American porn. I hadn't ever noticed it until I met my fiance. The Asian market seems to favor CFNM and even CMNF over the more basic niches.
The first Japanese site I found with subtitles was Japan HDV. It's a network too but none of the sites on the network except the main Japan HDV site have subtitles. The difference was huge and I do think it is because they are skillfully writing the subtitles. Some of the subtitles can be redundant, like seeing, "It's amazing!" 9 times in a row. But a lot of them include the female saying, "I cannot cum again, slow down, no, no, I am going to go again!"
I don't even get that with American porn!
A lot of adds humor too. I think Japan HDV would be a better choice to start with since they have promos for it as cheap as $15 a month. Zenra goes much deeper into the fetish-heavy, taboo scenes.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- My first ever 100 and it was a very difficult decision that I will back fully.
- Subtitles that enhance the scenes with perversion and there's no way for me to know if it's really what they're saying.
- Beautiful Japanese models.
- 18 niches includes CFNM and the nearly unheard of CMNF (clothed male, nude females), public scenes, exactly what I expect from a Japanese site.
- If you take the plunge like I did, you get access to over 500 exclusive DVDs (this will be explained).
- Asian women in control of the male talent.
- Good download speeds which was a major concern (70% of my max).
- Epoch or CCBill is the billing company. I think it depends on which package to join.
- Quick response to my request for my VIP access.
- The package I joined equals out to $33 a month for downloads of non-exclusive and ability to download the 500 exclusive DVDs.
- The most important word: Creativity.
Cons:
- If you want to be able to download the exclusive DVDs, you either have to join for 3 months or join and stay a member for 3 consecutive months at $40 a month. I took the one time plunge.
- Daily download limit no matter which subscription you choose. It says 10GB per day, but on another page it says 25GB per day. I have went over 10GB a day without any warnings.
- Most would complain about the video quality. The exclusive DVDs have higher quality but the non-exclusive have 480p.
Bottom Line:
I still give it a 100. There are a few other Japanese sites that are doing the subtitles and even have higher technical quality videos but these have the very authentic feel to them. Most of the DVDs first scene sets up a story. It's kind of like watching Kung-Fu Theater, dark and mysterious. The subtitles are perfect. I don't mean I can understand Japanese and know what they're saying, I'm saying the subtitles take away all the annoying parts of American porn. It's like they hired a professional author to write the subtitles. They (Zenra) do their own subtitles of every DVD so they may very well have a professional writer doing it.
It works even better if you turn the volume down to just a barely audible level. This is immersive porn.
There will definitely be questions about the cost, the download limits and I am going to try and explain my experience. If you join for 1 month streaming-only, it's $30. If you join for 1 month with downloads and streaming it's $40. You can download the non-exclusive DVDs and stream the exclusive DVDs with the $40 account. To get access to download the exclusive DVDs you have to either join for 3 months $99 or join for $40 and let it recur for 3 straight months. You send them an email and they give you VIP access which lets you download those exclusive DVDs.
I took this chance mainly because outside of a few sites I like, there just isn't much new porn coming out that I'm interested in.
I will not be able to stress how important those subtitles are. One scene I watched was CFNM with two beautiful Japanese women masturbating a guy. Subtitles like, "I know you can cum again for us." Which followed a cumshot. Seeing these women who are almost always portrayed as weak and submissive become the aggressive and dominant ones was enough for me.
The download limit isn't as bad as it sounds. If you're downloading the non-exclusive DVDs they are only 750-1000 MB per entire DVD (usually 3-4 scenes). The exclusive DVDs and some of the newer non-exclusive DVDs are in the 2GB range. I have 3 months. Even if I only hit around 10GB per day, that's 900GB in 3 months.
Which is what you have to do, you have to remind yourself everyday to go download several DVDs.
They also do have some uncensored but they have one of the most interesting setups I have ever seen. The Exclusive DVDs have pros and cons listed for them by the Zenra staff.
An example:
Pros: Another huge cast, big budget JAV title that mostly delivers
Cons: Studios need to stop filming in that horrible Chiba studio. Sex is real including cum, but shoehorned in at the end.
I have never seen a site that reviews the DVDs they have. That beats the hell out of user comments that say, "sucks" and "not bad". They also have full page write-ups about the non-exclusive DVDs.
I see this as a major pro for us fetishists. The entire site is full of fetishes. They don't even list Hot Springs, where there are multiple nude people having sex as public. Yet, still have over 100 public DVDs with multiple scenes on each.
A few numbers since that's usually a focus of my reviews but finding such unique and even exclusive porn is so rare these days my whole reviewing process has been thrown off.
There are DVDs on here with over 500 custom-written subtitles.
