She’s smiling ‘cause she knows you’re looking.
She’s also smiling because all of her pubic hair has just been shaven off. It’s still smooth and fresh-feeling. Wait until it starts to come back, all prickles and stubble. She won’t be smiling as much then, and your chances of touching her will go right down the shitter tubes.
Met-Art only does one thing, but they do it *really* well.
You read Eithrael Viola’s review of Met-Art, right? She gave the site a rave review, at least in part (I think) because it was “the first paid porn site [she's] had the pleasure of exploring.” Well, folks, this wasn’t my first paid porn site and I wasn’t as enthusiastic about Met-Art as she was.
Met-Art is a premium porn site that, in their own words, features “Beautiful Naked Women and High Quality Erotic Images.” I paid $29.99 for 30 days’ worth of access and found that they’re not just blowing smoke. The site really is chock-full of images and videos of gorgeous young women posing provocatively. They claim to offer―at the time of this review―”Up To 6 Updates A Day – today’s total: 1,160,944 Photos – 10,376 Sets – 1,028 Movies – 2,586 Models – 251 Photographers.” I didn’t spend the time it would take to count all the videos, sets, and images. After clicking around for a couple of hours, however, I saw no reason to doubt the claim. There’s a lot of content on the site.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that there isn’t a lot of variety on the site. Want to see dark-skinned women? Asians? MILFs? Men? You’re out of luck. Met-Art features young Caucasian women exclusively. ((If there are any other types of models, I did not find them.)) More specifically, their models are primarily from Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Czech Republic, Russian Federation, etc.) and are therefore literally Caucasians. A change in hair color, breast size, and the setting in which the models are filmed will be about all the variety you can expect.
Is that a problem? Not necessarily. Met-Art might do only one thing (young, sylph-like white women), but they do it really well. Let me borrow a few bullet points from their own Submission Guidelines page to illustrate what you will―and what you won’t―find on the site:
In other words, no men, no tattoos, no piercings of any kind ((except for ears)), and no genital touching.
The only part of that list I’d take exception to would be the requirement that all new content must tell a story. I agree with the idea but… um, maybe I missed something? The only “story” I saw was the oft-repeated “This young woman is wearing too many clothes. She thinks sexy thoughts as she strips and giggles for the camera. Soon she is naked, revealing her smoothly shaven labia. The End.”
You'll see a lot of clean-shaven genitalia. Sadly, no one will be touching them.
Pro: Met-Art certainly tries to make the site as member-friendly as possible. There are multiple features that update automatically to help members find the content they want quickly and easily. “User Galleries,” “Best of,” things I’d looked at recently―I found all of those features very handy and intuitive to use when I was surfing around.
Met-Art has some cool features designed to make surfing easy for its members.
Con: Your membership fee doesn’t seem to be enough. Easily 1/3 of the Home page real estate is taken up by the MetCam program. While that’s part of the regular Met-Art membership, surfers will have to be careful about how far they’re willing to click. Frankly, the sales funnel for MetCams seems a little dishonest to me.
“Come in!” it seems to say. “There are hundreds of beautiful girls streaming live right now! You can talk to any of them!” Click on an image and you’ll be taken to another page where you’ll have to click another image. All of this is free, right? Wrong! If you’re not careful―and it’s difficult to be both horny and careful at the same time―you’ll miss the little warning that “Normal streaming charges will apply while in a premium chat room.” Free? Not so much.
Pro: Did I mention that the user experience among the Met-Art photo and video sets is really good? Just click on any thumbnail image to access some nifty slideshow options, including the ability to “Fit to Screen” and to view (or download) your favorite sets in any of three resolution sizes. And the videos? Easily downloadable in several formats. They even provide a link to the VLC media software, which is both free and very versatile. Or you can just stream the videos and watch them in-site. I tried both and had no trouble either way.
Con: Access to the site is going to cost you more than the average membership. Compare $29.99 for 30 days at Met-Art to $19.95 at FEMJOY.
Pro: If you’d like to keep an eye on the Met-Art site―but you’re not ready to commit to a full-blown membership yet―there is a blog you can subscribe to, free of charge. The blog features one sample photo from each new set and a few hundred words of text telling you a little about the model and the story line ((Again, what story line?)) for each new update.
