There is a new AltPorn site in the mix and although we retired our world famous AltPorn site name generator, it’s spirit lives on in the “Dangerous Dolls” title they have chosen. The Dangerous Dolls recently converted from a free alt-themed social site to a full on pay site, offering all the bells and whistles you’ve come to expect from this genre, including forums, blogs, event calendars, friends lists, personal messaging, chat room, interest groups, etc. The site navigation is nicely done and pretty clearly organized and there is a decent amount of member participation and activity. And yes, they do have some sexy content too!

The Dangerous Dolls splits their photo sets into two categories. They have pro sets provided by their photographers and DIY sets the girls can submit themselves in hopes of getting $60 if approved. Right now Dangerous Dolls has about 134 pro photo sets and 111 DIY sets, and although they claim to update with a new doll photo set or video every day, looking at the post dates over the last month or two, it looks more like an average of one pro set, one DIY set, and maybe one video clip goes up an average of weekly. That’s not too bad, but it isn’t what they claim in their tour. I do like the photo set display navigation, which offers a few different ways to look through the sets, and some of the sets are really nice looking and hot. Many of the sets have a fun amateur alt-model feel, but a few of the sets have been kicking around the web for quite some time. Anyone familiar with this genre will recognize some content that has also appeared on several other sites over the years. Some of those other sites have long since gone under, so maybe you will get lucky and find your favorite missing series of Scarlett Pain or whoever again and be happy. It just makes me nervous when social altporn sites have developed but inactive profiles for girls and the only photos they have are sets I know have been available for $9 open license for about two or three years now. Maybe I should demand a verification photo on friend requests. A lot of the photo sets are fresh and fun though, particularly the more recent ones.

The Dangerous Dolls has a nicely organized video section which now features about 58 somewhat eclectic looking clips. None of them worked for me, but I probably need some sort of plugin. I’m using the current version of Opera, but the video files just broke down into gibberish characters. Judging by the comments, they do work for other people though, and I’m sure if I put some effort into trouble shooting, I could get the problem fixed. I have to say that I don’t have this problem on any other video sites though. Content wise, the video is a mix of personal webcam clips, pro solo porn clips, and assorted randomness, including commercial promo clips put together for advertising The Dangerous Dolls. The members do seem to enjoy this area.

They do have an impressively robust video chatroom that I found to be fairly active. It offers the option to hook your own webcam in and chat face to face with other members and models. I like the entertaining and creative events that they schedule for their live video chat area too, including Strip Pictionary, Naked Webcam Scavenger Hunt, Topless Trivia Thursday, and more. Many of these events even offer small cash prizes for members. This seems like a fun and sociable idea and offers a good non-creepy way to get to know other people from the site.

Overall, The Dangerous Dolls is not a perfect site, but it’s pretty well done in comparison to many new startup AltPorn sites we’ve seen. I don’t like how they began as a free and open social site, invited people to participate with that expectation, and then suddenly switched to a full on pay site with a very professionally designed sales tour. I also don’t like sites that make unsupportable claims in their tour hype. “This isn’t your Dad’s Porn Site!” Well, literally speaking, I guess that’s probably true, but you actually don’t know my Dad at all. I’d rather not think about him while I’m checking out hot naked girls, but if he did have a porn site, it would kick your ass. It bothered me when Burning Angel said it years ago, and it still bothers me when Dangerous Dolls says the same thing now. “…we update every single day! No other alt site can say that!” Actually, there are other alt sites that can say that more truthfully than Dangerous Dolls can. Dangerous Dolls also says they are the “#1 Adult Alternative Community on the Web” which is absurd. There is no measure by which that is true. Not Alexa, not Quantcast, not membership, not content, nothing. Most of the established sites on our AltPorn A-List have stronger, more active, and more popular alternative communities. It’s a shame when sites with good potential ruin their credibility with false hype. I don’t want this to be a negative review. There are a lot of things to like about this site, but the claims I’m knocking down here are just from their front page alone. There is nothing wrong with being a pretty good new site that offers enjoyable features and content that your members really like, don’t ruin it with bologna.

Here are a couple sexy sample shots from recent updates, featuring JasperTrash and Sammie respectively to give you an idea of what Dangerous Dolls members are enjoying.