There is really no way I can count how many DVDs they have. They are broken in niches and it would take me hours to add all that up. TBP says thousands of scenes and I will agree with that.
I wanted to take 1 point off for the download limit but seeing that I haven't hit it one time yet, I don't think that's being fair of me. They do count your streaming towards your download limit as well. You have a section on the main page that tells how much you have downloaded.
In some ways, I think it shows what a big deal this content is. It shows my streamed amount, my downloaded amount and my login location with city and state.
Do I think it's a good value for casual fans of Japanese porn? Probably not. If the American sites are working for you then definitely not. If you have got to the point that the fetish drives your interest and the uniqueness is keeping your attention, I do think it's worth it. I will most likely put this on maybe a once per year, 3 month join. I don't know if they're updating and really don't care. It's all new to me.
I really don't even think it's a bad price if you're into Japanese porn. Even if all you do is download the exclusive DVDs those alone are worth the price. It works out to around 50 cents per DVD. What pushed me to 100 is the amount of work they have put into this content, the subtitles, the descriptions of each scene, the pros and cons that are honest, they even rate some of the DVDs. There are also HD DVDs on here but with the download limit I would rather not have HD. This is the most unique and sexual, sensual and perverted porn I have ever watched.
I noticed at the first of my current membership to ZTOD that they now have grouped their three studios, ZTOD, Black Ice and 3rd Movies, into one site. So now when you search for, lets say, Carmel Moore, it now shows the results from all 3 studios, instead of the old way of having to sign in on each studio's site and checking for each model. That's a big improvement in my opinion. One that I think I may have mentioned in a previous review while wondering just how hard it would be to integrate the three studios into one search engine.
Download speeds are still not that great, but I have noticed that if you download more than one file/scene/photo set at a time, it does effectively double your download speed.
Overall, I still think this is a premier DVD site. For one, you still have some exclusivity here since not all of their videos are available on the other DVD sites and two, they have a nice selection of pictures, which is rare for DVD sites. Not all scenes have pictures, but most of the models I have downloaded seem to have about a 50% ratio of scenes with photos.
Here are some numbers and it's the biggest reason I think they are one of the top 2-3 DVD sites.
6,373 scenes total
2,742 of those scenes are available in 1080p, full HD
4,059 zipped photo sets
I could be wrong, but I don't know of any of the DVD sites that have nearly 3,000 1080p scenes. And I'm almost positive that none have over 4,000 zipped photo sets too.
The only real complaints I have here, the tagging system is still not accurate. It is on some tags, but I searched lesbian MILF and 6 scenes showed up. While they have numerous DVDs that have lesbian MILF content. So I know it's more than 6.
Again, download speed is still frustrating with just one connection, but with more than one it downloads pretty fast.
Still prefer the niches here since they have a black site which is actually about half Hispanic, South American women, lots of Brazil models. And I think they cover the niches as good as anyone does with their own handjob series even. Pleased again with this membership, may even let it recur.
Yeah it was Memorial Day here in the States this past weekend. I did notice the Third Movies blog/update had been updated a few days ago so it seems to be updating fine, but ZTOD, still hasn't updated anything. It's been 20 days since the last DVD update or blog update. I hope it's just a holiday or vacation problem as I do think the three sites combined can compare with any DVD site since they have the higher quality.
I may have not been clear on the Courtney Cummz part, as I was pointing out the amount of rarer, exclusive scenes they have and they seem to have more of her when she was all-natural as other sites do. And I really think they should work on changing the tour page. I tried not to draw too much attention to it, but this is what their tour promises, "Over 4,500 DVDs, over 25,000 scenes and 5 new DVDs per DAY". My numbers added up to roughly 900 DVDs on the three sites combined, roughly 4,500 scenes and 3 new DVDs in the last 3 weeks.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Comes with full access to Black Ice, ZTOD and 3rd Degree studios. I'm going to try to separate each into separate reviews.
- Though no longer a very high exclusivity DVD site, I would still estimate the ZTOD DVDs are 60% exclusive to this site. The added TBP discount price makes it a good deal.
- A few major stars have a good amount of exclusive content here. Courtney Cummz, a gorgeous blonde, all-natural, has over 70 scenes just on ZTOD.
- A nice blend of Euro and American stars. Everyone from Jenna Haze to Eva Angelina to Angel Dark to Rita Faltayono.
- Where the site really stands out among DVD sites is the video resolution. Rough estimate, half of the 2,500 scenes are at least 1280x720 resolution, around 800 according to their member search show up as 1920x1080. Very few if any DVD sites offer that high of quality.
- Some picture sets are available as well, though not high resolution, but are at least zipped for download.