Met-Art is a great site for people looking for extremely vanilla content. No two ways about it; the site features high-quality photography and beautiful models all the way. The price, however, is a bit steeper than other sites ($29.99 for 30 days) while the quality is comparable. I enjoyed my time on the site but I won’t be renewing my membership. I just can’t justify―or recommend―paying the extra money for a site that features nothing but vanilla models in vanilla poses, no matter how beautiful the models or how many images there are. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, you know?
Pay for a month if the aesthetic of young, nude, artfully photographed white women appeals to you. Download the content until your hard drive is ready to burst. But don’t pay for two months. There just isn’t enough variety to keep the average porn surfer happy for more than that first month.
Neither Caucasian nor shaven: I found Sakura in the affiliates' area, not the members' area.
So there I was, sipping tea and enjoying the last few minutes of peace before my kids came home from school, when a tweet from a blogger I admire suddenly caught my eye. Being relaxed and curious, I clicked the link she provided, I read, and suddenly I was halfway down the rabbit hole, headed for several days’ worth of outrage, disillusionment, and various emotional double-twists along the way.
The link led to IttyBiz, a website run by Naomi Dunford, a marketing expert ((Not contesting her qualifications. Other people have written plenty about that already.)) who helps start-up sized blogs (like my own) expand their readership, increase sales, and do all the other things struggling writers like me dream about.
In “Sometimes the Bad Guys Win,” Naomi recounted the story of Roseanne Navarro, whose husband, Anthony Navarro, Sr., hired assassins to kill her for walking away from their marriage. Naomi then goes on to tell the story of Dave Navarro, a son who’s now grown with a family of his own. When Dave decided to leave his own marriage, older brother Anthony, Jr. started a website (See “I’m… uh… angry” below) in an unabashed attempt to both shame and bully Dave into reconsidering his decision.
“Holy shit,” I thought, “it’s happening all over again! Junior’s just as crazy as his father! Dave’s life is in danger! People are waiting to assassinate Naomi! Something has to be done!”
People were being mean on the Internet! I was THIS angry.
I paced the floor that night, unable to sleep. There were people being mean on the Internet! Something had to be done! I fantasized about hiring hit squads and hackers to wreak terrible justice on the offensive bastards who would treat Naomi and Dave this way. More immediately (and more realistically) I decided to blog about it.
I started. I typed a few hundred words, rearranged them, deleted them, then typed a few hundred more. Finally, recognizing I really didn’t know what I wanted to say, I decided to check out the “mean websites” referenced in a related IttyBiz post ((“Death Threats and Hate Crimes“)) .
Letters to Dave Navarro, billed as an attempt “to reclaim a husband, father, and brother who has lost his way,” consists of open letters written to Dave, asking him to return to his wife and kids.
“Asking” is perhaps the wrong word. Cajoling, pestering, and browbeating would be more accurate. Shaming, ridiculing, and castigating would also work. And who’s writing these letters? Friends, family, and total strangers. That’s right: total strangers. The site was set up as a naked attempt to use crowd sourcing to convince Dave to go home. (Read “peer pressure on a global scale.”)
If you ask me ((and no one did)) this website really does qualify as “mean.” It could be the public use of shaming tactics to try to strong-arm a man who’s already going through a tough time. It could be the fact that the namesake of a known nutjob is driving this campaign because he (Anthony, Jr.) doesn’t like what Dave is doing. Or it could be the way Anthony, Jr. depicts himself as a kind-hearted, God-fearing man who’s willing to do whatever it takes to force his brother to do the righteous, moral thing.
Bullying tactics mixed with sugar-coated righteousness…? That tips me off that the person behind Letters to Dave Navarro isn’t as nice as he pretends to be. In fact, he strikes me as a classic wolf in sheep’s clothing.
All of this started (for me) on a Wednesday. It took me until Saturday to calm down, and then until Sunday to begin to see it for the deeply tangled mess that it is. FUBAR? Oh, yeah.
