Congrats and praise for a fun new porn blog: The Starlet Sheet is a just-launched project I’ve watched grow: JImmy, the creator and datamining nerd behind it, is definitely what you’d call a “superfan” when it comes to porn starlets. I really like his ethics about a lot of things, and I especially love his tasty curation and steady stream of free porn on the blog. But what’s behind The Starlet Sheet (even if you don’t purchase his categorization- and search-optimized sheets) is really cool. Especially after being “that girl” who has felt for years like no one cared about search — as in, being able to find — the porn you want.
The Starlet Sheet is a heterosexually focused site (form the male perspective) that blends photos, clips, personal website/social media info such as Twitter handles, and sortable stats of several hundred *selected* porn performers. It’s thoughtfully put together and allows users to make notes and customize their experience. It’s also a no-bullshit zone: he hates bait-and-switch porn tactics, popup blizzards (JImmy: “pop ups are the gas guzzling Hummers of internet pollutants and they can fuck off”), and all the unsavory stuff that porn seekers have to wade through. Make no mistake, behind this there is a product you can buy if you want it (though there is so much free porn every day, you don’t have to), and his gallery links are affiliates. It’s still a tasteful site with tons of freebees, and I think it’s way nicer than the major mainstream porn blogs currently cramming and rushing anything and everything they find onto the front page just to meet their post quotas.
Some of Starlet Sheet’s “about” I like includes:
(…) In preparation for the launch, I did an enormous amount of research, contacted a number of quality websites, and negotiated $73,000+ in website membership discounts. (…) There is a lot of free porn available. To be quite honest, I almost definitely would not have heard of half of these actresses without it. So, when I started this project, I wanted to know as much about the industry as possible. I read as many articles as I could find and went through nearly 10 years of Private Media Group financial statements to personally determine the impact of the streaming sites. It’s pretty clear that the industry as a whole is indeed suffering. It also made me realize that the only way I could make this project work would be to provide value way above and beyond the cost. I think I’ve done that. (…)
Jimmy also has rules I like, especially #3 in reference to others’ unsavory practices:
(…) A common practice is to sign up for a link directory in which you have to place a bunch of shitty (for the most part) links on your site in order to be linked to on all of the other sites in the directory. I won’t do that because I don’t want to link to crap. I will also refuse to ‘buy traffic’. If any of you have been to a porn site and have clicked on an image that brought you to another site which didn’t necessarily have anything to do with the image, that’s because the webmaster of the original site sells traffic. Traffic brokers work up the SEO of their sites (in many cases they have hundreds or thousands) and sell chunks of it to other webmasters that only link directly to sponsors. (which is what I do). Fuck that. Revealing these secrets will probably get me blacklisted, so buy a Starlet Sheet or a membership to one of the sites I link to so I can at least make some money before my site is hacked into oblivion. (…)
Highly recommended. Post image of Stoya from this full gallery via Starlet Sheet.
Wow, what a fantastic idea. I can tell I’m going to be a regular.