Cons:
- Depending on your view, this could be a deal breaker. I have been a member since mid-May, no new updates whatsoever. I'm not for sure what they had been using as an update schedule. I was thinking 3 DVDs a week or so, but as of right now, in two weeks, they've not even had one scene, let alone a full DVD.
- Download speed problems, I've seen this mentioned in other reviews and here are the results I've been receiving. On average, the ZTOD scenes are downloading at 1.5 MB/s. My average speed on all other sites is in the 2.5 MB/s range and I have topped 3.0 MB/s on some sites. It's not too bad since my connection is fast, but there is definitely a problem with their download speeds.
Bottom Line:
I was very high on this site a few years ago. Back then, their selling point was their exclusivity. Over time, Videobox started picking up quite a few of their DVDs. However, I still think they have a higher exclusivity rate than the other major DVD sites.
The positives start with exclusive videos. As a collector, I can always find dozens of scenes here that I've not seen on any other sites. I consider their search engine a positive as well. It's a level search where you search niche then you can search within the results. As example, say you search for "anal" then once those results come up, you can search for Asian and it will give you the scenes featuring anal with Asians. It seems to be pretty accurate from my use of of it.
The video quality is now the big positive. Of the 2,500 scenes, around 800 are 1920x1080 and probably add another 400 that are at least 1280x720. I do think they are the only DVD site that offers that many HD scenes. Coupled with the exclusivity and you can see that this is a very good site.
When I joined this current time, a new DVD had been added just a few days before. Since then, over two weeks, there have been zero updates. I don't know if the site has just stopped producing new scenes or if they are taking a break or whatever, but this means if you've been here lately, skip it, since nothing has changed in the last month. I'm taking the stopped making new scenes options since they have a blog/update page that was almost always updated with everything from jokes to talk about new starlets they had filmed. It also stopped updating on the same day the last DVD was released.
The download speed was not completely terrible for me, but it was at times only about 1/2 of my normal download speed. This can be a major problem if you're wanting those 1920x1080 files. Most of those ring in at 2 GB or higher each, so huge file combined with slow download speed is a problem.
One other negative, for some reason they've decided to have all videos on auto start when you click one to download it. I used Firefox's No Script with some success to stop this, but it seemed when I used No Script, it messed the search engine up since No Script blocked some of the search functions. Yeah, phooey, was my feeling too.
On a side note, this site is owned by the company that owns Videoz.
I mention this because their main tour has a few very big misleading numbers in it. The main tour says, "Choose from over 4,500 DVDs". ZTOD itself has 338 DVDs in their search engine. Even including both bonus sites, the total DVDs available is still under 1,000. I'm not for sure if maybe they are merging their sites or what so I'm basing my score just on the 338 DVDs ZTOD has available and they are very good. Especially with the high quality. If you've never been a member, it's a definite recommended site for the archived videos they already have, but nothing more than a month unless they start updating again.
I found this site and the site with it, Third Movies, to be an excellent diversion from Videobox, DVDbox, Vixeo, PornstarXS, the videos on here though the official review says not exclusive, are videos I have never seen. I had 88 Eva Angelina videos before joining, they have 25 between the sites, and I have never seen any of them.
There is a really nice fishnets series that I'm sure would attract some of you.
The biggest positive for me is that I'm not getting any throw away files. I rarely download full DVDs from the aforementioned sites, but I have been downloading every scene in the DVDs on this site and I do believe if I did some research and studied how much I am keeping, it would be much higher than with those sites I listed above.
The only negative is that it is time to buy another external hard drive! That is a good negative. Check out the preview of the two sites.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Really nice video site that as of right now, I haven't seen hardly any of these DVDs on DVD sites
- Comes with bonus site Third Movies, which I will do a separate review for.
- Video quality is very good 720x540
- You also get picture sets that though not high res, at least do have the option of zip file downloads
- No DRM that I have seen
- The total amount of videos is misleading since it is all very high quality, not many clunkers on here.
Cons:
- Price seems a little high, but I think it is worth it for the quality videos, quality as in gorgeous women, good camerawork, etc..
- Site does run a little slow on downloads during the daytime hours in United States. Not too bad though.
- Updates can be a little inconsistent, not seeing weekly updates.
- Not a problem for me, but the video files are pretty big to download and store.
Bottom Line:
I had been meaning to join this site for months, but had forgotten about it. I just happened to be in the mood for some new Eva Angelina videos, so I went through TBP's listing of DVD sites and checked each to see which one has some content of her that I hadn't seen. Zero Tolerance itself has 15, some are behind the scenes though. Even so, I had seen none of these videos of her and I have been on the majority of the DVD download sites.
