Type of Site: N/A
Address: www.eroticy.com 
Price:
3-day free trial; $21.95/month
Date of Review:
April, 2005
Pornreports Rating: 

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Review:

OK, so we didn't give this site a grade. Why? Three reasons: (1) Because it's not really a "porn paysite". Or at least it is, but that's not what is is mainly; (2) Since there is a free trial, it's kind of hard to say what kind of value that translates to on a scale of 1 to 9; and (3) It offers a large online dating/personals section, and we don't know a lot about that scene or how to judge it.

So here's what we came up with.

Eroticy describes itself as an online adult "community." What this means in practical terms is that it is a site that attempts to integrate adult content (porn), with a huge personals database. It's sort of like two sites in one. We'll try and deal with both separately, but maybe in the first place we should say something about the integration. It makes sense to us. At least this way you know you're getting to meet people who are porn-positive. But at the same time the integration isn't complete. The porn content and the personals don't really overlap very much. It's like the porn is there more as an icebreaker. And what better way to get in the mood?

(1) The Porn Site: If you're just looking to get off then this is all you'll need. What you get is a load of amateur content. Sort of reminded us of Homegrown Video. About 4,000 picture galleries and over 3,000 videos. Things to note:

-- this is not exclusive content, at least as far as we could tell;
-- the pics we looked at weren't very big, and many were of poor quality (fuzzy and very amateur);
-- the movies are quite long (many 30 minutes or more, and remember there are a lot of them), but they are all streaming. No downloads. And we didn't think the streaming was the best we've seen in terms of picture quality. At the larger size they seemed blurry and had choppy playback.

In addition to this content you also get a lot of camshows and house cams by well-known Internet names like Sammy4U, Kat Vixen, Naughty Allie and others.

(2) The Community: Again with the impressive numbers. Eroticy claims to have 3,000,000 users. That's certainly an impressive database. And they also have a highly specialized search engine that will help you find a fuckbuddy (or romantic partner) within driving distance. The site mainly caters to American users, but we gave it a whirl anyway (we're in Canada) and got three pages of hits for big-titted swingers into oral who were within an hour of our home base. We didn't try hitting them up, but apparently they are out there. Most of the member profiles also come with a bit of info and maybe a few pictures.

Since we don't really know much about online personals we can't say much more than that. It is a big database and it's easy to use. Good luck and try to stay away from those cannibals trolling for their next meal!

There are some extras but they were pretty standard stuff (a bunch of feeds, trivia, jokes, polls, etc.). There are a couple of other things we should mention though. In the first place the free trial, which is very nice, is also limited. You will only be able to download one video or view one camshow per day. The second point we would make, and this is more critical, is that there is way too much advertising going on. It's on every page. There are even ads that come up with each of the individual pics you enlarge. This is marketing overkill and makes the whole thing seem a bit too slick and commercial.

On the plus side, they do appear to have a dedication to the service end of things. It's a very big outfit and there's lots of support. If you're only looking for jack material we'd just give it an OK rating, but the personals are really what this site is all about. So if you're curious, the free trial (for which you don't have to provide your credit card number) makes it at least worth a peek.

Other Reviews of This Site:

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---Porn Inspector 
---Rabbit's Reviews 
---Self Lover's World 
---Sir Rodney 
---What Porn Site? 

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