CHEEX

Who it is for

CHEEX is a subscription streaming platform, run from Berlin, that mixes films, erotic audio stories and sex education. The front page puts the audience plainly: "CHEEX brings fair, ethical and erotic movies to women, couples and to everyone else." It says mainstream porn gave women an "inauthentic and discriminatory portrayal", where women's role and point of view were "not taken into account", and offers "real couples, authentic performers" and romantic, erotic films in its place. The front page calls its catalog "female friendly porn" and sums the pitch up as "Porn for women and everyone else."

It does not close itself to anyone else. The FAQ asks "Is CHEEX for women only?" and answers "Hell no. At CHEEX, everyone's invited", including people who are just exploring or looking for inspiration. The same page describes its viewer as an adult who wants "adult content that feels like real intimacy". The About page says the platform "looks like a magazine you casually scroll through rather than a site you need to delete from your search history right away", and frames the whole project as freeing porn from shame.

Membership is paid, and it opens films, audio and the Pleasure Academy courses together, with new titles added each week. Signing up with an email address brings an invite to one full-length film at no charge. Most of the content is in English, with a few German productions, and the site itself switches between English and German.

How it treats the people in it

The rules are set out as a list. Under "What makes CHEEX ethical?" the FAQ names 8 points: performers aged 18 or over, with age confirmation "in accordance with relevant laws"; explicit consent to everything they do; production environments that put physical and mental well-being first; "transparent, equitable" pay agreed in advance; personal information handled confidentially and only with performers' consent; clear information about content, distribution and risks; content that shows diverse genders, bodies and practices "without reproducing harmful stereotypes"; and compliance with law. The front page adds that every featured performer is of legal age, paid fairly, insured and tested for STDs, and that sex on screen is consensual and voluntary. These are the site's claims about its own rules, and the pages offer no outside audit of them.

The more concrete passages cover how it works with studios and on its own shoots. For partner studios, the site says it requires "full transparency around their safety practices and access to all consent and age-verification documents before we license anything", and that it only accepts content "when there's clear, documented proof of consent". On its own productions it describes open communication from start to finish, regular check-ins, intimacy coordination and mandatory STI testing. The FAQ also says performers have "the full right to say no or change their mind at any time", and that the team stays in conversation with them about how they are represented. On pay, terms are written into the contract "with no hidden clauses", and rates depend on factors such as exclusive or non-exclusive licensing, video length and preparation work. No rates are given.

Viewers have a way to raise a problem. Each film carries a "Report" feature, the footer links a Report Content page, and the terms say a dedicated team reviews reported content and aims to resolve complaints within 5 business days, keeping the complainant's details confidential. The FAQ promises "an easy reporting feature" for anything that "feels off". The terms also carry prohibited content guidelines that bar hate speech, discrimination, violence, child exploitation and intellectual property infringement, and reserve the right to remove such material without notice.

The 2257 page is worded like that of a platform for user uploads: it says the operator is not the producer of the visual content and that its role is limited to hosting depictions "posted by third party users", with uploaders required to represent that everyone shown is over 18 and has consented. It then names mix&match GmbH, Berlin, as custodian of the records for the remaining depictions. The FAQ, by contrast, describes the site's own shoots and partner licensing, and the pages do not explain how the two descriptions fit together.

How it treats the viewer

An account needs an email address and a password, and the register page asks the visitor to certify being at least 18; the age gate repeats that "under penalty of perjury". The privacy policy says age checks under the German law on protecting minors run through Yoti, which processes a selfie, a liveness check and the front of an ID document, and that CHEEX receives only an "18+/21+" confirmation. The FAQ says a protection-of-minors officer oversees compliance. The terms limit an account to personal use within one household, and German law governs them.

On data, the pages say different things. The FAQ says "There's no personalized advertising, and we don't share your data with third parties", the About page calls the platform "free of advertising, banners or contact ads", and the front page says it does not "track individual user behaviour". But the age-gate text says cookies help "serve targeted advertisements", and the privacy policy, dated July 2025, lists Google Analytics, Google Ads, a Facebook pixel, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar, which records mouse movements, scrolling and clicks. An account cannot be deleted by its owner; support removes it on request.

Behind the site stands mix&match GmbH, a Berlin company whose legal notice gives its street address and commercial register entry. Segpay and Epoch are named as payment providers, and the FAQ says billing runs through Mix & Match GmbH, adding "that's the name you'll see on your bank statement." A member cancels in the account under "Cancel Subscription" and keeps access to the end of the paid period.

The October 2026 page load of the front page counted 8 third-party domains over 105 requests, doubleclick.net and googletagmanager.com among them, with Google Ads the ad network named, no malicious verdict, no security warning and no redirect elsewhere.

What it holds

The library has 3 parts. The films come from partner studios and from CHEEX Originals and exclusive titles; the front page names several award-winning producers, and creator pages explain a studio's approach, one of them describing art-house films it says have been shown on primetime television. Front-page categories run from group, oral and solo scenes to a queer section, and the related categories on creator pages include lesbian and sensual titles. Beside the films sit audio stories voiced by both men and women.

The Pleasure Academy holds tutorials, masterclasses and live workshops; one course page lists a running time of 2 hours 35 minutes. The magazine carries advice on toys, positions and technique, plus interviews and portraits of people in the sex industry, sex workers among them. The site is browser-based rather than in app stores, and the FAQ explains how to add it to a phone's home screen.

Who it suits and who it does not

It suits women and couples who want adult films with written rules on consent, pay, testing and partner licensing, and who also want education and audio in the same membership. The report button and the long FAQ answers help anyone who wants to know what the site says it demands of studios.

The limits are real. The no-tracking statements sit beside a cookie notice and a privacy policy that name ad and analytics tools, the 2257 page is worded for hosted uploads while the FAQ describes the site's own shoots, and the standards are the site's own statements with no outside audit on the pages. For this audience, the strength is that CHEEX writes its standards down in specific terms and gives viewers a place to challenge them.