We’ve featured Mette Th13teen and her sexy fun photography before, and now that she’s launched her multi-girl AltPorn social site Payback Baby, we thought we’d check in with her and see how it’s all going. From exploring Payback Baby myself, I can say that it’s already shaping up to be a friendly supportive and diverse community with a growing number of interesting people. Having it based overseas gives it a different feel. The people are not the same old scene we’re used to seeing on some of the more established AltPorn sites. Some aspects of Payback Baby do still need a little work, but that’s only because it really is a DIY project, rather than being launched by a multi-million dollar company pretending to be two stoners from Seattle or whatever. I really enjoy the photography, although I’m still not a fan of flash viewers at all, and I wish they used a sans serif font, but these are mostly cosmetic gripes and personal preferences. The site it’s self is enjoyable so far and I believe it will continue in a good direction. We’ve already made some really hot friends on Payback Baby and I love the general attitude of the site.

Payback Baby offers some of the same community features you’d expect form an AltPorn site these days, blogs, interest groups, polls, and that sort or thing, but what makes theirs more enjoyable is the people involved. The topics are fun and the members are worth interacting with. The photography is very stylish and sexy. It’s not quite as explicit as I might personally prefer in a membership site, but it has a quality I enjoy and it isn’t the same old thing over and over like some other sites. I can honestly say that Payback Baby is one of my favorite new AltPorn sites. Here is some more info on the site and what it was like to launch and such from Mette Th13teen herself.

How has the launch of Payback Baby gone so far? I’ve noticed some really cool people with profiles over there already.

It is going fine, better than expected when it comes to getting members but the members aren’t as active as hoped for, to be honest! The main idea with making it a community with personal profiles, was to give the members a chance to interact and have fun while looking at hot, naked women?! It sounds like perfection to me but I guess, most other fans of alt. erotica feel differently.. Sneaking a peek is probably more dirty than being upfront about it But yeah, we are all happy – I know, I am! I am not the most patient lady out there so a little more action in a little less time would rock but hey, I am really content with the progress so far! As long as we keep getting applications from new models and new members join, I have no reason to complain really…

Now that you have launched, what is your favorite section of the site?

I don’t have one, I think.. Of course, the sets are a pretty big hit with me since I love shooting them both as a model and a photographer!! But the great part is that we have international models also and they have sent in some amazing work and that really makes me go all giddy There are some HOT models out there modeling for some really talented photographers and it is really nice to see that these people want to be a part of a thing, I created! What else…?! I do love the personal profiles and photo albums since that is not a thing all alt. erotica site have these days – that makes us a little different from all the other newcomers the past couple of years.. Also, the groups are fun – I get to know what makes these people tick, what gets them off?! I am a people person, so that is also a great feature on the site..

Hmm… I learned that the we have this thing called “Janteloven” here in Denmark – we are not that many alt. models in Denmark and certainly not that many alt. fetish models in Denmark so I did know that “Janteloven” existed.. The ignorance kinda blew me away though.. I try to just turn the other cheek, but I am not a huge fan of ignorance or arrogance so my temper took the better of me a couple of times before I learned to just don’t give a fuck a let them lead their own miserable existence without my opinion But other then that, it was kinda what I expected it would be! A lot of hard work, tears and sweat but totally worth it! I have been modeling for a couple of sites and been around for some years now and I have learned a thing a two that were nice to have when starting up my own site.. I have been working with people all my life and a lot of those experiences are pretty good to have too! Not every one takes things as serious as I do, not everyone will deliver on time as I will and so on – I am very old fashioned in that way, respect, responsibility and so on. There is a lot of things, I still need to learn as a person to make it all a bit smoother but I do think, I have some nice qualities too when it comes to leading a site

What exactly is ‘Janteloven’?

Janteloven is a set of rules from and old Danish book in the 30′es that the Scandinavian people kinda adopted.. It lives well here in Denmark and basically it is these 10 commandments to live by. To sum them all up, it would be something like “Don’t think you’re anyone special or that you’re better than us” – I found a link that describes it very well.

Launching a new site, especially with all those features, is always more work than you probably think it will be. I can’t help but notice that the navigation is still a little quirky. What has been the most challenging part of putting the site together?

