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It might
seem peculiar for the co-owner of a review site to say
this, but because of the elements mentioned above, there
isn't, that I've seen, a truly independent and impartial
porn review site out there. As far as I'm concerned, the
industry desperately needs one. Many collectives and sites
are singularly uninterested in what reviews they get
because they figure they will make money regardless of
whether a site gives them two thumbs down, and as such I'm
pretty sure that many feel that they can pass off any old
crap as a site because somebody somewhere will buy a
subscription.
This
dilemma isn't unique to porn websites, of course.
Hollywood slings out cacky blockbusters week after week
that have absolutely no artistic merit to them under the
knowledge that there is someone out there
is interested in seeing Rob Schneider making a
complete twat of himself. Boy bands and other pop acts
knock out appalling albums left, right and centre knowing
that millions will buy them because they looked pretty hot
in the videos. It would be rather daft of me to criticise
porn sites singularly for sometimes edging towards
mass-produced drivel when they are far from being the
only medium that does so.
But the
film industry has Empire magazine and Ain't It
Cool News, and the music industry has Q magazine
and Rolling Stone amongst others. For all their
respective faults, you can at least expect, on the whole,
honest reviews from them. The online porn industry has no
real such source. Some people are happy to use the
resources that are around that rarely award sites anything
below 95/100 as a guide, and that's fine. We know though
that there are a LOT of people out there who would like to
hear a completely honest judgement of a porn site from
some source and not be fobbed off with a database of
articles that don't have a single bad word to go against
them.
Subscribing
to porn sites is an expensive business. As fans of
pornography, you'll be as aware as we are that the
industry is frowned upon in general and that there
isn't a hell of a lot of sympathy for those of you who
have subscribed to a site and gotten a raw deal. Your
predicament could have been avoided if you could have had
a guide to refer to that might have kept you away from
such a site. Porn review sites should undoubtedly have a
duty to make sure that they keep their readers informed of
a situation where they may be conned or not get the deal
they are asking for. Why should buying a faulty DVD be
treated any differently from subscribing to a site that
doesn't deliver what it promises?
The porn
industry online has boomed enormously in the two and a
half years that I've been reviewing for. Everyone can
stick together their own site now - it really only needs a
webcam and some web space and there you have it. There is
a LOT of stuff out there now, much of which is utter
rubbish - but again, this is just the same as any other
medium or artform.
The porn industry can really almost get
away with murder at the moment because there isn't really
a comprehensive and honest guide out there to what is good
and what patently isn't, and the introduction or
initiation of such a site would, I believe, improve the
standards of pornography on the internet - provided of
course such a guide became as big and respected as those
titles listed above. It would also give full and deserved
attention to the sites out there that truly are great and
help to take it away from sites and collectives that
patently don't deserve it.
Is Masturbation
Invasion
such a site? Well, we'll give it a go. We both believe
that there is at least some degree of merit and appeal to
someone in 99.9% of all sites out there, and we'll do
our best to always try and find elements of sites that
will appeal to someone. But one day someone will produce a
porn review site that isn't there to form or supplement an
income and isn't based at all around affiliate schemes and
sponsorship. In the meanwhile, you'll have to trust us!
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