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And What About BrokenDollz?

For a site listed in our AltPorn ‘A’ List, BrokenDollz has kind of been flying below the radar for a bit. As far as the genre goes, it’s one of the younger sites, but so far it’s showing some good signs. We recently took an extensive tour of what they are up to and it certainly looks promising.

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BrokenDollz features a kind of homegrown social networking system for it’s members and dollz, with MySpace style profiles, private messaging, bulletins, personal journals, friends lists, testimonial comments, around 50 themed interactive groups, and all that fun stuff. Members can display several of their favorite dollz as well as their favorite sets on their own personal profile and even upload up to 40 of their own images. All of which makes the site very personal. The active membership base is currently not terribly crowded, but the people that do participate on the site are really friendly and personable. I’m sure people could actually find friends there and that is ultimately the goal of this sort of system. On the overall, we found the social networking feature set to be pretty cool and easy to understand, although still a little rough when it comes to look and feel.

The content has that sort of co-opish authentic feeling that some fans of the Alt genre tend to like, even if it comes off as a little less slick in it’s production. There are quite a number of sexy video clips generally featuring their select dollz in intimate solo masturbation scenes with vibrators and such. We particularly liked the clips of Scarlet Rose listening to her iPod on blast and buzzing her clit with a little pink vibrator. Her multiple climaxes came across as genuine and really hot and she seemed totally oblivious to the camera work, instead lost in her music and self pleasure. There is another entertaining section called ‘love letters’ featuring sexy little stroke fiction stories written by a bunch of their dollz and members, along with a few sexy pictures to go with them. Some of the stories even have accompanying downloadable MP3 files of the girls reading their naughty stories aloud, which we found to be a really nicely done bonus. The photo layouts are nicely varied with about 95ish dollz to choose from, many with multiple sets. These sets do tend to come off a bit on the amateurish side, as far as production goes, which potentially works for some people, but not so much for others. It’s really up to the individual taste. We liked quite a few of the layouts, but the image size still needs a little bit of a boost. The pictures run at about 550 pixels in the longest dimension, so the ones seen here are actually full sized, which is quite small by current standards.

One area which we feel could us a little improvement is the way they display current or most recent photo sets. We get the impression that they are working on this area, so maybe it will be in good shape soon, but right now it’s very difficult to look at the photo layouts in the order they were posted. The dollz are listed in a sort of most recent to first on the site chronological order, but the photo layouts are not currently listed that way, so members sort of have to look at the site’s outside tour pages to figure out what has actually posted lately.

So, on the overall, for a new site, BrokenDollz has some pretty cool stuff going on, even if they still have a few areas to work on. A lot of the dollz are hot and the growing community member base is interactive and friendly. It will be interesting to see what the site grows into over time, and for the current price of 20.00 for 3 months, it’s certainly worth checking out.

BrokenDollz

Review: RazorDolls.com

RazorDolls isn’t pretty. It’s kinda hard to read the text much of the time because of the brightly colored, busy backgrounds used. Figuring out the navigation is sometimes a lot harder than it should be. And the site sometimes acts a little funky: asking for login info at odd times and other little glitches. Some might find this endearingly punk rock, sorta like the shitty photocopying and chopped-off text in your friend’s hardcore zine from back in ‘92. RazorDolls.com Ultimately, though, Content is King, and RD has some really, really good content. The 50 or so models on the site are featured in a similar number of photo sets, mostly solo pinup-type softcore work. There are also about a dozen videos, and these are the crown jewels of the site: gorgeous, sexy, naughty punk rock girls getting off by themselves and each other (and the occasional punk rock boy). Girls like Alley, Stilla and Amber drip (literally!) with a carnal sexuality that I’ve very rarely seen. The camerawork and technical aspects are pretty amateur, but that added a strong sense of realism for me. These videos are by themselves worth every penny of the membership fees. RazorDolls.com Nearly every site that would fall into the “altporn” genre has stuff like a discussion forum, model blogs, and the like, and RD is no different. I can’t say that the activity in the forums or the blogs blew me away, but we’re reaching a saturation point here, and I wonder if sites like RD are doing themselves a disservice by throwing up big forums that just can’t maintain a respectable level of participation. The most expansive audience that’s out there for this kind of content already has their MSN groups and Myspace and Yahoo 360, and they’re probably not looking for another one. That’s not to say that there’s no value in models, photogs and webmasters interacting with their audience from either a marketing or user experience standpoint, but I wonder if every altporn site should be trying for a vibrant social network. RazorDolls.com I really like RD, despite some issues with usability. It has hot hot hot content, especially the vids, and is well worth checking out.

Two Big Meanies reviewed on SugarClick

Russel and Lauren of Two Big MeaniesThe cool folks at Two Big Meanies contacted me months ago about doing a review of their site, and I didn’t because I’m not really into BDSM so much, and didn’t feel like I could do it justice. Since I haven’t been able to nail down people to help with reviews, I kinda put them off. I always felt bad about that because they seem like really cool folks with a good site. Thankfully, the ultra smart and hot Audacia Ray has come through for SugarClick and written up a review of TBM:

I freely admit that most of the time, there’s something about BDSM smut that just doesn’t sit right with me – scenes are often boiled down to the action bits, and there is no context for the interaction. On Two Big Meanies, however, you get a real sense of connection between the players, and nearly every video or photo set shows moments of checking in and even aftercare (cuddling! talking about the scene!).

Site Review: BurningAngel.com

BurningAngel is one of the best sites I’ve seen so far. It strives hard to be a place to see and be seen, and it achieves this admirably. Girls, toys and girls, girls on girls, boys in girls, photos, videos, good god, what else you need to get you off? Shut up, sit down. Lemme finish this.

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Site Review: CityKittie.com

I moved this review up so folks could leave comments. If you’re a CityKittie model or customer, leave a comment and let us know what you think! -Ed

Eight month old CityKittie.com has pushed its way onto the scene, bringing plenty of tits and ass to shake your stick at. The hot punk girls here take off their clothes for you in pictures, on video, all alone, with each other, and sometimes with their favorite toys. But don’t let that fool you into thinking this site is girls only. As soon as the first stag decides to get his dick out of shrink wrap and into some sexy girl for CK to take a picture of, you’ll be seeing it, I’m told. Most of the content is of fairly average quality, interspersed with talented amateurs to hardcore professionalism. I expect things will change for the better once City Kittie recieves more attention from the consumer public.

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Site Review: DarkPlay.net

DarkPlay is a Cyber-Dyke site that features pictures and video. The content on the site is mostly lesbian and hardcore, and the quality of the site is very professional. The updates are done fairly frequently, at least weekly. They usually update with 1-2 galleries of about 30-60 images or one video.

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Site Review - Fatal Beauty

FatalBeauty. Wow. I was impressed from the start with just the site layout, and then I pushed further and immersed myself in true artistic erotic expression.

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Site Review - That Strange Girl

That Strange Girl is an easy to use altporn site that brings quite a bit of fresh content to feed our hungry lust demon. An expanding base of models bring you some of the hottest scenes out there, through racy pictures, fun videos, and the carnal creativity of their own minds in short story form. Models also occasionally hop on their webcams and give a live show for members.

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