Major Hunks
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Reviewed on 12 Aug 2007
Generally speaking, there are three types of men you'll find in gay porn - twinks, hunks and bears. If your requirements for arousal include life experience, Nair experience and a gym membership, twinks and bears are of no interest to you - you're a true blue hunk lover. Assuming you are a hunk lover, you just may find a grain of truth in Major Hunks' rather braggadocios claim that they're the "most arousing gay porn site ever!" Major Hunks promises all hunks, all the time, with "tons and tons of hot hi-res photos" and "hours and hours of stunning gay porn."
Major Hunks is set up similarly to the majority of porn mega sites you'll find on the net - a static menu bar sits at the top of each page, and their main directory showcases the site's highest rated videos, photo galleries, and links to the 18 miscellaneous bonus sites your Major Hunks membership nets you. It should be noted that ads for external cam and dating sites are also prominently featured on the main page - this is never a good sign, kids. In fact, the video and photo galleries seem to be the only things actually hosted on Major Hunks' own server - on first view, Major Hunks seems to be a completely generic, third-party content driven mega site.
Major Hunks' status as a generic, third-party content driven mega site is confirmed as soon as you take a look at their video page. Their entire video archive is just the "gay" section of a predominately straight mass movie site - out of 659 DVDs on said site, only 31 of them are gay oriented. And while the straight videos are separated by subject and niche, the content in the gay section can't be filtered down. Major Hunks' entire directory of gay scenes must be scrolled through in its entirety if you want to find something of interest - a hardy task that seems like a near impossibility. Most of the DVDs on this site date from the early to mid 90s, a fact that's evident both in the hairstyles of the actors and the video quality of the clips. While there is a decent amount of hunk content in these archives, a lot of time and bandwidth is also wasted on twink videos, something one certainly wouldn't count on when one signs up for a site called "Major Hunks." If you do find a DVD that holds your interest, you can stream or download it as multiple 10-20 minute scenes that have been formatted as 800k, 570x380 WMV files. The clips have no DRM restrictions, meaning you've got free reign to hook yourself up with as much grainy, shitty ancient porn as you stomach (not to mention the galleries of 100+ blurry, low-res 720x544 screenshots that accompany each clip)!
The picture galleries are yet another bummer - while there are over three hundred galleries, the majority of 'em do not - I repeat, do not - contain hunks. Rather, the "hunks" photo gallery appears to be a catch-all dumping ground for the assorted content that lies within the picture gallery sections, (hunks, Asians, ebony, bears and uniform). Galleries of hunks lie along side galleries of twinks, generic gays, and slightly overweight black men - pages upon pages of them, that you can't filter or search at all. There's no set image size for these pics, nor is there a set number of images for each gallery - you'll find from 15-100 photos in each set, and image sizes from 515x800 to 700x525. These images have obviously been culled from dozens, if not hundreds, of sources - they vary widely in quality, content, lighting, and chronology, and none, as far as I can tell, are as "hi-res" as Major Hunks claims. These pics can't be viewed as slideshows or downloaded as ZIP files, either.
The rest of the content Major Hunks advertises is all external - cam sites, dating sites, sex toy stores and bonus niche sites. The bonus sites actually have better content than Major Hunks - they're mini video pages for established (read: better) sites like Fratmen, Rear Stable and Sex Gaymes (the content on these pages is presented as streaming Quicktime and WMV files). Not one of these bonus sites, however, is actually on Major Hunks' join page list of the "15+ massive bonus sites" that allegedly come with your membership - this detail is a bit nit-picky, sure, but should simply be viewed as further confirmation that the webmasters of Major Hunks are stone cold liars (not that you needed any more convincing).
Major Hunks promises "constant updates," but there's no update schedule to be seen anywhere on the site. All in all, Major Hunks makes a shitload of promises that they most certainly do not keep. For $24.95 a month, you're much better off signing up with an exclusive, legitimate all-hunk site (like, say, Fratmen - funny how that works out!). I can't even recommend the $4.99 trial membership on sheer principle.
Things we liked:
- Vids can be downloaded
- No DRM used
Things we didn't like:
- Content from older DVDs
- Most videos are straight
- Unknown if site updates or when
Membership prices: ( billing by CCBill Paycom )
- Trial: $4.99 (3 day trial, recurring at $39.95 every 30 days)
- Monthly: $39.95 (recurring)
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realmajor | 19 Sep 2007
My rating:
I didn't count the gay videos, just that there were way too few for the money charged, and besides, its a gay site, isn't it? or just a trap to grab some gay cash?
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