Real Teen Network

Once you click the login button you're taken to a page that lets you choose between four different sites: Tiny Tabby, Elite 18.com, Serena 18, and Paulina 18. It doesn't matter which one you click, though, because they all take you to the same main network portal. A little odd, and I have to admit that their navigational setup didn't get much better once inside the main page, but I soon found myself warming up to the network, anyway.

Though the members' area sports a very bare-bones, minimalistic design — far too primitive, in fact, for a network of this size — they've loaded it up with enough hot teen content that you might be willing to forgive them for leaving you stranded with no real browse-tools. The top of the page shows off a long and impressive list of recent global updates. The network is really buzzing with activity. Multiple scenes are being added on a daily basis, and there are 28 scenes listed under the "coming soon" tab. New sites are being added, too, the most recent of which being another solo teen site called Tiny Becky.

Things looked even better once I scrolled down the page and saw that list of 31 teen-themed sites. Outside of a few edgier ones like Gramps on Teens and the Simpson Twins, the list exclusively made up of teen and 20-something solo girl sites. Looking at the list, I felt like a kid in a candy store. Sadly, though, after a little surfing, I soon found myself thinking of that old adage, "You get what you pay for."

Don't get me wrong — some of these sites have really hot content. Quite a few of them, actually. But once you get beyond of that main main network portal, things start to fall apart. Updates have no timestamps, layouts are laughably plain, and video quality is totally inconsistent. The latter was particularly saddening. On Trixie Teen, for example, you can download an update in its entirety ... but only in a tiny res. To be fair, you could get it in a slightly higher resolution. But that's only if you're willing to download it in a series of 6-second-long clips. And while there are a few sites with decent options(Not HD, though) you're going to have to do some digging to find them. What a shame.

On the bright side, if you don't mind the inconsistencies or the lack of HD, then it might be worth your while to stick around, as there are some interesting sites on the list. Young Teenie Blacks surprised me with its hardcore amateur content. It has the most content of any site on the network, by far, with 120 videos and 12 amateur sets. What got me hooked was that the site was made up mostly grainy amateur scenes, which was in stark contrast with a lot of the other sites on the list, which were obviously going for a more polished image. The action is hardcore and, at times, seemingly random, but always interesting.

The four flagship sites — Paulina 18, Serena 18, Tiny Tabby, Elite 18 — seem to have the best all around content, especially in terms of the teen genre, but are just as lacking in features as the rest of the sites. Hate to say it, but Real Teen Network is beginning to feel like a bit of a bust.

After my experience with the videos, I didn't go into the galleries section of the site with much hope. However, I'm happy to report that newer most(I can only assume) sets sport a large resolution and actually look quite nice. The only catch is, they've provided us with no slideshow or, worse yet, ZIP files. Why am I not surprised?