Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
It's still here. There are new girl/girl scenes updated once a week, many with hot models like Gianna Dior, Eliza Ibarra, Vanna Bardot, Scarlit Scandal, Emily Willis, etc. The site currently shows 1,438 videos and 1,311 photo sets. Videos look good at 720 p. New photos download at 3265 X 1837.
Cons:
For whatever reason, Twisty's has been straight-out gutted in the past 13 months. TBP's December 2019 review refers to 8,638 videos and 18,350 photo sets. I'm sure that's accurate. Since that time, 7,200 videos and 17,049 photo sets have been removed from the site. Nicole Graves' site, which used to be part of Twisty's Network - gone. Nicole Graves herself, who was 1 of Twisty's most popular models has 1 scene on the site. Annete Dawn's site - gone. Blue Fantasies - gone. Euro Foxes has 4 scenes. Mom Knews Best - last updated March 2019. Amy Reid, who had many great scenes on the site - 0 content. Susanna Spears, who had many great scenes on the site - 0 content. Devon, who had a lot of great stuff on the site - 0 content. Etc, etc. If I had to guess, I would say that only the exclusive material is still here, and not much of that.
Bottom Line:
Twisty's used to be a special site before it was sold to Brazzers' parent company. They took a site that was one of several sites that just licensed material from various producers and made it special by a) producing increasing amounts of exclusive material and b) caring about the site and its members - with a forum & GREAT customer service. Now it's a site that's being gutted for who knows what reason with diminishing updates starting last month. Up to December 19, there were updates every 3-5 days, then the Christmas present was for updates to slow down to once a week. I have this site as an add-on that I got years ago, so I've got no reason to give it up, though it's sad how much material I no longer have access to. I can't give it lower than a 60 given that they are still updating with pretty hot babes, but be aware that if you are expecting the glory days of Twisty's, or even expecting the content from the glory days of Twisty's to still be here, you're very likely to find yourself terribly disappointed.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
This site has the archive of Sexy Teen Sandy, including pics, vids and webcam shows
Some of the newer models are hot
Cons:
The main page is completely dishonest:
There are NO live shows
While I'm not looking for Ipod vids, I also consider it completely dishonest when a site advertises them on the home page and doesn't have them anywhere that I can see
The site goes for periods of time with no updates at all
There is no support - e-mails with questions about updates, etc, may as well be sent to your aunt Martha - the one who doesn't own a computer - for all the response you're going to get
Bottom Line:
If you're in love with Sandy and want to see her earlier stuff, this is the place to see it all and at least they haven't eliminated any.
Whenever a star model leaves a company like this, it's a challenge to replace her with other models that will draw people in - all the more reason, I think, to be honest about what you're promising people.
This site started out well after Sandy left, adding frequent updates, as promised of various models, then it started getting all freaky - sometimes whole sections of pics of new models wouldn't even be available.
This is not a dependable site. It's being dishonestly promoted and handled in a clumsy and stupid way.
I can't recommend it to anyone that doesn't crave frustration at this point, though they have the foundation to build something decent if they care to.
Current Member for over 1 year (at the time of review).
Pros:
Phil, when he was actively doing photography, was, for my tastes, one of the best photographer of tease, upskirt, solo-girl photography anywhere. This is the largest collection of his material anywhere. Every once in a blue moon there is an update of hot remastered material with higher quality photos, video & sometimes extra pics that were left out originally because they include exposed boobs, etc.
Cons:
As I say, every once in a blue moon there is an update - mainly what you get is promises, excuses, stories about all the trials & tribulations Phil, the photographer, webmaster, site owner, etc, has in his personal life. Then there are polls about what the members would like to see instead of posting the material that the members have already said explicitly they would like to see. And you can also help Phil set up an auction site and you can let him know how many thousands of dollars you would pay him for a full library of the original material he has of his various models. But updates - only once in a blue moon.
