Vintage Taboo Review
Date:Jan 13th, 2008
Score: Full 4/5
Niche: Vintage Porn
Main Draw: This vintage porn collection is high quality, with a mix of exclusive and non exclusive material that will keep you looking for a long time. This is primarily a vintage porn photos site, so movie goers may need to look elsewhere. There is a wide range of vintage porn represented here, from vintage pinup girls to vintage pissing, with each and every different section filled to the brim.
Design/Navigation: Everything is organized by years, then into sub categories, which helps you to find exactly what you're looking for. It would have been nice if there had been an easier way to navigate the actual galleries, though.
Pictures: The photo sections are the strong point to Vintage Taboo. First you need to choose what time period you are looking for - pre 20s, 20s-30s, 40s-50s, and 60s-70s. Under each of these main categories you can choose a more specific type of vintage material - BJs, Cheesecake, Derriere, Fetish, Girlfriends, Hardcore, Hose, Catfights, Boobs, Spanking, and French Post Cards. You can also go into other main sections that feature native girls, illustrations, magazines, stars, and burlesque dancers. Every section has several different galleries. One thing that is rather annoying is that there is no thumbnail view for all of the content in a particular gallery. You just go from one full sized picture to the next. In short, I honestly don't have a real number on how many photos are in this collection.
If I had to make an educated guess, I would say over 12,000 or close to it. One thing that made me happy was that most of the material has been remastered to a high quality. There are a few vintage gems that I have never seen before. Another section of note is their extensive vintage fetish collection. It is much larger than every other vintage paysite that I've been inside, and it's not just the same Irvin Klaw photos that everyone else features. Another unique bit of material in their collection is their vintage watersports. Now this isn't something that I am personally into, but for those of you who have been making fruitless searches on other sites for pissing from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, you can find it here.
Movies: The movies are divided up in the same fashion as the pictures - you can choose your era then look through the 100 vintage porn movies on the site. There is another eclectic mix of niches here, although it is mostly stag films and vintage amateur porn. You will see a nice selection of vintage fetish movies, including vintage pissing. Most of these are new to my eyes, although the quality does leave a bit to be desired and is variable between most of these movies. The length also varies rather largely between movies, although most seem to be sitting at a 5-10 minute length. They are only in Quicktime format as well, which wasn't winning any points from me. There is also a seperate movies page that features vintage movie stars, although these were all mostly shorter clips.
Extras: There's not too much in the way of extras at Vintage Taboo - just a handful of magazines and illustrations, along with a humor section filled with odd photos.
My Favorite Part: I spent a very long time watching and looking at all of the vintage fetish movies and photos.
Speed Speed was fine.
Originality There is a mix of exclusive and non exclusive material at Vintage Taboo.
Updates 5 days a week
Annoyances The lack of a thumbnail view for complete galleries annoyed me as I had to go through a large number of pictures before seeing ones that I wanted to look at. I also wasn't thrilled with the fact that Quicktime is the only movie format offered on the site, along with the fact that the movie quality wasn't all that hot. There was also that uncanny resemblence to the Retro Raunch site that made me a bit uneasy.
Is It Worth it? This is a very solid collection to look at if you are after high quality vintage photos. I did enjoy the fetish collection as well, so if you're after rare material of that type you will enjoy yourself there. If you are after movies, though, you will probably want to keep on looking.
Price: 9.95/7 day trial | 21.95/month | 49.95/3 months | 79.95/6 months