Upox.com

The folks at Upox.com run a tight ship. The main membership page is all business, giving the member a quick welcome message from the admin, and a list of content that can be sorted by date, views, or rating. If you find further filters to be necessary, there's a handy menu filled with all sorts of browse-tools, and it's just one click away.

But even without the advantage of a fine-tuned audit of their content, it was plain to see that these videos were slickly produced and featured some of the top talent in the industry — gals like Alexis Texas, London Keyes, and Amber Rayne. Scenarios varied, with these ladies working solo, in pairs, and sometimes even in groups, using their feminine wiles to conquer big-dicked studs.

It's also not unusual to find scenes with more cinematic flair than your usual porn. One of their most recent updates, featuring Kissy Kapri as a naive young girl having her first foray in the dark and dangerous world of online dating, used voiceovers, dramatic lighting, and all sorts of editing techniques to weave a surprisingly captivating and ultimately boner-inspiring adventure.

Don't expect every scene to be like that, though. A lot of the older content is more rough around the edges, with those long handheld takes that are more at home in reality porn. Personally, I found the contrasting styles refreshing, but I can understand why some might prefer a more consistent approach.

The site has nearly 40 kinks listed under their categories section, but most of them are hardcore staples. The wildest stuff you will see here is your occasional gangbang, fisting, or exhibitionism. So, if you're after really "out there" content, look elsewhere. If, on the other hand, you want well shot, straight-forward but hot hardcore porn, you ought to feel right at home.

Since the first update was posted over a year ago, they have been supplying videos for download or stream in four different playback quality choices. The 1080p HD looks sharp, and the SD and mobile options are no slouches, either. Everything downloaded quickly, too. During my stay, I had transfer rates as high as fast as 14 megs-per-second, and they never seemed to dip below 7.5 megs-per-second.

Every video comes with its own picture gallery. They can't be viewed on-site, but the ZIPs usually contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-60 high-resolution(2,048 x 1,365 pixels) shots.

Looking through their archives, which show multiple daily updates pouring in for a very long time — updates featuring consistently great production values and cast lists that read like a who's who list of the porno industry — I can't help but wonder how the hell they managed to pull it all off. Truth be told, a few of these scenes did strike me as familiar, but I can't be certain I'd seen them elsewhere before.

The tour page said the site brings its members "unique content." Whether or not this means exclusive, or if they are even referring to every scene and set they produce . . . well, so far as that is concerned, your guess is as good as mine.

Either way, I've never been of the school of thought that an archive has to be exclusive. If carefully curated, a non-exclusive archive should be worth its weight in gold. I can't say I'm as flexible in my position on inactivity, though. For a while there, this site was more than living up to that tour promise of daily updates. For whatever reason, though, they stopped updating altogether 2 months ago.

(Update from Editor): When the review was prepared for publication, we have re-checked the members area, and found that the updates are coming. Hopefully, they will be like promised.