I really like some of their series'. One that I discovered was the Fishnets series, which is just what it says, women having sex in fishnets or starting out with fishnets on. I downloaded the every DVD they had in this series, which I would guess would put me back about $100 to buy in stores.
Everything I have downloaded so far is still on my hard drive, no deletes. This is very high quality porn, as my uncle would say, "The good stuff". They have an excellent preview that lets look over all of the content they have, including looking up the actresses to see how many clips they have of each.
The video quality is a very nice 720 on the high end, you can download a little less resolution Divx version as well. The pictures are nice, though we aren't talking Met-Art here. My only real complaint is that I seem to get slow speeds in the daytime. I was only getting 800 kb/s earlier today, which is about 200 kb/s slower than my normal D/L speed. Still, not really a big problem. Check the preview out, beautiful women galore, recommended!
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
*I am re-reviewing sites I have scored 100, in the past, to see if those perfect scores still hold true*
- One of those sites that you think you won’t be happy with but ends up being one of your favorite sites.
- Amateur models, though some do go on to careers in porn
- The models deserve two pros. Very pretty, multiple races, different body types, very cute and a few that are gorgeous. Nearly all are playful and fun.
- Pictures are available to download in zips
- Navigation is simple but it is the forever scrolling style
- Download speeds are great (90% my max)
- Price has gone up but is still just $15 for a month or $50 for a year
- Likely the best public nudity, semi-nudity site
Cons:
- Videos are going to be looked over by most fans.
- I would like to know more about the models in the videos.
- Definitely not for those looking for anything hardcore
Bottom Line:
Zishy’s 100 from me was based on a couple of factors. I do not join Zishy for the videos. Those are short, though very high quality and are just not interesting to me. The 100 was based on the ease of being a member: Cheap price, good biller, updates, easy to use site and unique content. I am not going to score it 100 this time. It still is the best at what it does but what it does, is something so unique, it has no real competition.
The videos, as unfair as this may seem, should have stopped me from giving a 100. Just like when I join a site that focuses on videos, I usually will take some points off for not having pictures. Of course, you’ve seen my score and can see it’s still very high.
That’s because Zishy is that unique. This isn’t a masturbation site or a hardcore site. It was even listed as a non-nude site for a good while. This site is the type of porn site you can impress your girlfriend or wife with. You can show that you are capable of finding eroticism in something that’s not fully nude and there’s no penetration.
What you have here is a site that takes mostly amateur women and has them act naturally sexy. Many of them keep the majority of their clothes on but even then, they bend over, they show upskirts and upshorts. A nipple may even make a slip appearance. It’s women that are semi or fully dressed doing provocative actions not based on a porn producer’s idea of what is sexy. This gives every set and every model a unique set of pictures. You can see which models are wanting to get more naked or do more sexually but they have to be creative about it since it’s not just about being nude and spreading their legs.
I knew I would love this site the first time I heard about it. One of my favorite hardcore porn sites is Fully Clothed Sex. I have an admitted and known clothing fetish. I have that fetish because, well, it’s just not likely we’re ever going to see the day where it’s acceptable for women to lay down on the street or sidewalk with their legs spread while nude. Once you are able to focus on the provocative poses and uses of lighting, fabrics of clothing, you will start seeing women doing nearly the same poses or wearing the same fabrics in your everyday life.
I didn’t even complain when the prices went up. You can still join for $50 a year and you still receive 3-4 updates per week. I get more out of this content than hardcore porn.
The videos on Zishy are okay. Those are mostly videos of the models teasing, some have music in them and posing. I don’t know if I would be right in saying this but I would just as soon the videos be of the models talking about their clothing fetishes. I have to think that the vast majority of these models come into their Zishy shoots, knowing exactly what they want to wear and show. As a side note, the videos are HD quality downloads.
The models got two pros and deservedly so. Besides the models being represented by different body types and sizes, you also see a lot of what I’m going to call “mixed” ladies. You see the dark curly hair, green eyes, olive skin and … freckles. My biggest crushes throughout my younger years were curly-headed, mixed, kind of nerdy girls and there are a lot of those on Zishy. I’ve said it before and stand by it, a curly-headed lady with glasses on does as much or more for me than drop-dead gorgeous looks do. And if one of those curls flip down over her glasses, that’s it!
That is what Zishy offers me. I can look at many of the models and see me making moves on them.
The navigation is simple. It is the infinity scroll or whatever that’s called. I think that type of scrolling is aimed at mobile device viewing. There is a model list and there are new updates every few days. It’s pushing the 100 score again but I am “punishing” it for the videos not being interesting to me. I know there’s a huge crowd of porn fans that only want videos.
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