Type of Site: Bondage
Address: www.hogtied.com 
Price: 
$34.95/month
Date of Review: 
April, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

(Note: In March 2008 they upgraded the video to 720p HD. That's only for the new stuff they're adding though.-Eds.)

We weren't expecting to be this impressed. What we were expecting was pretty clear: A site along the same lines as the others put out by San Francisco-based Kink.com, much like Fucking Machines, Water Bondage, Wired Pussy, Sex and Submission, etc., etc. And, to be sure, that is what you're going to get. Which means: lots of imaginative and highly professional bondage-related fetish action (almost all of which is set in the same grim dungeon set we have to admit we're getting tired of), weekly updates (every Tuesday) in the form of a full new episode around 30-50 minutes long, good quality video (640x480 and 700 kb/s playback in RealPlayer and Windows Media format since December 2005, plus an iPod version too if you're into that), excellent member feedback/discussion, and of course a totally transparent tour that shows you everything the site has to offer. So that's all good. These guys have never disappointed us in the past and we weren't expecting to be let down this time either. (Note: This site, which launched in 1997, was actually their first. It's just one of the last for us to review.)

Still, we weren't expecting to like Hogtied quite as much as we did. And if you want to know why, it's because of two recently-added episodes we watched:

What Impressed Us the Most, Part One: Seeing busty ebony goddess Jada Fire getting her whopping big tits all oiled and roped up and hung from the ceiling, or stretched on a rack while a dildo gets shoved in her slobbering mouth and a vibrator plays on her pussy. Wow. OK, maybe it's not your thing, but it worked for us. And judging from the feedback from members, it works for other people too (almost everyone gave it a perfect 5 out of 5, and these people are usually pretty harsh!). This is a great bondage scene. Only negative in our book was when she says "Oh my goodness!" That seemed kind of . . . inappropriate, given the context. Anyway, here are the video previews for this update here:

What Impressed Us the Most, Part Two: when we visited (April 2006) the most recent update was a feature filmed they'd just produced called Cabo: Day of the Dead. This really was special. It was shot on location in Mexico and, just like a real movie, comes complete with a credit roll at the beginning. There are also some special effects (that actually look pretty good), and--best of all--the video quality is knocked up to 1280x720 and double the bit rate.

We thought this was a flat-out great little movie. It tells the story of these four tourists whose spirit forms are whisked away at night while they're sleeping to a bondage/torture garden where they are sexually dominated by two guys in spooky masks. Yeah, some of the acting is kind of brutal in the early going. We really liked the girl in the green nightie who is clearly uncomfortable just standing around delivering dialogue and eager to cut to the chase (watch how she keeps playing with the bottom of her nightie, as though impatient to take it off or at least lift it up). But overall it's very, very well done: slickly paced and edited, mysterious and erotic. In our opinion it's one of the best Made-for-the-Internet feature productions we've ever seen (though, admittedly, there haven't been a lot of those). Anyway, you can see some previews of the action here, here, and here.

As for the rest of the site--no surprises. Lots of rope-play and women being trussed up in odd positions. Usually there's some genital stimulation as well, fitting with the whole "women forced to orgasm" idea. If you're into bondage you're going to really love it, especially considering how much stuff they've got. 380 shoots, or nearly 6,500 video clips (these numbers are kept up-to-date on the tour so you can always check for yourself to see how much they've got by the time you're reading this). 

As for us, well, as we've said before we find bondage a little cold. These "ropemaster" guys (the main one here is Matt Williams) seem so cool and professional. And the woman-as-bound-object thing is a bit chilly too. But that's the niche.

The only thing we didn't like (aside from our dislike of the dungeon set) was the price. Yes, the bondage fetish is more expensive than almost any other porn (see, for another example, an excellent site like The English Mansion). But the rest of the Kink.com sites feature heavy bondage too, and they aren't this expensive. Yeah, it's been going for a while and has a lot of content, but so does Fucking Machines.

Oh well, it's pricey but we certainly wouldn't call it a rip-off. There's no question it's got lots of high-quality exclusive material for the bondage fanatic. If you're thinking of spending $35 on a pure bondage site then this should be the one.

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