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1. First Auditions (1)
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
* Well-established (since 2005) so almost 5,000 videos (though mostly short).
* Uses guys from all over Europe, with the occasional American or Australian guy thrown in
* I actually do believe a lot of these guys are straight - if it's staged it's done very well
* Realistic, stark filming with no silly roleplaying in the main interview scenes - you really do get a sense of the guys personality
* No DRM
* Unique content
* Guys often begin their porn careers here
* New "Second Auditions" concept is REALLY hot - showing men having their first gay sex and being "broken in" - again - if it's staged it's staged REALLY well. |
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- The more imaginative content like "Groping Hands" and "Second Auditions" is the best, but there's little of it - updates are very infrequent and sporadic and "Groping Hands" seems to have been discontinued.
- VERY expensive - $39.95 1st month, $34.95 after
- Search options very primitive
- Early shoots photos-only - not made clear on joining. Streaming only available on post-2009 shoots.
- Camerawork and lighting can be poor.
- No option for feedback or suggestions, no comments, no community feel.
- Models are often given different names to the ones used even on their sister sites, and only use first names, so you get several models under the same name!
- Files not particularly high-quality by modern standards.
- New moving watermark is VERY intrusive.
- Lots of banner ads for other sites
- Primitive site design and search looks like something from the late 1990s. |
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First Auditions is a site which claims to show a models first introduction to porn and shows their first "casting couch" interview. Most of the models claim to be straight, most quite believably (unusual on gay porn sites, where "straight" actors are often suspiciously gay-acting!).
It follows a pretty rigid format - a clothed interview asking why they want to do it, an examination where they are made to strip and be measured, show their asshole etc, and finally a masturbation and ejaculation "test" to prove they can get it up and shoot on camera.
This can get very "samey" - you know pretty much what will happen in each shoot, and obviously there's very little action. Still this is an auditions site, and it does that well. The guys often seem quite genuine and nervous and the interviewers are good at getting their real personalities to come out.
Technically the site is nothing special. Downloads are WMV only and are "standard" (read - poor and tiny 640 x 360) or "high quality" (read - pretty average 960 x 540). No HD content here and no alternative to WMV files that I can see. Downloading is quick though, and flash streaming is pretty quick, though you have to wait until it's done to jump back and forwards. No DRM, though they do have a REALLY annoying new watermark which begins at the top of the screen and slowly moves down the bottom! WHY MUST IT MOVE? Much more distracting!
Search is equally poor - a simple list in alphabetic order of first names (often repeated, often different to same model used on sister sites) or a search by country of origin.
To be honest I am bored of their standard content, and didn't expect to join this site again, but I rejoined because of the "Second Auditons" videos, which involve them taking a guy (usually who said in his interview he'd never do anything with a guy!) and "breaking him in" to gay sex. This REALLY turns me on, and the preview showed a model I adore, so I rejoined really for that video alone.
It didn't disappoint - the Second Auditions videos are another level - longer (over 30 minutes), better filmed and REALLY hot - the men are believably straight and inexperienced and it's so exciting to watch them do gay sex for the first time.
Sadly, there have only been FOUR Second Auditions videos since the first one was made back in August 2011! They seem to make them only every three months. For a site which charges so much per month, one of these videos every 3 months is really mean.
"Groping Hands" videos were hot and more frequent - this is where anonymous men grope and strip the guy - but whilst there's a good selection of 44 of videos videos in archive, no new ones have been made since September 2009. Before that they had selected scenes from their sister studios - they only seem prepared to do one different type of video the standard auditions ones at a time, but they still advertise Groping Hands in the preview even though they don't make it clear they're not making any more.
This site has some excellent content which is why I've been tempted to join three times, but I never stick around. The updates seem to have settled down to only six a month, from a peak of more than double that - and for the price you pay that's simply not enough for continued membership.
Joining for the first time is well worth it - there's a lot of content here - but you quickly become bored with the standard audition videos and disappointed and the infrequent updates, lack of news (they never announced Groping Hands was discontinued officially, just stoppd them) and small amount of what I'd call "premium" content, ie. the Groping Hands and Second Auditons ones.
A site with flashes of brilliance, but most content gets samey and dull quickly, it's expensive, the technical quality is indifferent and the website navigation feels a decade out of date. I'd recommend you join it once for the archive, but don't expect to stick around. |
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2. Next Door Pass (0)
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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Fantastic site for gay and bisexual fans; All the men (and women) have impeccable bodies; Next Door Hookups is a great site if you are straight; The sex is erotic without being too over-the-top; $15 is the best price for any gay/bisexual porn site. |
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Next Door Hookups' description is questionable since I don't see how the boy/girl scenes are from a gay perspective; Slow updates. |
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Overall, this is a fantastic site for gay and bisexual fans. The models are good looking and have the perfect bodies. The updates come in slowly to the point that you won't see a new scene after a week or so. However, at $15, it's well worth checking out and downloading the scenes. |
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3. Juicy Boys (1)
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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+ Price is reasonable, and you can get it down further - see full review
+ A wide selection of videos, mostly high-quality and from good studios
+ Some HD content
+ Good choice of download formats - WMV, and MP4 in regular and "pocket" size for iPods etc.
