Type of Site: Teen   
Address:
www.nubiles.net  
Price:
 
$29.31/month  
Date of Review:
 
February, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

FEBRUARY 2006 RE-VISIT

A little over a year after our initial review we got a request for a re-visit. Included in the request was a lengthy (very lengthy) description of what has changed. Seems like they've been really busy.

Our first impression was that it sort of looked the same as last time. Same girl with the funky toque, same monster indexes, same ads for other sites on the main page (ugh). But these were just first impressions. The more we started digging around the more impressed we were at how they've improved the experience. It has the feel of a Euroteen Twistys now, which is a good thing to be.

Here's a breakdown:

The "Featured" girls, which were the non-exclusive sets, are now called "Bonus Girls", and they're in a separate section. The exclusive content is of the "Choice" girls, and they're up to 130 of them (with two being added every week).

Some attempt is being made to develop interaction between members and models. A private messaging system allows members to send private messages (e-mails) to the girls. We're not sure how well this works, but the webmaster tells us that the models do have the ability to answer and that the average answer time is 7 to 14 days. Also in this category of changes is a blog/diary page. This didn't seem to be very active at all. Apparently there wasn't enough interaction because members preferred to contact the girls using the message system. So it's kind of dead. But from this page you also access what are described as "full-length biographies." Now given that these girls are all in their teens, "full-length" is obviously a relative measurement. In fact, each biography is an extended Q&A with the girl describing her likes and dislikes, past experiences (sexual and otherwise), etc. We actually found these to be really interesting, and far more detailed than what you usually get in such potted profiles. They certainly add a personal, authentic touch.

There is a more advanced search function, including a really interesting "niche locator" thing where you can grab all the pics of a particular model (or all the pics total) based on whether they are ass, tits, legs/feet, or close-up shots. A good idea we haven't seen before. (After we wrote this we went back to the e-mail we received from the webmaster, where he says: "I  bet you have never seen this feature on any other site you have ever reviewed." He's right; we haven't.) 

There is a rating system that allows each model, picture set and video to be voted on. Looks good, but we don't know who the fuck is rating these things. A number of the top-rated sets and models would have been nowhere near the top if we were doing the rating. And other girls deserved to be rated much higher. Of course stuff like this is all subjective, and whether you want to pay any attention to such rankings anyway is up to you. We just shook our heads and moved on.

The videos are still clocking in at 1100 kb/s and 480x360, which is good. You get a choice of downloading 2-minute clips or full videos, which is also good. The only thing we could have gone for was better thumbnailing here. But putting all the videos on one page (which we didn't think was necessary) makes this hard. 

There has also been a second size for images added. Most of the members area exclusive images are 800x1200. The new, larger-size pics are 1200x1800, and very sharp at that size as well. Only the news sets are in this second size though. And now picture sets in both sizes can be downloaded in zip files.

There is a picture post message board where members can post pictures from the site with a link from the members area and then talk about it. Seems to be quite active.

Navigation: They say they've improved this, and we guess they have (it's been a year now and we don't remember it that well). Still, while there are plenty of links to jump around to the different sections, and it's pretty easy to get where you want, we thought it looked kind of messy. Especially the main page of the members section. They really need to simplify that, there's just too much going on. And we also missed having a Home link on every page. Once you get into the galleries you have to keep hitting the Back button to get back out. 

The "free DVD" offer has been changed so that if you stay a month and buy a DVD you get a second one free.

Bonus content: The webmaster would like to correct our earlier opinion that "Spring Break Fuck Adventures" "looks like it's all licensed." He tells us that it is not licensed. Fair enough. But it's not really "spring break" footage either (except in the licensed extras area). It's a bunch of generic hardcore scenes that all seem to be shot indoors. You can call it "South Padre Island"or "Panama City" if you want, but to us it just looks like a young couple fucking on a bed. Which is another way of saying we're not sure it makes a lot of difference.  But it does add quite a bit of hardcore action to your membership (around 70 movies), and that's always nice. Also included is Katrina18, an exclusive solo teen site.

