GayDemon's review of Naked Sword

Naked Sword is simply enormous, and what's very cool is that you can browse previews of every DVD title in the member area - we're talking well over a thousand - and each DVD has a description, names of the director and stars and a video trailer. The site offers daily updates, thousands of movies and some handy search and browse options. The join page says the site is Mac compatible, too. Looking for a gigantic gay porn site with frequent updates to keep you busy? Then join me for a closer look at Naked Sword!

Naked Sword is easy to navigate using the links that run across the top of the page. If you click NEW MOVIES, you can browse every movie in the site, which currently offers 1831 full DVDs, each with multiple scenes averaging around 4 scenes per video for a total of over 5500 scenes. And that is a lot of gay porn! Not only that, but they add 2 more DVDs every day - once in a while, they add 3. You can also browse by themes, studios, most watched and featured movies, you can check out the extras or you can use the search box at the right to search for any term you like.

The Naked Sword videos are DVD titles that are offered as full DVDs and by scene. Each video is offered in 1 downloadable format - WMV - and in 2 streaming formats - WMV and Real. The downloadable WMVs are shown at 720x480 with a bitrate of 1.5 Mbps, and the videos definitely lacked sharpness - not perhaps quite blurry, but approaching it. And some were blurry or had other issues. I was surprised because most videos I see (and I see a lot of them) at that size and bitrate are sharper and clearer. The streaming Real vids are shown at around 355x208 at okay quality, although I was unable to play the streaming WMVs. It's important to note that the downloadable WMVs do use DRM.

I found a wide variety of men and types of porn here. There were cute twinks, bears, leathermen, first time amateurs, straight guys, black and european men and many other types of guys. And the porn ranged from guys jacking off to hardcore BDSM and everything in between. There's also a good sized collection of vintage and classic gay porn including DVDs from Falcon Studios and Bijou Films. Anyone looking for all kinds of action is likely to be pretty happy with the mix here.

Now, here's where something confused me. I thought that Naked Sword was a bareback site. After all, Naked Sword, right? But actually in addition to the bareback videos, there are condom videos and solo videos and pretty much all sorts of videos. Go figure!

Naked Sword offers a nice selection of extras, including a live site with some action in the free version, Naked Sword original videos, several bonus sites and feeds, blogs, wallpapers and a safer sex guide.

When it comes to issues, the one that concerns me most is that the downloadable WMVs use DRM, which means they will not play for Mac or Linux users and will not play after your membership has expired. In fact, the DRM'ed videos only play for a day before "phoning home" to check if your membership is still active. I was also a bit disappointed at the video quality the site has to offer - they're not awful, but if the vids were sharper and clearer, I'd be very enthusiastic about this site even with the DRM.

Naked Sword is one of the biggest gay porn sites around, with 1831 DVD titles and over 5000 full scenes. They also update with 2 new DVDs every day. This is a site with tons of variety from cute amateur twinks to fisting leathermen, and lots of fucking, sucking and cumshots. The catch? DRM. Mac and Linux users can't watch the downloadable videos because of DRM, so they must watch the streaming versions, and those who can watch the downloadable vids won't be able to play them after their memberships have expired. And the video quality is okay, but it's not great. Still, the site is massive and there are plenty of extras, so if you're looking for a huge gay porn site that adds 60 new DVDs every month, Naked Sword is definitely worth visiting.

Things we liked:

• Videos are downloadable
• Vids are offered in both full DVDs and scenes
• Can do 4+ simultaneous downloads
• Very large site with tons of variety
• Frequent updates - 2 DVDs added every day

Things we didn't like:

• Site uses DRM on downloadable videos
• Pre-checked newsletter on join page
• Videos could be better quality
• Monthly membership is pretty pricy

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