GayDemon's review of Dark Alley

Dark Alley is a DVD production company that specializes in grittier, underground gay sexuality, and theyre well known for their dirty bareback and extreme anal penetration scenes. Founded in 2005, Dark Alley is run by real-life lovers and gay pornstars Owen Hawk and Matthias von Fistenberg. This site offers all of their titles in a video-on-demand service (VOD) that uses a pay-per-minute model. But the Dark Alley site also offers DVDs from 14 other bareback and fetish sex studios including Hot Desert Knights, Dick Wadd Media, SX Video, Wurstfilm, and others.

The men on this site largely fall into the average to well-built type of men - muscle bears, daddies, masculine men, leather men, well-built gay pornstars - but there are some jocks as well. Dark Alley has a twink category, but these guys arent really twinks, just guys in their twenties with a variety of body types.

Dark Alleys video offering takes us into the underground world of nasty and kinky gay sex. Youll find BDSM, bareback sex (which they call breeding, but there are also condomed movies available), dildo play, double penetration, extreme penetration, fisting, gang bang sex, leather and dungeon play, orgies, pissing, skinheads, and more. This is not your regular suck and fuck action, so be prepared to have your limits pushed and tested.

Dark Alley only offers its videos in streaming Flash - there are no downloadable videos - and theyre offered in four options from 257 to 1536 kbps and a screen size of 770x580. Their system auto detects the best version for you, but Im not sure what criteria they use to make this selection. However, if you dont like the option theyve chosen, you can easily change it.

I found the videos generally played smoothly, but at times there was a bit of choppiness. This can often be resolved by closing other programs on your computer. The videos are mostly pretty clear, but there are some amateur productions that arent so crisp. And the tour does give surfers some short free previews so you can see what youre getting.

Unlike other VOD systems, Dark Media doesnt give you segmented scenes. However, under the video player are a series of thumbnails that represent various action spots and scenes in the movie, letting you jump ahead. The problem is that you cant easily tell where one scene ends and another begins because each scene has several of these jumps as well.

Because of this set-up I cant tell you how many scenes are available. However, a DVD usually has three to five scenes so youre looking at somewhere between 1,300 to 2,100 scenes.

There are no picture galleries. But on the movie detail page there are 8 to 12 large thumbnails that give you an idea of the type of men and the action youre going to find on each DVD.

I have a problem with their pricing. They have three recurring options that give you 100 to 500 minutes a month. But I dont really find their packages are all that generous for the serious video watcher. Their basic package of 100 minutes at $9.95 barely gives you enough time to watch one DVD. Likewise, their 500-minute package will allow you watch five 90-minute DVDs a month.

If you go over your monthly allotment, they charge you on a per-minute basis, but they dont tell you what those charges are. I had to email the site to find out that overage is charged at eight cents a minute. Id be happier with an unlimited viewing option that was priced accordingly.

The lack of downloadable video might be a problem for some, but I never expected this option because this is a video-on-demand site: you buy time, you watch movies, you leave, thats VOD.

The site gives you some good search options so you can list movies by studio, category, pornstar name, or you can use their search box. You can also display movies by recent updates or most popular.

Shockwave is their most-watched video right now and this DVD features some pretty hot, masculine and hardcore pigs shoving dildos, fists, and shooting creamy loads up each others butt holes. Theres one sexy, balding and goateed fucker named James Roscoe who really gives his bottom a rough time with lots of spitting, face slapping, and throat fucking before he finally pounds this butt boys raw ass. I think Im in love. Luckily this hot pig appears in four more DVDs on the site, and Ill be checking them out as soon as Im done this review.

Dark Alley is a hot site with lots of nasty DVDs for men who are into piggier sex play. And this is one of the only places on the Web where youll be able to watch Dark Alley movies. With over 430 titles from a variety of studios, including American and European production houses, youll have a good selection of DVDs to keep you hard and horned up. If you like bareback sex and fetish play, and dont mind pay-per-minute sites, youll want to check out this site.

Things we liked:

• Lots of gay barebacking and fetish sex
• A choice of streaming speeds/qualities
• Easy to use and navigate
• Site is searchable

Things we didn't like:

• No dates or update schedule listed
• Not much information about models or movies
• Overtime charges are vague
• Videos not offered for download

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