Elegant Raw review

Elegant Raw review | Mr. Pink's Porn Reviews
MrPinks.com review date - 06/09/2015

Overview:
Too often porn viewers have to make decisions that could be avoided or eradicated quite easily by the studios and producers at whom they throw their hard-earned money. Do I like "cuties" or "cougars"? Is Ultra-HD another gimmick or worth a new TV? Will Charley Chase ever shoot another anal scene or is it an Elegant Angel subscription for me? (Oh, she did? On her solo site? Gimme!) Here's a site that, like a few others, aims to combine two usually disparate elements of pornography: the rawness and the elegance. (And if you're not sure porn can be elegant, allow Italian goddess Valentina Nappi to convince you!) Elegant Raw is its name, this forward-thinking provider of supreme erotic and carnal entertainment, and serving you up a steaming, sizzling platter of hardcore sex is its game. Elegant Raw promises weekly updates with exclusive content, all of which can not only be viewed on phones and tablets but in 4K resolution, too! That's right, Elegant Raw serves the best of Nathan Blake Productions' many excellent movies in the highest High Definition video resolution currently in common use. Destined to look incredible and hosting the likes of India Summer, Aleksa Diamond, Abbie Cat, and Isabella Clark in some of their raunchiest work, Elegant Raw asks of its members a simple monthly payment of €24.95 ($28.15 USD). Now this, whether or not to throw your money behind Elegant Raw, is a decision worthy of some intense consideration, don't you think?

Pros:
Hosting hardcore porn from Europe, Elegant Raw sees sexy women engage in everything from communal bathing to a blowjob roundelay. Elegant Raw looks glamorous enough to earn the first part of its name, and its porn is hot, heavy, and risque enough to easily earn the second part. Anal sex abounds and there's lots of interracial couplings, lesbian finger-banging, and gagging deepthroat fellatio, so it's all good, really.

Allegedly shot in 4K resolutions, Elegant Raw's videos do tend to look quite crisp and detailed even though they're only available for viewing in peak 1080p resolutions that, though they don't match the astounding clarity of 4K movies, are still HD and looking great in both streams and downloadable MP4s. Photo galleries also offer high resolutions and ample detail in their 4000px frames (online and zipped).

Many European A-list pornstars appear here, as do some Americans. Jessie Volt, Tarra White, Aleksa Diamond, Angel Wicky, Ivana Sugar, and Lou Charmelle are all waiting to be watched here, each woman representing another part of Europe. American performers featured here include India Summer,

A brand new site only online for 10 months, Elegant Raw nevertheless is proving itself quite active with weekly update schedule that brings both photo and video content to the site. There's also a heavy load of bonus scenes from Life Selector, 21Sextury, ALS Scans and other sites to round things out.

Cons:
The tour pages of Elegant Raw made special mention of the alleged fact that the content held inside was shot in Ultra-HD 4K resolution. Inside the members area, however, videos peak at 1080p and there's no mention whatsoever of 4K video even being involved in the productions or their digital delivery.

Bonus content sourced from 21Sextury, Fucked Hard 18, Tainster, ALS Scan, and many other vendors has not only been offered to Elegant Raw members, but has been integrated right into the main update listing. Members are now forced to visually identify these third-party updates and then ignore them; no navigation tool seems to automate this tedious process.

Bonus content also makes up far too much of the Elegant Raw archive. Out of the 78 total scenes 40 proved to be non-exclusive third-party creations included here simply as a bonus for existing members. Bonuses are welcome, of course, but when they start overpowering the main content, there's a problem.

Home to just 38 exclusive movies and 61 photo galleries, many of which could be consolidated two-for-one, Elegant Raw isn't a very large site, at least not yet. Hopefully the weekly updates will remain in place while the bonus content takes a back seat, giving more attention and content to the main archive.

Conclusion:
Although online for more than a year and currently adding new scenes on a weekly schedule, Elegant Raw is still badly understocked with only 38 exclusive scenes to its credit. Every other video found here is a third-party-provided bonus scene that should definitely not be hosted in the same collection as Elegant Raw's own material. That issue aside, Elegant Raw's hardcore is quite good, fairly adventurous, and hits all the standard points you'd want your Euro-hardcore to hit (anal, group sex, cum adoration etc). Although not as brilliant as it would be in the implied 4K format, the 1080p HD streams and downloads do look very fetching, capturing loads of detail and detailed loads. It'd be nice to see a bit more variety and originality here as there's nothing exactly groundbreaking or genre-defining in Elegant Raw's collection, but this site definitely has the foundations of something much more impressive, perhaps just a few months away.