If you have been consuming some quality porn for awhile, then you should have come across Blacked.com. It’s the site everyone measures themselves against, the one that took a genre that used to be shot on a shoestring budget and turned it into something that looks like a fashion campaign.
However reputation can not always match with reality, so I personally went in and registered and tried everything. I did the streaming, the downloads and the billing. I tried the whole thing.
First of all….
What is Blacked.com?
Blacked is a high quality upscale adult site exclusively for interracial action. The scenes are interracial, but it’s not just that. It is the way in which it’s produced. The site presents itself as a luxury brand. It has cinematic lighting, art directed environments, professional crews and actors that look like they’re having a great time.
In fact, there’s a full-length video with every scene that can be played in up to 4K and a high-resolution photo gallery, all of which is new content that drops every week.
It currently has about 800 scenes and has been steadily expanding for more than 10 years. Not as big of a library as aggregators, but still curated, and that’s actually the point here.
Who owns Blacked.com?
Blacked is the first brand that Vixen Media Group, a company founded by French filmmaker Greg Lansky, launched in May 2014. Coming out of Reality Kings, Lansky set out with the goal of making adult media into art (and Blacked succeeded, which is why it was chosen to be the flagship of VMG).Â
It proved so popular that it gave birth to several siblings, such as Tushy, Vixen, Deeper, Slayed, Blacked Raw, Tushy Raw, MILFY, and Wifey. His 100% ownership of Vixen Media Group was sold in January 2020 to an international investment group and his involvement in the day-to-day has been removed, but the corporate structure and production quality have stayed the same.Â
It is worth noting that the copyrights for the group reside with Strike 3 Holdings, a company that has filed thousands of copyright suits against those who pirate VMG films.
What makes Blacked.com special?
1. The production quality is genuinely unmatched
This is the massive one. Blacked films using pro cinema cameras, three point lighting setups, true colour grading, real movie sets, not someone’s bedroom.Â
Each scene is approximately 30-50 minutes and is built around the structure of a real scene, that is, with a few minutes of explanation about what is happening before the main action actually takes place.
Everything is photographed and recorded in a clean, consistent, minimal manner, as Lansky deliberately modelled it on Vogue and high-fashion photography. Clear skin tone, rich blacks, grays, and warm colors. It doesn’t matter what you think of the material, the craft is simply sealed at the top.
2. The male talent is actually good
In most studios the men acting perform the role of interchangeable props. Blacked doesn’t. It maintains a list of regular predictable men. Characters such as Jason Luv, Isiah Maxwell, Damion Dayski and Nelson Mandingo, who add a depth of presence to each scene. The last thing you’d want is that one small detail to spoil the whole ambiance of the entire library.
3. The streaming experience is flawless
I used it for one whole month including 4G mobile and NO buffering whatsoever. The player does adaptive bitrate automatically, seeking is instant, and the downloads are fast with no throttling. Mobile is not some vestigial after-thought, either. A fully functional, responsive design.
Blacked.com Girls
Blacked has a long history attracting the biggest names in the industry and it’s still going that way. Some of the names on the current roster and even in the recent catalog include Tori Black, Maitland Ward, Gianna Dior, Liz Jordan, Sarah Illustrates, Anya Krey and rising stars such as Juniper Ren and Josie Rae.
The site has also historically provided for some of the genre’s most prominent performers; such as Adriana Chechik, Abella Danger, Riley Reid, Kendra Sunderland, Lana Rhoades, Lena Paul, Nicolette Shea and Angela White. When a name is well respected in the industry there’s a high probability that she has been on Blacked.
Pros of Blacked.com
– 100% all things cinematic, art-directed and super pretty.
– Weekly updates that are rock solid and a decade-long archiving.
– Transcendent 4K streaming with adaptive bitrate support, not only on desktop but also on mobile devices.
– Generous password-protected downloads; the one-time yearly plan is a nice touch.
– Several payment options: credit card, Paypal, crypto and gift cards.
Cons of Blacked.com
– The cost of $29.95 per month from a single source is too high, considering that these aggregators will bundle hundreds of channels for a similar price.
– It’s a narrow niche. This is a library of one genre, if you desire variety, you need other sites.
– Small library (~700 scenes). A tremendous quality but not a lot of quantity.
– An absence of VR or interactive/sex-toy functionality (apart from playback and downloads). If there are any pre-checked cross-sales on the billing page, be sure to uncheck them.
Conclusion: Is Blacked.com Worth It?
For those that are particularly interested in high quality interracial material, there is nothing much that can beat it. Blacked remains the standard to which all others will measure and the art alone is worth a visit.
Currently, it costs $159.95 per year, which is something you will be paying if you intend to be a year-long member.Â
For variety, however, or for a large library, the small niche catalog is a drawback, and the high retail price, too. Give it a $1 test run and see for yourself, and be sure to cancel it before it auto-renews at $34.95 (if you don’t enjoy the service).
