Eroticy.com

After browsing around the home page, I still wasn't 100% sure what this site is. It's part XXX videos, part webcams, part adult personals, with a lot of other stuff thrown into the mix. I guess you could call it an "erotic community" of sorts. At first glance, it definitely has the potential to be overwhelming.

There are several ways to interact with other members — through personal ads, message boards, and the chat room. The personal ads allow you to search for other members by location, age, and gender. Most profiles contain some photos and a few words about what the person is looking for. The search feature needs a little work. I would like to be able to search based on a few more criteria, like sexual orientation or interests. You can't filter out the members who have no photos, and my searches often returned unrelated results. A search for women in my area brought back profiles located thousands of miles away, men, and transexuals.

There is both a text chat room and a video chat room. The video chat uses Microsoft Net Meeting and is very simple to set up if you have a little technical experience. The text chat room is almost always full, with people chatting about everything from sex to current events. There are also member-created listings for local meet and greet parties where you can turn your online flirtations into real-time encounters.

In addition to Eroticy.com's community features, there are several areas of sex content for you to enjoy. There are both XXX photos and streaming videos in several niches from amateur porn to lesbians to porn stars. The photos are divided into multiple thumbnailed galleries that open up larger, full-size photos when clicked.

The XXX movie archive is extensive and updated regularly with new material. You'll find gay, tranny, and a variety of hardcore videos. The videos all stream directly from the site — there are no downloadable videos. They are encoded for both dial-up (56k) and broadband (cable, DSL) play. Each video plays in its own browser window, and allows you to choose between three viewer sizes depending on your preferred screen resolution — 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024. Unfortunately, I have to complain a little bit about the quality of the streaming videos. Some of them tend to be grainy even when viewing broadband at the lowest screen size. Increasing the screen size ends up making the picture even grainier. You can vote for videos that you enjoy and add the best videos to your favorites folder.

If you've ever spent your nights at home lonely and bored, that ends once you join this site. On most evenings, you can find girls doing cam shows for members. At the top of almost every hour, one or more cam shows begin, where you can watch well-known models like Sinnamon Luv and XXX porn star Mercedes Ashley. Unfortunately, when I was inside the site, the cam shows weren't working very well, and although I was able to login and chat, the video gave me several problems. In addition to all this content, you'll also find some fun stuff inside the member's area. There are adult jokes, trivia, polls, and erotic horoscopes. You can also choose from a selection of XXX e-cards, sexy photo cards, and other fun stuff for adults to send to your friends and lovers.

Unlike other more specialized sites, this one has to appeal to a wide variety of sensibilities. If you're into things that lie more along the fringe (BDSM, fetishes, etc), then you'll find less to get excited about inside the member's area. There is a section of BDSM videos, but they are still rather mainstreamed, and not many videos represent niches like BBW and mature. However, if you like pretty generalized mainstream porn and adult products, you'll find plenty here to keep you busy.