Where should I look to find good quality adult entertainment?
If you're not too familiar with how the online adult entertainment industry is structured, then it's better to read this article first. You will then have a good idea of where to go to find porn.
Is it really FREE? Where is the catch?
The Internet adult entertainment industry is very competitive. To attract paying customers many entertainment web sites will offer a FREE or almost FREE subscription to customers
hoping they will then spend more money once they begin using the service.
Here are the type of FREE or almost FREE services most often found
on the Net:
a) FREE access with a valid e-mail address.
With this kind of subscription you will get to see a little bit of
what's inside. It is also an opportunity for the entertainment company
to send you emails inviting you to join the paid area of their web site. Examples of sites like that are two adult dating and entertainment web sites: AdultFriendFinders and Eroticy. You will get to see some of the dating profiles and the web site structure. You will also receive regular emails informing you of people
matching your profile.
b) FREE access with a credit card. This usually gives you access to more material for FREE. However premium services will be on a pay-per-use basis. Many of the web cam chat services use that approach. With some services, you get to see the chat host video and picture archives and you only pay once you choose to chat with a host, usually on a per-minute basis. A good example is the Internet Friends Network (iFriends). Your credit card is used for age verification and once confirmed, you literally have completely FREE access to millions of web cam video archives taken from live web cam sessions. You can even begin a web cam chat session for FREE with one of the 4,000 girls online. However, after a few minutes, the web cam chat host will ask you to go private for a fee. Usually that's when the chat host entertainment becomes more explicit.
There are other programs that are not webcam oriented such as the
Web Entertainment Group (WEG) which offers about
65
free sites. Try one, try them all.
It doesn't cost a dime.
c) Short term trials such as $3 for 3 days. Surfers need to read the terms of service as this will often include automatic rebilling starting immediately after the trial period.
In all cases, take the time to read the terms
and conditions and all the fine prints. Make sure you can easily
cancel your subscription, should you eventually wish to do so. Test
their customer service before submitting your credit card and
personal information. You will then know if your subscription can
easily be cancelled. For a good place to shop for $1 and $3 dollar
trial, have a look at
RabbitsReviews.Com, they list hundreds of such sites with a
review and a ranking for each. It's a very convenient site that puts
everything in one place.
Why are Free porn sites asking for a credit card?
Most subscription based adult entertainment providers will use your credit card to validate your identity and your age
in order to reduce the risk of giving minors access to adult only entertainment services. In the web cam chat industry many chat hosts do not wish to show themselves in front of their local communities. Your credit card billing address would then be used to control this feature and protect the hosts desire for privacy in certain areas. It also enable the on-demand chat to be available to the members. Should you wish to engage in a premium web cam chat with a host, the web cam company already has your credit card information on file and you can begin enjoying your chat without having to send your payment information over the Internet again.
Are adult sites trustworthy?
This is a difficult question to answer. Trust is not something that happens overnight. The first step in building trust is finding out who you are dealing with, then you can begin
trusting your adult entertainment provider. Just as with any other service you would buy, deal with well established players that have a proven track record of good customer service, a telephone number to call and a physical address to write to. This in itself will be a good indication of how serious the company is.
Who Am I really dealing with?
There are hundreds of thousands of adult web sites on the Net. You need to understand some fundamental differences between them in order to know who you are dealing with.
Adult affiliate sites
The online adult entertainment industry often uses affiliate marketing to promote its products to the largest possible market. An affiliate site will showcase one or many adult entertainment companies using teasers or by showing some pictures. You are constantly invited to join the services offered and once you click on one of the invitation links, you are normally redirected to a payment screen controlled by a payment processor or an entertainment company. Most sites on the Net are affiliate sites. They get paid a commission for sending qualified customers to one or many web sites operated by one of the major entertainment company.
Babes on Cam is an example of an affiliate site which promotes a reputable live web cam service. The site clearly states its affiliation. It presents the key features of the web cam service and it also invites the visitors to sample some of the video archives. Some affiliate sites will have a clear focus and others will confuse the visitors
thus making it difficult to really know who they are dealing with.
Adult Directory and other listings of adult sites
Most of those sites are affiliate sites. They usually don't have content of their own. They are convenient to use but once you know who the few entertainment companies are, they become somewhat less necessary.
Amateur Top List is an example of a listing of adult web sites, many of which are affiliate sites.
However, if you want to know those sites that are not affiliate
sites but rather the meat behind the marketing, I suggest you look
at
RabbitReviews.Com. They have reviewed hundreds of adult sites.
Most, if not all of them are pay sites. There are very few truly
FREE sites on the net.
Entertainment companies
The adult entertainment companies will have one or many web sites to provide entertainment services to their subscriber base. They are the sites providing you the ongoing adult entertainment and they make money by billing you for their services. They rely on affiliates to bring them new customers. Large enough companies will cater to almost every needs through their portfolio of web sites. Also, in many cases, when you subscribe to one of their sites, you have access to the entire portfolio of sites.
In the live web cam chat services, iFriends is definitely a trustworthy service. In business for more than 10 years they cater to every taste. For those looking to have a sex based relationship with someone near their home, AdultFriendFinder is probably the best place to start. In the general adult entertainment area,
there are many companies that produce adult entertainment web sites.
I am working on a list. Come back sometime in December 05, I should
have it up for consultation.
Production companies
Just like many television networks, adult entertainment companies don't necessarily produce their own content. Some do. In general the content is purchased or leased and then made available to you via one or many subscription based web sites. As a customer, you normally don't have access to the production company. You can always have a look at their site but unless you are a webmaster looking to build your own adult web site, it's unlikely that they will answer your mail. For example GreenHatContent specializes in amateur content and provides various niche-pictures and videos. Webmasters can purchase custom-made content with rights exclusivity.
Payment processors companies
Not all entertainment companies have a billing and payment system of their own. Many will work with a payment processor which will collect your billing information and bill your recurring subscription. They will obviously share the status of the billing transactions with the entertainment providers in order to establish and renew customer access.
To make their subscription service easily accessible many entertainment companies will also work with more than one payment processor, each offering a different payment method such as: credit card, checks, 1-900 numbers with access code and long distance dialers. Dialers are not well perceived because they require the installation of software on your computer which may contain spyware.
Conclusion
To summarize, the online adult entertainment industry looks like a web of affiliate
adult sites which channel visitors to major adult entertainment hubs. Those hubs will, in turn, apply marketing techniques such as offering free access or trial periods with the objective of up selling visitors with paid premium services. The billing of those transactions is quite often delegated to payment processors offering a variety of payment methods making the product or service that much more accessible.
