OFFICIAL
78.0
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
56.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.0 / 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: Duke |
Initial Review: 06-10-05 |
| Follow-Up Review(s): 12-08-06 |
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1. Original bdsm w/ hot models.
2. Sharp looking site.
1. Unconventional membership options.
2. No dates on content.
"Nice content of glamourous models but the different membership levels hold the site back a bit." |
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Captive Culture is a sharp looking site with professional BSDM & fetish content to match. Before getting to all that it's necessary to discuss the three membership options. In order to get full access it's necessary to buy the platinum membership which entails laying out $60 up front. They offset this by making it a 3 month pass without recurring billing. Still, anytime a site makes you layout a lot of money up front (even the gold membership is $45), I consider it a negative. I suppose I can simplify your choices a bit by pointing out the best ways to go are either with basic or platinum. Basic does have a decent amount galleries, movies, and best-of-gallery archives. The gold membership simply gives you the rest of the gallery archives which seems a bit pointless to me. Platinum's full length movies and behind-the-scenes have the potential of being worth your money.
All these sections may sound confusing, but in actuality what they're offering is fairly simple: pictures, videos, and some behind-the-scenes pics and vids. As far as fetish material goes, I kinda like this stuff. The fact that it's exclusive is a big plus and so are the professional and high quality pictures. The quality of the movies is quite as nice as the pics they're also all in zipped Real player files which is a bummer. The action consists of bondage, latex, spanking, and whipping, although overall it has sort of glam-fetish feel to it. This isn't a chick roped up in a dungeon crying out in pain, Captive Culture is classier than that. Whether or not that will be a positive or negative to you I don't know, I'm just stating the facts. One other fact is that the models are sexy which is what I liked best about the content.
To keep things clear I'll discuss the content based on membership levels starting with Basic. Basic members get "monthly" galleries which I assume means the current month's updates. Also, these members get a rather large collection of Real vids of about 2 minutes in length. Finally, some additional galleries from the archives, which are fairly substantial too. Gold gets you the totality of the pictures archives. Platinum is where things get interesting again with the full length movies and behind-the-scenes stuff. Full-length is a some what misleading term since they don't offer full movies downloads. These long scenes are offered in short clips, but yes these scenes are longer than the site's other movies. The behind-the-scenes section is very thorough with a complete collection of pictures and videos including from the regular vids and the full-length vids.
The design of the site is nice and professional but there is one thing that is missing and that is content dates. They simply number the shoots and movies. This comes to a head on the updates page where dates are provided but the additions are not hyperlinked over to the content. Other than that things are well organized and it's easy to find the different content sections.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 12-08-06 |
Captive Culture continues to build their own collection of bdsm content and the site is set up as it was at the time of our initial review. There are a few adjustments though. The pricing has been bumped up the rates for each membership level by 5 bucks. That's been offset by some very hi-res "premium galleries" and a premium movies section too. These are for gold and platinum members and they work on a content rotation system which the webmaster explains in for members. As far as the content goes the exclusive high quality bondage shoots remain the site's best asset and the Real player videos is the biggest negative. I still enjoy these guys’ models and bondage style.
Score decreased from 78.3 to 78.0.
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