XConfessions review

XConfessions review | Mr. Pink's Porn Reviews
MrPinks.com review date - 10/23/2023

Overview:
What do you get when you task a masterful creator of artistically ambitious, sexually explicit adult films with interpreting and realizing the sordid erotic confessions of audience members? XConfessions. From acclaimed director Erika Lust, XConfessions takes the desires, fantasies, and confessions of anonymous viewers and turns them into beautifully crafted, erotically powerful pieces of adult cinema. Lust is known the world over for her commitment to female-friendly porn and XConfessions is excellent evidence of this. Calling its content “ethical, female-friendly, and beautiful,” XConfessions often feels far closer to European art cinema than your typical porno flick. Any viewer who has been searching for a porn offering that treats its performers with copious respect, treats a woman’s body as beautiful whatever its shape, and features a diverse cast of performers of different races, sexual orientations, and gender identities engaging in a wide range of sex acts not limited to the P-in-V standard schtupping, XConfessions could be just the ticket to ample viewing pleasure.

Pros:
XConfessions boasts an exciting concept. Everyday people are a wealth of sexual confessions; or they would be if given the chance to anonymously share them. Taking submissions from viewers gives XConfessions a seemingly endless supply of ideas with which to create its work. From an all-girl punk band that fucks each other after rehearsal to Caribbean vacation stranger-sex to a doting mother who supplies her returning soldier son with a smoking hot woman, XConfessions holds plenty of exciting concepts.

Like all Erika Lust endeavors, XConfessions features a diverse cast made up of performers of a wide range of races, gender identities, sexual orientations, body types, and personalities. From heavy-set black French women with plenty of facial piercings to natural redheads with hourglass figures and (gasp) cellulite to trans-men with big biceps and a taste for cock, XConfessions is truly diverse.

Excellent cinematography and carefully crafted sound both contribute to the effectiveness of XConfessions. Video stream in multiple resolutions, the best of which is a crisp and detailed 1080p. Image galleries may be small, usually numbering no more than eight photos, but they also look quite good. XConfessions also features a Live TV component that viewers can tune into at any time and find a curated screening.

Dated with a year of release only, XConfessions films are a little difficult to put on a schedule. That said, there’s a hefty collection already online, more than 250 titles. The $19.95 monthly fee is quite affordable and there’s even a 12-month subscription that knocks the price down to a mere $9.95-a-month.

Cons:
XConfessions often feels like watching sexually explicit art cinema. Unfortunately, its 1080p peak video resolution falls short of the 4K many competing sites are using and does the excellent cinematography a disservice. It would be great to see 4K video make its way to XConfessions soon.

Should you not be content with streaming your XConfessions selections and wish to download a video, you’re required to request an email link. This process is likely intended to keep viewers focused on streaming but for downloaders it presents a rather annoying hurdle to getting what they want.

The risk with any porn site focusing on diversity instead of predictability and repetition is that a given viewer may only find a handful of the films interesting or arousing. Your next favorite piece of porn could be lurking in the XConfessions library but it may be largely surrounded by films in which you have little interest.

Conclusion:
XConfessions takes the old “hot story submitted by ‘real’ reader” concept from the porno mags of old and wraps it up in arthouse film styles, contemporary diversity politics, and social conscience then delivers it to viewers in a hot HD streaming package. While the content won’t suit all kinds of porn viewers - but, really, what porn does? - there is plenty to love about XConfessions. If you have tired of seeing the same kinds of performers, women and men both, flooding the porn world for decades, XConfessions is a serious breath of fresh air. While it’s annoying that download links are emailed to individual users and not simply made available on the site itself, the video content is of such a high quality that many won’t mind at all. Coming in at less than $20 for a month of access - under $10 if you subscribe for a year - XConfessions is also a good deal. This unique site deserves more attention.