Swank Pass review

Swank Pass review | Mr. Pink's Porn Reviews
MrPinks.com review date - 01/26/2016

Overview:
Porn often suffers from dismal visuals, muffled or distant sound, shaky camerawork, and uninspired performances. That's at the lower end of the quality spectrum, of course, where prices are dirt cheap but probably should be cheaper. At the other end you'll find the likes of Vivid, Tonight's Girlfriend, and Digital Sin, studios hell-bent on producing classy, sophisticated, even glamorous porn. Now you can add to that roster of acclaimed studios Swank Pass, a network of 19 exclusive websites each detailing a different niche or fetish act, racial classification, sexual scenario, or shooting style, each designed to get you hard and keep you that way. Normally you'd pay $29.95-a-month for Swank Pass access, but with Mr. Pink on the case, sniffin' around for reasons to award merits and demerits, you can be sure that Swank Pass will not only get a thorough write-up from yours truly, it'll likely end up discounted, too! Isn't it time you gave up the low-end smut you've contented yourself with all these years and truly indulged? With sites devoted to plumpers, interracial, Euro babes, trannies, and a throng of gentlemen's magazines now online and opting for equal parts photo and video updates, Swank Pass is definitely proving quite hard to resist.

Pros:
The 19 sites making up Swank Pass range in style and theme from men's mags gone digital (Club, Genesis, Velvet, Gent, Fox, Gallery), interracial sex (Black Lust), busty babes (DCup), and BBWs (Plumpers and Big Women) to chicks-with-dicks (Tranny Kingz), ultra-hardcore (High Society), long limbs (Leg Action), and even more hardcore variety.

Many famous adult models can be found at Swank Pass, Europeans and Americans both. Jenny Hendrix, Ash Hollywood, Ariella Ferrera, Lauren Phoenix, and Britney Amber are all here, as are Euros Blue Angel, Adriana Malkova, Anetta Keys, and Cindy Hope. From les-only performers like Justine Jolie to extreme hetero horndogs Tory Lane and Roxy Jezel, there's a great mix of stars here.

With most Swank Pass sites now offering High Definition videos and high-res photo galleries, much of the content looks quite good here. Quality does vary, though, with many scenes and movies obviously stemming from ten-year-old productions, but overall there's not much to complain about in this department.

Adding new content to its 19 sites throughout the week, Swank Pass is very actively updating. Most websites are staying active, not content to rest on the combined network archive of 303 scenes and 758 photo galleries. And, keeping my word as always, Mr. Pink has scored a discount that'll get you, dear reader, your first month of Swank Pass access for only $19.95.

Cons:
Swank Pass clearly sources most of its content from older archives, often pre-HD archives. As a result, many galleries peak at just 900px while max video resolution is on some sites just 480p, and a hazy, washed-out 480p at that. Photo and video upgrades would be great to see at Swank Pass, but are they even possible?

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, and that's definitely proven to be the case with Swank Pass. On the outside Swank Pass appears to hold crisp HD videos galore, current A-list performers, and a sweet, slick design as attractive as it is functional. Inside, however, that proves to not be the case. Most curious of all, pop-up windows warn that content is 'Adults Only' before you download a gallery or video - as if you didn't know.

The Swank Pass archive clearly rests on DVDs produced by Anarchy Films, DVSX, Reality Kings, and other studios and producers, as well as the magazines it now hosts digitally. This content is unfortunately not at all exclusive to Swank Pass and can be found on the respective studio sites as well as major porn vendors like Videobox.

Photo galleries far outweigh videos at Swank Pass and, most frustrating of all, many galleries are licensed works that are usually accompanied by videos to allow you witness to the scorching hot sex in action, not just still frames. Note I said "usually," 'cause there's so many video-less gallery updates in the Swank Pass archive you'll find yourself, video fans, blue-balled and cock-blocked many, many times.

Conclusion:
Swank Pass, I must say, is pretty disappointing. Once inside the members area, it becomes clear that most Swank Pass content has been sourced from movies made six-to-twelve years ago, starring many pornstars now retired, and shot on Standard Definition formats before the HD revolution really took hold. The 19 sites connected to Swank's servers include some good ones, some bad ones, and some that fall right in the middle. Is it worth forking out twenty bucks each month just to enjoy a third of Swank's material? Not really, no, but if you fall in that category of guys who believe the early 00's were the second porno Golden Age, you'll be like a pig in shit at Swank Pass, happy and very, very filthy. Everyone else, there's better ways to access and enjoy much of this material, ways less plagued with issue and nonexclusive duplication. Swank Pass's future isn't exactly glowing, but there's hope for the old bird yet. With a few upgrades, revisions, and new (contemporary) content feeds, Swank Pass would be significantly improved.