Extremely thorough review. I love that she will read comments and talks to her fans as well as making her own costumes, but like you say it seems the technical side really lets the site down - and I couldn't cope with such sporadic updates. I think a site should give you a guaranteed number of updates per month at regular intervals so you know what to expect, though I appreciate that might be harder for a solo performer.
Incidentally - this is excellent for a first review, so please don't think I'm trying to put you off - welcome to the site and I hope you'll stick around!
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
+ Lots and lots of existing content - thousands of videos
+ Very hot guys, many believably straight
+ Sleazy, amateur feel
+ Some hot bonus "extras" spice things up
+ Bills with Verotel
+ No DRM
+ Updates about 2 - 3 times per week
+ All exclusive content
Cons:
- Very expensive
- Messy and confusing site navigation
- Extra $1.95 "processing fee" added when you join - unsure if this recurs also
- Intrusive, moving watermarks on videos
- Limited search function
- Older videos and pics are pretty poor quality
- Bonus content is great, but only one section of it updates very infrequently
- Content gets rather "samey" and repetitive
- Slow downloads (though files not huge)
Bottom Line:
I last reviewed this site a long while ago now, when it used to be called "First Auditions" - you'll still see the old watermark on their early videos and pics.
Since then it's had a mild makeover and one new "bonus" series to replace an old one, but it's pretty much the same site with a new name and colour scheme - the layout and core content is identical.
The basic idea of this site is an "first audition" site - they are casting unknown first-timers, usually heterosexual, into porn, with the hope that they'll go on to gay porn - and indeed you do see some of their stars go on to do work, mainly on their own "sister" sites.
They've been doing this for a long time and the experience shows. Each guy makes three brief movies - the initial (clothed) interview asking why they're doing this and what their sexual experience is, then an examination where they are stripped naked, measured, weighed and made to pose in various positions, and finally a masturbation video where they have to masturbate and ejaculate for the camera.
The guys are hot - mainly British but with a fair amount from Europe and occasional North American, and the interviewers are generally very good at questioning them and making them pose. It's all got a very rough, amateur feel, filmed in the same run-down looking industrial unit. Sadly they have started to use a new interviewer who I do not care for - his East European accent is not always as clear and he doesn't seem as natural as the British interviewer they usually use.
The video quality is decent on later videos - mainly WMV files, 540 x 960 at 25 frames per second and bitrate around 2000. Not amazing, but decent enough. They have an lower-quality option, but I think their higher-quality is actually the lowest I would accept. They do seem to have some "iPhone friendly" MP4 files, but these seem to be rather limited and hidden away in a different section. Older files are showing their age - 640 x 360 and 900k bitrate mean they have to be very hot to be worth downloading. Pictures are nothing special - 1200 x 675 is a decent size, but they're watermarked and the viewer is poor - no zipped downloads either. I found download speeds slow, so it's just as well the movies are generally short and so the files not too big.
This brings me neatly on to the site design, which is a mess. The site is confusing, with little logic to it and hardly any search functions - they'd added a facility to search for a model by country but other than that it's a simple list of updates by date. They do show you what work some of the models went on to do on their other sites though, which is useful.
The site has some "bonus" content which is not based around the basic theme. This varies in value - a handful of movies from sister site CMNM.net, some "Groping Hands" movies which they spun off their "Groping Hands" site from - you'd be better off joining this site for that footage now as they have the vast majority of that stuff still here.
One bonus feature I love is "Second Auditions", where they pair a nervous straight model with an experienced model, sometimes who once appeared on the site themselves, and get them to have their first-ever gay sex. This is INCREDIBLY hot - they capture their inexperience and nerves perfectly and show raw, sexy sex between men. It's actually the main reason I rejoined the site - but sadly there are only eight of these longer movies as they only update them once every three months.
One real shame is that with the site revamp they added incredibly annoying watermarks to videos which are not only quite large, but move - they begin at the top left of the screen then slowly move down and then up the right side of the screen. These are the most distracting, annoying watermarks I've yet seen and caused me to drop the site score several points - it probably would have scored 80+ without it.
