The Best Porn has been reviewing paid porn sites for well over a decade and is one of the names most people in the erotic review business measure themselves against. Its remit is premium membership sites: networks, single-studio sites and niche producers, across the full range of straight, lesbian, fetish and specialist categories. The reader it has in mind is methodical, someone who wants to know not just whether a site is good but why, and who would rather see the score broken into parts than take a single number on trust. The site is in English, gated for adults, and only lists producers working with verified adult performers.

Scoring is the signature feature of The Best Porn. Each review ends in a mark out of one hundred, and that mark is assembled from sub-ratings that cover the things members actually care about: the quality of the videos and photos, the size of the archive, how much of it is exclusive rather than licensed, how often new scenes arrive and how easy the site is to navigate and download from. The written review walks through each of those areas with specifics, so you can see where a high overall score is hiding a weak update schedule. Category pages rank the reviewed sites by score, a top list gathers the best overall, and a discounts section lists reduced join prices arranged with producers.

Reading The Best Porn is free, and like every erotic review directory it is funded by commissions when you join through its links; the discounts it lists are the visible benefit of that arrangement, and they are often the cheapest legitimate way into a given site. The reviews are long, specific and more willing to criticise than most, which is why the scores carry weight: a site in the nineties here has earned it. The downside is that the catalogue skews towards established paysites, so brand-new sites can take a while to appear. Payments go through the chosen paysite’s own processor with a discreet descriptor, and the review site itself asks nothing of you.

The Best Porn remains a benchmark for how a paysite review should be written. The sub-rating system turns a vague score into a diagnosis, the discounts are real and the reviews do not flinch from pointing out slow updates or recycled content. If you are about to spend money on a membership and want one thorough opinion rather than ten shallow ones, this is the place to get it. Open The Best Porn through our link to see the current top-scoring sites and the discount list before you decide where to join.