Porn Review Glossary

The world of assessing various paid-for porn websites can include terms that may seem confusing. These words are used to help you make the most informed decision about purchasing a porn membership, so it is important to understand what each adult pay site is offering. Here is a short glossary of terms that you might come across when seeking out adult pay sites.

AEN/AVS: Sites on these networks offer the subscriber access to a large number of affiliated adult pay sites for one annual subscription price.

Budget Sites: Any adult sex sites with this label will provide you access to content at a discounted rate or for a cheaper price than the competitors.

DRM: With Digital Rights Management, any video with this protection can only be viewed at the webmaster’s or video producer’s discretion. This means you may have to stay a member to view DRM content on a porn pay site. DRM is a way to prevent piracy of video content.

Exclusive Content: This means the tagged content cannot be seen on any other porn websites. A porn pay site offering exclusive content has an advantage over those with easily found public content.

Merchant: When talking about payment options, the merchant is the 3rd party billing company that will ensure you have secure payments throughout your website membership. Along with the merchant, billing processors verify the safety of your credit card.

Niche: A sub-category, genre, or specialty field of porn. Pay sites typically specialize in a certain type of porn to focus on having exclusive and high-quality content.

Pay Per View: These porn websites or videos will bill you based on the number of times you view specific content. This is an alternative to trial porn memberships or full porn memberships

Spam: Including pop-ups, any unsolicited and unwanted content that appears when you access a porn pay site. Quality adult pay sites will not allow spam to reach their members.

Streaming Content: Usually applying to webcam chats or videos, streaming content is only available to watch while you’re connected to the website; streaming videos cannot be downloaded. Having exclusively streamed content is a negative quality of a porn pay site.

Trial Memberships: These memberships offer you access to the porn pay site’s content for a short period of time so you can determine if a membership to the site is right for you. Trial memberships typically last 30 days or less and trial members cannot typically view all of the content that is available to full subscribers.

Webmaster: This person provides the content and updates what you will see on each porn pay site. This developer is basically in charge of making sure the website runs smoothly with legal content.