Type of Site: Amateur
Address:
www.ukamateursexland.com
Price: 
$19.95/month
Date of Review: 
December, 2005
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

(Note: This is basically the same site as Porn British. If there's a difference we couldn't see it.-Eds.)

The funny thing about amateur porn is that so much of it looks the same. The reason that's funny (not funny "ha-ha," but sort of funny-ironic . . . you know what we mean) is because real amateurs aren't the Barbie-doll clones you see in Playboy. Amateur porn is all about diversity--representing those three billion "girls next door" out there: fat and thin, young and old, black and white and red and yellow and every shade in-between.

Or at least that's the way it should be. And sometimes it is. But amateur porn can also seem pretty generic after a while. Especially when it's part of an amateur mega-site stacked with non-exclusive content. This is the problem we had with UK Amateur SexLand. It's a nice big site with lots of stuff to look at, good navigation, a great update schedule, and a bargain price . . . but it's not very special.

Here's the good news: 1200 photosets and 153 video clips when we visited, and they're adding one new photoset every day and a new video every week (they keep a running tally so you can check). Among the models you'll probably see some familiar UK faces (which means we're not sure just how "amateur" they are), as well as a few very rough-looking gals. We used to call girls like this "horrors," but whenever we said it out loud people thought we were saying "whores." To be fair, it's hard to tell the difference (try saying both out loud and see if you don't agree). But of course calling doggy Internet girls whores really wasn't saying anything. So that's why we stopped using that word.

But don't worry because there's only a few really ugly ones. Most of the girls (or, as the usual euphemism has it, "models") are pretty good. And there's also a nice variety in terms of content. In addition to browsing through the model headshots . . . but wait! Another digression!

Why do we always have to browse model indexes by headshots? It seems like 90% of all porn paysites that have a model index do it this way. But why? Sure, we like a pretty face as much as the next Smut Ranger, but wouldn't it make more sense to have an index made up of thumbnails showing representative face and body shots? Now back to the review . . .

In addition to browsing through the model headshots you can also search the site's content by category. This worked pretty good, but there were some wonky elements. We can never figure out why sites like this have a search category for "amateur." Isn't it all amateur? It's like reading an 800-page biography (not that any of us have, though Jim tried) of Winston Churchill and looking up "Churchill, Winston" in the index. And--can you believe another rant?--what is with all these 30-something girls who get classified as "mature" or "MILFs"? The porn biz is desperately in need of a new word to describe women who aren't teens and maybe outside of their prime porn years, but who definitely are not "mature" if that word is being used with any connotations of being old. We did a "mature" search here and found a few genuine oldies, but also a bunch of girls who couldn't have been too much over 30. What gives? Could it be that we're getting old? Noooooooooooo! 

So here's a suggestion: Let's keep "mature" for women who are patently over 40.

Now back to the fucking review!

Navigation is fast and straightforward. Layout looks good, though we couldn't figure out why the main frame menu had a link to "News." There never seemed to be any "News" aside from the updates. There is absolutely no editorial/critical/user commentary anywhere on the site. The only extras are some stories. 

But the big nut-buster here is the quality. The pics aren't bad, reproduced at 681x1024. But the video, we have to say, sucks. Each movie is around 20 minutes long and can be downloaded as a single file or as 10 2-minute clips. Great. You can grab them in Windows Media or RealPlayer formats. Great. You have a choice of three playback speeds: 56K, 128K, or 256K.

Not so great. Nice if you only have a modem. Even the best quality clips are only 3 megs for the 2-minute clips (around 40 megs if you want to download the whole scene). But, of course, what's good for people on dial-up isn't that exciting for  people with highspeed. The best video here is 320x240 and 259 kb/s. That just doesn't cut it anymore. This stuff doesn't look so hot even at its original size, much less when you (foolishly) attempt full-screen playback.

So, as we began by saying, this is a solid enough site, and it comes at a decent price, but we just didn't think it was very special. Even the bit about all of the models (presumably) being from the "UK" isn't developed. It's not like you get to hear them talking in plummy accents. There is a lot of content, but you expect that in an archive site. There's quite a bit of variety, but it comes at the expense of a strong identity. 

Despite all this we have no trouble recommending it for fanatic amateur fans and dial-up users, the latter being in no position to complain about the below-average video.

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