Club Seventeen

The Longest Running Porn Site?

Some porn sites have much richer, longer-standing histories than others. In fact, the majority of the most popular porn sites on the web are relatively new – founded within the last decade or so – such as the wildly popular cornerstones of adult entertainment like Reality Kings, Brazzers, and Team Skeet (to name a few). But Pornsites.com values a site that has been around the block a few times. More often than not, longevity has a lot to say about quality. And Club Seventeen is a prime example of that. Club Seventeen predates the internet, believe it or not, as a classic source of sexy teen smut. Club Seventeen got its start in 1975 as a magazine, the likes of which the world had never seen. Prior to Club Seventeen, there was no definitive source of teen porn out there. Sure, there was Playboy (founded in 1953) and there were both Penthouse (1965) and Hustler (1974). But none of these publications focused on beautiful teen models. Club Seventeen, one could say, is responsible for the entire genre of teen porn as we know it today. The founder of Club Seventeen, Jan Wenderhold, tells the story of how he decided to start the magazine. In one of Clube Seventeen’s first issues, he recalls, “I'm drinking a beer in the sports hall with my friends after playing a game of indoor football. Sitting next to us are some girls who also came to work out. One of the girls yells out to me 'Aren't you that guy that publishes sex magazines, like CHICK?’ I confirm that I am that guy, to which she replies, ‘Why don't you create a fun sex magazine especially for young people?’ For a moment I didn't know what to say, but I asked her if there would be any demand for something like that. “[…] I asked how old they were. It turned out their average age was 17 years old. To the girl that started talking to me, who obviously was the cheekiest one, I said, ‘Okay, I will make a sex magazine for young people, but only if you are the chief editor.’ To my surprise, she said she was more than happy to do that! “Like the other girls, she was still in school, so she had plenty of time for that. “When can I start?” she asked. ‘Tomorrow,’ I replied for fun. I thought it all was a bit of bluff, but in the end, it turned out she was dead serious. On this memorable evening, in a regular sports hall, a couple of teenagers with spring jitters gave me the idea to create a magazine for teens. The girls came up with the name. And this is how Seventeen was born.” Apparently, the magazine was a success. Am immediate one, at that. They printed their first issue and it sold out. This led Wenderhold and the girls to require a second edition much sooner than they had anticipated. Luckily, they had enough photos stocked up of hot teen girls to get them through the first couple months of publication. And when it came time to recruit new models, Club Seventeen had already become so popular that there were more than enough beautiful young girls willing to fill the role. The magazine’s success did not falter at this time. At the height of Club Seventeen’s fame, they sold 60,000 copies of the magazine every month. This is no small feat! Especially back in those days.

Rebranding and Resurrecting

This is not to say that Clube Seventeen did not face roadblocks along the way. For one thing, in the earliest iterations and issues of the magazine, the publication made it their mission to feature, given the name, girls that were seventeen years old (or sixteen at the youngest). This was, of course, legal where the magazine was operating (Holland). But, of course, this limited the scope of the magazine’s potential popularity because, well, in most of the western world, 18 is the legal age of consent. Eventually, though, this changed. By the mid-90s, Seventeen Magazine would assimilate with the rest of Europe under the European “harmonization” act, which required all European countries to adopt the 18-year-old laws of consent, the Netherlands included. Today, Club Seventeen makes it clear as much throughout their site as possible that all content featuring girls under the age of 18 have been scrubbed. The site does not feature any underage girls. This is something, no doubt, the site has struggled with, especially given their name. They have even gone to the lengths of including the ages of the models next to many of the previews on the splash page. They, understandably, want to make it as clear as possible that there is no illegal content on this site – that they, thankfully, have adapted and changed according to a more moral means of operation.

Site Designed like a Magazine

Longevity certainly can make for a quality porn site, but it is not always the case. Bad site design can plague anyone, no matter how long you have been in operation. In fact, sometimes the porn companies that existed prior to the invention of the internet have the hardest time crossing over to the digital format … simply because their designers are stuck in their ways. And although Club Seventeen’s content is still some of the best in the industry, this does appear to be the case with their site design to a degree, unfortunately. The best way to describe the way that Club Seventeen’s website is designed would be … sloppy. It is cluttered and difficult to navigate. It’s hard to tell what’s what, and there are just too many moving parts. It’s as if they are trying to design the website the same way they would design the layout of a magazine. Magazines are meant to be flashy and are often cluttered because you are working with a very limited amount of space. And, of course. each color and glossy page printed costs money. A website, though, provides essentially unlimited space. And that is something that it seems as if the designers of Club Seventeen perhaps did not account for. A quick glimpse at the home page alone will make this abundantly clear. There’s just too much content. A welcome area spells out “hello” in almost every language you can think of, right in between a few blocks of text and a list of the site’s top 10 cam girls, which feels very out of place and random. Below that, you’ll find a few somewhat sketchy looking buttons for some “surprises:” a surprise cam, surprise pic, surprise video, and surprise model. Then, before you will even find any of the great Club Seventeen porn to be offered on the site, you have yet another link to Club Seventeen’s cam site (which, of course, costs extra for tokens). Keep scrolling down, though, and finally you will find some of that classic Club Seventeen porn: new picture updates and new video updates will be wedged between so much else.

The Best Bang for your Buck?

To be fair, though, perhaps Club Seventeen is so cluttered because, well, it is such an enormous site with tons to offer. That is definitely the case. In addition to tons and tons (we’re talking around 45 years!) of porn available for your viewing pleasure, you will also have access to user-generated content, providing a sweet community and interactive element to the site that few other porn sites ever come close to achieving, as well as bonus content, games. a whole cam site, and discounts to partner sites. As far as premium porn sites go, this may be one of the best bangs for your buck! And there is no denying that the actual porn itself is top-notch. Club Seventeen, again probably due to the fact that it has been around forever, has a very distinct visual aesthetic in their videos and pics. It is borderline erotica in cinematic quality and scope, but it is also 100% hardcore XXX porn, make no mistake about it. There is nothing softcore about most of the content on this site. Sure, there is some softer core stuff available if that’s what you’re into, but this is by no means a softcore or erotic only porn site! If you want a porn site that has decades of history behind it, a unique directorial vision, and some of the hottest unknown teen girls that the adult entertainment industry has to offer, Club Seventeen is the site for you! You will definitely never run out of things to do on this site. With so much going for it, if you are going to pay money for a teen porn site, it might as well be this one!