Dark Cavern Review

Intro promises

- Thousands of personal ads, most with pictures
- 200+ video clips
- True stories, 300+ illustrated stories
- Message board
- Chat rooms
- The largest white on black amateur site on the net!

First impression

Whoa, information overload. The intro page is text-heavy and, in that way, reminds me of a band's fansite in a way. There's plenty of talk about how much the people involved with this site love black cock, so I have no reason to doubt them. I guess the fansite assessment might not be so far off! There's not much mention of the porn content on here, but based on their descriptions it sounds like this is a personals/true stories site with some pictures and video of black/white interracial stuff thrown in wherever they might fit. It sounds like you might even get some pictures of actual meetings from the personals section of the site- that's pretty unique and I'm anxious to see how that works.

Pricing

Our opinion

The text-heaviness of the site continues in force on the main members' page. In fact, the only pictures on the page are the header and a picture of the latest "Dark Cavern Girl." Below those is a request for submissions and some other texty stuff.

Then begins a huge list of intrasite links (referred to henceforth as "The List"). The List is seperated into 6 categories:
Info, Galleries, Darkrooms, Stories & Confessions, Resources & Downloads, and Personals & Miscellaneous.
Holy text-based navigation, Batman... that's a lot of categories and a LOT of links within each category. I'll go through them one by one because that's the only way I can fathom not missing something.

The Info heading contains an FAQ, an updates page, news and search engines for the site and the advertisements. The FAQ is pretty standard stuff, the updates page is a little confusing as it is also all-text, the news isn't all that newsy and the search engines are very simplistic. These are all completely usable, but it seems to me that there could be some significant streamlining even of just these few pages.

The Galleries section is just about the most cluttered and confusing thing I've ever seen on a website. There are nearly 60 links to various picture galleries (and a couple of video ones) that have subjects like "Cum On Her" and "Creampie Platter."

The pictures in the galleries stay relatively on-topic and are of varying amateur quality. These pictures are almost all ads for either a girl's website or a couple willing to share their experiences. This is not a bad idea at all, but there has to be a better way to group these pictures/ads without having 60 different categories. Especially in the "High Res" section, for instance, where instead of thumbnails you get a graphic link to each seperate image that just just "High Res Image" and you get to guess what one you might want to look at. Or the "Ass Play" section which has 4 whole pictures in it. The layout of each of these pages is different, but there's a lot of sense in having a standard format here, which is an indication of the major problem with the galleries: there are no standards! I'm not saying there's not a lot of remarkably on-topic content to sift through here... it's just that sifting through it is quite a chore. There are simply too many categories and not nearly enough structure to the way they're presented to be enjoyable unless you're a "black stud" really looking for some white guy's wife to have sex with.

The Stories & Confessions section inexplicably includes a few pages similar to the Galleries pages, but also has some text stuff. The problem again here is that it's organized exactly like the Galleries, only worse in some cases.
If you click, for instance, the "Black Magic Moments" stories section, you get text links to 47 different pages of stories. No descriptions other than that they're all about white women with black men. Yeah, we knew that. And we know that's what they're all about, so why have 20 seperate pages listed here? Why not just "Stories" on the main page and then, say, subcategories as an option or as a filter. If you're going to take the time to post the stories by specific category, why not make it a little more searchable than the simple database they've compiled for their search engine? Since this is all text, it at least all loads very quickly. And I suppose there's the benefit of being able to find the specific niche you're looking for right off the bat. But even if that is the case, the layout could have been far more streamlined. The stories are generally supposed to be real, just like the pictures, so they're good if you're looking for that amateur reality, so I have no complaints about the content. The navigation is simply overwhelming.

Resources & Downloads makes a little more sense. There are links here to other interracial material, including sounds and "How To Convince Your Wife To Try Black Cock" which is a funny title if nothing else. There are plenty of places here to post your opinions and some advice columns and various other resources for those interested in pawning off their white wife to black men or vice versa. Wait. Does vice versa work there? Who knows.

Personals & Miscellaneous contains the bulk of the personals ads, obviously. If you're looking for anyone to participate in some interracial action, this is the place you want to start. "The Meeting Place," which is the main personals page has listings by state. Additional listings by, say area code, would be helpful, but if you're looking for something as specific as this, you might be willing to travel anyway. Besides that, there are some more specific listings as well- Cuckolding and humiliation seem to be big hits among this crowd. There's also a forum and a movie reviews page for some reason. In the smallest section, The Darkroom, you can find a couple of chat rooms in which you can speak to some people interested in this lifestyle.

Conclusion

This site is not exactly a porn site, it's really a personals site with some pictures and some videos.
Rating this site is difficult because we normally deal with sites for which the porn content is the main draw, but I've tried to adjust the scores to accurately reflect the fact that this is a personals site. As a personals site, I can only imagine that it's very popular among its members as it is entirely member-based. As a website in general, it has a very long way to go in terms of navigation and layout to impress me, as someone who's not interested in participating in the lifestyle. As a pornsite, this is an utter and complete failure. As a personals site, I can believe that it's the most popular of its type. As just a website, it's stuck in the mid-nineties and needs to work its way out of that text-based hole to really put itself on the map.

[Since the review, a new section,'Video Gallery', has been added which provides high quality interracial videos. This has NOT been considered in the site's ratings.]

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