I use Firefox, because I believe it's less likely to give problems (viruses, malware) than IE.
But the message about the non-secure connection that is also asking for my username and password is not a message from Firefox, but from the X-Art site.
Sometimes that page comes up, sometimes it doesn't, when I try to download content (photoset or video) from the member area of X-Art.
Site asks for username and password, and says the link may not be secure.
Sometimes, you're already in the members area, but you click a link to download a photoset or video, and you have to give your user name and password again. But what's worse, you see on the form where you enter the information, the notice: "The server uses Basic authentication, which means that the method used to send your user name and password to the server may not be secure."
So I log out, log in again, go to the model page, hit the link to download the video again, and I still get the popup asking for my user name and password, which the message that the method may not be secure.
As far as I know, I've never been a member of a paysite that asks me for my user name and password, at the same time telling me that I am using a link that may not be secure.
I've been blocked in the past, because a paysite said either my username or password had been hacked.
So I don't want to get blocked again, by using a non-secure link to send this information, that is supposed to be confidential.
But I still want to download content, and this is frustrating.
Excellent, well-written and thoughtful review. Welcome to PU. Hope to see more reviews from you. Your first review (of Petites Parisiennes) was also good. I've never been a member of Petites Parisiennes. But I have visited X-art several times, and your review captures the flavor of X-art extremely well.
The videos are short, 6-10 minutes. Very high quality: clear focus, sensuous, softcore erotic. I say softcore, because that is the overall feel, but there is female solo masturbation, girl-girl lesbian action, and boy-girl sex, but it's erotic or sensual, not gonzo hardcore.
Site used to be, years ago, very small photosets of models, no videos. But for last few years, they have been adding videos. The most recent videos are hardcore (with a softcore style, like I said). The earlier videos from a few years back were solo girl videos.
But they have been adding a lot more videos in last few years.
A very nice site, small compared to mega-sites like Met-art, but goes beyond Met-art in the explicitness of the sex they now show, in both the photosets and the videos.
I think it's a great site, well worth the price, as long as you are not expecting gonzo hardcore sex.
I wouldn't mind at all if the video runtime was longer, because you are left wanting to see more, or have the action last longer. With most softcore and hardcore videos, the videos last too long, and you skip over parts. But here, you wish the video would last longer, because they are really nicely done.
Interesting, informative review. I enjoy the British/Old English writing style, which adds a personal flavor to the review. Really, a lovely review of a very nice site.
This site has been around for a number of years.
It used to be called "Beauty Is Divine".
At that time it was strictly a softcore teen glamor site. There were no videos that I remember.
Most of the models were really stunning.
The problem was that you only had a small number of photosets, and each photoset had a small number of photos.
Then the name of the site changed a few years ago to "X-art".
They started adding videos to the site.
The videos over the last couple of years or so are becoming hardcore.
The videos have a short runtime, 10 minutes or less.
The videos are very high quality (in lighting, focus, high definition, etc.).
The photosets are also becoming not just softcore, but hardcore as well.
I think the photography of the photos is as good as any major photo site, but some PU members have commented they thought the photography at this site was not excellent.
This site is not a mega-site in the amount of photosets and videos. But almost all the models are extremely attractive. And the videos and photosets are extremely high quality.
There are definitely more photosets than videos at this site, but that is because of the site history, when the site was strictly photosets.
The current updates at the site include both photosets and videos.
The preview pages show you nice-sized thumbnails of many of the covers for the site photosets and videos. The preview could be improved by including sample photos, and by a few sample 1-minute videos, so you could get a clear idea of the quality of the photos and videos.
You will probably wish each photoset had more photos, because the models are mainly lovely, and you want to see more of them.
And the videos, at less than 10 minutes each, seem very short. You will almost certainly wish the videos were longer.
If you like the type of photography at this site, I think the
site is well worth at least a 1 month membership.
I'm thinking of taking this comment, and turning it into a site review, because it sure as hell looks like it could have been written as a site review.
Copyright Nov. 16, 2010, by lk2fireone, in case I do write a review of this site, and the material in this reply is used as the basis for a site review.
Nice start with your first review. But adding a few more facts or opinions to the bottom line would make your review even more complete. That's just a suggestion, I do like what you have written, it's just that your review seems a little short.
On the other hand, the reviews I write go on too long, and I wish I could write them shorter, but I tend to ramble, and use a lot of words to express an idea.
