Pictoa

Pictoa is an image gallery porn site that may have more content than any other porn site, bar none. Initially started in 2009, its vast setup of innumerable categories and easy uploading have lead it to its current state where it boasts a massive nearly fifty-five million images and over three million photo galleries. Pictoa does not contain videos, but aside from this restriction, the site holds just about any type of porn that has ever existed. No site comes close to Pictoa in terms of how large and comprehensive its collection is, covering everything from vanilla softcore nude images to fetish-friendly hardcore BDSM content. If you can’t find something that you like on Pictoa, you don’t like porn—period.

So Much To See, So Little Time

The homepage of Pictoa is not, as you might expect, a list of images, but rather a collection of the site's most popular categories. Though perhaps counterintuitive, this was a wise decision, as Pictoa has so much content that throwing the user right into the middle of the collection right off the bat would be so overwhelming that it might do more harm than good. Instead, you’re able to narrow down the collection immediately—and, given that the site has so many millions of images, this is a necessary first step. Once you do, you’ll have two main avenues to move forward. You can scroll through the seemingly random selection of images within that category until your heart is content, or switch things up by changing to one of the well-selected related categories that appear immediately above the images. Unfortunately, there is no means to sort the pics within each category. This is a huge oversight—it might not be an issue on a site with a smaller and more curated collection, but given that some categories have hundreds of thousands of images within them, it can make navigation difficult. Thankfully, the thumbnails are small enough that many fit on each page, so scrolling through the selection until you find something you like isn’t impossible, even if it isn’t perfect. If nothing in the main page’s selection appeals to you, there are two other options for moving through Pictoa. There is a complete listing of thousands of categories and models appearing in the images, the pros and cons of which will be discussed in more detail later. For now, though, note that though these sections are necessary and somewhat useful for finding your way to some of Pictoa’s more niche content, they’re often overwhelming. A little bit of quality control could have made these sections far more useful than they are in their current state. Once you select an image, you’ll be brought to a page containing a blown-up version of that picture, as well as a few additional features. If the image is part of a larger gallery, the rest of the images that make up that gallery will be pictured in thumbnails to the right side of the page. Below that you’ll find a series of related content, which use the categories and model listings to provide a fairly relevant selection of similar pics.

An Overwhelming Collection

There are two major downsides to Pictoa. The first is that the popularity of the site combined with the fact that it allows anyone to upload content means that there is very little quality control. Most of the pictures are hot and worth viewing, but a too-large portion of them are better off ignored. This is a necessary side effect of any site this large, as its staff couldn’t possible ensure that each and every one of the fifty-five million and counting pictures are excellent, but it’s still something that needs to be taken into account. If you’re expecting a curated collection of images that only contains the best of the best, Pictoa isn’t the place for it. If, on the other hand, you’re in the mood for quantity over quality (not that the quality is bad, per se—it’s just not perfect), then Pictoa should meet your needs. The second issue is similarly related to the massive size of Pictoa. The number of categories and pornstars, though incredibly helpful when it comes to finding niche content, can also be overwhelming. With so much to choose from, browsing the categories page can be needlessly difficult. Yes, the huge selection is helpful if you know exactly what you’re looking for, but having fewer, more fleshed-out choices is far better for the purposes of discovery. And sometimes it’s even a problem if you know exactly what you want. Mature porn, for example, is located in Mature, MILF, Mature Amateur, Mature Anal, Mature BBW… and so on and so forth, continuing on for about fifteen or twenty categories. This problem is compounded by the uneven categorization among the images. While some are perfectly tagged, others are not. Continuing from the last example, there are numerous images in the Mature Amateur category that fail to appear in the Mature category. You wouldn’t expect this to be the case, and it makes finding the right image more complicated than it should be. The Pornstars listing is simultaneously too broad and not detailed enough. On one hand, there are so many names listed here that finding a particular person is like finding a needle in a haystack. On the other hand, there are so many unique women among the millions and millions of images on Pictoa that even the thousands of women listed miss a majority of the site’s images. Though the page is a noble effort to catalog the site’s models, attempting to do so is an impossible task, and only adds confusion and complication to the site.

Advertisements, But Not Many

Pictoa offers a pure experience that isn’t totally free of ads, but doesn’t have any that ruin the site or even hugely inconvenience the user. If you browse the site without an ad-blocker, the site may prompt you to allow notifications through your browser—but a simple click to deny this request will ensure that this is only a one-time occurrence. The Live Sex, Meet & Fuck, Porn Game, and Free Cams tabs at the top of the site are hidden advertisements for third-party porn websites—each will bring you to a random selection of sites in that category, but none of the links are for parts of Pictoa. Beyond that, there is an occasional pop-up when navigating through the site, but nothing too excessive or intrusive. On top of that, some pages contain a sidebar ad or two, but these are similarly easy to ignore. That being said, if these ads do bother you, any ad-blocking software will easily take care of them. Some sites have ads that tend to persist despite the use of these blocking plugins, but Pictoa will become entirely ad-free—aside from the aforementioned links in the navigation bar. The site works perfectly well on mobile—in fact, its gallery-style layout is almost more well-suited to a vertical touchscreen than it is a horizontal desktop monitor. In either case, all of Pictoa’s features work perfectly well, regardless of which device you’re using to access the site. Pictoa and all of its content is completely free. At no point will you be cut off and asked to pay for a premium membership to retain access, and there is no option to pay for additional features or an ad-free experience. Every user of Pictoa will get the exact same experience.

Highs and Lows

Pictoa contains the best of the best and the worst of the worst about porn sites. Its collection is unparalleled in size, and, if you can dig through the masses of merely adequate content, in quality, too. Some of the greatest images ever created are within this site, but there is also so much content on Pictoa to search through that finding it might be impossible. Creating a system to properly navigate through nearly fifty-five million images might be an impossible task, but Pictoa neglects to even come close. Some very basic sorting and filtering features, even if they couldn’t make things perfect, would go a long way towards making the site much more user-friendly. Still, Pictoa does too much right to be ignored. Although it’s by no means perfect, and you might spend more time than you like trying to find the perfect image, its vast collection of quality porn pictures and galleries make it one of the best sites around for still images.