xHamster Review

Overview

Third biggest porn site after XVideos and Pornhub. Social network features, real dating, stories, 10 million users, and mountains of amateur content.

Detailed Review

xHamster is a heavyweight. Third most visited porn site on the entire internet. Only XVideos and Pornhub get more traffic. That is serious street cred. Ten million registered users. If that does not tell you this site is legit, nothing will. Founded in 2007 by Alex Hawkings out of Cyprus. The guy wanted to do something different. Most tubes at the time were just video dumps. He wanted to build a social network for porn. Think Facebook but for perverts. And he pulled it off. The site describes itself as a place for people who want to chat, swap amateur pics, share homemade videos, find mutual friends, and maybe hook up for intimate relationships. That last part sounds optimistic but whatever. The platform is there if you want to try. User-uploaded amateur content is the bread and butter here. Millions of homemade videos from real people. Some of it is gold. Some of it is trash. But that is the beauty of amateur porn. You never know what you are going to get. Design is clean. Easy to navigate. Videos split into hot porn videos and newest porn videos right on the homepage. You can filter by best instead of newest. You can sort by video length, which is rare and extremely useful. Homemade clips tend to run short so being able to filter by length is a game changer. Left sidebar lets you filter by category, channel, or pornstar with one click. You can combine tags together, which most tubes somehow forget to include. Professional studio content sits right next to amateur uploads unless you filter otherwise. You can toggle between straight, gay, or shemale content. Or activate all three if you are feeling adventurous. Now here is the annoying part. They added a hardcoded watermark on every video. It pops up at random times. You are about to see a dude blow his load and BAM, watermark right on the girl face. This video has been uploaded to xHamster. Fucking cockblock. Whoever thought that was a good idea deserves a kick in the balls. Social features are solid. Comment on videos. Rate them. Message users directly. Add videos to favorites. Upload your own content. Pretty standard stuff but it works. The dating feature is what sets xHamster apart. Click the dating tab and you are not sent to some sketchy third-party scam site. This is built into xHamster. You can search and interact with real users to try and score dates. Filter by gender (including trans, genderqueer, intersex), sexual orientation (hetero to pansexual to asexual), age, country, state, city. User profiles have bios, photos, videos if they uploaded any. You can friend request, subscribe, send messages. Downside: the ratio is fucked. I searched for women in New York. Any age, any orientation. Forty-two profiles. Then searched for men. Four hundred twenty-three. So good luck with that. xHamster Stories has thousands of user-created erotica. Read other people dirty stories. Write and upload your own. Comment to spark discussions. Nice touch for people into written smut. xHamster Premium lets you buy individual full-length videos instead of committing to a monthly subscription. No yearly commitment required. Just buy whatever you want one video at a time. Smart option if you only want premium content occasionally. They also run xHamsterLive, their own cam site. Some models are searchable on the dating page too. So you have endless free content, the ability to buy premium videos one at a time, dating features, and live cams all under one roof. No other site does all of that. If you are tired of porn tubes being just passive video players and want to actually interact, xHamster delivers. Free to sign up. Free to watch. Social features actually work. Try hitting up women in your area. Or just upload your own content. Either way, xHamster gives you options no other tube offers.

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