I agree with everything you say. This is a really nice site, with lovely girls. The girls do go beyond the softcore seen at Met-art, both on a solo basis and a girl-girl basis. They even started making boy-girl sets/videos, which is a real change of direction.
I agree that site does have some absolutely lovely, yummy models. Also agree the models are not your usual porn star types, tho I would love to see them in softcore clips.
This site has some absolutely yummy models. But as Drooler noted in a comment on July 29, 2009, in spite of the high-quality photos, the quantity of pix seems small. Any recent members have an opinion on whether the site is worth joining for a month? Like I said, some of the models are fucking gorgeous.
Do any of the models have small or medium breasts? I realize that being pregnant increases breast size, but these models have huge breasts. I generally prefer small to medium, myself.
I'm not a member. There are sites where a reply from technical support can take forever, and this might be one of those sites.
I suggest contacting the billing company and reporting your experience. Ask for a refund, since you clearly deserve one. If the billing company is reputable, they should refund your membership fee for the last month.
If you don't get a refund from the billing company, you should contact the credit card company you used to pay for this membership. And the credit card company should give you a refund, based on what you explained in your comment (that you paid for a membership, and then were locked out, and you got no help from technical support).
Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
-XXX Shades is part of the LetsDoeIt network. The site and network feature attractive European models in glamcore settings.
-As part of the LetsDoeIt network, you get access to over 40 different sites. The sites are mainly glamcore, and the models are not just attractive, but are presented with special care to appear like movie stars.
-You stream and/or download the videos in a variety of definitions: 240p, 480p, 720p, 1080p.
-Login and member pages are https. So the pages are secure from hacking.
-There is a hot link in each video that lets you skip the intro of the video (which is advertising for the site).
-You have a model index, a network site index, and a search function.
The model index has nice-sized thumbnails for each model.
-The videos at the site and network are exclusive. Except that you can find many of them on tube sites, so the idea of exclusive no longer means what it used to mean.
Cons:
-Pre-checked cross-sale. Standard for porn sites, unfortunately.
-Each video comes with a tiny photoset (6 to 15 photos per set). The models deserve a full photoset of at least 50 to 100 photos per set.
-No zip file for the photo sets.
-But since the photosets are so tiny, they are hardly worth collecting. Except as a visual reminder of what the videos are like.
-It's a small site (only 146 videos currently), so you can manually examine the entire site.
Bottom Line:
The videos are a mix of glamcore in a variety of niches: blowjobs, lesbian, boy-girl, etc.
The site title refers to the novels and films in the 50 Shades of Grey series.
So the site videos feature erotic romantic videos.
The production values are high, and the models are uniformly attractive to gorgeous.
The videos feature boy-girl, girl-girl, threesomes. The 50 Shades of Grey series featured a slightly harder BDSM flavor than the videos at XXX Shades site: the models (male and female) wear nice costumes or underwear, but there is very little BDSM in the videos: the action is more heartcore, where the male tries to pleasure the female with sex, instead of inflicting pain to arouse her. So there's lots of kissing, stroking, cunnilingus, blowjob, vaginal fucking.
There is one video titled "50 Shades Of Submission", which is based on the 50 Shades of Grey series, where the model, Arya Fae, plays a submissive who is mouth-fucked, spanked, choked, fucked strongly, which is the closest the site comes to the 50 Shades of Grey movies.
The video titled "Freaky Threeway" is a hoot.
It features a man, a cute girlfriend, and a sex doll.
The man bugs his girlfriend that he wants a threeway sex, but the girlfriend is jealous and doesn't want to share. So then she comes up with the idea of giving her boyfriend three-way sex, but with a blonde sex doll, instead of a live person.
The boyfriend seems overjoyed, and a bit slow, because he's banging away on the sex doll, saying how great it is, until he tries to put his dick in the sex doll's mouth, and the doll's mouth won't open.
That's when he realizes it's a sex doll, not a real person.
The girlfriend has a laugh, and explains that's the only way he will have a three-way with her involved.
The man slowly accepts the sex doll as a real partner, he fucks the live girl and the sex doll, and everyone ends happy.
The girlfriend is really cute, I'm not sure why the guy isn't satisfied just with her, but variety is the spice of life, and if it takes a sex doll to make everyone happy, go for it.
But, personally, I would focus more on the girlfriend, Andreina De Luxe, who is not just fine-looking, and sexy as hell, but smart and sassy as well.
