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UK Amateur Vids
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m341ehw's Review
Took a look at the site - if the videos are mostly as short as you say above, you might as well stick with the previews! They're all about 30 seconds long as there's dozens of em LOL!
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07-12-11 08:38am
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UK Amateur Vids
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m341ehw's Review
HOW MUCH?! Wow that is eye-wateringly expensive for that amount of content... great review which hopefully will warn people off till they improve vastly! I want the best site in the world for that kinda money!
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07-12-11 08:31am
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678
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VideoBox
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nickisthename's Review
Welcome to PU! Your reviews seem good quality and it's good to welcome you on the site. I have used the male version of VideoBox which I have yet to get round to reviewing and agree with you - great content but the filtering needs work.
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02-13-12 08:07pm
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679
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VideoBox
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littlejoe's Review
I've joined VideoBox Men and agree it has lots of content but not necessarily the quality. Must post my review of that soon. Good review!
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11-06-11 12:31pm
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680
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VideoBox
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elephant's Review
Sounds like excellent value but I agree with you that it's outrageous to charge UK viewers more. The pound is stronger than the US dollar so it should actually makes things cheaper for us, so to actually charge us more makes my blood boil.
Very thorough review which mentions pitfalls you wouldn't know about until you join which is the beauty of this site.
Well done.
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08-18-11 12:08pm
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681
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Virtua Guy HD
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mbaya's Reply
I'd like to, but so many of the sites I used to review are no longer on PU and every time I join a new one, it's not listed on PU so I can't review it.
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03-01-20 04:32pm
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682
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Virtua Guy HD
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03-01-20 02:11pm
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683
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Virtua Guy HD
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otoh's Reply
Heh heh it's so nice that people on here are so open-minded, when I joined I didn't know if gay reviewers would be as welcome as it is a mainly straight-orientated site, but I've been made to feel very welcome!
I've run out of sites to review for now, but if I do join any others I will write more reviews, and I like to contribute with comments, polls and replies.
Thanks again for a kind reply.
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09-18-11 08:43am
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684
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Virtua Guy HD
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09-18-11 02:57am
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685
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Watch My GF
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Sikboy313's Comment
I hate that! Why not give the site a full review? That'll serve as an even greater warning to other users...
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12-26-12 07:52am
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686
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Wet And Puffy
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RagingBuddhist's Review
Superb review of what sounds like a superb site - I wish other sites would do something about watermarks - I knocked off 5 points for intrusive watermarks on my last review!
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03-03-13 06:29pm
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687
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Wet And Puffy
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Monahan's Reply
Excellent! I'm really happy you got a good result. We porn users need to flex our consumer power and show we're paying customers like with any other service.
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09-12-12 01:42am
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688
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Wet And Puffy
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Monahan's Comment
Do they use an independent biller? If so and you've already complained direct to the site and had no joy, contact them and say you want a refund based on the site not giving you what it promised. They often issue refunds in my experience.
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08-30-12 09:57am
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689
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Wet And Puffy
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oldfizzywig's Review
Very comprehensive review, well done! Not sure I can suggest any improvements!
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08-27-12 03:22am
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690
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Workin Men XXX
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otoh's Reply
LOL gay porn can be very creative!
Yeah it doesn't really matter it's just I feel if I join a site and love it, I'll be hungry for more when I've seen what they've got. One of my greatest pleasure in porn is to check the site to see what new updates they have. So whilst I probably will join eventually and as you say just stay for a month, I'd still join an updating site over a non-updating one.
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10-04-11 05:28am
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691
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Workin Men XXX
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10-04-11 12:23am
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692
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Workin' Men Movies
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graymane's Reply
Graymane, I truly appreciate your kind words - I don't think you realise how much they mean to me actually!
I am really happy to contribute to the site - sometimes I feel there's really only me here lately so who am I writing reviews for, but it's nice to know others find them interesting and of course they'll stand for any future gay users of PU - and of course some of my reviews are actually of sites aimed mainly at straight women so it may help them too.
I do my best to write fair and honest reviews and I enjoy writing them and interacting on this site. I am aware that making porn isn't as easy as many think and I appreciate porn producers efforts on our behalf, so I do try and make sure I always comment on the good as well as the bad and give as fair a overall view as I can whilst still remembering I have to be fair to the reader too and give them my honest opinion about a site, faults and all.
It's been a privilege to interact with people like yourself and this is easily the most respectful, calm and intelligent forum I've found which is amazing considering the subject and what a lot of people who don't use porn think of it!
Thanks again for your wonderful comments, Graymane. Much appreciated - and I enjoy your contributions to the site too. Porn fascinates me, so all porn reviews are interesting to me even if the genre isn't really aimed at me.
I have to say I found your profile the most interesting and touching, and you're my favourite contributor on this site... and I mean that. You come across as such a warm, intelligent guy and I wish only good things for you.
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07-10-12 05:34pm
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Review
693
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Workin' Men Movies
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75.0
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ LOTS of content going back 20 years!
+ Unique theme
+ Fully downloadable videos with no DRM
+ Absolutely authentic - these guys are amateurs, NOT professionals. No doubt about it!
+ Tour is comphrensive, and pretty honest about what you'll get, including limitations
+ Good mix of solo and duo videos
+ Genuine bi and straight men
+ Decent download speeds
+ Fair amount of info about guys, unique interaction between owner and models
+ Newer videos available in WMV and MP4 and better quality. |
| Cons: |
- Content not entirely exclusive - another site has at least some of it for the same price with access to 9 other sites. No reference to this other site on this one.