+ Therefore Mac-friendly
+ No DRM |
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- Misleading tour/preview pages
- All HD videos are streaming-only with no non-HD alternative to download
- Some videos are "premium" videos only available if you purchase them seperately, at very uncompetitive prices - and even then you don't keep em!
- Search reviews can't filter out premium or HD content, so you can't search for stuff that is free and downloadable - leads to disappointments
- No refunds if you were misled by their site tour
- Support is flaky and unreliable
- Some downloads are mislabelled - what they say is the whole DVD is in fact only one scene, so you have to download scene-by-scene if you want the full DVD. |
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JuicyBoys should have been a wonderful site, and if it didn't have some disappointing policies which they are not up-front about, I'd score it 95. As it is those policies knock them down to 79, and the fact they aren't 100% upfront about them knocks them down to 69.
The content looked really hot and I was promised unlimited downloads for a very reasonable $24.95 a month. Then I realised if you click away from the sign-up screen (you might have to do this a few times) it'll pop up and offer it for only $19.95.
At that price I couldn't refuse so I grabbed it. My bank rejected the transaction on security grounds (often happens, mainly because I'm outside the USA but paying in US dollars). However, unlike any other site I'd seen, I got a message of apology and an offer to have it for $14.95 plus "10 free credits" if I tried again! As I'd done the security call with my bank I knew it would work if I did it again and sure enough I now had access for $14.95! Awesome!
Now I knew from TBP that HD content was not downloadable and that some videos were premium only. What I don't feel TBP made clear enough (and I will be commenting on that on their site) is that when they say HD isn't downloadable, they don't mean you can download a non-HD version but only stream HD. They mean a good portion of the videos, including entire studios collections, is HD only. So it's streaming-only for those - no non-HD download option.
Also the premium videos, whilst in a seperate area, still show up in searches so if you do a search for uniforms, say, and see a video which looks really hot, you then realise it's premium. The prices seem about the same as you'd pay to buy the DVD, yet this isn't download to keep - it just "unlocks" them for you to watch streaming-only!
As HD content comes up in all searches too, you're constantly coming across hot videos you either can't watch at all, or can only stream. No way of filtering your results to only inclusive, downloadable movies sadly.
I was really angry about this and it seemed every video I tried had no download option. This is not what I expected when they promised "unlimited downloads" and didn't say anywhere in the preview or tour that this applied to selected videos only.
So I went onto the support live-chat feature. It warned that it wasn't working 100% at the moment and suggested dialling an international phone number instead - er no thank you, I have my phone bill to think of!
I got connected once, explained my complaint and they immediately offered to transfer my membership to man.com, which had 100% unlimited downloads. I declined, and asked why they didn't make it clear in their preview that this site didn't offer that. That wasn't answered, and they just told me I'd have to go to a different chat window if I wanted a refund. Then I got cut off. I tried a second window, and got cut off immediately.
Third window I got through again. They again offered to transfer my membership, immediately, so it's obviously a common complaint. They said some studios or actors did not allow them to offer downloads. I said I understood that but they didn't make it clear in their preview. I declined a transfer and said, as I had just joined and they could see I haven't downloaded anything, and as I felt misled, could I please cancel my membership and give me a refund. They said I could cancel my membership, but no refunds. My only option was to cancel future rebills, but I was stuck with my months membership.
I wasn't happy and asked them to cancel my membership which they did instantly - a cancellation e-mail arrived seconds after I asked them to do it.
At this point I was all ready to write a stinking PU review and give them a really low score, but as I try to be fair I figured angry as I was I might as well explore the site I was stuck with - and $14.95 meant it wasn't so bad, even though it was the principle more than the money that bothered me.
And I admit that once you accept the limitations, which are big ones, this is still a good-value site. Even at $24.95 it would be good value because you do get a good selection of videos and probably half of them can be downloaded. The resoltion isn't great at 640 x 480 but you can choose WMV or MP4 and they downloaded quickly, though the "whole DVD" option only downloads the first scene so you have to do it manually. The streaming "HD" is 1280x720.
Some of the content is older and not such good quality, but there's a fair amount of newer stuff from decent studios.
Overall it's worth joining for a month at the $19.95 price, but be prepared for disappointment - when you do a search remember half the videos that come up can either be streamed only, cost extra and in some cases both.
I'll download as much as I can from the downloadable content and I'll get value for my $14.95, but I don't deal with sites that mislead me and then refuse to refund my money so I won't join their site or any other in their network again. |
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