Excellent review.
I agree with almost everything you wrote.
Also, pleasantly surprised you gave Met-Art a score of 99.
Makes me feel that I am in good company. :)
I agree the old format is much easier and simpler to use.
Plus, it's the once I've been accustomed to.
Separately, the new format can mess up the intro page.
A few days ago, the new format page came up automatically, and everything was in tiny size. The thumbnails were tiny, the text size was tiny, and there were 2 black bars on the sides of the page that took up most of the page.
I sent an email to Met-Art support, asking how to get rid of the page and return to the old format.
Support emails me back, within a few hours, but their reply was not useful. They said they could not duplicate the effect that I was seeing for the Met-Art page.
I increased the size of the page using the VIEW-ZOOM option on my Firefox browser, and that allowed me to find the icon to return to the old format. (I couldn't read the page in the new format since everything was so tiny, except for the 2 black bars which were taking up most of the page.)
Anyway, I will use the old format as long as I can.
I've read reports by some PU members that mention distortions in photos, and now I better understand what they were talking about. Because I always thought the photo quality was perfectly acceptable.
Using a smaller monitor, and almost never zooming in for fine details, explains the difference.
I agree that MetArt has tons of content and thousands of lovely models.
Maybe there is too much content, and the average viewer starts to get bored. A psychology thing.
Very few of the videos at MetArt are worth watching or saving.
That's my opinion, in spite of how lovely the models can be. The vidoes are boring, not erotic.
If you are seeking an erotic site where the models make an art of removing their clothing, you are better off looking elsewhere. Some photo sets or videos might start off with the girl wearing some article of clothing. But the majority of the photos feature fully nude models.
Metart is supposed to be Most Erotic Teens, and it's mainly stayed true to that approach. There is very little stripping. It's mostly an appreciation of the bodies of young females. Most of the models are attractive to lovely. The photographers are professional, among the best in the business.
A few members of PU have expressed a wish for an erotic strip tease site. But that niche seems lost in today's market.
Excellent review. I basically agree with everything you wrote. Except possibly I don't find the cross-selling very annoying, compared to what many other paysites do.
Obviously, I would like to get their entire network for free, after joining any one of the network sites, but we can't have everything.
I think that Metart is the best value in the network.
I even paid for a lifetime membership to Metart. I only wish I had done that from the start, because it would have saved me the monthly and annual memberships to Metart that I have paid for. Except that I think for many years while I was a member, they didn't offer a lifetime membership.
I've been a member of Metart at different times for the last 10 years or more.
I can't say I've seen every photo set or video they have posted.
But I never came across a peeing scene.
My guess is that the person who told you about the peeing scenes was talking about Grigori Galitsin, who contributed to Metart in its early days.
Galitsin did make some videos featuring peeing, masturbation, lesbian sex, but that content was posted on his own site, not on Metart.
And the Galitsin photo sets that were posted on Metart (which were strictly softcore), were removed from Metart, after Galitsin ran into legal problems with Russia.
I use Down Them All, a free program, that works well at most paysites I've joined. Including Metart. I've set up queues with 6 or more links, and can't recall any problems with the download at Metart (or most other paysites I've joined).
Try Down Them All, a free, easy to use program, and report your results.
I agree that it sounds like some of them don't know what they are doing.
I just got a new email today (August 15) from Metart, offering me a discount to join VivThomas for $14.99, a 50% discount.
I can't post the link at PU, because that is against their rules.
And maybe you don't want to join VivThomas, anyway.
But send me an email through the PU internal email system, and I can show you a link to join The Life Erotic for $14.99/month, rebilling at $14.99/month.
Have you signed up for the Metart newsletter?
It's free. A one-page email, usually showing some covers of photo sets or videos from the network.
The email sometimes has some nice discounts for different site memberships.
The best discount was for $1/month membership to Erotic Beauty, that would never be raised in price.
PU rules didn't allow the link to access that offer to be posted on PU.
I joined Erotic Beauty, and it's cost me $12 for the 12 months I've been a member.
But no other offers came close to that one.
