When you download a photoset of a model, it includes a small bio sheet for the model.
The model sheet includes:
Age
Eye color
Hair color
Height
Weight
Breast size
Country
And maybe a few small details about what the model likes or is doing.
The age of the model refers to the age she was at the time the photoset was posted to the site. (I believe that's what it's supposed to refer to. Less probable, it was the age the model was at the time of the photo shoot.)
Anyway, the computer program that is responsible for printing out the bio sheet has been, in error, I believe, now set up to print the age the model is currently.
On the Metart site, there is a bio section for each model, and that section gives the current age of the model.
But the downloaded bio sheet, that comes with a specific photoset, is supposed to give the age of the model at the time the photoset was posted to the site.
Instead, it now gives the current age of the model.
I've been to Glamourcon, where the Playboy playmates attend. That's usually held twice a year, once in Los Angeles, once in Chicago. You have to be 18 years old or older to attend. So that would be a porn convention, according to most people. But it's strictly softcore. No nudity. No topless. No sex. So it's not even softcore: they do sell old copies of Playboy magazine, and the Playmates sell photos of themselves, that they autograph.
Sorry, my mistake. I meant David Hamilton, not Peter Hamilton.
But David Hamilton has been accused of using under-age models, as well. But he used a soft-focus effect, which is a better term than a fuzzy effect. And Galitsin used the same kind of soft-focus effect in some of his photo shoots.
Some of Ronin's photo shoots are still at MetArt. But it's probably been 6 years or more since he's had any new work posted at MetArt.
I'm not aware of any shoots that are in his artsy style that were posted at MetArt in the last few years.
I think that in the early days of MetArt, they were more accepting of different styles of eroticism. At least in some of their offerings.
But since then, they have mainly focused on more mainstream, less artistic photography.
Let me rephrase that. The far-out artistic style were always, at most, a very minor part of the MetArt offerings. And now they are even less on view.
Even the fuzzy (not a very appropriate term) of Grigori Galitsin photo shoots, which I thought were somewhat artsy, are not in evidence at MetArt today. But Galitsin was a different case, where he was accused of using under-age models. So all of his photo shoots were removed from MetArt, I believe.
But I thought Galitsin's shoots had a certain artistic quality, sort of in the Peter Hamilton style, with a fuzzy (I'm not using the proper term to describe it) effect to the photos.
Met-Art is probably the biggest site for softcore teen photography, based on content.
And the site just keeps getting bigger. They add up to 6 photosets and videos per day. I don't know of any softcore teen photo site that comes close to that in terms of updates.
But over the years, they also tinker with the site to make it user friendly. They have a massive amount of content, but I feel the site is very easy to use.
One example of how they to make the contents more accessible/user friendly:
Years ago, the naming system for zip downloads of photosets used a combination of letters and numbers. Then they switched to a different system, where the filenames were much longer, but that tried to describe the file contents more clearly. The system they use now is much improved:
It gives the site name, the date the photoset was posted at Met-Art, the name of the photoset, the model(s) featured in the photoset, the photographer, and the definition of the photoset (low, medium, or high).
Would be a photoset posted on 2011-05-08, with the title, "Presenting Felicia", featuring the model Felicia B, by the photographer Dolce, and the definition is high.
Personally, I would rather that the name of the model comes before the name of the photoset. And I would prefer the date of the set comes before the name of the photoset. For example:
Felicia B-2011.05.08-Presenting Felicia
That would make more sense, and make it easier to categorize, as far as I can see.
Because when you are looking over your photosets, you want to know who the model is, when the photoset was posted, and then the name of the photoset.
I pay less attention to who the photographer is. And I try to keep all the Met-Art sets in a common group for Met-Art.
But it's nice that Met-Art tries, on a constant basis, to make the site more user-friendly.
I visit Met-Art more often than I go to any museum. For one, it's easier to visit. For another, the contents are more interesting. For another, Met-Art is like a museum, that is cultural, uplifting, and stimulates the mind.
There are very few porn sites that fit that description.
With inside scenes, you have better control of lighting and sound.
Outside scenes, unless you have a good photographer/cinematographer/whatever-you-call-it, you can get shadows, poor lighting, random noises (cars going by, planes overhead, etc.).
And most porn places very little value on location, costumes, plot/story, etc. It's just humping, sucking, down-and-dirty sex.
Which is why X-Art and the other similar sites are a nice change of pace. You can see erotic porn instead of gonzo porn.
But for softcore teen photography, you can't beat Met-Art, which has indoor, outdoor, all over the place locations in their shoots.
If you join one site, you automatically get 9 more sites included.
Then, if your membership goes into a second month, you get 1 additional site.
If your membership goes into a third month, you get 1 more additional site.
If your membership goes beyond 3 months, you get 2 more sites.
But: almost all of the site are small. And most stopped updating years ago.
So there are much better ways to spend your money, than on a membership to this network. You will find much more content, better quality content, easier site navigation, and more frequent updates at other sites and networks.
Maybe years ago this site/network might have justified a membership, while they were still updating, and they might have improved the quality as time went on.
But this is just one of many sites/networks that has little value compared to what other sites offer today.
But some Captcha forms are worse than others.
There are some, where the letters/numbers are so twisted, that you have to guess what the letters/words are, and I get some of those wrong again and again, that I just give up. This isn't for any porn sites that I know of, but for some other content.