Currently the site has 146 videos.
Videos have a runtime of about 20 to 35 minutes.
There is a matching photoset for each video, but the photosets are tiny: anywhere from 6 to 15 photos per video. The photos are either excellent screencaps (made from an excellent software program that converts a video to a photoset), or actual photos.
Since the models range from attractive to gorgeous, I don't know why the site (and network) posts such tiny photosets: the models deserve a full-featured photoset, because the models are lovely, and compare to the models at any fine photo site such as MetArt, MPL Studios, or Femjoy.
Since the network and site feature glamcore hardcore videos, this would be a chance for the network to satisfy a need for glamcore hardcore photosets. Sites like SexArt and The Life Erotic feature glamcore videos and photosets, but in my opinion, the models at the LetsDoeIt network are presented more attractively, and the hardcore action is hotter.
So I fail to understand why the network only offers such tiny photosets.
I'm giving the site a score of 88.
My favorite site on the network is The White Boxxx, because the mix of models ranges from attractive to lovely.
The models at XXX Shades can be very attractive, but some of The White Boxxx videos are some of the best-looking glamcore videos on the internet.
And since you get full access to the LetsDoeIt network with a sub to any of the sites in the network, the real value of the network is in the 90s.
What I'm saying is: the exact value of a score for a site, or a network, is a matter of opinion.
What counts is whether a site or network's contents appeals to your tastes.
And the videos at the LetsDoeIt network are some of the best glamcore videos on the internet.
Wasn't it Arnold Schwarzenegger who said, in some movie or other, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."?
We go to the movies to learn about life, and life's little lessons.
But sometimes those lessons turn out to be fantasy.
So look on the bright side: you were able to take out the garbage while trying to cancel your membership.
I used to be able to do multi-tasking as well, until old age caught up with me. I get stuck watching the working spinner on my laptop like I'm hypnotized or something, until I get the usual message that the connection has timed out.
Your site review was interesting. The site contents don't appeal to me, but I did enjoy reading your review.
And your comment on the problem with cancelling your membership has a nice, readable style, that I have tried for, but rarely achieve, in my own writing.
In my opinion, I would take off more than a few points for this cancellation snafu. The frustration of spending 3 days trying to cancel should drop the site score by 10 points or more. I don't handle frustration well, and this would really be a major downgrade for the site experience, in spite of however nice the contents are. But that's just me.
BOTTOM LINE(CONTINUED):
There is a search function at the site.
But it's not shown on every member page.
And it could be better.
You search for a model named "Bianca Y".
It returns a page with model's name and a thumbnail of her.
But you have to click on the hot link of the model, if you want to see the model's content at the site.
Why have a page with the name of the model and her thumbnail, but require a further click to see her content at the site?
Maybe the site is encouraging finger clicks, for exercise.
Or lack of thought in design.
Also, let's assume the model has a lot of content at the site.
If you do a search for the model's name, bring up the model's page, then hit the hot link to bring up her content, it will only bring up 3 or 4 of her photo sets, with a separate hot link that says: "Ariel View All Updates".
And when you click on that hot link, you then bring up a page with 14 hot links to Ariel's photo sets and videos, with another 13 more pages of her content that you can bring up by clicking the appropriate hot link page number.
I'm giving the site a score of 79.
That's because of the poor navigation issues, the clunky online slideshow software, the poor search engine.
They need to hire a competent web designer, and make the site easier to use.
However, some of the models are seriously outstanding, and make the site a worthwhile join.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-No pre-checked cross-sale on join page.
-CCBill is the default billing agent. A trusted name. Easy to cancel, easy to deal with.
-Secure login and members pages: https.
-No limits on streaming or downloads that I could find.
-There are many softcore and hardcore sites with attractive to beautiful girls. This site is one of them. Some of the girls are absolutely lovely: great face, great body.
Cons:
-Zip files download with a garbage name.
Example: gallery-1973-1800-61f711ee94714aebc83bd5a83ca74990.zip
Need to put file name into format: Site Name - Model Name - Date Posted - Name of Photoset - File Definition.
-Primitive navigation. For a small site, they need a website designer who can make the site easier to use. See bottom line section for examples.
-The online software for playing a slideshow of a photo gallery is clunky.
-Very limited information of the models: age, country of origin, nothing else.
-Search function is almost useless.
-Listing of models is fucked up. You are supposed to be able to see a listing of the models organized by name or most recent. But both listing methods are fucked up.