Bottom Line:
In 2007 I gave this site a 95, because there were frequent updates of great material and if you were a fan of tease, upskirt, solo-girl stuff, you would have been insane not to have been a member of this site. Today I'm only giving a 50 because that is the lowest score that TBP allows. This site does not deserve a 50. If I were giving this site the score it deserves, I would give it a 20. It's painful to be a member of this site. I daresay there are zero satisfied members of this site. There's a forum type thing that is pretty much only made up fo members complaining for very good reasons about what a miserably run site this is. Phil's got tons of great material that could be remastered. He could hire someone to better organize the material that is here, which is just a freaking mess - no dates, there is "legacy material" for many of the models where the only thing you see before you download something is "set 1", "set 2" etc. And all of the original sites, which used to be available for membership to this site, have been melded into this site. So this site has only gone downhill further and further into the dust. Really too bad!
I decided to check out this site again, not having been on in a while. Beware, because apparently the long-time videographer left and the current videographer doesn't know how to work a camera - I have yet to find a recent video that isn't blurred and washed-out looking garbage. The girls might be great looking, I can't tell because the current stuff is so badly shot. I had a complaint previously about recycled material but now recycled material is what you should wish for until they get someone that knows how to operate a video camera.
Crazy the damage that they did to themselves years ago when they broke the network up into separate pieces. They spent years building a Naughty America community, had a very active forum, used to do multiple live shows a day including a morning show that was really just promos for upcoming scenes at the site but was always very well attended - then they just killed the whole thing. People who had continuing memberships for years had those memberships ended at the end of their term and join one of the confusing new networks. All so they could reverse course and have 1 network with some bonus content you could access for an extra fee if you wanted to. Christian XXX, who worked there as a producer/director/agent/performer, etc for years threatened to tell the whole store to Holly Randall years ago, but he wound up deciding he would only tell it off screen. I don't know how good their new content is, but coincidentally I just joined for the first time in years today, mainly to check out my faves from the past.
Can't say that I'm surprised about the lack of communication. The last few times I've glanced at VideoBox, it seemed to be just a dumping ground for the most bargain basement porn possible, not a site that was putting into any effort into anything. Too bad as there was a time when they had a blog on the site where they told customers what studios they were making deals with, asked for input on what customers wanted to see, etc.
Excellent site. If you enjoyed this site, I HIGHLY recommend Frank's T-Girl World, which is also a Grooby site. I find Frank's choice of models to be the absolute best in the world of ladyboy porn
Agreed - great site, especially when you consider the incredibly deep archives. I was a bit disappointed in the current new videos until they started adding Angelo Godshak's stuff. His stuff, Rocco's new stuff and Joey Silvera's occasional new TS scenes are my favorites.
You actually don't need to do a separate login to get to Nubiles.net. If you just scroll down on the home page, it lists all the sites that are part of NubilesPorn. You'll see Nubiles.net 2nd down on the right - click on it and you're in. At least that's the way it used to be - lol. I just tried it, it made me log in again.
You could just take away their "comment" privileges. Reddit does that. Hell, it happened to me on a Reddit group for reasons I'm entirely unclear on since I don't post nasty crap. But there is a group I'm in where I can peruse the group all I want, I'm just not able to comment on anything. Such is life. If Reddit groups can do that, adult sites could certainly do it.
You could solve that problem with moderation of the site and still allow comments. If someone is leaving a toxic comment, take it down. If not, leave it up. Back in the days when Adult Time allowed comments and not just this "Report" crap, 80% or more of the comments I saw were positive. With AI, you could probably even program in "alert" words so that you knew where the comments were that might be worthy of a review.
You could solve that problem with moderation of the site and still allow comments. If someone is leaving a toxic comment, take it down. If not, leave it up. Back in the days when Adult Time allowed comments and not just this "Report" crap, 80% or more of the comments I saw were positive. With AI, you could probably even program in "alert" words so that you knew where the comments were that might be worthy of a review.
The discouragement of comments on adult websites continues. Many adult sites that used to have full-fledged forums, such as Twistys, Brazzers, Naughty America, Nubiles, etc, did away with them long ago. Now we even see sites that used to have a space for customers to put comments eliminating those, such as AdultTime, who now only has a place for customers to "Report" videos - perhaps this is so, if someone runs a Youtube hit-piece on a creator that AdultTime is "platforming", people can let them know - "hey, did you see that people are claiming that so-and-so did nasty stuff 10 years ago" and they can take down their material before the credit card companies start asking questions. It's an unfortunate trend.