There are also Captchas where the letters/numbers move across the screen, and go off the screen and come back on. That's the case with this site. So you have to watch the Captcha a few times, to get all the letters/numbers.
No big deal. Just a bit of irritation. Especially compared to sites that just require the username and password, and are very easy to log in.
I guess they use Captcha for security. But if you are really a computer expert/hacker, there are probably automatic programs that will handle the Captcha.
So the extra security just makes life a bit more difficult for the rest of us.
I just noticed that both 18 Only Girls and Young Legal Porn are now $29.97/month. The last time I checked, at least one of those sites was $19.99/month, with a PU/TBP discount, as far as I can remember.
A lot of sites are offering specials, where they reduce the membership price. But the Diesel sites are trying to keep their prices up, or even increasing them.
The only way to currently get access to all the Diesel offerings would be the 5 months for $99 that gives access all 13 Diesel sites (that excludes Wow Girls, which is marketed separately from the Diesel sites).
But a lot of PU members don't want to sign up for the $99 for 5 months membership.
They would prefer a one-month membership plan, instead.
In the TBP site, it says: "Could not locate exclusive content information."
Most of the site contents is exclusive, I believe. But don't expect 100% exclusive content.
Two main reasons for non-exclusive content:
1. They post videos and photo sets from other sites, as a cross-selling feature. Those videos and photo sets are clearly marked as coming from other sites, along with a link to those sites with a discount for joining.
2. They post videos and photo sets from a supplier who sells to other sites/networks. I've seen some videos that were posted at the Teen Mega World network, and later posted at 18 Only Girls. However, when the videos are posted at 18 Only Girls (or at Young Legal Porn, another site in the Diesel network), the videos offer a higher definition option, and usually have better lighting, better colors, and a higher quality to the video. So I think that's a good thing, where you can get a better quality version of a video, even if you saw it at another network.
and it brings up the list of individual sites, my thought was, that is the Diesel network. Because those are the sites that are included in the 5-month membership offer. And those are all the sites that Diesel offers (except for Wow Girls, which is treated as a completely separate offering).
When I use the words, Diesel Network, that is my construction, to refer to the sites that Diesel offers. "Diesel Network" is probably not the exact terminology used by the company itself.
Go to TBP site;
Go to any of the sites in the Diesel network;
Under the heading "Company Info", click on either the "Diesel Media Online, Inc" link, or the "Diesel Action" link;
That will bring up a new page, listing the different sites that are part of the Diesel network.
Wow Girls is not included in the 5-month membership to Diesel network.
The sites that are included are:
1. 18 Only Girls
2. Young Legal Porn
3. Skinny Super Girl
4. The Sperm Lover
5. Policeman
6. Sasha Fucks Dasha
7. Sasha Blonde
8. Ivana Fukalot
9. Vika Nymph
10. Alice Wonder Bang
11. Beata Porn
12. Lay The Kat
13. Natasha Shy
Some of the sites are archive sites (they don't update).
A lot of models have tried to cross over into acting. But very few models make it big as actors.
Marky Mark made the transition, and he has had an extremely successful career as an actor. His acting name is Mark Wahlberg.
I think of him as a model before he became an actor, because of the commercials he did for men's underwear.
But he was more famous as a singer than a model, before he became an actor: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
Jessica Lange was a model before becoming an actress. Today, she is considered one of the best professional actors of her generation, having won Academy awards, Golden Globes, Emmys, and just about everything else an actor can win.
But for her first acting job, in King Kong, I remember reading that a lot of critics said she had no talent as an actress.
Rene Russo (she was in the Lethal Weapon franchise with Mel Gibson) has had a very successful acting career after starting out as a model.
But like you said, most models that try to get into acting find that it's a matter of luck as well as skill and looks that help to determine your success.
Anyway, there are a lot of factors in making a good video. More so than making a good photograph.
I agree with your points about models and the difference between a photoset and a video.
But you would think, unless the people that run Metart are completely blind, that they would realize how boring their videos are.
And that they would stop wasting so much of their time and money and site-space on hosting these boring videos on their site.
Either that, or get people who know how to shoot an interesting video.
But at the same time, I think that Femjoy videos are also boring. Femjoy videos are slightly better than Metart videos, but not by much.
On the other hand, maybe it's partly a softcore thing.
PU/TBP is based in the U.S., and that is why the prices they show are the U.S. prices these sites charge. (I believe that's why they are showing the U.S. prices.) Even though in some cases there can be regional pricing, but PU/TBP doesn't normally list the prices that might be charged for non-U.S. customers. That would require a lot of extra work, and they have a lot of work involved trying to list the current U.S. prices for the sites, along with any discounts that might apply.
Anyway, I was trying to show, in my reply, the prices a U.S. customer might see, or pay.
Because those are the prices I see when I click on the join pages for these sites. Since I live in the United States.
The PU/TBP sites list the membership price as $19.95 (U.S.).
But when you click on the link to the Club Seventeen site, and you then click on the join page link, when you get to the monthly price, you see, 19.95 euros (approximately $25.88 (U.S.). That is what you will see, if you live in the United States.
I live in California, part of the United States.
So this is a case where PU/TBP needs to update the price it shows (for U.S. members). Or maybe it can get the discount back into effect that it had before.
I agree that regional pricing is unfair, and should be abolished. But this instance is not a case of regional pricing, but apparently a case where the PU/TBP listed price no longer agrees with the price the site is charging.
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