ForHerTube

ForHerTube is a site made for women, presumably by women. It’s been around since 2010 and growing steadily as a one-stop-shop for female-centric pornography. The porn that they try to provide to their audience is very varied with every mainstream genre getting a lot of attention. As for whether they truly have their finger on the trigger of what makes women tick, that remains to be explored.

What Women Want

The idea of a female-centric site seems appealing, intriguing and inspirational if you think about it. Most of online pornography is built around the male-gaze so it’s nice to get a break from all that and venture into unexplored territory. Regarding what this site actually holds that might be appealing to women, that remains a bit of a mystery. What women want out of sex in general has always been a big question for men, since time immemorial, so it would be interesting to see ForHerTube.Com finally provide a conclusive answer to that question.

Men might learn a lot from this site and use their newfound wisdom in approaching women in real life. Who knows, they might find themselves with a number of new and original ideas about spicing up their sex lives with various techniques and scenarios. Women on the other hand are likely to visit this site hoping that they have finally landed in a place where their needs are properly catered to, as opposed to being fed the same male-centric mainstream pornography that’s rampant these days.

A Feminine Touch

Right off the bat, ForHerTube looks very pink, in the literal sense. There are over 40 thousand videos on the site, but every time you click on one of them you get moved to an external location. It would appear that this site is simply an aggregator, rather than a full-fledged tube site, which isn’t a problem in and of itself. You can easily follow through with the links and watch the videos elsewhere. There are no intermediate popups to get in your way, so it’s not like they’re breaking your immersion or anything.

The site makes up for the lack of hosting with a dedicated sorting system that impresses right from the home page. You can move from one type of content to another really quickly, until you find exactly what you’re looking for. Between straight, gay or trans content at the very start and the more specific filtering that comes afterwards, an alphabetical breakdown of all the content is always within reach.

As for the content itself, they’re not very loyal to the title and general mission statement of the site. Namely, the site provides a ton of different smut videos across a lot of genres, but none of them seem to be specifically catered to women. There are particular tips, tricks, camera angles and porn plots that are popular in female-centric porn and those are simply not present in these videos.

A Genre Breakdown

To start, you’ll see an abundance of videos in which female humiliation is rampant. They go deep into misogynistic power-plays, which are perfectly respectable within pornography as they are fictional interactions. Still, it stands to reason that women wouldn’t prefer to watch videos in which their point of view is one of humiliation. However, for the ladies that prefer to be extremely submissive, it’s possible that this type of content really hits the mark. It remains a subjective matter of opinion.

Then there’s a significant amount of gay videos, which is extremely confusing, given the demographic tendencies of female porn lovers. It’s been common knowledge that women are the majority consumers of lesbian porn, so that genre is very welcome on this site. It is however, very confusing that there is a plethora of guy-on-guy gay porn on here. The stats have been pretty clear about women preferring to stay away from that kind of porn, almost completely. Gay porn, as opposed to lesbian porn, is only really popular among gay men. It’s very odd that it would make such an appearance here.

Further genres are a bit of a grey area. You’ll see a lot of solo masturbation scenes featuring women and some of these can be quite appealing when they’re filmed in a female perspective. Many websites these days are trying to cash in on the more personal and intimidate experience of female masturbation. Both men and women can enjoy these types of content. Still, the solo masturbation porn on ForHerTube.Com is extremely male centric with scenes that are filmed in such a way that they give you the impression that you’re sneakily spying on a woman masturbating in private. This is not a particularly female fantasy, unless the female in question happens to also be gay herself.

The Video Quality

These videos are above and beyond what you’ll see on low-grade porn tubes, but still a far cry from Triple-A productions. Quality varies between the different types of videos you’ll see. Naturally, the more homemade-looking smut is going to look significantly worse when compared to the quality porn productions. If you’re hoping for HD, however, you might want to keep looking.

Given that the entirety of these videos are free and acquired from third party sources, it’s no wonder that the quality leaves a lot to be desired. If you’re a long time internet masturbator, you’ll have gotten used to this by now. The industry simply isn’t very friendly to websites that try to provide HD porn for free, unless it’s hosted by the largest corporations. Video hosting servers aren’t cheap, regardless of the type of content that goes through.

A Bit of a Taste

Diving into the allegedly female-centric videos with brutish taglines like “pump and dump”, here’s a sample of what you can expect to see within these videos. You might be hoping that the massage videos, for example, go for a gentler approach to the smut, as there are tons of ways that these types of smut can ramp into the action in a gentle and even story-driven approach. You might even want to see a wide shot of a muscular male who takes his time to satisfy the girl’s every want and desire as he works his way up, or down her favorite erogenous zones. You’ll be out of luck, however, because most of the videos under the massage sections are zoomed in on the girl’s crotch with a very strong focus on penetration and no real build-up. If you were a guy masturbating to this content, you’d be able to hop over to the money shot without skipping past the intro. The entire video will be nothing but money shots.

About the Design

Even though this is technically a linking site rather than a hosting site, you can say that it looks really decent and respectable. The genre breakdowns are indeed varied and very accurate. You won’t see a video stray out of its respective box. If you look for anal, you will find anal, in spades. You could easily sink an entire evening’s worth of time checking out everything they have in store and even find some genres that you’ve never heard of before, especially if you’re a newcomer to the world of online smut.

You’ll also go a long way towards learning the difference between homemade and high quality smut, as there’s a very wide net cast over this content. ForHerTube seem to be equal opportunity masturbators when it comes to the types of content they rake in and this lax attitude and lack of real preference seems to have served them well. They truly have a bit of everything.

Redeeming Factors and the Male Gaze

It might be the case that the male-centric pornographic approach has dominated the industry so much that porn for women has all but disappeared. This is probably not the case as there are many women-centric subscription based websites that still manage to profit greatly on pornography that doesn’t appeal to men in the slightest.

It’s far likelier that the site’s entire shtick is to cover a spread and serve up videos that are not made for a specific audience. They’re possibly looking to profit on a theme, rather than trying hard to serve up a specific type of smut. This is made abundantly clear when you notice the devastating amount of “family friendly” milf-themed videos and the ridiculous number of smut clips that show men having sex with actual sex dolls.

The redeeming factor here is that ForHerTube is an entirely free website and while they might not appeal to women, those same women are free to explore elsewhere if this smut is not to their liking. After all, preferences are not set in stone and it could indeed be the case that many a woman call this site their favorite smut den. Further, if the smut really is so appealing to men, then men can get a kick out of it as much as they’d like. You can’t judge websites by their cover any more than you would a good book, and for all its ups and downs, ForHerTube features a ton of satisfying smut.