If you want to see a listing of models by alphabetical name, you can see the first 14 models listed by alphabetical name on page 1. When you switch to page 2, the names are no longer in alphabetical order.
Bottom Line:
CONS(CONTINUED):
The second system is to list the models by most recent: except, even on the first page, the models are not listed in the most recent posting to the site. And they are not listed by the first posting of the model to the site.
BOTTOM LINE(START OF):
Site stats:
The site has approximately 122 models. The models range from attractive to gorgeous. That is the main attraction of the site.
Yonitale is the pay site. There is a free site that is almost a clone of Yonitale: SecretOfPleasure.com. That site gives small sample galleries of the photosets featured at Yonitale.
I assume it's a form of advertising for Yonitale.
I joined Yonitale a few days ago. So I'm still trying to figure out how to use the site.
The navigation is terrible. The search function is poor, and only appears on some member pages, not on all member pages. The software for viewing a slideshow of a gallery is clunky.
With all of these negatives, why did I join the site?
First, some of these negatives only appear after you join the site.
Second, and just as important, some of these girls are absolutely gorgeous.
Many of the models appear on other porn sites: MetArt, Femjoy, MPL Studios, etc.
Many of the models mainly do softcore glamour.
Some of the models also appear in hardcore.
Yonitale is basically a female masturbation site. You get almost all the varieties of female masturbation you can find:
solo masturbation by a girl;
one girl masturbating another girl;
two girls masturbating themselves;
two girls masturbating each other;
three or more girls masturbating;
a guy masturbating a girl (but no intercourse: the guy is using his fingers or a dildo or a vibrator to masturbate the girl).
There might be some element of lesbian activity in the photo sets and videos, but the emphasis is more on the masturbation as a route to sexual pleasure, instead of lesbian activity.
Why did I join the site?
Because some of the girls are freaking georgeous.
I can look at some of the photos of these girls and drool.
The next step up would be looking at the photos and climaxing spontaneously, but the photos are not quite that explosive.
I can dream about these beauties in my sleep, which makes the Yonitale site a worthwhile join.
I suggest browsing the free secret of pleasure site for the sample photos of these models, to see if they are up to your personal standards.
The photos are not quite up to the MetArt or MPL Studio standard of high-gloss glamour photography, but like I said, some of the girls are so gorgeous, you need to see them for yourself.
However, the site navigation is an exercise in frustration.
You want to see a list of the models at the site?
You can search through the 9 pages of the model list (14 models per page, except the last page has 10 models).
You can sort the models by name (alphabetical order) or by most recent (posted to the site).
Except both search methods are fucked up.
Search by name:
The first page has 14 models, listed alphabetically, with a nice-sized thumbnail of the model.
Click on the second page, and the names on that page are no longer in alphabetical order.
Click on the third page, and the names on that page are not in alphabetical order.
Search by most recent:
The first page has 14 models.
Except the order of the model listing is not based on the most recent set posted to the site.
And is not based on when the model was first posted to the site.
So that search order is also fucked up.
I could copy all the model names, and sort them myself, but that would take a while, and it's not worth the trouble.
A better solution: go to an index site such as indexxx.com, hit the websites link, then select the Yonitale link, and then select either the (show models with photo) link or the (show models as text) link.
Prices listed for Yonitale are wrong.
The prices I see at the Yonitale site are:
30 days no rebill $24.99
monthly rebill $19.99
6 months rebill $49.99
1 year no rebill $100.00
TBP says only 1 site is included with the membership. I assume you got a package deal that includes a number of network sites with your membership. Is that a public offer, where anyone can join this network and get access to a number of different sites, or what?
It gets expensive very quickly when the price to join a single site in the network is $25-$30/month.
I've read some comments/replies at PU that state that some of the sites in this network have stated they are/will be streaming only for the newer updates. But I've also read PU comments/rep;lies that seem to indicate that streaming only has not yet actually been put into effect.
If I definitely knew streaming only was in effect, I would not join, even at a lower price. I like the idea of being able to save a copy on my hard drive, even if I don't own it legally. I'm not really sure of the correct wording here. When you download a photoset or video from a paysite, you don't "own" the file, you just have the right to use it. Or something like that. Or maybe you do own it, but you don't have the right to sell it. I don't know what the legal interpretation is on this area. Just like, when you pay for a copy of some software program, I don't know if you own your copy, or what your legal "ownership" means.
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