SexTapes.com review

SexTapes.com is a porn paysite run by and featuring the popular male porn star, Ricky Johnson. Johnson has another paysite as well, called Ricky’s Room, which we have reviewed earlier. Fans of SexTapes will want to look at Ricky’s Room too.

Based on the name of the site and how the scenes are shot, it’s a reasonable assumption that Johnson tries to capture the look and feel of a couple making their own sex tape. Johnson succeeds in creating this vibe, and that vibe makes the site far more interesting than many other mainstream porn sites, in my opinion.

The sex here is best labelled as mainstream, and I don’t mean any negative connotation by applying that label. What I mean is that it is mostly standard B/G sex, with a handful of B/G/G scenes as well. However, what many other mainstream sites lack is an obvious chemistry between the performers. Here at SexTapes, the sex can be passionate, playful, slightly aggressive, and all those things combined, in one scene. While SexTapes.com will appeal to the usual porn subscriber, I think many couples will also find it works for them as well. As I noted above, the scenes are shot in such a way as to emulate a sex tape being shot by a real-life couple. The chemistry of a couple combined with the naughtiness of making a sex tape, lends itself well to creating some hot scenes.

Fans of creampies will find many of the scenes feature that niche, though there are also many body shots to conclude the sex. Facials, long the standard of hardcore porn, are comparatively rare. In my opinion, this is likely done on purpose to further create the atmosphere of a real-life couple making a sex tape.

The shooting style used for the scenes at SexTapes is a mix of fixed cameras and some footage shot by a cellphone or edited in a way to make it look as if it was shot on a cell phone. While the advantage of this style of shooting is that it preserves the idea that this is a couple shooting their own sex tape (and why would a couple have a camera operator in the room while they were doing that?), it also comes with limitations. While Johnson and his co-stars are professional porn actors and are mindful of the camera, there are often positions where the action is not well captured. But, I’ll admit, I find that with the scenes trying to capture the atmosphere of a genuine sex tape, that missing the action sometimes further adds to the heat.

One way that Johnson gets around some of the limitations of having a fixed camera is to have more than one camera. I suspect this was a deliberate decision made by Johnson, and if so, I’m glad he opted to do this – the videos don’t edit together the footage captured by each of the cameras to best capture the action. Instead, SexTapes.com posts the complete footage from each of the two cameras as separate scenes for many of the shoots. Added to this, there can be some short footage from the scene shot using a cellphone camera.

Shooting many of the scenes with two cameras and posting each has a separate video has the potential to mislead potential subscribers into thinking there are more scenes available here than they really are. While SexTapes is showing 243 videos being available as I write this review, there are not 243 unique scenes. After subtracting the different camera angle "duplicates", a rough estimate is 120 unique scenes. I accept that some readers and potential subscribers may not like the duplication of scenes using two fixed cameras and occasionally adding a POV cellphone in as well, but it’s a feature I like. I like being able to see the same scene in its entirety from multiple angles, and it does add to the atmosphere of this being a genuine sex tape.

Because of the variation in how the scenes are shot, with the cellphone POV videos being short, the scene lengths vary widely on the site. There can be a short clip of around four minutes, but there are also full-length scenes that extend to 40 minutes. A rough estimate is that the average across the entire site is 15 minutes in length.

There is a link on the SexTapes homepage for “Shorts.” These are short cellphone videos, as the name implies. The way the page loads makes it difficult to determine, but I suspect that the shorts here are duplicated in the overall scene count on the main page as well.

While readers may wonder what the video quality and production values are on a site that tries to emulate genuine sex tapes, I’m happy to report that this aspect of the site and scenes is highly professional. Unlike some other sites where there can be glare from lights or a window, it’s obvious that Johnson thinks these issues through when staging his shoots. While the POV cellphone clips certainly look like POV cellphone clips and lack the quality of the fixed cameras, clearly that’s intentional. With the fixed cameras, the lighting and camera placement are all excellent.

The models who appear are mostly top-tier American stars. Because the American porn industry has a high proportion of Caucasian models, with fewer Black and Asian models, that’s the same cross-section you’ll find here at SexTapes. As is the case in top-tier porn models, while there is some variation with ethnicity, there isn’t a lot of variation in age or body type. The models here range from early 20s to late 20s, and the body types are usually at the petite end of the scale.

There are currently 67 models who have scenes here at SexTapes.

The site itself at SexTapes is logical and easy to use. It works great on mobile devices too. Scenes can be sorted by upload date, can be sorted by using any of 97 categories/tags, or sorted by model. It’s generally quite easy to find something you are interested in, though it’s also fair to say that since SexTapes features mainstream porn, there aren’t a lot of “kinks” to sort through. For me, I found that sorting by the model appearing in the scene was most effective, but each subscriber can choose their own method.

As I noted above, as I write this review there are currently 243 videos available on the site, with the caveat being that many scenes have two separate videos for each camera angle, and a few throw in a third POV cellphone short as well. The site seems to be adding at least one video per week. Sometimes, when there are multiple videos of the scene, they all get added the same week.

If you like to download scenes, I have bad news. SexTapes.com only offers the scenes as streaming videos and does not offer downloads with the subscriptions.
One element about SexTapes offering only streaming that needs to be called out for its honesty is that when a potential subscriber goes to the Join page, the three membership options make it clear that the site is streaming only. I give full marks to SexTapes and Johnson for this level of transparency. I’ve subscribed to and reviewed sites that have openly lied about access, been deliberately misleading, or unnecessarily vague about downloads. That's not the case here at all, SexTapes.com is clear and transparent about being streaming-only.

Each scene is available to be streamed in multiple resolutions. I’ve listed those in the Videos section of the review. Readers should note that the listing is of resolutions available across the site but should be aware that not every resolution is available on every scene. For some readers, the most important variation of resolutions will be to note that 4K is not available on every scene. Unlike some sites that start offering 4K at a particular date and offer that on all scenes past that, there doesn’t seem to be that kind of consistency here at SexTapes. Unfortunately, finding the 4K scenes is a matter of opening links to see what is available. The thumbnails aren’t labelled to show the availability of 4K, and there is no 4K category either.

While a subscriber’s own internet connection will be the deciding factor here, I found that the streaming was fast and stable. I had no issue scrubbing forward in videos and having to wait for the stream to catch up.

SexTapes is stricly a video site, it doesn’t offer any photos or screenshots.

The bottom line for me is that I really enjoyed my time at SexTapes, and highly recommend that others check it out as well. The site offers an extensive tour (which is becoming a rarity these days), so potential subscribers who like the type of scenes that SexTapes has to offer can see what they are subscribing to.
The site is relatively large, it uses an interesting shooting style, it’s updating regularly, and it offers streaming in multiple resolutions, including 4K for many scenes. As the site name implies, the scenes are shot to create an atmosphere that this is a real couple shooting a sex tape, and the site nails that target. I find that the choices made in shooting the scenes coupled with the obvious chemistry between the models, creates interesting and fun-to-watch scenes. Added to all of this is the 50% discount available through the link at x3guide. I highly recommend checking out SexTapes and I’m confident that many people who do so will subscribe and enjoy the site.