Reviewed: 2010-06-04

Academy Men

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Good Site: 7 out of 10 Videos: Videos rating: 6 Claims: Claims rating: 8
Pictures: Pictures rating: 6 Uniqueness: Uniqueness rating: 9
Site Size: Size rating 6 Navigation: Navigation rating: 6
Updates: Updates rating: 6 Value: Value rating: 7

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Videos

43 full scenes plus 282 clips from approx 30 more full scenes, MP4 format, screen size of 320x240 at approx 775k, amateur quality or better, videos are downloadable, no DRM used.

Pictures

286 exclusive pic sets, some sets are digital stills and some are vidcaps, digital stills shown at 640x480, good amateur quality, vidcaps shown at 400x300 to 500x375, fairly good quality for vidcaps, smallish sets running from 6 to over 40 pics per set, no slideshows or downloadable zip files available.

Extras

Forum, list of bondage community events, pics for iPod and member profiles which allow members to email back and forth.

Issues

Site contains no full nudity. Slow download speeds under 100k.

Prices

  • Half Year: $45.00 (180 days, non recurring)
  • Yearly: $79.00 (1 year, non recurring)

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Academy MenAcademy Men may be one of the hardest gay bondage sites on the internet. This site is one-of-a-kind, featuring cop BDSM fantasies, and including men being arrested or detained, put in rough bondage and a variety of forced situations. While the content here are acted out scenarios, they action is impressive. The feel is real as men are captured, put in extreme bondage and taught a lesson. There are situations that may shock many, including kidnap fantasies that include drugging the victim. This site goes all the way to deliver exactly what it promises. If you're not faint of heart, join me for a closer look at Academy Men!

The member area menu is on the left side of the pages, and on the main page you will find a list of the latest updates along with the dates they were added. You'll also find links to other sections of the site on the page. The main sections are shown with large thumbs of guys being restrained, forced and jailed. A lot of the videos here are from DVDs made by Academy Entertainment and can only be seen here. There is a link called Catalog to buy the DVDs if you're interested.

Academy MenThere are 2 video sections - the video clips section with well over 225 1-2 minute clips and the NOW SHOWING section. The videos are in MP4 format, and are shown at 320x213 at between 760k and just under 800k, quality from amateur to good amateur. All videos are downloadable and DRM-free. Several clips make up one full scene, and the NOW SHOWING section consists of 43 more scenes, described as "featurette-length" on the site. Each of these are a full scene from a DVD, and are not the same videos as the clips.

In addition to the videos, Academy Men also offers members over 282 pic sets of overpowered, jailed and restrained prisoners being worked over. Sets offer from 6 to over 40 pics, each of helpless prisoners, tough cops and plenty of men into bondage who are just too real to be models. Some of the pics are smallish vidcaps from the videos, but a lot of the sets are digital stills. Those pics are mostly around 640x480 and average or better quality. Photography is amateur, but that works for this kind of niche, giving it a more realistic feel.

There's a gritty reality feel to most of the videos. The action, the way the performers talk, the clothes, the very real prisons - the Academy Men videos are almost documentary in their feel. And the men are very masculine, the bondage expert and extreme and when you see the police run into a room to arrest a miscreant, they act and sound like real cops. These are not sympathetic PC police, either, and they know just how to treat their prisoners. Of course, sometimes a prisoner escapes and gets his revenge. The site doesn't contain full nudity, but that doesn't change my opinion of how hot the content is.

Academy MenIf you'd like to browse pics by category, including Cigars, Boots, Bikers, Cops, Prisoners, etc, go to the MugShots section. There you will also find one category called Face shots, which contains pics of members, each of which is linked to the member's profile so you can learn more about each member and see more of their pics if they posted more.

Academy Men includes a forum, a list of bondage community events, pics for your iPod and also member profiles so that guys can meet other like-minded guys. You can pm members and receive their messages in your own priviate message box on the site. There's a section called BeefyCub Photos that offers 4 additional galleries that are definitely worth checking out. And there's also a page about the late Chip Weichelt, the founder of Academy Entertainment and The Academy Training Center.

I did run into one issue - the download speeds. I averaged 75k, and on other sites I sometimes download 20 times that fast. While the videos aren't that big, I still had to wait several minutes for the full scenes.

