Site: www.homegrownvideo.com Cost: $4.95 for 3 days; $39.95 per month Genres:: Amateurs, Various Condoms: No One-line summary: Amateur porn stars share their own videos and pictures. Reviewer: SexHerald Staff

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What happens when a bunch of amateur porn stars video tape and snap pictures of themselves in sexual predicaments? They ship the videos and snapshots off to HomegrownVideo.com.

Launched in 1982, Homegrown Video started the "first amateur porn company." Filled with nearly 1,500 movies and almost 114,000 pictures (all user submitted), Homegrownvideo.com specializes in a wide array of genres (they call it niches), including lesbian, hand jobs, double penetration, hairy, and one that jumped out at me, fat. Although the "fat" and a couple of other niches weren't for me, there were plenty of other ones that were.

The videos and pictures are all exclusive to Homegrownvideo.com. However, they are all nicely arranged in a slideshow and in sequence, which means that if the model is giving a blow job, then the continuity suggests the procedure. They don't jump from licking to triggering population paste to sucking. It's all in order.

The videos, ranging from orgies to hand jobs, load quickly and are in, for amateur movies, surprisingly good video quality. Some of them are filmed by the person getting the action, to which he would zoom-in and stay on a certain area of the woman rather quickly. But, I guess if I'm getting slizob on my knizob, I'd be fast on the zoom-in as well. Aside from these little tendencies, which don't appear in most of the other videos, they are well-produced and worth the minor nuances.

What I like about the videos, as well as the other features on the site, is the technical help you can receive by the webmaster. The people in charge really want you to be satisfied and prompt you to contact them if you aren t. But that's not the best thing.

The best thing about the videos are the fact that members are able rate them from 1-10, with ten being the best. Adjectives such as "unearthly" and "incredible" highlight the highs, while "poor" describes the ones to avoid or view at a later time. Each video comes with a lead-in and a couple of video caps to entice you to watch, but the ratings are what got me. I managed a few 7.5-9 ratings and a couple 3 ones and agree with the members' opinions toward them.

Unlike many other adult sites, Homegrownvideo.com has features that allow you to contact other members of the site, post your own thoughts in the forum and participate in contests for prizes. A couple of the contests are to "write a nasty script," and to "write a custom video script," in which amateur porn stars produce it. The winner receives the final video.

Overall, I think the site offers something for everyone, including live web cam shows and monthly recaps for the visitor who can't frequent the site everyday. The videos I watched were believable and the people participating showed realism, which is a major turn on. Add to that, it seems like a close family on the site.

The one bad thing about Homegrownvideo.com is the enticement they use to get you from guest to member status. All that is used are thumbnail pictures and a series of montages. I think they could spring for some sample videos to better convince a person to become a member. But then again, it is only $4.95 for three days. That's equivalent to a super-sized value meal.