Here’s what I’m taking away from all the reading I’ve done:
There are other questions about honor, integrity, truth, and lies that one could take away from this whole mess. Certainly, there’s nothing as clear-cut or black and white as I’d assumed when I read the original tweet. I wish it were. It would be nice to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. Then it would be easy to know what to do. As it is, the best and only thing I can do is write about it.
Simply put, because it’s the right thing to do.
As a porn blogger, I have a vested interest in making sure that bullies do not control the Web. As a self-defense instructor and (more importantly) as a human, I have a vested interest in making sure that bullies don’t get to throw their weight around unchallenged.
In this particular case, I have no golden nugget of wisdom to take away, no sound clip or pithy quip that will sum it all up. People have been mean on the Internet. That’s nothing new. People have also been behaving badly in real life. Again, that’s old news. The only thing that’s different about this one seems to be the way that I let myself get all wrapped up in it so easily. I have no personal stake in this matter and yet I reacted as though someone had threatened my children. It reminds me a bit of the Duke University lacrosse scandal from a few years back. Everyone was outraged until the facts started coming in. I was outraged about this mess, too… until I started checking the facts.
I still don’t know what I want to say in this blog post. I have no clear message that I want you to take away beyond this: Stop being mean, people! I really do wish people could be nice to one another, get along, and love in harmony. (I’ll be sure to hold my breath waiting for that one to happen. Not.)
In the meantime, I still have a few minutes remaining before my kids come home from school. I’m therefore going into the kitchen and make a fresh cup of tea. I will not be checking the action on Twitter before I go. I’ve had all the excitement from that outlet I can handle for a while.
I don't know what I learned, except that it's best to stay away from Twitter during peaceful moments.
Photo “Sipping Tea” by micmol used under Creative Commons license
"Large, high quality images of beautiful naked women are always appreciated."
Hey, that’s the way they spelled it. Ask them, not me. I guess that kind of misspelling is great for marketing/SEO, but I find it annoying. Anyway…
Errotica-Archives is a sister site of MetArt. As the name suggests it’s definitely erotic but, after viewing MetArt, I guess I got spoiled. Although Errotica-Archives is also filled with really, really hot, sexy, naked women, the site just isn’t as nice as MetArt. Errotica-Archives lacks the artistic class of its big sister MetArt. Don’t get me wrong―the women aren’t any less hot, sexy, beautiful or erotic. In fact the women are absolutely amazing! It’s the site itself I wasn’t expecting.
Upon logging in you’re greeted with:
Welcome to new Errotica-Archives.com! We present a fresh, new look, improved navigation, and some new features. We are the first website around to offer high resolution images up to 7000 pixels / 39Mpix, which is simply the highest resolution available…
That’s nice. Large, high quality images of beautiful naked women are always appreciated. But if this is “new” and “improved,” it makes me wonder how bad the navigation and site design was previously.
I have to get this out of the way first, as it quite hindered my enjoyment of the site. The top navigation bar has a LOG OUT button as the first, top-left choice, followed by News, Updates, Models, Movies, LiveCams, MyFavorites, Downloads and Support. I can’t remember ever coming across a website of any type that had a Log Out button in the top left corner and not a button back to the home/index page. It seems that they decided to set up their site to have their News page as their home/index page. I find that an odd and confusing choice. Their top navigation is presented in grey text on a black background while the page you’re on is a bold white. The various oval buttons to take you to different parts of the site have a slightly lower reflection, with grey text that highlight in neon-green.
I also really disliked the Next and Previous model sets―of different models―inserted into the middle of each model’s photo set page. I found it confusing at first and then just distracting.
If I’m harping on the design aspects, it’s because I know good and bad design when I see it. This site seems old and quickly/poorly tossed together. There’s no word to describe except for “Microsoft Frontpage/WYSIWYG/90s-website-esque.” Yuck.
On the plus side, I do prefer the neon green navigation text on Errotica-Archives to the gold version on MetArt. They also include a small (one page) support section, for what that’s worth. They even have a Radio section, though I didn’t play around with it. Nor did I try any of their LiveCams.