This is a site I join periodically because a lot of their stuff is really damned good, excellent quality videos and photos. I was stumbling all over since I joined this time trying to figure out how to download zips of the photos and bts shots, which I'm sure I've been able to do in the past. I figured I was missing something and was feeling embarrassed when I sent a message to their C/S - to my shock, this is the response I received: "The photo download link is no longer available on the site. You may now grab the image(s) of your choice then drag and drop them on to your desktop."
Thanks for the review - Karups and the ATK sites used to be favorites around here years ago, but I can't remember the last time I saw someone review 1.
If you haven't tried Grooby Archives yet, I would recommend it - it's an archive site, naturally, from across a range of Grooby sites. They add new updates once a week, but if you're into deep diving, they have the current site, plus they have the 2 previous versions of the site all still available to explore. I can't guarantee that there are no sets that fail to download, but Grooby is pretty good at keeping things running.
Great site - my biggest complaint is the navigation - Try to search by a model name or to search by letter, you can go make a cup of coffee before the information comes up and then it's completely random - Renee Rose followed by Rachel Rivers followed by Rosalyn Sphinx etc if you're using what presents itself as their alphabetical search. They do have the "Models" search, which may be better. Updates are weekly these days, which is nice.
Great site - the best currently updating site I'm aware of for Asian ts models. Grooby is doing less & less promos, haven't announced their annual Customer Appreciation Week, which used to be a great opportunity to get deals. We'll see if it even happens this year.
I suspect its a money issue - it's just a lot less expensive to pay 1 performer rather than 2. Go back even to page 5 of their updates and 20 out of 24 updates were boy/girl - that's substantial savings to eliminate the paycheck on 1/2 the performers in the vast majority of your scenes.
One might think that with the availability for trans models to work on more sites than in the past that Grooby might have more trouble finding attractive models. Doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not a current member of this site, but the roster of models in their newest scenes is as hot a group of trans models of various nationalities as I've ever seen. I would say the same of their Asian T-Girl site (an all-Asian site, as one would expect), Frank's TGirl World (also a Grooby site - pretty much all Asian or Brazilian) as well.
It's a pretty confusing site, but their C/S has always been responsive and honest in my experience. If you ask them what you get for ...., they'll give you the honest answer, might even offer you a deal.
Like many sites, there was a whole different level of engagement with fans on VB in 2010. They had a blog updated multiple times a week where they would discuss which studios they were making new licensing deals, they would solicit feedback from members, they would promote "coming soon" DVDs, etc. Now they have very little to brag about so no blog, no talk of new deals, no coming soon, just plop, here are today's updates.
For porn fans that don't mind a streaming-only option, I just discovered quite an enticing site. Adult Empire, the biggest U.S. DVD site also has a streaming-only subscription, AdultEmpireUnlimited. It advertises streaming-only access to 165,000 movies, 700,000 clips for $24.99/month or $49.98 for 3 months or $149.94 ($12.95/month billed annually) for 1 year. Certainly beats the hell out of Videobox and their rotated selection of bargain basement updates.
Lots of Gay and bi men content these days as well. Perhaps you have your filters set so you don't see that content. In the past week, they posted a scene from Chaos Men on 7/12, a bi scene from Let's Go Bi on 7/11, a bi scene from BiFuck on 7/10, a gay male scene from Blake Mason on 7/10, a scene from Pride Fuck on 7/09 and a scene from Jerk Buddies on 7/07
TBP's listed prices for this site are out of date. Current prices:
$39.99 - 1 month
$79.99 - 3 months
$150.00 - 6 months
$250.00- 1 year
Grooby sites know that they're delivering unique content and they aren't afraid to charge for it. They also very seldomly discount and when they do, in their annual sale, which is any time from August to October, almost all the offers are to existing customers only.
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