Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Easy login. Username and password. No captcha.
-Epoch is the billing company.
-You get a confirming email on signup. Which is starting to get rare, for some reason. At least some of the sites I've joined in the last year, I've gotten no confirming email. How much does it cost to send an email? But why bother, since if the customer forgets his username or password, or has some problem about cancelling his membership, that's his problem, and in the meantime, the site can continue charging him for his membership.
-I'm seeing so many lovely young models at many different networks/sites. And this network has some truly gorgeous young models.
-Default viewing option. Select your favorite viewing option on how to view a scene, and the site will remember it. Not sure how useful this is, seems more like a gimmick than anything useful.
-No DRM.
-No download limits.
-Download manager works. I use DownThemAll.
-Good download speeds. I regularly get 1.3MB/sec, which is my max download speed.
Cons:
PROS (continued):
-Membership price recently reduced to $17.87/month. I'm not sure how long that price reduction will last.
-Videos have the date they were posted to the site.
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CONS:
-Pre-checked offer at signup has to be unchecked, or you will have a $1.00 1-day trial membership to some site, that automatically renews at $38.57/month. So if you miss the pre-checked offer, you will be paying $38.57/month until you figure out what's happening.
-Get thumbnails advertising other sites on the member's pages. If you paid to get inside, do you need this advertising thrown at you? But many sites are doing it.
-Large watermark bottom right side of videos.
-Small site. Only has 20 videos so far.
-19 of the 20 videos were previously posted at Tricky Masseur (part of the Teen Mega World network). There was one video at Rub A Teen that I did not match up. But that's probably because I didn't want to spend the time going through each video at Tricky Masseur.
Bottom Line:
If you've been a member of Teen Mega World in the last 6 months, and you examined the Tricky Masseur site of that network, then you've probably seen all or almost all of the videos that are at Rub A Teen.
The Rub A Teen site offers more choices in the video definition than the Tricky Masseur site. For the videos that are at both sites, Tricky Masseur offers a low, medium and high definiton download. Rub A Teen goes one better: a low, medium and high definition, and a higher definition. (The high definition is 720p, the higher definition is 1080p.)
The Tricky Masseur site often has subtitles to go with the foreign language the actors/models speak. The Rub A Teen site videos do not have the subtitles. But once you have read the subtitles, you realize the words have little meaning, so the absence of subtitles is not a problem, because what the actors/models are saying is basically just noise. Teen Mega World is a huge network, with a lot of great-looking models, and a lot of hot hardcore videos. It's certainly worth joining the network at least once, to look through their tremendous archive of hardcore videos. Tricky Masseur has 93 videos. It's basically an archive site, having added only 1 new video in the last 7 months.
The Rub A Teen site has 20 videos total. 19 of the videos were already posted at Tricky Masseur (part of the Teen Mega World network).
The difference in file size between the 1080p version and the 720p version is huge:
For example, for a video with a runtime of 29 minutes 30 seconds (the Laura video):
Rub A Teen Laura video:
The 1080p MP4 file size is 2.08 GB.
The 720p MP4 file size is 1.05 GB.
Tricky Masseur Laura video:
No 1080p version is offered.
The 720p file size is 999 MB.
How many people are going to spend 2 GB per video of hard drive space?
Most of the videos are between 25 to 30 minutes in runtime.
So if you are going to keep the 1080p version on your hard drive, you are allocating around 2 GB per video. And if you are a collector of videos, you will be buying lots of hard drive capacity to store these huge video files.
Actually, I don't know why the file sizes at Rub A Teen are so large.
At Diesel network, for instance, they give you 1080p video for a 30 minute runtime, and the file size is 686 MB. That compares to 2.08 GB at Rub A Teen.
Comparing the bit rate of the 720p files (of the same video): Rub A Teen Total bitrate = 5134 kbps Frame rate = 29 frames/second Tricky Masseur Total bitrate = 4736 kbps Frame rate = 25 frames/second
Comparing the bit rate of a 1080p video, with a completely different 1080p video: Rub A Teen Total bitrate = 10136 kbps Frame rate = 29 frames/second
Diesel site Total bitrate = 3199 kbps Frame rate = 29 frames/second
To increase the bit rate by a factor of 3.2, you are increasing the file size from 686 MB to 2.08 GB.
