Yelp has this feature. If you're interested in an unusual or uncommon feature, say restaurants with an Elvis statue, you can actually search the body of yelp reviews to see if anyone wrote about that.
Would be nice to have for both the description field of reviews and for the discussion boards, especially the ad boardReviews are flat text and it should be easy, fast and easy on the CPU to search flat text if it is pre-indexed. But they haven't done it yet. (Search the exact phrase "flat text" for previous discussions of this kind of request.)
Treating the Forum software as totally different from the Database software, there are surely better Forum interfaces out there. I think that TER rolled their own when they got started and just didn't keep up with the improvements made by proprietary developers and the open source consortia. It would be a huge leap to switch to some open source (free) forum software but there would be many new and improved features, including a better private messaging system and global searching. Once again, no word from TER about changing the forum software. (Search Newbie, General and S&P for the exact phrase "forum software" for some previous discussions.)
Good suggestions, though!
Would be nice to have for both the description field of reviews and for the discussion boards, especially the ad boards
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... for TER... several times just in the past year!
Since TER 2.0 has been put on indefinite hold, it would be great if this feature and a few others could be put into a dot-release, eg TER 1.1 or whatever
Might be good for the Discussion boards but wonder about the reviews -- how many times does the complaint about all reviews reading the same be made -- two calls, get the welcome, hit the shower/drop donations, DFK to BJ/DATY/name some positions/cleanup then cuddle or massage/ final shower and nice good bye bla, bla bla.
While I get we want to have better search functions I cannot help but think since most reviews are almost as structured as the script during the session (not knocking anything here and I know all have some level of ad lib) but I suspect the next complaint is that we're all too lazy to write good reviews so we can use the great new search function 
I also suspect the might be some ramifications related to cost and processing speeds.
You can search the boards now. You can't search the whole forum, only individual boards which can be tedious, but you can search by key words or author. Were you suggesting a change to the board search? Just not sure if maybe I'm not picking up what you were laying down.
As for making the reviews searchable, that's come up before and IMO is a good idea.
People who participate in other forums have experience with other GUIs with other features. Searching forum by forum is very tedious. And when you add the variations ("photographers" "photogs" etc.) that is a lot of pointless searching better accomplished with a better interface. Other GUIs are much friendlier.
The whole forum software could use an upgrade to something more modern. There are quite a few open source (FREE) packages that are available. The really tough part would be migrating the current forum structure and content to a new environment. I think that TER could work it out internally on a new server before letting that server go live. But I am certain that there would still be plenty of griping and pleas for help on the new Newbie board.
As for making the reviews searchable, that's come up before and IMO is a good idea.
Oh no argument here with any of that. All good points. I'm far, far from an expert, but I do know I've used other forums that were much more user friendly and intuitive.
I just thought it sounded like the OP was thinking there was no way to search the boards now. I agree, the search function needs help, it doesn't seem to return anything "close" like when searching by author, if you misspell a username or leave out the underscore, you get nothing.
But yeah the forum needs upgrades for the reasons you note and more.
Google permits you to narrow down a search to a specific website. If you wanted to search TER boards for "elvis" then you'd use the search phrase:
site:www.theeroticreview.com elvis
Just have to plug in whatever combo of terms you're looking for, and instead of Google searching every webpage it just digs into TER and gives you focused results.
I've used that on some sites, but it doesn't work so well on TER. Googles exact search doesn't seem to work. Example: I post topics with the expression "neighborhood map" and quotes are supposed to do an exact search but when I do
site:www.theeroticreview.com "neighborhood map"
and
site: //www.theeroticreview.com/discussion_boards "neighborhood map"
I get 100s of hits with just neighborhood and just map.
site:www.theeroticreview.com elvis
Just have to plug in whatever combo of terms you're looking for, and instead of Google searching every webpage it just digs into TER and gives you focused results.
Bing only came back with one page of results on that search so they probably had both words and not just one or the other. I really didn't spend time analyzing the results, but there were Not hundreds. I did click on one result and it went to a thread in flat mode, so finding the exact post with the exact phrase might be a pain in the ass.
As a side note, I've also found bing seems to be better for searching providers' phone numbers.
Used Google site search (from above) on TER and turned up the following:
Results Keyword Used
11,800 = neighborhood
104,000 = map
437 = neighborhood map
299 = "neighborhood map"
Maybe they were working on something when you tried it earlier, and updated their search codes.