Overview:
Black Ice Pass is just the site to inspire the most important bonding of all: cross-racial and cross-cultural bonding. Filled with “the largest, most complete exclusive HD Ebony porn collection on the planet”, Black Ice Pass caters not just to the black man who loves to see black women represented in porn, but to men of all races and creeds that can appreciate the unique beauty and vivacious attitude to sex that these women exhibit. Black women are often under represented in pornography. Relegated to titles like “Black Chick, White Dick” or “Bootyz in da Hood!!”, they are usually seen as exotic blacks first, gaping fuckholes second, and women third; unlike many successful white pornstars who are recognized not just for their incredible blowjob skills, but for their personalities, too. Try to name one black pornstar – black female pornstar – and I dare say most of you won’t be able to come up with anything more substantial than your own invention, “Shantiqua Foxxx”. While “white porn” has Sasha Grey, Jenna Jameson, and Tera Patrick (even though she’s of mixed-race), “black porn” doesn’t really have anyone of that notoriety. Black Ice Pass hopes to change that racial divide by focusing on black porn princesses who certainly have a lot to offer. The site’s tour page promises to deliver well over 500 complete DVDs, High Definition videos, and bonus access to the hardcore sites Zero Tolerance on Demand and 3rd Degree Movies, which deliver a more racially mainstream type of porn. If my assumptions are correct and Black Ice Pass is of comparable quality to those bonus sites, ebony fans are in for a real treat.

Once logged in to Black Ice Pass, you’ll more than likely be impressed by the thoroughly modern and professional site design. Everything looks like it’s been constructed by people that are not only qualified to work in this field, but are determined to excel at their jobs, which is certainly a great first impression to make on new members. You can access Zero Tolerance and 3rd Degree via a tabbed menu at the very top of this page or, if you want to stick with Black Ice for the time being, there’s another menu bar a little further down that will take care of you. Home, DVDs, Scenes, Pictures, Pornstars, and Support are the main menu options and all do their assigned task capably and with little fuss. There are members’ polls and a new bulletin section that gives you some updates about what’s going on with the site and allows you to suggest changes or make requests. Further down the page, you’ll find the list of recent updates displayed as scenes with a preview image, the performer’s name, and how long it’s been since it was put online. Hovering your mouse over each of these preview pics will cause them to animate, showing you a bit more of the scene they’ve been pulled from. On the right side of the home page is a list of new DVDs complete with cover images. More lists are featured below and include This Month’s Most Downloaded Scenes, Featured Pornstars, Latest Picture Galleries, Black Ice Pass Categories (BBW, Big Boobs, Bubble Butt et al), and Free With Your Membership (links to the two bonus sites).

Quite often we find that the performers really make the site, so let’s dig into the Pornstars page (a model index) and see what we can drum up. The most popular ebony queens here at Black Ice Pass are Roxy Reynolds, Cherokee Dass, Jazmine Cashmire, and Pinky; Pinky’s the only one I’m familiar with. (Her shock of chin-length electric pink hair makes her hard to forget.) I spy a few other familiar faces throughout the first few pages of the index, but, I’m sorry to say, most of these gorgeous women are quite new to me. Don’t be alarmed at the seeming gentrification of the Black Ice Pass model index, as Sophie Dee, Brianna Love, and Trinity Post are here just to make the interracial scenes even hotter! After choosing a model that looks promising – Pinky, I’m sticking with you – and is featured in a decent amount of content (the number of DVDs and scenes they appear in can be found beneath their image on the index page) a simple mouse-click will take you to their profile page, where you’ll be given a ton of links and previews to gobble up. A model’s content is automatically displayed by scene, but you can switch to the DVDs or Picture Galleries view if you prefer. Each scene gives you another animated preview image, the performer’s name (which you should surely know by now), the title of the DVD the scene comes from, a HD logo if it’s available in High-Def, the running time of the video, and a View button. Seeing as I’ve only ever seen Pinky fuck other women (usually with a mammoth strap-on dildo), I’m keen to take the plunge and watch her deep-throat a big black cock, as depicted in the preview pic for Phat Black Wet Asses 3.