I don't know how these technical details play out. But as far as I can tell, you can't really tell the difference on a computer monitor that is 20+ inches in size between the 3199 kbps and 10136 kbps files.
Maybe on a large-screen TV monitor, you can tell the difference. But you are going to be spending hundreds of dollars on hard drives, as cheap as they are today, if you are going to collect videos that are 2GB in size.
If you enjoy the erotic massage niche, then I suggest signing up with the Teen Mega World network, where you get one site (Tricky Masseur) that focuses on that area, with 93 videos. Plus you get over 20 other hardcore sites that are mainly boy-girl sex, some solo vids, some lesbian vids.
Basically, I think it makes little commercial sense to build a site that is a clone of a competitor's site. But I guess that the owners of Rub A Teen decided that the erotic massage niche was popular, and this is what they came up with as an inexpensive way to do it, because they are just buying/leasing some of the same videos that Tricky Masseur bought/leased.
For people who don't know about Tricky Masseur, then the Rub A Teen site can be a nice introduction to the erotic massage niche.
TBB states: On download limits, owners verify no limits, even though TOS stats daily 500MB limit. Caution on using download managers.
So it appears that TBP is stating there are no download limits.
If you encounter a download limit, I'd suggest asking for a refund.
But if only 14 videos, seems like a high price to pay, especially if you don't have a really good idea that the videos are going to be really special. If only 1 or 2 appeal to you, is that worth $18?
TBP doesn't clearly spell out what bonus sites are included with a membership. Are there any? Do they look good to you?
My best guess is that they are trying to make those pornhogs with fast Internet connections pay for slurping their site. Lol.
But don't forget that you get a bunch of bonus sites with membership to this site. So unless you have a massively fast connection, it's probably better to go for the 1 month membership.
I haven't been a member myself, so I have no idea whether you would think a 1 month membership is worth the money.
Even if I had been a member, I still wouldn't know, because individual tastes (and values) vary from person to person. :)
There's a new photoset at Rylsky Art featuring a model named Jeff Milton.
In spite of her boyish name, she's a knockout.
I wonder where they get the names they use for these models?
Rylsky Art is a new site, started last year. So the site contents are still small.
But Rylsky is a fine photograph, featured at Met Art.
And he has an eye for attractive young teens.
As the site adds more content, it will be worth more.
I wouldn't recommend joining the site, unless you have a favorite model that is featured here. Or you got a steep discount from the $29.99/month regular price.
The style is basically Met-Art softcore approach, with just a touch more harder edge.
But no hardcore that I've seen. No boys at this this site. Just solo girl, or soft girl-girl.
I've been a member of Met-Art several times, even had a few one-year memberships to them. Met-Art is probably my favorite site for porn on the internet. It was also the site of my first review at PU.
I've also been a member of MetModels (now called Erotic Beauty) and at least one of their other current sites.
But I never signed up for their promotional emails.
I'm currently a member of Erotic Beauty, so I do have access for that $8.00 offer to join Rylsky.
But at the moment, I'm already subscribed to too many other sites, that I don't really have time to visit them all. A waste of money.
But when I have the time, I will put Rylsky on my watchlist.
In the meantime, I followed your implied suggestion, and just now signed up for the Met-Art emails/special offers newsletter.
Membership fee out of line with the site contents.
Since this is a new site that just started a few months ago, and the site has only a small amount of content, they should really offer, until the site has grown a lot, a smaller subscription fee, for at least 6 months or more.
I know that the site operators want to cover expenses and all, but considering the relative lack of content versus competing sites, it's seems like a bad business decision to charge more for a monthly membership than mega-sites like Met-Art, MPL Studios, or Femjoy, which have years of back-logged content, gorgeous models, and a lower monthly price (about $20/month with PU discount).
Great review. A well-known site, but you give a wonderfully clear and informative summary that is a pleasure to read. I also agree that Sophie M. is probably an easy to remember variation of Sophie Moone. Lol.
Review with nice details. But it sounds like you're getting a little bored with porn. It happens to all of us. Hopefully it passes, and we can appreciate all the beautiful girls out there again.
Interesting review of Sapphic Erotica. I've never been a member of the site, and that might be partly why I have trouble understanding your ideas. You appear to write in clear, precise English, at first glance, but trying to understand what you actually mean is difficult for me.
