The truth is, like many here, I've got plenty, so I could reasonably entertain myself with my current stash for quite some time - I suppose I could go to strip clubs more often - he he.
If I don't have enough energy to write a full review for a site - because there are a lot of sites that for me aren't really worth that energy - positive or negative - then I'll convey my impressions "Yay or Nay" in comments when the opportunity presents.
I was thinking that the poll was referring to sites that present themselves as review sites, but now that I understand what was meant, my answer is even more definitely "yes", because not only are some porn portals full of redirects and bad sites, but many are also filled with viruses of all kinds.
Since I can find similar info at a number of review sites, the number of review sites that I spend any time on are the ones - well, actually one - this one and The Best Porn - that I feel really make an attempt to give accurate info. There is good discount site info at Rabbits Reviews, I think it is.
Other "review" sites tend to just be advertising vehicles hoping that you'll join the sites through their link so they pick up an affiliate fee. I'm sure that TBP also makes money that way, but it certainly doesn't stop TBP from striving to do honest reviews.
Raven Riley's reviews page is a perfect example of one that I believe exists solely as an affiliate page, and I would have more respect for that whole thing if it presented itself that way.
If you were deciding between this site and Met Art, I'm afraid that you definitely chose wrong. Met Art just has a LOT more variety, given the number of content producers that work with them. There's great stuff every day there. Hegre has Hegre and he's got his tastes and his way of doing things.
In terms of vids, though, I MUCH prefer Hegre's vids to the Met Art vids. Met Art vids, with very few exceptions that I've seen, couldn't be more boring if that were the whole intent of them - horrible, horrible, boring crap videos, no matter how great looking the women are that are in them or how "high-quality" they are - uchhhh!
Hegre, to me, often has a quirky sense of humor at work in his vids, and I frequently enjoy them. Met Art is, in general, though, a much better, more enjoyable site.
There definitely seems to be a back-and-forth conversation between Japanese and US-porn. My fave US-porn guys, like Jules Jordan, have definitely shown signs for years of being influenced by Japanese porn, and watching some of the more hard-edged rough and kinky stuff being produced by DAS and Attackers, it seems that they are repaying the favor by picking up on some of Jules' ideas - since in both cases, they're picking up tips from the best rather than the most mediocre people working, it's a really good thing, in my view.
I raise the "unattractive guys" thing as a con mainly as a response to the sentiments that I've seen expressed in this forum.
For my tastes, being an ordinary-looking guy, there's actually a cool element for me in all these ordinary looking guys having naughty fun with these hot girls in Japanese porn.
The bigger turn-off for me is seeing the Wicked and Vivid-style stuff where they're just looking for the guy to be a hard dick to use with the girl and there's no groping, stroking, squeezing of the luscious bods of the girls or any sign of attraction by the guys. The guys in Japanese porn definitely seem interested in all the pervy things that they are doing with the girls.
That would be sad - very sad! As with others here, my entire place would have to go for that to happen, though. A very small percentage of my collection is on my hard drive.
Did you happen to catch the web cam show from the Phoenix internet-girl convention this past weekend? Aaaaaaaamazing! Easily the best web cam show I have ever seen!
Perhaps I mis-read the line where you described the number of zips you would need to down-load - if people want to download an entire site that has been around for as long as ALS Scan, they should definitey expect to be downloading huge numbers of zips.
Your description of the zip issue is not correct - unless there is an error with a particular photo set, the fewest you should be able to download are a full page worth of pics at a time, not 1 zip per pic. If you're finding a problem where that is not the case, you should notify their Support people, who want to know about these things so they can fix them. I know others here have complained about having to download 1 page of pics at a time, and that's a valid criticism.
The bigger-boobed models that they shoot are on their sister site, ALS Angels, which doesn't have nearly the updates as ALS Scan.
My thoughts exactly, Toadsmith - and the length of time I can "really go", like how big my cock is and how much money I make is one of those things that I always lie about, because it's so much better that way - and if I'm with a girl and I lie in an obvious and silly way and she doesn't think it's amusing, well that's just proof that I'm with the wrong girl - but if she appreciates the absurdity of it all, then I know I'm going to have a good time with her no matter what happens.
But I've never had a porn site yet that displayed a message complaining about me having cum too fast so I must be a real stud!
I was able to get in once today but not able to get into any pic sets or do anything else fun. I got back out and tried again and can't even get into the site now.
Here's how it went. I got a trial sub to another of their sites. When I called to cancel, I said, "Hey, I've always wondered what the difference is between this site and Cyberclub." The woman on the phone said, "Well, Cyberclub is our flagship and you ought to check it out. Would you like me to set you up for a free trial?" I said, "Hell yeah!"
I liked the trial, but wasn't interested in paying full price. When I called to cancel the free trial, I told the woman customer service person that and she said, "Well would you joing for $6.95/month?" I said, "Hell yeah!"
And so it went - from an inexpensive trial of one site to a free trial to a deal of $6.95/month.
This was kind of a new initiative they were doing to please long-time members who had been requesting more of the girls they remembered from years before.
This site has a secret (well, it used to be a secret - lol). When I want a month of Raven, every once in a while, I go to the "join" page and hit the "back" key. The site produces a pop-up saying, "Wait!! Join in the next 60 seconds for a limited-time offer of $19.95/month"
I wouldn't join the site for $29.95/month, just because the pic size and quality is not all that great, in my opinion, but $19.95/month to get my Raven Riley fix is quite a decent deal.
It's interesting about the "exclusive" part. I had believed them when they said exclusive until I got a trial at Mari Possa's website. Her site hasn't been updated at all since October 2007 and she had a set there that got posted on 2/27/08 as a Twisty's Network Exclusive. The only thing exclusive about it was that Twisty's did their own photo-shopping to the pics, so they were a variation on the pics at Mari's now dormant site.
I don't know how often this is the case with Twisty's "exclusive" material. This is the only time I have caught them in this false statement - and maybe they consider the photo-shopping to justify the exclusivity claim. In this case, I think they did a good job in treating the pics.
I've grown terribly bored of the photo-work that they do, in general. I was really horrified by what they did with Andi Valentino. I thought they destroyed every photo-set that they posted of her, with the blurring of her face. I can't remember a Twisty's Treat where I thought they did a very good job with the model's photos, though what they did with Andi V was a travesty, as far as I'm concerned, given how freaking gorgeous the woman is.
They claimed that it was just the lighting and make-up, when I posted my criticism in their forum, but the vids don't have the blurring so I don't buy it. Oh, well. They've got a lot of material, and I still think their exclusive vids are quite good, so I'll enjoy the remainder of my membership to some degree and be done with the site and join others (ATK Galleria & Karups PC) that have more variety to the photo-sets that they post.
The company that runs this site and Mya Diamond's site is as bogus as bogus can be, in my opinion. On both sites, they have been just taking their oldest material and tacking it on as new updates for quite a while. You can go to Freeones.com and see material that they have posted as "new" with dates from 2005 on them.
Of course, as with any other site that has a substantial archive of material, if you haven't been there before, it can be new to you, but it's not new material, it's just old stuff tacked on as new with no improvements to them whatsoever - when I was a member of Mya's site, I compared the size of re-posted pic sets and they were exactly the same - no improvements.
That was one bonus that I didn't care for either, but I didn't invest much time in it. Alex had warned that the quality wasn't going to be up to today's standards, so I downloaded one of the smaller vid files and decided that I wouldn't want to spend the time or space going further. They did it for the same reason they have done other things - lots of members asked. Good for them. I just wasn't one of them.
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