I'm back to a monthly sub to Evil Angel a few times per year mostly because a lot of their stuff is European with stars that are largely unknown to me. I collect porn by the stars and not necessarily the studio or site. With Amateur Allure, they've priced themselves out of the market for me. I will rejoin, but it will be finding a deal on a monthly sub once per year or longer. I don't know why they've priced access so high, but it must be that they are happy with fewer subscribers who each pay more rather than more subscribers who pay less. (Off topic, but that seems to be the business model that Legal Porno / Anal Vids adopted a few years ago too.)

As for HUHS, my annual sub ran out last month and I haven't signed up again yet. The site is changing from featuring young, fresh models to older and more established models. I recall Bryan saying somewhere (here at ADT probably) that he's finding it harder to recruit the same type of model that he built HUHS on. But for me, even HUHS might become a monthly sub with the right deal once or twice per year.

There are a few other personal factors at play too. First is that as I get older, my drive to collect porn has diminished. 15 years ago I could have five or more subscriptions on the go at any given time. Now, at 59, it is often only one, and I can go months with nothing. (Though I'll admit that I took advantage of July 4th deals and took out three memberships.)

The second factor is that several years ago I was offered a gig reviewing sites for a review site. Getting paid to review porn is a sweet gig but the real advantage is being given free access to sites. Of the memberships I'm given to write reviews, around 25% of those are sites that I'd have signed up for on my own dime. I download everything I can from those sites. This means that sites I like I may not need to subscribe to.

The third factor that limits my buying habits is a problem I created on my own. A couple of years ago I forgot to cancel my HUHS subscription and ended up with a large charge on my credit card from a company that I didn't recognize. The company was Epoch, but they charged through their European branch that used a different name. I thought my card had been hacked and that the charge was fraudulent so I had the bank do a chargeback and cancelled the card. It was later that I figured it out, but the damage was done. My IP address is now blacklisted at Epoch so I can no longer subscribe to any sites that use that biller unless I sign up somewhere else where I can get wifi access. Epoch and CC Bill have always been my favourite billers, but now I can't sign up to any site that uses Epoch unless I jump through hoops.

I guess this was a bit of a ramble just to say that three-month subscriptions make sense sometimes.

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