I'm not trying to make fun of your English. I've always had a poor ability to learn any foreign language. So you are accomplishing something which I would not be able to do: writing a review in a foreign language.
But I think it would be better for you to write your review first in your native language, and then translate that review into English.
I would guess that you wrote this review in English, not your native language (which is German, I assume).
One simple example of what I mean when I write that I do not understand the meaning of what you write.
You write:
"I have been a regular subscriber to the site for the last, say, 4 years. Since then I was a member for about 10-12 times at least."
If you have been a regular subscriber to the site for the last 4 years, that implies that for the last 4 years you have been a regular subscriber.
So how can you have been a member for 10-12 times since then? You are writing that you have been a member for the last 4 years, which means that you are a member now, and have been, for the last 4 years. So, to count that as 1 continuous membership, and then to count separately 10-12 memberships since then, does not make sense. There was no time for you to be a member 10-12 times since the current time.
And when the 10-12 memberships did take place, is also slightly confusing.
Possibly you meant to write that over the last 4 years you have been been a member 10-12 times.
Sorry if I appear to be picky. Feel free to ignore me. Your review is interesting, almost like poetry, where you sense meaning in the words, but the ideas are something you have to clarify and puzzle out.
I hope to see more reviews from you, and hope they have as many or even more of your ideas and opinions.
What about the fantasy art of Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Luis Royo? Frazetta started working in the 1940s, Vallejo in the 1960s, and Royo in the 1970s. They all have erotic elements in much of their artwork. Royo probably more explicit than Vallejo who is more explicit than Frazetta (a reflection of when they started working and what was allowed at that time). You don't have the formal stories supporting the illustrations of Frazetta, Vallejo, and Royo, that the Sardax site has. But Royo has come out with illustrated books with an implied storyline.
I grew up on Frazetta as a teenager (his Tarzan covers, paperback book covers), discovered Vallejo in the late 1960s) and liked what he did. Only found out about Royo in the 1990s, but like him very much.
Do you enjoy the artwork of Frazetta, Vallejo, or Royo? Or is it specifically the femdom aspect of Sardax that you enjoy, and much less looking at the female figure in artwork?
What I'm try to say is that with a short pictorial, 10 to 20 photos or less, but with accompanying personal story, the photos, and the model herself, gained meaning.
Today's photoshoots have far more photos per set, but the story is lacking, and the photos have less impact.
Other factors enter in as well. With 10 to 20 photos in a pictorial, the editing/choosing of the actual photos was more important. And I remember savoring each fine photograph like a fine dish.
Today, I go through a single photoshoot like I'm slurping down garbage, hoping that a few photos will stand out and give me pleasure.
The models today are just as physically lovely, if not more so, than the models of 50 years ago. And there are certainly more of them.
But I'm glad that some sites, like X-art and Diesel, are trying to put an erotic or sensual or quality element back into porn.
I started looking at nude magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, first with Playboy, then with Penthouse. Obviously the pictures were paramount. But the accompanying personal stories made the models more real and meaningful, even if the "facts" were sometimes doctored.
Sasha is a very cute girl. But her vids, and photosets, at this site are not very erotic. Sometimes you don't realize how much the photographer contributes when you look at a photo of a pretty girl, and think, "I could have shot that myself."
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Sasha is cute blonde, with fun-loving personality.
-Credit card processor: CCBILL.
-Sasha sometines appears on the Diesel Girls Live, a live chat show. Not only is it free, but you get some nudity, often get to watch the girl
posing and masturbating. Some of the shows are worth watching.
-If you are a member of the Diesel network (instead of being signed up to just one site of the Diesel network), you can switch between sites by clicking on the hot link for a video or photoset at another site. You don't have to log in to each site separately.
-Recent update rate is one video or photoset per week.
-Long time before site timeout.
-No DRM.
-Good download speeds. I get 1.3 MB/sec, which is my maximum download speed.
-DownThemAll download manager works at this site.
-Zip files for photosets.
-Can stream or download videos.
-The content (videos and photosets) are dated.
Cons:
-If the model Sasha does not appeal to you, the site will have little value.
-Some of the videos appear to be re-mastered from older material. So the quality doesn't match what you would expect from the definition. The video can be poorly framed, sometimes out of focus, poorly lighted, like an amateur video that's poorly shot.
