OFFICIAL
78.0
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
55.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
8.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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| Editor: Maggie |
Initial Review: 07-21-05 |
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1. Active community.
2. Good search feature.
3. Large photo collection.
1. Non-exclusive content.
2. No video.
"A good site for those who like a little something more from a bdsm site." |
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Bondage.com calls itself "the world's largest BDSM community and the most exciting bondage and fetish website." Having been around since 1996, this kinky mega-site is pretty darn big and has a little bit of everything a bdsm lover would want, pictures, videos, bdsm personals, stories, community forums, and more. There's really not much to the tour, just some cold hard facts about the current stats of the site. Visitors are invited to register for free to access the forums and personals and once inside you can join the paysite and access pictures and videos for $20 a month.
The collection currently contains 74,363 photos with several new sets added every week. There are quite a few methods of browsing and searching the galleries and it's a good thing because this content is varied. You can search by fetish attributes like piercings, latex, roleplay, femdom, feet, anal, and of course bondage. You can search by participants (solo, couples, orgies) and their sexualities (all female, all male, transexual, mixed) or you can simply browse by category, member rating, or date. They've made it quite easy to navigate this large collection.
The photos are not exclusive and come from a number of sources. Because of this, quality varies. There are photos as small as 320x480 and as large as 768x1024. Some of the pictures are quite pixelated and others are clear and sharp. Some look like they were shot by professional photographers and others look shot at home. Most, I'd say, look pretty good. Users are welcome to save pictures to their favorites folder as well as view the images in a small or large format. There's even a hands-free slideshow to enjoy, as well. Despite a sometimes mixed bag of quality, overall I was pleased with the photo collection.
I was very surprised that Bondage.com doesn't offer its own video content, rather it links to third party sites for video. One would think that a site of this size that's been around this long would have some videos but to each his own. Other non-photo content here includes BDSM U (articles and columns on bdsm, definitions, resources, and more), personal ads (338,481 profiles), chat (1,691 chatters online right now), stories (1,249 of them), and forums (3,504 posts today). Those are some amazing figures, it's tough to find any site with such an active community let alone one that caters to kinkier tastes. There seems to be enough here to keep any surfer entertained for a long long time.
Bondage.com is a great site for anyone interested in an all-in-one bdsm site. They've got content in dozens and dozens of kinks and a unique online community of like minded folk. At $20 a month I'd call this a steal. If the content was exclusive and they had video of their own, the site would be damn near perfect. As it is, I'd call it a very good join for bdsm lovers.
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