Paysite-Tryout

If you have an opinion about this site then here's your chance to adjust ours.

1 2 3 4 5

The site is run by Paul Markham, a professional photographer, who has done lots of work for major magazines, Barely Legal is just one of them. The life-story of Paul is beyond the scope of this review, but you can read it on the site yourself. PaulMarkhamTeens.com is his home site on the web, which means it isn't nearly as cold and unpersonal as most porn sites out there. You will feel a personal relationship with the photographer and some models, and that just adds a whole new dimension to the porn you're watching.

The free tour alone is huge: I'm not sure, but I think you can actually read bios of every model, and see thumbnails from every shoot, without ever parting with a dime. The tour alone has more sections than most paysites' members areas.

No matter how huge, or how good, I'm not here to review the tour, so off to the members area with me.

Once inside the personal touch continues, each update has a little description of the model and shoot, and if you fall in love with a model just clik her name and you will see everything she has done with Paul.

There is a large amount of content, all shot by Paul himself. Around 2100 updates, of them 350 video updates. In addition to that there is a section with 15 erotic stories, and a section with jokes (the personal touch again).
The tour claims that 2 picture sets and 1 video set is uploaded daily, that is not the case. The updates shown in the tour are not the real updates posted for those days either. The tour promise is not kept, however updates are posted almost daily, and most days 2 or more are posted.

The primary focus is on sexy young teens: There are videos of teens with toys, young horny couples making sweet love, co-eds fingering, and cute cheerleaders stripping. Tight anal dildo play. Visible vibrator orgasms.
Though the videos are good and there are plenty of them, the main focus is on pictures. Your appetite for horny little honeys is sure to be satisfied when you check out the picture sets. Petite cute girls playing with each others pussies. These hot young girls from all parts of the world will make you bust in no time.
Solo girls, boy-girl, girl-girl and amateur, it's all here, and with all the delicious teens of your dreams.

While not all girls on the site are super hot, most are, and the updates all have a star-rating that makes it very easy to tell the difference between those worth looking at, and those not. I agreed with the ratings of 99% of the updates, if a girl is hot she has 5 stars, if not she has 1... In other words they are accurate, a big advantage when browsing an archive this big.

Paul is a professional photographer, and he does not accept compromises when it comes to lighting, settings, focusing or any other technical aspect of the pictures / videos. Everything is 100% as it should be.

The pictures come in 3 different resolutions, and even the one called "low" is quite high :) -The highest resolution I saw was a blazing 1200x798 which is more than enough for a crisp full screen view !
Videos come in WMV, windows media player format, streaming, and downloadable as full or smaller clips. Video resolution is also high. 512x410 was the best I saw, and that is very clear even in fullscreen.

The site does not have any "real" sections, everything is search-driven, basically the whole site is one big picture search engine. However it is equipped with links and menus to predefined searches, that act similar to sections on a regular site.
This has the advantage that you can filter and sort pictures and videos very precisely, but it has the disadvantage that there are no headlines. That means that when you click on "Teens" -> "Solo girls" you will get a list of updates, but you have no idea how you got those results... In this specific example it should be possible to recall, but imagine a more specific search criteria.

You can of course also specify your own search criteria. An explanation of how the search works would be nice, my first many tries had no results, because I chose the "Video & Images" which I was expecting would find both video and picture updates. That was not the case, selecting video and images seperately returned entirely different results. I can't give a good explanation of how this works, even after many attempts.

Picture sets have links directly under them to download the entire set in a zip file. This is a great idea, and with a few minor adjustments it could also work great. At the time of writing the file is not compressed until you click the link, which means that first you have to wait for it to compress, then the page reloads, and the new page you are presented with will try to refresh again to the zipped file. Paul, if you want to fix this then the best solution would be to have the zip files ready for download on the server, second best option would be to at least make the "Click to save your zipped file" into a link to the zip, it is annoying for IE users to have to click the yellow bar and "Download file" which causes yet another refresh.

When you enter a video update it will automatically start streaming, in my opinion that is annoying, and a waste of bandwidth, I think few people have a fast enough connection to actually stream the high quality videos, and even those who do probably still prefer to download most videos. Anyway, I guess that would be a matter of opinion.

To end on a positive note I loved the "Download video sample" in video updates, which makes it possible to download a tiny clip from the update, and see the quality, settings and model(s) before spending a lot of time downloading a huge file. Many sites should learn from this.

Please let me know which reviews you find most useful by rating each after reading them. I you have further comments you can use the form below.

1 2 3 4 5