There are thousands of amazingly beautiful women to view. You can search via name, country, age, hair, eye color, bust size and even sign. Yes, you read that right, you can search by Zodiac sign. (I, of course, had to search and view a bunch of my fellow Libras.) You can also search by Top Models, Latest Models, Casting or Alphabetically. The movies and photo sets are searchable by Latest, Most Wanted and Top This Month.
The images on Errotica-Archives are more “porn” than “art,” but there’s nothing wrong with that in the slightest. It is a porn site after all and hot, fit, naked women make for good porn viewing. The women on Errotica-Archives are decked out in more accessories and outfits than on MetArt, which can be either fun or distracting, depending on what you’re looking for. Personally, I enjoy raunchy, dirty porn and Errotica-Archives definitely has more of a raunchy, dirty feel than MetArt (which was quite hot in its own right).
"Personally, I enjoy raunchy, dirty porn..."
The photo sets have images in Small/9MB, Medium/30MB, Large/119MB and some also have Extra Large/141MB photos for you to view and/or download. Having the Extra Large option is really nice when you’re dealing with women who look this good.
I really wanted to check out the “Top Model” Giulia with her long, brown hair and mesmerizing blue eyes, yet when I clicked on her Top Model photo I got a Page Not Found error. Thankfully I was able to view her page via the Models section linked through the top navigation bar.
Hot damn, she’s amazing―and a fellow Libra, too! She’s also Russian, which is the majority of my heritage. In fact, the three models I was most attracted to all happened to be Russian―and two of them were Libras, too. (I wonder if that says something about me? LOL!) Anyway, I went through Giulia’s photo set ((in large size images as, sadly, Extra Large was not available)) and spent quite some time getting off to her photos before moving on to check out the movie section. Unfortunately she doesn’t have any movies posted.
The movies are available in .divx, .mov, .wmv and iPod formats at 1280/720 HD resolution. Get this―you can’t watch the videos on the site! You need to download the .zipped file and play it on your computer or iPod. They do include a link to update your codecs if you’re unable to view the movie once you’ve downloaded and unzipped it. I was disappointed I could not view any of the movies on the site and I did not download any of the movies.
Overall I enjoyed reviewing this site for Liquid Whispers–as did my girly bits-―because the women are hot as hell. On the other hand, I had some serious issues with the site design and navigation that really took away from my ability to enjoy the site.
Clean up the technical stuff, Errotica-Achives, and I’ll come back again and again―because your girls are really worth coming over!
"I'll come back again and again―because your girls are really worth coming over!"
There’s a “pearl necklace” pun in here somewhere. Leave a comment below to tell me what it is.
While we’re waiting, let’s all take this moment and contemplate ZZ Top’s take on the “pearl necklace” question, shall we?
She gets a charge out of bein’ so weird,
Digs gettin’ downright strange.
But I can keep a handle on anything,
Just this side of deranged.She was gettin’ bombed,
And I was gettin’ blown away,
And she held it in her hand
And this is what she had to say:
A pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.
Ass up, face down, ready and eager to play. What else do you need to know?
What? You’d like to know her name? you want to actually talk to her before climbing onto that bed and living out every thirteen-year-old boy’s fantasy? all right, but you’re going to have to sign up with FEMJOY to find that out. Truthfully, I haven’t got a clue what her name is. I had thought my readers were much more shallow than that.
"...beautiful, in shape, naked brunettes with great racks..."
Oh my, hot women everywhere! Here a hottie, there a hottie, everywhere a hottie! Liquid Whispers graciously invited me to review MetArt Fine Photography and I must say it was an absolute joy to do so. As a straight woman who just happens to really love beautiful, in shape, naked brunettes with great racks and shaven pussies ((Yes, I know I’m picky.)) , this site is a true gold mine! The women on MetArt are some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen and the photography and movies are done with class and style. This is the first paid porn site I’ve had the pleasure of exploring. When I first logged in, I had a hard time tearing myself away from all the photos and movies to actually write this review.