But sometimes you do get a nice discount to one or more sites in the Metart network in the Metart newsletter.
I've been a member of MetArt many times in the past. I've also been a member of some of the newer sites in their network.
But I've never gotten a refund from them.
Maybe I should send an email complaining about how they seem to favor some members over others.
I've never even sent them an email to their customer service, that I can remember.
But I agree that MetArt is probably the best site for softcore erotic teen photos on the internet, considering their price, high quality of photosets and models, and massive content.
If there was some way they could improve their videos, I would give them a 100% score. But they seem to be trying to make their videos slightly more erotic.
When Grigori Galitsin got into trouble in Russia and went to jail, MetArt removed all of his sets. He was one of the earliest photographers who contributed to MetArt (at the time MetArt was called Most Erotic Teens, which is where the M(ost) E(rotic) T(eens), or Met, came from.
But I have no idea why MetArt has been removing the sets of models recently.
I agree that Berengere A is a great-looking model. She used to have a lot of sets at HegreArt, but I believe they were removed as well.
Sometimes, if a model asks for her sets to be removed, the site will agree. Even though in many cases the site owns the rights to the photosets. I believe they do it out of respect for the model's wishes. Which seems like a nice gesture.
But I have no information on why Berengere's sets were removed.
You get free access to what sites, for how long?
And after the free access, which I assume ends in a short while, your free membership, which can be cancelled, I assume, then turns into a paid membership at what price?
There are sites in the Met Art network I would like to visit, if the free membership is for a week or more.
But 1-day memberships are too short for me. I'm not that efficient that I can explore a site in 1 day very well.
I'm currently a member of several sites in the Met Art network, and there's not enough hours in a day to do them justice.
I didn't even know Watch 4 Beauty was going to be part of their network.
It seems that are adding new sites at a rapid pace. Some of the sites are older, established sites, other sites are apparently completely new.
PU has a link to join Watch $ Beauty for $14.95/month.
Like you, I wish Met Art had kept the discount link to join other sites in the network for $10/month.
Maybe, just hoping, if one of the Met Art web masters looks at the PU comments, they might bring it back. Or not.
If Metart reported that other subscribers using Comcast were having trouble accessing the Metart site, it seems likely that Comcast was the source of your connection problem.
I have used AT&T and DSL Extreme, and have never had any problem connecting to Metart. And I've been a Metart subscriber many times over the years.
Maybe you should consider using another internet provider, if you have any other problems with your connections. If that is a possibility.
Maybe it was a momentary glitch, but I now see a link for the discounted prices ($10/month) to join other sites in the MetArt network, if you are already a member of one of the sites in the network.
I have signed up for a lot of "favorite" model alerts, but I have never gotten a single email alert.
I checked my email inbox (and spam box) every day.
But I have never gotten a single email alert from Metart when a model I listed in my favorites (and requested email notification) had a new photoset or video.
I don't know a single PU member that has written they like the Metart videos. I guess it's a mental thing, but the videos at most softcore sites are really boring, no matter how attractive the models might be.
I've joined Metart a couple of times for the 1-year membership. But most of my memberships were for 1 month.
I'm wondering how many other sites have options to make the sites easier to use. I guess I'm just lazy, because I log in to most sites, and don't bother to test any ways there might be to make the site more user-friendly.
But I'm glad I found the Metart link that changes measurements from metric to English.
Regarding "Surely you can roughly work out the models age from the time it was first published?"
My mind is focused on enjoying these natural beauties.
Taking the current age of the model, then subtracting the number of years the photoset was published to get the model's approximate age at the time of the photoshoot, somehow interferes with that enjoyment. If my mind could perform these calculations automatically, that would be different. But I have to think about the different dates to calculate, and why should I have to?
In that case, it's easier to ignore the exact age of the model, both current and at the time of the photoshoot.
I'm talking about my personal psychology. Someone else could easily have a different point of view.
I'm a bit older than you are. So if I'm still around in 20 years time, I might be thinking these 40+ year old models are looking damn fine. That's if I can still see and think in my 80s. :)
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