Probably finding a guy to work with on it, the 1st couple of guys bailed on me and with very little finance, it wasn’t easy! I did a lot of work on the site as it looks now but not all – I am not very good with codes and shit, so my bf did that and I am very happy that he came through for me… I know that the backend of Payback Baby! isn’t the best, but considering what we had to work with in the end, I am pretty damn proud of the site! I never cared about those things as a model, I cared more about getting my fair share of respect from the owners, getting replies on my emails rather fast instead of having to wait for months, that the site didnt look like complete and utter crap, the quality of the photo sets, that the site updates went up on time and so on.. So Im hoping that people care about these things too and in time, the sites backend will improve so be patient, guys Like you noticed it isn’t completely perfect yet but we are still working on it and still learning..

It completely depends on the community! If it is the getting the good old cock pic once in awhile that bothers you, Facebook or Myspace is way worse than these alt. erotica sites! In our case, it was actually photographers, film makers and so on. Before launching the beta site, a lot a those guys wrote my personally and gave me a really hard time; I would never get anywhere, no one would ever want to work with me and so on. Some even came after me personally, apparently I am butch, ugly, come off German (I don’t even wanna know what he meant by that) and so on?! After launching the public site, these guys had the nerve to come back and join the site, try to sell shoots to members and some of the models and so on.. That is why we made the changes in our Terms Of Use! No fucking way in hell, call me uptight and what not but I will not play that way and let those assholes prey on my ladies and members!

Other than that, its pretty basic; be nice to the girls, play nice and show some respect! Up until now, we have only had trouble with 1 model and 1 member that resulted in them leaving the site less then voluntarily and that is just fine with me! We are all adults and we might not all get a long but it is important to me that we all still play nice on the site!! I hope it stays that way..

You have some really hot and amazing girls, how do you go about finding them and approaching them about working with you? Has it changed since you launched your site?

I totally agree and I am very proud of my girls, even though we are “just” 16 at the moment.. Is it wrong to call them my girls? I heart them!! They have been amazing and really supportive!!! Ehmm, back to your question; we don’t actually find them – we have our promo sites like every one else and they usually find us through there! Thank God! And keep coming, ladies We don’t contact girls anymore with the purpose of having the model for us. Before launching the teaser site, we found the first couple of ladies for the site.. We only asked girls that we knew in some way or another so we were sure that these girls were really into the whole thing! Some are friends of mine and some are models, I met on other sites and became friends with and some are just girls, who I shot a time or two.. Some of the ladies are really serious about their modeling career and some of them just love being on the site and get naked in front of my camera and that is enough for them The good thing about it is that it gives us the advantage of having a lot of exclusive girls no one has ever seen before and like you said, they are HOT!

Awwwwww, you poor, ugly American! Ha ha ha ha Funniest question, Ive gotten up until now in like forever! Ill start with the features. On Payback Baby!, there are 2 kinds of membership – the standard member and the paying member. The standard member has limited access to the site and is free, that means no access to the other members personal profiles, the sets and so on. The paying members have access to it all, simple as that! The features, we offer on the site is 5 updates a week, including 1 photo set. We have our so called “Crushes”, that are reviews of movies, music, websites, shops and so on. You get your own personal profile with your own comment section, guest book, photo album, friends list, hotlist, greeting system, blogs and so on. We also have our groups, were members can create new ones and post topics in and what not! Other than that, there is our chat, our Payback Baby! merchandise shops and our polls, which all are allowed to create also.. It is your basic community with all the goods and shit, we just spiced it up with our sets and our Crushes!

Part 2, let me try to explain this without getting your eyes crossed and you thinking about Girl On Girl action instead We charge in Euro because of the financial crisis and being based in Europe. When you join the site, you start out as a standard member and then you upgrade to a paying member with full access through Paypal. This is what a private member pays for a full access membership:

30 days: $5.70 USD
90 days: $14.26 USD
180 days: $25.67 USD
365 days: $45.64 USD

We also offer Business Memberships, which allows you to promote your business, post pictures of your products with intent to sell and so on, those prices are different.

30 days: $18.54 USD
90 days: $51.35 USD
180 days: $99.85 USD
365 days: $188.30 USD
Happy now?

We are going to offer videos – we already have videos in store for you guys but we still need to figure out some details before going live with that feature. We want it to be decent quality and also to show the female body off in ways, Youtube wont allow us too, so… *Grrrrrrrrrrr*. So keep around for that, that is a promise! We are also considering other things like a forum but that is not decided on yet, so I wont go into that to much! There are still some minor quirks and shit, we take care off as fast as we possibly can.. We are still young, we have been public for exactly 1 month today so Happy Anniversary us! As long as the site is up and I am behind it, we will keep improving it and make it a better place to be..