-No model bio. Even though this is a single-model site, and Sasha appears in every video and photoset I saw, you would like to see more of Sasha's personality come through. Instead, you get a collection of her videos and photosets, but not much feeling.
Bottom Line:
The main sites in the Diesel network are 18OnlyGirls and YoungLegalPorn.
But there are other sites in the network worth viewing. IvanaFukalot, SkinnySuperGirl, AliceWonderBang, NatashaShy, VikaNymph, SashaBlonde, and BeataPorn are sites with recent updates.
SashaBlonde is a cute skinny blonde. She's been doing porn starting in 2005, but she still looks like a young teen. She's featured at Metart, MetModels, Femjoy, the Diesel network, and other sites.
If you have a network pass at Diesel, Sasha has a lot of content at 18 Only Girls and Young Legal Porn, in addition to the SashaBlonde and
SashaFucksDasha sites that feature Sasha.
Number of videos: 431+
Number of photosets: 528+
Most videos have several download options:
WMV 1080p
MP4 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p
Videos run from 4 to 20 minutes.
Photosets have from 40 to 80 photos per set.
Most photosets have 2 zip file options. 1000 px definition, and an original definition, which is a higher definition size.
Some photosets have 4000 px, 2000 px, 1000 px, plus an original size px.
You get this site if you sign up for the entire Diesel network. But unless you are a strong Sasha fan, it's probably not worth subscribing to this site by itself.
I was not impressed by the videos and photosets at this site, even though Sasha is a cute model.
Current Member for over 3 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Easy login.
-Long period before site timeout.
-No DRM.
-No download limits.
-Zip file for photosets.
-Content is dated.
-Photosets and videos default filename for download is the posting date.
Cons:
-No streaming option.
-Only 1 definition for video download, a low-quality.
-Only 1 definition for photoset download, a low-quality.
-Very few models at this site. You have Sasha and Dasha, and a very few other models.
-Archive site, no updates since July 2007.
-No search.
Bottom Line:
This site is part of the Diesel Access network.
This is an archive site: the last update was July 2007.
Most of the content features two models: Sasha and Dasha. There are a few other models also featured. The contents are videos and photosets that show the models in an amateur home-style shoot: one or two girls relaxing or playing with each other. The feel is strictly amateur: the site is an example of amateur home-style photo and video capture of two girls relaxing, playing, taking a shower, making out with each other.
Number of videos: 120.
Number of photosets: 210+
-Video updates: last video update was July 2007.
-Photoset updates: last photoset update was July 2007.
Videos only have 1 definition download option: a low-quality WMV file.
Photosets only have 1 definition zip file option: a low-quality photo.
The sex action is solo girl, or girl-girl. No boys at this site. There is very little sex action. What you get is brief nudity. Some kissing (is kissing or nudity sex action?).
The videos are short runtime, maybe 5-10 minutes.
87 MB for a 5 minute 30 second clip.
Frame width x height: 852x480.
Total bitrate: 4258 kbps.
The bitrate would support high quality video. But these are strictly amateur-style videos: poor definition, view often slightly out of focus,
no attempt at glamor-style shoot, the videos and photosets are a real home-style shoot of one or more girls just playing around.
The photosets are small, about 30-40 photos.
Individual photos are about 50-70 KB in size.
Width x height: 852x480 pixels.
The photos are more like screen caps than professionally shot photos.
Many of the photos are out of focus. The framing is poor. The photosets are a photo record of a video shoot. And the video shoot is very free-
form: the video guy just turns a video camera on one or two girls and captures whatever they happen to do. There is nudity involved, but it's a really amateur home-style shoot, in style and content.
Does the site have any value? Maybe for someone who is desperate to see one or two girls who are naked sometimes.
Apparently there is a software glitch with the signup page at the Schoolgirls HD site.
PU support needs to contact the site to solve the problem.
Also, PU needs to contact the site so that the JAV HD site (the network that gives access to Schoolgirls HD) gives the discount that PU shows. The prices the site shows, after using the PU link to go to the JAV HD site, do not show the PU discounts listed.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-PU discount of $19.95/month.
-Attractive mix of Japanese models.
-Epoch is the payment processor: a trusted name.
