Retro Raunch Review
Date: November 15th, 2006
Score: Full 5/5
Niche: Vintage and retro variety
Design: The design is clean, simple, and functional. You can get to all the vintage goodness you want within a few clicks, and there isn't any distractions to take you away from enjoying the massive amount of great stuff Retro Raunch has.
Pictures: There is an incredible amount of pictures here. The tour says over 54,000, and I couldn't begin to try and count them all. In just one section there were over 500 pages of 24 picture galleries. YOU try and count this much vintage goodness!! You have every vintage and retro time period represented here, from the 1800's to the 1980's. Obviously with such an extensive collection, quality varies from piece to piece. However, most of the photos I looked at were well tended for and very high quality for vintage photos. A lot of work went into the preservation and restoration here, which is just one of the many ways Retro Raunch shows their love and respect for vintage porn.
Movies: The movie collection is ecletic and small, mainly of burlesque dancing, stag movies, and other rare 8mm films. You don't see the normal component of classic pornstar videos that often end up in the movie section of vintage porn sites. It's definitely nice to see something new and different. The quality of the movies is, understandably, not that great. When you're dealing with movies from the early 20th century, there's not much you can do about that. The files are provided in one file which aren't very large in size - 10 megs was the average size for the ones I looked at.
Speed: The site was super speedy, with fast downloads and no delays in browsing.
Navigation: Everything is laid out clearly, with pictures being divided by time period and categories. You should have no problem with finding exactly what you need to satisfy your vintage cravings.
Updates: This site has an update schedule to die for. The biggest gap between updates was only three days, with most udpates coming daily. You get links directly to the category that has been updated so you can go straight to the new vintage goodness.
Main Draws: Retro Raunch has the largest and most well categorized vintage/retro collection of any site that I've seen. It will literally taking you many hundreds of hours to attempt to go through it all, and there are much of the photos and movies found here are exclusive to Retro Raunch.
Bonus Fun: There's a ton of vintage extras that will keep you visiting even if you aren't feeling raunchy. Cool sections for stories, a vintage store, a hilarious caption content, and specialty sections such as vintage gay.
Annoyances: There isn't too much to complain about. I hate the fact that only Quick Time is used for the movies, since well - I don't like the player.
Is It Worth it? They were one of the first. They are one of the biggest. And I will say that they are the best. I looooooove Retro Raunch. You have no idea how much I adore this site and love telling you about it. It's absolutely worth the price, which is much lower than many other vintage pornsites. If you have the chance, I'd recommend getting the dual subscription to Retro Raunch and Martha's Girls. They took all the care, humor, and quality from Retro Raunch and do faithful reproductions of vintage works over at Martha's Girls. So if you'd like Retro Raunch, chances are you'll adore Martha's Girls too. You can read the full review of Martha's Girls first if you'd like!
Price: 9.95 for 7 day trial, 21.95 for one month, 49.95 for three months, 79.95 for six months. You can also get a combined subscription to both Retro Raunch and Martha's Girls for a double dose of vintage variety. The rates for both sites are: 14.95 for 7 day trial, 29.95 for one month, 59.95 for three months, 99.95 for six months.
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