Love to Altporn and all the fans out there from Payback Baby! and Mette Th13teen.

One of our friends, and new participating members here, just wrote a really nice review of Altporn.net and some of our new features for the crushes section of the recently launched Payback Baby site. After writing so many reviews of what other people are doing in Alt, it was really nice to see what people think of what we are doing here! Our new features have been live for less than a week and we are still struggling with some of the transition, but we are all very happy to hear that our readers are enjoying the new social options. We have lots of plans in store too. (Now if we could just get our comments to work.) Payback Baby is a fun site and it already has some really cool people participating, so be sure to go check it out.

Speaking of sexy alt-boys, several of our friends have contacted us about a new site that just launched called Home for Lost Boys. This new entry in the altporn genre was recently started by one of the girls from GeekGirlsOnline, along with several of her talented friends. They say they launched the site because they were tired of the dearth of cute alt-boys available for online viewing pleasure. Taking into account that we’re going to have to get a reviewer on board soon that actually gets off on hot naked alternative guys, in my opinion, the content here so far looks promising.

The rhetoric still leaves a little to be desired. In their site FAQ, for example, they answer the question:

Is this porn?
“We will never have explicit material on the site. Our models are not required to show full frontal, and nudity will always be tasteful and appropriate. Photographers and models have been blurring the line between art and porn for years, and we seek to further that movement.”

If they are trying to further blur the line, they should stay away from the absolute statements and implied value judgments. I don’t even know what some of that even means. Is hard cock more explicit than limp dick? It seems to imply that if they are always tasteful and appropriate and they are never explicit, one could conclude that they feel explicit isn’t tasteful and appropriate, which I do not agree with. Maybe an argument could be made that shirtless girls would be adult content a site could charge membership fees for, so maybe shirtless guys should be fair adult content to charge for too. But, for my money, I want to know I’m getting adult material worthy of at least a hard ‘R’ rating. I don’t see a single penis in their entire tour.

Despite their manifesto reading like an checklist of indie altporn site cliche’s, like notice that the site is “primarily run by women” as if that somehow makes any positive difference, I do think they have something people might enjoy, they just need more of it. They do get a bag full of bonus points for not telling us they are the ‘first’ of anything and I really do hear a lot about how hard it can be to fine sexy naked cool looking guys on the adult web. I just hope they get over their shy approach and commit to the fact that they have a paid membership site that should feature hot naked alternative guys. They need to jump in with both feet and go for it full on, because if they cling to the idea that their content may or may not get naked, depending on how they feel, etc. then Home for Lost Boys will fail.

I only hope that they understand that we really do want a good entry in the altporn marketplace that features nice photography (and video) showing stylish, attractive, fun, creative, cool guys, so this isn’t meant as pan of the site. It’s a new site and I hope that they think about some of this experienced advice and make the commitments and adjustments required for them to succeed. In the mean time, their introductory prices are not too bad, so check it out for yourself and let them know what you want to see in this sort of site.

We usually have a policy that discourages getting caught up in the hype of new sites launching in the AltPorn genre. So many of them make huge promises and a lot of them come off as disrespectful of the sites that are already successfully advancing artistic alternative erotica. They say things like ‘we’re the first to respect models’ and ‘we’re the first to feature real women’ and if you think about it, that’s really not true. We like to see them get their feet wet for a while and come back to them once they have been running long enough to learn a thing or two about what it’s really like.

However, our sexy Danish model/photographer friend Mette Th13teen just let us know about a sexy new site she’s on the verge of launching called Payback Baby, so I thought we’d break the rules a little on this one. Like many, it promises personal profiles, your own photo album (which many don’t offer), specialized user groups, personal blogs, chat, etc.. Plus quality photography of alternative erotica and more. They don’t have many people on their MySpace or their InkedNation promotional profiles yet, but we wish them success. Mette has a really good attitude and I think her heart and her head are in the right place. I also really enjoy Mette’s photography and modeling and her taste is quite good too, so I’m very interested in what she will put together for this project. Judging by the early samples, it looks like it’s going to be pretty hot. Keep your eyes on the horizon for this one.

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.

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.

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. 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. 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. I really like RD, despite some issues with usability. It has hot hot hot content, especially the vids, and is well worth checking out.

The 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!).

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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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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