01 Sep 2007
Flava Men
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Flava Men is a blatino website featuring horny black and latin thugs and amateurs who jack off on camera, and a few of whom suck each others' cocks. If you're curious about the quality of the models, you can preview some of them on the tour, in the Free Stuff section. Not only are there a few sample pics of each guy, but you can also read a little about them as well as reading their interviews. I like what I see so far, so I'm off to take an up-close and personal look at the member area of Flava Men.
When you log into the member area of Flava Men, you'll find the tour menu on the left side of the page and 4 options on the right. They are Magazine, Calendars, Models and Articles. Magazine presents the articles, pics, photo sets and model info in a magazine format which I thought was creative and interesting. Calendars includes 3 actual calendars for use on desktop or in your harddrive. Each month has its own model, and there is a separate page for each month, just like with any other calendar. If you not to browse the content in magazine format, the Models and Articles sections allow members to browse all the magazine content in a more traditional format.
Flava Men Magazine has a different format than other sites. Instead of weekly updates, this site releases a new issue each season - Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Each issue offers 4 to 7 different shoots, most with videos. Each issue also offers stories, editorials and reviews just like a real magazine. There are currently 10 issues, and I counted a total of 58 shoots.
Each of the models in each issue have their own page. On it is a well-detailed profile, links to videos and to gallery pages, plus some info about the model and a brief interview. The videos are available in your choice of WMV or Quicktime, and can be downloaded. Older videos are shown at 320x240 at amateur to good amateur quality. As we move toward the newer issues, the videos are offered in 2 sizes and the high quality are larger, now shown at 480x360. All the videos are downloadable, use no DRM and all the ones I watched played smoothly.
And then we come to issue number 8. In issues 8, 9 and 10 the videos are offered in HD, which means they have a screen size of 1280x720 and a bitrate of over 5 Mbps! The HD vids are only available in WMV format, and in case you're wondering, these videos are VERY good quality - close to the best I've ever seen - and definitely worth saving. For those who don't want to wait for the HD vids to download or are on a slower broadband connection, the videos are still available in standard high and low versions in both Quicktime and WMV. Even the lower quality vids are still pretty big so dialup users, be aware that even the low videos are probably too big for your connection.
The photos here are digital stills, which means that they were shot with a digital camera rather than being taken directly from the video. The pics are medium sized and mostly good amateur quality. They can be enjoyed by browsing thumbnailed galleries or by watching a hands-free slideshow.
Most of the Flava Men models are either muscular or slender black and latin amateurs. Most of the action is solo, but there are some hardcore shoots involving 2 or more ethnic models sucking cock and fucking. The photographer and director do a good job of capturing the models, and there are enough closeups and cumshots.
For those who don't like to browse the content in a magazine format, the Models section is a model index. You can browse the models alphabetically and check out all their pics and vids as well as having access to their profiles and interviews. And there's an Articles section, too, in case you want to read the reviews and articles.
The rest of what Flava Men has to offer is also offered to non-members in the free section: listings of events (there are no events currently listed), a club guide with listings offered by state or in Brazil or Canada, free articles, the calendards and "model teasers". There are no bonus sites or bonus content offered.
While I think the men of Flava Men are very hot and the magazine format is appealing, I feel that having 5, 6 or 7 updates every season - which is 3 months - is a little on the light side. There are 58 shoots inside the site, most of which include both photos and videos, but even so I'd prefer to see an update weekly and I think so would most members. On the other hand, the monthly price is very reasonable - a definite plus. If you love black and latino men, Flava Men is definitely worth checking out!
Things we liked:
- Hot black models
- Videos are downloadable
- No DRM used
- New videos are HD
- Reasonable monthly price
Things we didn't like:
- Older vids are smallish
- New magazine only added every 3 months
Membership prices ( CCBill )
- Monthly: $14.95 (recurring every 30 days)
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