And there you have it. Definite improvements across the board: more content, more updates, more personality, more member interaction and functionality, and bigger pics. We really liked the lengthy "biographies" and the niche search function they've added too. Our only gripes were that some of the pages still had a cluttered feel to them, and that the photography could use some more style and imagination. But we have to say that if you're looking for a good general teen site, these guys have established themselves as one of the leaders.

DECEMBER 2004 REVIEW

Do you ever wonder about movie reviewers who have to watch four or five new movies a week and then write reviews of them? Do you think they start to suffer from burn-out after a while? Maybe they get to feel like they've seen it all before. They get blasé about it.

That was a feeling we started to get right away with Nubiles.net, which features a lot of softcore amateur teens. Nothing wrong with any of it . . . but we've been here many, many times over the years. More on that later.

Let's start at the beginning. Right off the bat you get some help from the dictionary, defining nubile as "a girl who has reached sexual maturity, when a girl blossoms into a woman" or "sexually mature or attractive. Used of young women."

Do you know what all that means? It means teens! This is a teen site, and nothin' but a teen site. And like most teen sites it's mostly softcore posing, masturbation and toy-play. Note that when we say "mostly" in this case we mean 95%. We noticed a couple of hardcore scenes (that is, some girl doing a cock), but that was it. No glam. Natural teen tits. Virtually all white girls, no ethnics. And do you know what that means? Well, let's just say their English isn't always the best.

So that's it for the nature of the content. Here are some pretty typical sample galleries to look at:

    

For the most part the girls are cute, but nothing spectacular. The photography is pretty generic. You don't see much variety from the staples like masturbating on the sofa, on the bed, in the shower sets. Overall, this is not a site with much of an independent identity.

For one thing, it has a lot of non-exclusive content. The girls come in two main categories: Choice (which means they are exclusive) and Featured (licensed). Different faces, but otherwise they are indistinguishable. And you get a lot more licensed content than exclusive: 45 choice models to 246 featured girls.

There is also advertising in the members area, cleverly disguised as external site "reviews". No brownie points for that. In fact, looking at the sites that are advertised led us to some invidious comparisons. They pump ALS Scan quite a bit, which is the same niche, but a better site in our opinion.

Site design is pretty crude and unattractive. No attempt at a search function--you just pick the girls from two mega-indexes of headshots. Navigation isn't helped by the poor thumbnailing in both the video (one thumbnail per movie) and photo (sometimes no thumbnails at all!) areas. Even the writing is sloppy:

It is our goal to bring you the youngest and hottest nubile age women. We update our members area often with fresh girls, high quality pictures, movies, the truth and other bonuses.

The truth and other bonuses. What does that mean?

In fact, it does mean something. At least the "other bonuses" part. We don't know what the truth means. Membership here gets you a number of bonus sites with a fair bit of extra content. It isn't entirely on target with this site's audience, but you also get Drunk Spring Break Girls and Spring Break Fuck Adventures (which may, on our cursory examination, be essentially the same site). This stuff looks like it's all licensed, and the site design is brutal, but there is a lot of public nudity/party girl video hidden away here.

Other negatives, while we're at it: The pages, and the downloads, were slow. They also don't offer a full range of options for the video downloads, with everything coming in one format (mpeg) and one bandwidth (which for the newer ones is a solid 1000 kb/s). The photography and video, while competent, is without any sense of style. Most of the videos are around 20 minutes long in total, and are usually (nothing is standard here) available for download as five or six shorter clips or as one long full movie.

Now there are some positives to mention. As noted, you do get a good chunk of bonus content. The site is updating with two new sets daily. The "choice" photos are large and clear (the feature girls pics are just average). There is a lot of video and the video quality is quite high, allowing for fullscreen playback. If you stay for a month they apparently give you a free DVD as well.

Our sense was that this was a large site, technically solid but without a lot of care put into the design and quite generic in terms of its content. The monthly rate is kind of steep too for the amount of licensed material.