Helen is a writer who was tired of typical porn sites and came up with her own - Illustrated XXX Stories. At first I thought this would be another toon site, but found myself immediately intrigued.
IllustratedXXXStories is a cool idea and one that I've rarely come across. Site design is simple and navigation is as well. Additional bonuses include access to 11 bonus sites. According to the dates of the upcoming updates, they look to be adding new stuff weekly.
There are no movies, but what's really unique about this site is that it offers exclusive full-length stories galleries that can be erotic, romantic and even hardcore. Stories have a good length of over 2,500 words. Themes are diverse and you obviously can't get this kind of imagination with video porn. Narratives include college fun, blowjobs while driving, MILFs, lesbians and even a few fetish themes. I read a story called First Time Anal. The writing is solid with a bit of background. While there isn't much in the way of description or depth, there is a load of action.
Illustrations are exciting and detailed. Colors and lines are effective, but I was disappointed that I couldn't download any of the ones that I saw in the 'pictures' section. These are regular-res drawings.
However, the images in the 'photo' section can be downloaded. There are about 80 to 100 shots in each set and the pictures are crisp and clean, high-res sets. The lighting is terrific and the angles and framing make the scenes exciting. However, these are not illustrated images, but rather actual photos so they don't count in the main content numbers, but rather would be considered extra.
There are 91 hand illustrated stories and 20 photo narratives. This amount hardly seems like enough for the price. However, you do get 11 bonus sites with some heavy duty hardcore, so that makes up for it to some extent. Illustrated XXX Stories has a unique concept in mixing solid quality writing with impressive photos and illustrations, but to drop that kind of cash you really have to be interested in the entire network.