Academy MenOne thing worth mentioning is that this site has only 2 membership options - $45 for 6 months or a $79 for a year. While these options are more than most sites charge for a month, they're both less than $10 per month, so I'd say that if you can afford it, it's not a bad deal.

While I'd like the movies to be shown at a bigger size, I have no real complaints about Academy Men. For those who want to see rough and forceful bondage and very real cops, I have never seen a site that comes close to Academy Men. The updates are usually short clips and pic sets, but they are weekly and you can browse new members. If you have fantasies of being roughly arrested or kidnapped, manhandled and brutally restrained, or of being the officers doing the restraining, it doesn't get any better than Academy Men. Be sure and check out the site - you are sure to be impressed!

Things we liked:

  • Exclusive BDSM content
  • Uniformed cop BDSM, capture fantasy, and jail content
  • Videos are downloadable
  • No DRM used
  • Can do 4+ simultaneous downloads

Things we didn't like:

  • Small amount of full scenes
  • Updates don't include full scenes
  • Videos on small side and not very sharp
  • Very slow download speeds

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DisgruntledAcademyMen fan | 29 Oct 2009 | My rating: 1 out of 5 stars

Once a great website, the place has gone downhill and downhill VERY fast this last year. Ever since founder Chip's death, the website has largely become a glorified preview website to promote the sale of the DVDs, by way of taking the existing Academy Men movies and cutting them down to 1-2 minute clips. If you don't intend to ever buy the DVDs, it's a decent place to download clips from the DVDs, though in a contrived set-up.

In recent years however, the new owners HAVE started filming new extended clips. Starring guys named Dart and Ironhorse, they are pretty good and are basically THE draw of the website, especially since the new videos are not available on DVD.

However, there lies the problem. The NS clips are supposed to be updated once a month, but this last year the website has FAILED to upload them. The thing is made even WORSE given that the new owners (who also own Bearbound.com) have routinely been posting NEW VIDEOS on the Bearbound website all the while neglecting the Academy Men website; it's made even worse given that most if not all of the new photo sets are FROM Bearbound.com (which also has Academy Men clips, though mainly those from the Top Cops era videos).

Making things worse is that the owners just don't seem to freaking care about the Academy Men customers. On the message board, any posts asking why the "Now Showing" section hasn't been updated are deleted, let alone any postings that flat out ASK why the owners are refusing to communicate with their customers about the lack of updates. Not to mention ignoring emails from customers asking for why there are no updates. And as it stands, the website is once again two months without an "Now Showing" update as many fans, who paid $45, now have gone 1/3rd of their membership with NONE of the exclusive content that they were promised and no word whatsoever if Dart and company will refund their money back.

It's a shame that the owners have damaged the reputation of the Academy Men website, by the way that they have shunned it in favor of Bearbound. What was once one of the premire uniform fetish websites has become a pale shadow over a decade since it was launched.

Logan5v | 03 Oct 2009 | My rating: 1 out of 5 stars

THERE IS NO EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT SHOWN AT ACADEMYMEN AND VERY LITTLE NUDITY.
Most men, if not all men, are sexual beings. This is true whether you're straight or not. When men subscribe to sex sites, it is to see explicit sexual content. Sure, you can join sites that will role play or act out fantasies that provide the 'build up' to keep it interesting and the better ones will keep up the 'role play' throughout, but make no mistake there has to be explicit sex and then the 'pay off'. Thats what men of all persuasions want to see. Those men who claim its not about the sex or the 'pay off' are just foolin themselves and no one else.
On this site you will only get the great build up without the sex and 'pay off'. I don't know of any real men that would be satisfied with just the 'build up'. I've seen more daring stuff -violence and sex, in mainstream films with widely known hollywood actors/actresses.
If the 'build up' is good enough for you, fine.
This is the site for you but there are also other issues with the length of the film clips and download times.
If you're looking for explicit sexual content, you will NOT find it at academymen. Look elsewhere.

Greg | 01 Sep 2009 | My rating: 2 out of 5 stars

This site, Academymen.com used to be a great site with awesome videos. Now, it is a lame site with the same ole videos and NOTHING NEW! There hasn't been any new Academy videos in years!!! Cop, soldier and uniform fetish is hot and it's too bad the owners of this site don't enhance this site and make more videos. Save your money, trust me.

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