A Buyer's Guide to Adult DVDs

It's not easy to find good adult DVDs among the thousands of available titles.

"Which DVDs are good?  What would you recommend?"  The most common questions are often the ones that are the hardest to answer.  Questions asking for help in selecting the best of many thousands of available adult titles are the most frequently asked questions we see in the forums and chat rooms around the blue side of the net.  In a way, the Internet has been a good thing, giving more choices and information to consumers who only had a boxcover or a clerk's recommendation in a local porn shop to base their purchases on.  But the Net has also made it really easy to buy a lot of cheap junk on questionable recommendations.  That's why I wrote this guide:  to give you some tips on how to avoid crappy porn by becoming an savvy pornsumer.

Where to Start

The best way to answer the question of "which are the best DVDs?" is to refine the question to "which are the best DVDs for me?"  The only way to begin to answer this new question is to really understand what you are looking for and what type of porn is available out on the market.

Figure out what your preferences are.  Pornography isn't a simple, one-fits-all form of entertainment, and despite anyone who says that all porn is alike, it's really not.  There are so many variables, such as physical appearance (young, old, big boobs, blondes, shaved, ethnic) and genre (all-sex videos, plot-based movies, artistic vignettes, parodies, gonzos, amateur).  Then you have preferences about mood (hard fucking, making love, nervous first timers), type of action (blowjobs, anal, straight sex, girl-girl, orgies, etc.), and fetishes (S&M, facials, foot worship, toys, and dirty talk only scratch the surface of what's out there).  Throw in your favorite stars, directors, and studios, and you have a profile that's unique to you. It's important for you to figure out what you like to see, not what someone else, who has his or her own individual tastes, likes.  This is important because a lot of people who ask, "what should I buy?" haven't thought about what they like, making it really hard to give some solid recommendations.

Learn about the studios.  Rather than going into the various studios and what kind of porn you can expect to see from each, I'll point you to Astroknight's excellent summary of adult studios.  You can use this information as a guide for your initial purchases.  By taking your preferences and matching them to a studio, you're more likely to find something you like.  For example, if you're looking for a porn with a story around it, you might want to try a studio like Vivid, Wicked, or Adam & Eve.  But if you're looking for an all-sex video that emphasizes anal sex, you'd probably want to pick something from Evil Angel, Evolution Erotica, or Diabolic.  Some studios produce many different types of porn, but in general, most tend to specialize in a certain genre.

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