WasteLand

Wasteland is a professional premium BDSM, bondage, and fetish porn site that claims to have the largest curated collection of videos and photos in this genre. Containing a whopping several thousand full-length videos and an unbelievable two-million-plus high-quality photos collected over the past twenty-plus years of the site's operation, this claim is more than likely true. It continues to be updated at least three times per week despite its age, making it one of the best sites online for BDSM and fetish porn.

The site also boasts a surprising array of additional features. From full-length movies to shorter scenes, and from professional to amateur photos, the base of the site is well-established, but Wasteland also adds in cam shows, BDSM tutorials, erotic fiction, and more.

The Core Experience

Wasteland succeeds when it comes to providing the typical porn experience that most viewers seek. There is an almost overwhelming array of links on the site’s home page, but new viewers will be well-served by focusing on a few areas above all others, at least to start. Pornsites.com recommends beginning with Wasteland Original Movies, which will take you to one of Wasteland’s premium pages: a blog-style listing of each video created by Wasteland, put into chronological order.

This setup continues throughout Wasteland. Moving on from the Original Movies, we’ve also got Wasteland Virtual Reality and Wasteland Movie Theater (featuring fully-plotted full-length productions as opposed to the sometimes shorter Original Movies). Wasteland also has a porn page focusing on Japanese Bondage Movies. Each of these pages follows the blog-like format described above.

There are also a couple of links on the main page that go to some featured, critically acclaimed, and uniformly excellent selections from Wasteland’s vast oeuvre. They even have a choose-your-own-adventure style interactive movie, which might be unique in all of porn. You’ll also find a link to a museum piece of sorts--the first high-quality feature-length film Wasteland produced, which still does hold up to modern standards. They even have a complete nine-part TV-style porn series titled The Mist, complete with network-television-style plotting and character development—with just a bit more hardcore sex than tv networks would ever allow.

These video pages are matched by the equally excellent selection of pages featuring still images. The best of which is the Wasteland’s Original Images gallery, which contains multiple decades of artistic and erotic images from the site’s past. Also worth checking out is the Dark Garden Photo Gallery—a group of pictures from around the world taken by photographers not on the Wasteland payroll—and Sensuous Sadie’s Parlor, which combines images with interviews and other pieces of writing by BDSM celebrity Sensuous Sadie.

Wasteland Party Pics is fantastic, too. This page has galleries upon galleries taken from real-world Amsterdam fetish parties, adding a nice section of bonus amateur content to a site that otherwise contains mostly professional models. The Weekly Fetish Models, Asian Underground Images, and House of Japanese Bondage pages go back to the focus on pro girls, but are perfectly produced and definitely worth visiting.

More Than You Might Expect

Wasteland goes beyond the typical expectations. On top of this enormous collection of pictures and videos is a curated collection of erotic literature known as the Fiction Vault, a top-quality story combined with photos called A Slave’s Journal, and even an erotic retro radio play.

Another unique feature of the site is something called Virtual Wasteland—a live-streamed party that’s hosted every Friday night, between 9pm and 1am Eastern time. It closely models the form of Second Life, but has a focus on the educational, erotic, and roleplaying aspects of fetish, BDSM, and even vanilla sex.

These features are only the tip of the iceberg, though—the site also has columns, interviews, contests, BDSM guides, and even a site store. Wasteland has an exhaustive amount of content, making it potentially able to serve as your beginning and end to all aspects of the BDSM community.

That being said, Wasteland isn’t perfect. The content may be close to it, but the site’s design is showing its age. It’s functional, but the links-on-a-page design philosophy is straight out of the 1990s, and could use a much-needed modernization. On top of that, there aren’t any ways to meaningfully sort or filter content once you’re on a photo or video category. The search function is somewhat helpful, but there aren’t any tags, so really all its doing is looking through the titles and brief descriptions.

Thankfully, there really isn’t a bad photo or video on the site—the content is curated rather than user-submitted, so they avoid the pitfalls that some sites with lower editorial standards fall into. It would be a welcome addition to be able to move through the site’s content more efficiently, but it’s hard to complain when nearly every bit of media on the site is perfect.

Entering The Wasteland

The massive amount of excellent porn on Wasteland is matched by the variety of options that you have to become a member. The prices aren’t quite as cheap as they might be on some other premium porn sites, but when you consider the overall quality of Wasteland, the membership plans are by no means overpriced.

The shortest-term choice is the two-day trial plan, which will cost a slightly above market rate price of about five dollars. Usually, these short-term plans cost about a dollar per day, but since this plan is meant to either be canceled or replaced by a longer-term plan before it ends, a few extra dollars shouldn’t really hurt. And, unlike many trials, this one doesn’t renew at an increased rate once it expires, so if you like what you see and want to continue month-to-month, you can just keep going as-is.

One step up from this is the one month plan, which again costs a bit more than most sites: this time, though, the price is only thirty-five dollars a month, compared to the average of about thirty. If Wasteland were an average porn site this would be a problem, but it’s not—an above-average site can fairly command an above-average price, so thirty-five dollars for a month-to-month membership is about right.

That being said, if you can afford to pay a little bit more in advance, Pornsites.com recommends choosing a different plan. You can opt for three months at a price equivalent to about twenty-five dollars per month, six months at about twenty-two fifty each month, or, for the best deal, a full year for a single payment of $174.95—which works out to a respectable rate of roughly fifteen dollars each month. While this isn’t as cheap as the bargain-basement ten dollars or less some sites charge over this term, it’s more than fair for what you get with Wasteland.

Wasteland accepts payments via Visa, Mastercard, and even check, and they even accept payments by snail mail for the technologically averse. For those who need discretion, Wasteland’s memberships show up on bills as coming from “Pheonix Group,” ensuring that creeping eyes won’t get a glimpse of your pornographic habits.

Weighing The Good Against The Bad

Wasteland blows the competition out of the water when it comes to the massive and excellent catalog of porn it contains. With over twenty years of history and frequent updates, no other BDSM site comes close to it in terms of the size of its library. When you add in the fact that the photos and videos themselves are excellent, and round out the site with an insane amount of additional features, the site makes a case as one of the best in its genre—and even one of the best porn sites around, bar none.

The lone aspects of the site that don’t quite work—the outdated design and slightly high price—are more than overcome by the positives. They might ruin a site with substandard content, but Wasteland more than makes sure that this isn’t the case.

There is far too much excellence contained in the Wasteland to ignore the site. If you’re even a passing fan of BDSM and fetish porn its worth a look, and if you’re full-on into the BDSM lifestyle, Pornsites.com completely and totally recommends signing up for a membership.