Overall this is a sexy site which sticks to its central promise well and has a lot of content. However, ultimately it gets all a little bit boring and repetitive - however sexy the guys are, ultimately you get no more action than masturbation and the same old format of interview, strip and masturbate starts to get a little dull after a while. It's certainly a site worth joining, but not one I tend to keep a regular subscription to, despite the regular updates.
I'm keeping a close eye on this site - it used to be known as First Auditions and whilst I liked it, it was mainly for the occasional fucking scenes (called, imaginatively, Second Auditions!). However these were so infrequent - once every three months or so - I tended to leave this site for much longer than others before rejoining.
The update pages show a couple of new ones in the last month or so though (now called The Fucking Room) so this is moving up my list of priorities for a rejoin and new review!
Just for info, this seems to be a site rename - this is the same site as First Auditions. So my review of First Auditions will apply to this site, only the name seems to have changed.
Not sure if my review could be moved to this site now it's been renamed to prevent confusion?
Was a member approx. 6 months prior to this review.
Pros:
+ Absoutely massive site with masses of content
+ A lot of pretty unique and original concepts and ideas; a lot of effort goes into these videos
+ Bills with CCBill plus many other payments options
+ No DRM
+ No download limits
+ Very regular updates
Cons:
- Movies are broken up into several scenes - would be nice to be able to download whole movies
- Men sometimes have their faces covered (though this is common for such sites, and probaby not such an issue for many users)
- Site is rather overwhelming - design quite old-fashioned and cluttered
- Search function quite limited
- No rating system or opportunity for comments/feedback/suggestions.
Bottom Line:
Before I begin my review it's probably only fair to say I am probably not their typical customer as a gay man, so this is very much my perspective on the site and some of the issues I raise may not be such an issue for others.
Still, I love femdom as I guess I get to see genuinely straight or bi men being humiliated - many sites aimed at gay men try for this but the actors are often really gay and it shows, or there's a limit to what the straight models will do.
This is a massive site - it's been around for a long time and it updates very regularly, so there's masses of content. It's split up into quite creative sections, such as the dungeon etc. but the overall site design is quite old-fashioned and a little chaotic. It's by no means the worst I've ever seen, but with the amount of content they have it would be good if they could have a simpler, cleaner design.
The search functionality is also quite limited, mainly clicking on keywords etc.
The action though is what is important and that's where this site truly delivers. There's an astonishing range of action here - realistic roleplay, lots of outdoor scenes which are still well-shot with good audio, very imaginative scenarios (such as the world being taken over by women and men kept in cages and used for milking/breeding purposes!).
Every fetish you could want is catered for - ballbusting, milking, whipping, forced bi, cross-dressing, strap-on fucking, cages, piss... the list truly is endless. This is a pretty hardcore site, so although there is some softer content it's not a light humiliation site - be sure you're into full BDSM before joining to get the most of this site.
From my perspective I am always disappointed when the men have hoods on which hide their faces. I admit this is partially because I'm gay and so the focus is on the men rather than the women and that this won't be the case for many readers, who will focus on the women. I also understand that many of the male models will only do this type of porn with their faces covered, and they do actually have a few more brave models who will reveal their faces than some sites which have almost none.
Still, I would say that even for the non-gay viewer it's hot to see the expressions on the guys faces as they take their punishment, so I do feel the masks take away from the action somewhat.
The forced bi stuff is quite tame, with condoms used even for oral, and a lot of cross-dressing which isn't to my personal taste, but again that's probably not such an issue for some viewers.
Downloads were reasonably speedy, and you can choose from WMV or MP4 formats. Older content is, as you'd expect, not quite up to the same quality but recent stuff I found pretty good - I was impressed that even outdoor-filmed scenes, which often have sound issues, were pretty clear.
Resolution of 1280 x 720 is available on the newer videos, 1700k for WMV and 1300k for MP4.
If the site design was improved, you could download whole movies and the male actors would be persuaded to take their masks off, this site would be perfect.
As it is it's a damn good site - $34.95 recurring (why pay for non-recurring at $39.95 when you know you can cancel right away and still get access for a month with CCBill) is a little above average but it's more than fair for the sheer amount of content here, with no DRM or download limits.