-The videos do not have the pixellated/mosaic effect that is present on most Japanese porn.
-Easy login. Save your username and password with cookies, and you are basically automatically logged in when you click on the login link.
-No download limits.
-No DRM.
-OK download speeds. I averaged 1.6 MB/sec.
-You can choose the quality of your streaming video:
SD 240p 400 bitrate
MED 480p 1000 bitrate
HQ 720p 2000 bitrate
SH 1080p 4000 bitrate
Cons:
-Pre-checked signup on join page.
-Depending on the credit card you sign up with, you might be declined.
Mastercard declined my payment, and I had to call Mastercard to unblock my account.
But a different Mastercard accepted the payment.
-The site is not laid out for easy seach of model or category or whatever niche you are looking for.
They need a simple alphabetical listing of the models, with a nice-sized thumbnail for each model, and her contents at the network hot-linked with the thumbnail.
-If I stream a video in 1080p quality, the streaming is not entirely smooth. My connection is 50MB/sec, which should enable smooth streaming, but it doesn't at this site.
Bottom Line:
The site theme is horny Japanese schoogirls having sex.
There are 184 scenes at the site.
By Japanese law, any pornography must censor the genitals of actors and actresses.
Until the mid-1990s, pubic hair was also censored.
But the videos at this site, although featuring Japanese models, do not censor the videos with the pixellated/mosaic effect.
So I assume the videos are produced outside of Japan.
If you are not familiar with Japanese porn, there are some differences from European and American porn.
It's been several years since I last joined a Japanese porn site.
The texture and atmosphere of the videos at School Girls HD seem different from the videos that I remember.
My guess is that the videos were shot with a Western (American, European) audience in mind.
The performers are Japanese.
But the girls' attitudes are slightly different from what they were 10 or 15 years ago.
They don't moan and make as many funny noises as they used to.
The girls are more accepting of the sex. They don't show as much feigned, cultural behavior of only submitting to the sex because they are being forced to (not actual force, but just submitting to the will of the men).
The kissing, while still longer and more intense than American or European kissing, is not as passionate and lengthy as it used to be.
The moans and funny noises the models make are supposed to indicate reluctance to be having sex, but also excitement at having sex.
Personally, I found the moans and funny noises annoying: it takes getting used to. But the funny noises the girls make have been toned down considerably.
Some Japanese porn can be extremely hot, and Japan has some of the most beautiful women in the world. And because of cultural differences, there can be some funny quirks in the videos.
I believe the average model here is from the second-tier of Japanese porn models, not the first tier. The most attractive and famous models might be found at other Japanese porn sites, but very few of the big name models I used to look for are found at this site.
The models are attractive, but not the super-beauties or super-stars of Japanese porn.
However, the models are supposed to be school girls, which means they are younger models. So that might help explain why the big-name models are not featured at this site.
The main reason I joined is because the videos are uncensored. And the models are a nice change from the European and American models in looks.
Giving the site a score of 80. I'm spoiled by the outstanding attractiveness of the many European and American models I see at porn sites. The models at this site don't possess that outstanding beauty or cuteness. And I didn't think the sex was exceptionally hot, that can be found at many hardcore porn sites.
That's a new one om me.
Why would a download service charge if you're not a member of the site?
Can you still download, if you aren't a site member?
Or maybe they figure, once a member, always a member, even when you can't access the site, but are still willing to support the site by paying for a download service you can't use?
The TBP facts on the site state videos are downloadable, with no DRM.
A comment at PU dated 01-14-10 states the site is streaming only, with no downloads for videos. A reply to that comment, dated 01-30-10, agrees the site is streaming only, and states that according to a reply from support, the site does not intend to offer a download for videos.
So which is it: can you download all, or only some, or none of the site videos?
If the site is streaming only, for some or all of its videos, the facts at TBP should be changed to reflect that.
BUT I'M ALSO IMPRESSED BY YOUR WILLINGNESS TO GIVE THE SITE A 100 SCORE.
I GAVE METART A SCORE OF 99 ONCE, AND EARLIER GAVE IT A SCORE OF 95.
BUT I NEVER HAD THE COURAGE TO GIVE IT A SCORE OF 100.
EVEN WHEN I STATED THAT I SAID IT WAS THE BEST SOFTCORE PHOTO SITE ON THE INTERNET.
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