MetArt showcases thousands and thousands of images which are viewable by general and advanced search, individually, gallery, best of, model, release, month and year, etc. When I was perusing MetArt, it showed a count of over 10,000 updated images for September 2011. You can choose to view the images in Low, Medium or High resolution. You can view individual images or you view images by slide show. You can create your own gallery of your favorite images. Plus, you can even download the images via .zip files. I honestly got a bit distracted for a while when I was viewing a few of the amazingly yummy models and had to spend a little time getting off so I could concentrate and get back to writing. MetArt has a wide variety of gorgeous, in-shape women from all over the world. They have everything from small breasts to large; fully shaved pussies to all natural; blondes, brunettes, redheads, etc..
"...everything any man or woman could want."
Their 800+ movies are high quality, both in model/subject quality and video quality. They are available in Streaming, HD Streaming, Mobile Streaming and HD 1080P Download. They will preload if you press pause, just as YouTube videos do, for those with slower connections or if you want to wait and watch it a little later ((I know that because, after my roommates left, I went back to the movie section and enjoyed myself a few more times. Can you blame me?)) . As well as the professional videos, they offer hundreds of paid Live Cams that rotate every so often with a wide variety of Cam Girls in all shapes, sizes and colors. (I did not try any of their Live Cams.)
The site itself is well laid out [pun intended] with easy-to-use navigation to every part of the site. Although some people might not like the black background with white, grey and gold text and links, it’s easy to find your way around and, honestly, the beauty of the women will keep anyone with a pulse fully distracted.
This site is also member driven. Members are encouraged to vote on the models, both on their pictures and movies. Members can view the top rated models in the Best of Met section, linked in the top navigation. For me, it was really nice to see their #1 rated model was a sultry brunette and not your typical blonde. The navigation even has a handy ‘gold star’ button to instantly take members to the most recent additions. Members can sign up with a unique User Name to participate in the MetArt blog. They offer an opt-in Newsletter and have a News section on the site. They have an extensive Help section for anyone that needs. A lot of time, talent and thought have been put into the design and usability of MetArt to make it a most enjoyable experience. I could easily spend hours and hours on MetArt, enjoying all the amazingly beautiful, naked women they showcase.
I can honestly say that I’ve never genuinely recommended a porn site to anyone before, but MetArt has my 5-Purple-Star approval. They definitely live up to their site title of “Beautiful Naked Women and High Quality Erotic Images.”
"Beautiful Naked Women and High Quality Erotic Images?" Definitely!
While I was click-clacking away at the keyboard this morning, it occurred to me that I haven’t given away any money recently. In fact, the last time I even talked about giving money away was last June when I pledged $50 to Daisy Danger’s Bite-Size Sex project.
That project fell through, which means I never sent any money—which means my last actual donation was in April. Not a very good track record for someone who pledged to donate at least $25 to a worthy cause every month.
Since I missed May through August, a quick count on my fingers shows me that I ought to donate $100 to some worthy cause right now. Since that’s not going to happen (mostly because I don’t happen to have an extra $100 at the moment), I thought I’d get back in the philanthropic saddle by giving away September’s money right now.
Looking back, I doubt the girl I wanted looked like this. She tempted me to consider vegetarianism, anyway.
I first heard about PETA in the late 1980s from a girl I wanted to have sex with date. Her ideas about people not needing to eat meat, wear leather, or drink milk seemed pretty radical at the time. In fact, they sounded like outright lunacy. I loved bacon and cheeseburgers, believed that dressing in layers of leather would convince the world that I was a tough guy… and milk? Well, it does a body good1, doesn’t it?
That girl and I never had sex dated, which means I eventually lost interest in her and moved on with my life. Fast forward a few decades, however, and I started thinking about her again.
When my children were born, I became one of those parents—the kind who ingest every theory, no matter how outlandish, desperate to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted babies. At the very least, I wanted to make sure I didn’t poison my kids by feeding them the wrong brand of baby food at the wrong time of day or under inauspicious astrological conditions.
I was a mess.
It was about that time—during that maelstrom of radical ideas coming and going faster than I could change a poop-filled diaper—that the young woman and her “crazy rants” started coming back to me.
I didn’t pay much attention to the memories at first. That girl was long ago and far away as far as I was concerned. As I kept slogging, however, through the swamp of information about healthful, ethical living and started sorting out the hard facts from the muddy half-truths, her ideas started to make more and more sense.