- Some technical issues with a handful of broken links
- Poor support - e-mail I sent ignored.
- I found the streaming content to be very slow and choppy - almost unusable
- Older videos are very small and low quality, though he admits this openly in the preview and it's understandable as some content is 20+ years old.
- Site is cluttered and difficult to navigate
- No real search function - videos are in date order and there are a few sections by type, but that's about it.
- Older videos in WMV format only
- Some of the comments on the video from site owner seem a bit mean!
- No photos at all - video-only site. |
| Bottom Line: |
Workin' Men Movies is a unique site in gay porn. It's run by our host "Buddy" who has been filming mainly Southern US, blue-collar "rough" guys for over 20 years now.
These men are the real deal. They are patently not professional models and you will not see them in mainstream gay porno. I don't think any of them are younger than 30s and go up in age to about 60. All of them are billed as "never pretty" guys and that's largely true.
I don't know how this guy manages to find these men - they are blue-collar workers down on their luck, often just out of jail, often straight and/or married/divorced. Largely drifters, a lot of them seem to refer other people to the site. It did make me a little uncomfortable that the site might be a bit exploitative, but the guys all seem happy enough to be there and he treats them with real respect in person.
Having said that - he always puts his own comment on the site after it's uploaded and some of his comments seem pretty cruel! If he doesn't like a model personally he'll say so and sometimes it seems unfair, like he's been kind of rude behind their backs. It adds to the intimate feel that he knows the models, but just because a guy wasn't his type personally doesn't mean the video didn't work which is what they were hired to do. If a guy comes across as less macho than he expected he can also be pretty rude which I think is a pity on a gay site!
Content is split into various categories. The largest is probably solo content, where the guy strips off and masturbates to a cum shot. He may occasionally accept a blowjob from the cameraman or give one himself. Then you have duo shots, which include a range of still but usually including full anal sex and maybe some toys. There are also a handful of group sex shots with up to 4 guys.
There are various sections. The main one, "Whole Session Videos" as far as I can see include every video he's ever shot largely unedited, which means they are often long (1 hour+) and include some mistakes. There are hundreds of these to choose from.
Other sections seem to be edited versions of videos to suit your taste - "Buddies" includes all duo or group scenes, "Workin Men" is the edited solos, "Loads Series" is edited videos showing just the cum shots, "In Your Face" is just facial cum shots, etc.
Video quality is generally quite low. It's an amateur site and he does warn you of this in the preview and comment with an apology if a video is particularly poor - usually if it's an early one with old-tech equipment and when he was less experienced.
Older videos are WMV only and 320x240 in size, and are often grainy and poorly-lit. I got a framerate of 29fps and only 823kps bitrate. Newer videos move up to 640x480 (WMV) or 480x320 (MP4) and are much clearer though still very much amateur standard. The WMV figures here were 29kps/1064kps and MP4 was 29kps/1279kbps.
It's worth noting this is a video only site - no pics at all, not even vidcaps. Not an issue for me but worth bearing in mind.
Overall this is a hot site with unique content. The video quality is something of an issue but he's upfront about it and it goes with the amateur feel. LOTS of content too.
However various issues, not such a big deal on there own, let it down. Some links were broken. There's no search facility and the site is chaotic to navigate - it takes time to figure it out. The in-browser streaming was so choppy and slow as to be unusuable.
Each time you watch a video in-browser using WMP it asks for your username and password again in a pop-up and when you enter them it pauses then pops up again. I found if you clicked "cancel" the second time it would then play, but it was really frustrating. He asks you to e-mail him with suggestions so I sent one asking about this, but over 2 weeks later, no reply.
What also put me out is I found another site on PU called Workin Men XXX. It seems to offer the same content (if not perhaps all of it as the preview pages don't seem to update) for the same price but with bonus access to 9 others sites. Some of those other sites look hot and if I'd known I might well have joined that site instead for the same price.
Even if the video quality remained amateur the content is hot enough I think that without the issues raised above I'd have given this site in the late 80s or even early 90s. As it is, the score reflects the "great content, badly executed website" theme I find depressingly familiar in porno! |
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07-10-12 07:21am
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Workin' Men Movies
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Reply of
Khan's Reply
All fixed, no problems and thanks for your help!
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07-02-12 10:10am
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695
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Workin' Men Movies
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Khan's Reply
By the way this is showing up on my list as an approved comment but I haven't been given a raffle ticket for it, is it just a delay in updating or have I done something wrong please?
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07-02-12 09:45am
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Workin' Men Movies
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Khan's Reply
No problem, I appreciate your feedback and I'm glad they're now marked as clones. I always check both clone sites to see if one offers a better deal than the other.
I can now take that into account for my forthcoming review.
Many thanks.
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07-02-12 09:10am
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697
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Workin' Men Movies
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Khan's Reply
Thank you very much, appreciate your help.
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07-01-12 05:47pm
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698
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Workin' Men Movies
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07-01-12 05:46am
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Wow Girls
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critic's Comment
Not doubting you at all, but that is a very unusual arrangement for a site - usually they charge you more for the first month and then it reduces if you stay a member to reward your loyalty.
With this site, it makes no sense to remain a member - it would be better to cancel your membership at the end of the first month and then rejoin!
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04-30-13 02:28am
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700
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Wow Girls
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Reply of
slutty's Review
Superb review - the gold standard I aspire to and haven't yet achieved! I gotta take some tips?
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08-28-12 04:21pm
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