On each scene’s viewing page (which you’ll also get to after selecting either a scene from a DVD page) there’s an imbedded full-length streaming Flash video that begins loading as soon as you hit the page – it can be stopped if you’re not into streaming or haven’t yet unzipped your pants. This streaming video does, however, look very nice, with solid clarity and good color depth, but there are a handful of other streamable formats should you want to use WMV instead of Flash or watch low quality instead of high. Downloadable videos are linked below the stream and come in four main format options – 1080p, 720p, and 360p MP4s, as well as a WMV, and MP4, and an Xvid AVI that all hit 640x360 pixels. Of all of these videos, the 1080p MP4 is by far the most impressive, with great visuals complimenting the hot-as-fuck black-on-black (and black-on-white, and white-on-black) sex. Unfortunately, a few of the older scenes I looked at gave me errors when I tried to download the WMV format videos, telling me that the file could not be found. It doesn’t look like this problem affects the entire site (or even the majority of it), but it’s troubling and frustrating nonetheless.

Image galleries more often than not accompany a scene, with the action in each being taken from the same shoot. These aren’t just screencaps, however, and you’ll most likely be pretty pleased with the photographs on display here. Resolutions reach 900x600 pixels and you can navigate the gallery manually or by using the automated slideshow. Downloadable zip archives are also on hand, should you want to save everything for later viewing.

The scenes often feature some fairly stereotypically “urban” or “gangsta” shit, including (but not limited to) absurd booty shaking dances, hip-hop beats, lines like “I know you fine, but how you doin’?”, and lots of blinged out outfits and accessories. I suppose that’s to be expected. After all, porn never really raised the viewers’ social awareness very much, just gave them something to beat off to and (hopefully) something to mull over when their wives started blathering on about nothing of consequence. The content available on the bonus sites – bonus sites that are, I must say, fantastic (as detailed in their Mr. Pink’s reviews) – is just about as intellectually stimulating as the stuff on Black Ice Pass, but it avoids blatant racial stereotyping and borderline ridicule and instead focuses on blistering hardcore sex. When you factor in all three sites, you’re getting a pretty huge amount of high-quality exclusive hardcore porn for your $29.95 a month. If you’re still unsure about a membership, you have two options: sign up for the trial membership (two days for $3.95) or read the following Pros and Cons to confirm (or deny) your worst suspicions or your highest expectations. That’s why we’re here, isn’t it?

Pros:
- Black Ice Pass serves up over 180 hardcore porn DVDs, all of them exclusive and original.

- While black pornstars generally get the shaft (no pun intended) when it comes to mainstream porn, here they’re the stars…and what stars they are!

- Some bonus sites aren’t overly impressive and some downright suck. Zero Tolerance on Demand and 3rd Degree Movies, however, are thoroughly enjoyable and substantial bonuses.

- The largest HD videos available on Black Ice Pass reach 1920x1080 resolution and look fantastic!

Cons:
- Updates tend to be a little too sporadic for my liking. Nine days between updates is too long.

- The photos, while looking pretty good, can’t match the quality of the videos.

- It’d be nice to see a few dollars knocked off the membership fee, especially since there isn’t a huge archive of content here yet.

- Missing videos and non-working links are always trouble. Hopefully they’ll be fixed before you even check out the tour.

Conclusion:
I don’t envy Black Ice Pass’s job. This is a site that not only has to overcome a racial barrier, but it has to do it in the fickle and unforgiving world on online porn, where one week of lackluster performance can cause dozens of members to cancel and move elsewhere. Black Ice does, however, have a very strong foundation with great ebony goddesses doing some truly exciting work, a solid site design that’s immediately exciting, and fantastic video quality that impressed even a jaded, cynical old jerk like this reviewer! As long as the updates start arriving a little more frequently, Black Ice Pass is in pretty good shape and doesn’t need anything more than a few tweaks here and there.