I hope they get braver male models in future and experiment more with forced bi without cross-dressing and push the models a little further, such as fucking, and maybe a forum or some sort of feedback system would be good too, but it's still a hot and unique site I'd thoroughly recommend and will join again.
Not really a gay porn site - it's clearly aimed at women as it includes straight sex. I'd move this to the "for women" category. May have some appeal for gay men of course but is not its primary aim.
I probably did over-react a little to be honest, I'm not normally sensitive or particularly politically correct. I just think she could have said the same thing in a nicer way - I posted the comment quickly after I'd just seen it was still kinda shocked.
Still, whether she likes it or not I know a lot of customers for "for women" sites are actually gay men so I don't think it's a good business plan - I just think there's better ways of putting things but hey nobody's perfect. I am sure some gay sites aren't very welcoming to women either and I probably don't even notice!
I checked this site out of curiousity but I was very unhappy with the comments the site owner makes in the introduction. She makes the very fair point that few sites are there for heterosexual women, and that what gay men may want in a site will differ from what heterosexual women want, but then goes on to say
"I don’t want to see the models in effeminate “come take me” poses - I want to see them being strong, masculine, MEN"
Well, I want to see strong masculine MEN too - and a gay man can be both. I resent the implication that gay sites are "effeminate" and the guys pose in "come take me" ways - maybe some sites are like that, but not all.
I don't see why she can't make her point without making insulting comments like that. It isn't gay men's fault we're well catered for and straight women aren't - more gay men take the trouble to produce gay sites even though there are way less gay men than heterosexual women in the world!
I wouldn't join this site on principle - and I guess I'm not welcome anyway - some heterosexual women do join gay sites and some gay men join sites like this, and I don't see why either should be made to feel uncomfortable. At least gay sites do provide some extra material for women even if they aren't specifically aimed at them. Plenty of other sites designed for women don't make comments like this and welcome all customers.
Good for her for putting her money where her mouth is and making this site, but you can say it's aimed at heterosexual women and not gay men without insulting us in the process. I bet some of her models are gay - many male models are and do both types of work! It amuses me that PU puts it under "for women" and "gay porn" - I don't think the site owner would appreciate the second categorisation!
Was disappointed to see that in some of the previews the models are wearing hoods. Look, be a porn star or don't - but if it's not part of the fantasy, and it doesn't seem to be here - I don't want models in masks!
Part of the sexiness of porn is to see the face, to see what they look like and their expressions as they have sex.
Plenty of hot men out there who will show their face, why bother with (or pay!) for men who won't?!
A simply superb review, well done - extremely thorough and covers everything you could want to know - and gives a real insight into issues you simply don't know about until you join a site, which is the type of review which makes this site so useful.
Entering passwords constantly drives me mad - I hate it! Twice every time is ridiculous! Poor site design.
I wonder how they do this - I thought Japanese porn had to be censored by law? Perhaps it's okay to de-censor it outside the Japanese market? Perhaps this site isn't available in its uncensored form in Japan?
Glad the "stunt cock" has improved and it's especially good they're using others - always a mistake to keep using the same one in my opinion! It's also good to see an updated review which lets us know a site has improved. Thanks!
Welcome to the site - always good to see a new reviewer and this review is pretty good. You can improve future reviews with a few more technical details such as file types, resolutions etc. and perhaps a little more detail in the description of content - are there specific themes, for example.
Good to see a review of TS porn too, so I think you'll be a valuable member of the site. Hope you stick around.
Welcome to the site - there are very few gay reviewers here so it's always great to see another join.
Sorry you had a bad experience with this site - I hope you'll find other better sites and give us a more detailed review of your experiences with those.
I HATE that, thanks for warning everyone. We've got to stop using sites that treat their customers so badly so we can raise standards across the industry. Porn consumers are like any other comsumer, we are paying customers and entitled to great service and respect, not to be ripped off!
Who handles their billing? I'd complain to them and demand a full refund on the basis you were misled. If enough people do that it might have an effect, as well as warnings like yours on sites like this!
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