review of Academy Men, 2010-02-09

Academy Men may just be the hardest gay bondage site on the internet. This site is one-of-a-kind, and includes men being arrested or detained, put in rough bondage and a variety of forced situations. While the content here is actually fantasy scenarios, they videos are 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 4 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 to buy the DVDs if you're interested.

There are 2 video sections - the video clips section with well over 150 1-minute (or a little longer) clips and the NOW SHOWING section. The clips are shown several from each DVD The NOW SHOWING section consists of 16 videos, described as "featurette-length" on the site. In most sites, these would be called full videos or scenes as they are basically each a scene from a longer movie.

The movies here are MPEG 4 format. My computer says they are Real videos but they play in my Quicktime Player. These videos are shown at 320x240, at average quality. If you can enlarge them a little, it's worth doing, but at full screen they lose a noticeable amount of quality. The sound is good, the videos can be downloaded or streamed, and there's no DRM or other restrictions to watching them.

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.

In addition to the videos, Academy Men also offers members over 140 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.

If 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 also a page about the late Chip Weichelt, the founder of Academy Entertainment and The Academy Training Center.

One 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 to see full scenes added each week rather than clips or pics, and I'd love the movies to be shown at a bigger size, I have no real complaints. 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 content
• BDSM, capture fantasy, jail and cop content
• Videos are downloadable
• No DRM used

Things we didn't like:

• Smallish amount of full scenes
• Updates don't include full scenes
• Videos on small side

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