I started by asking myself, “Where does our food come from? How healthful is it?” You’ve heard the adage “Be careful what you wish for…?” Turns out it’s true for questions, too. I got answers, but I didn’t like them. If you’re curious to know what I found, here are a few resources you can look at—if you’ve got the stomach for it.
The first three are available through commercial vendors2, which means they are at least partially motivated by profit. Are they telling the truth? Probably. But if they put a shocking, sensational spin on that truth, then they’re likely to sell more copies, thus increasing profits for their corporate shareholders. That’s not necessarily what they’re doing, but you’ve got to admit it’s a possibility.
Then there’s PETA, an organization that is also no stranger to sensationalism. By contrast, they’re a non-profit organization, which pretty much takes the “greed factor” out of it.3
As far as I can tell, the only thing PETA is selling is compassion, specifically, compassion for the non-human inhabitants of the earth. You’ve seen the ads, haven’t you?
Granted, this photo's got no context. But what kind of explanation could make this scene acceptable?
PETA’s most well-known for two things: its shocking undercover video footage that exposes how remorselessly savage people can be; and using sexual suggestion to promote their message. (See ad samples above and below.)
It all started in 30 years ago. Per the website:
In the summer of 1981, one of PETA’s founders, a student named Alex Pacheco, set out to gain some experience in a laboratory and began working undercover at the Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR). IBR was a federally funded laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, run by psychologist and animal experimenter Edward Taub, a man with no medical training. There, Pacheco found 17 monkeys living in tiny wire cages that were caked with years of accumulated feces. A rotting stench permeated the air of the cramped, dungeon-like room, and urine and rust encrusted every surface.
The article goes on to summarize PETA’s investigation and the eventual court battle—and victory. Before you click over to the site, be warned. The main feature of the page is a slide show of heartbreaking photos, each with an explanation of the context in which the photo was taken. I won’t sugarcoat it. The article and accompanying photos are disturbing.
The worst part is that the Silver Spring case doesn’t even represent the tip of the iceberg in terms of the horrors PETA has exposed.
The other thing they’re famous for is for using sexy celebrities to get cheap attention. I can’t fault them for that. Again, per their website:
Unlike our opposition, which is mostly composed of wealthy industries and corporations, PETA must rely on getting free “advertising” through media coverage. This can be especially difficult with our fur campaign, since newspapers are often reluctant to cover our activities for fear of losing furriers’ advertising dollars. But, not surprisingly, colorful and “controversial” demonstrations and campaigns like activists stripping to “go naked instead of wearing fur” consistently grab headlines.
So they use sex as a low-cost method for promoting a worthy cause? I’ve got no problems with that.
All in all, PETA fits my definition of a worthy cause. So much so that I’m going to donate a flat $25 now and then again in November. Why wait until then? That’ll give me six weeks to sell lots of porn—enough that the proffered 20% will be much more than $25.
So what are you waiting for? Check out my reviews and pick a site that seems right for you. Buy some porn and then enjoy with the knowledge that, not only are you getting great porn, you’re also helping a worthy cause. I think that girl from my high school days would approve—as long as there’s no meat, leather, or milk involved.
For my part, I’m not going to ask whether any of those things are involved. I’ve learned my lesson about asking questions; I really don’t want to know.
I would totally eat Pamela Anderson... but not that way. Yuck!
1 “Milk. It does a body good” is a registered Service Mark of the California Milk Producers Advisory Board. Notice that these are people who have a vested interest in selling as much milk as possible.↩
2 They’re also available through book swaps and your local library.↩
3 Yes, they still solicit donations—and the more money, the better. Even a non-profit organization needs money to maintain office space, pay for electricity, water, taxes, advertising, full-time staff, and host of other things. The question is, what does PETA have a vested interest in?↩
What is that look on her face? Reluctance? Expectation? Boredom? I swear, women are so hard to read!
Of course, there’s always the fact that she’s lying on a luxurious couch with her breasts exposed and her nipples erect. And the fact that she’s staring into my eyes, watching my gaze to see how it hungrily devours her. Yeah, those might give me some clues as to what she’s thinking.
Is this what fashion models do when they get lost in the woods?
Photo by FEMJOY