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The tour of Real Bareback gets right to the point, and the point here is bareback gay sex. For those who may not know, bareback refers to condom-free anal sex. Porn without a condom gives that feel of skin-on-skin and also the rhythmn of the scenes aren't changed as the top gets ready to cum and then has to fiddle with a rubber before he can shoot for the camera. Real Bareback promises us over 10,000 photos, weekly updates and unlimited downloads. Let's take a look at the member area and see how they stack up!

The member area of Real Bareback is a lot simpler than the tour. On both the top and the upper left you will find the same 4 item menu - Latest News, Photo Galleries, Video Galleries and Support. Below the left menu is a linkj to GayKey, which seems to be a bonus content network and under this are links to ads and bonus content. To the right of the side menu it seems to be a welcome plus update announcements and other site news. The top section of News and Updates is called Special Announcements and announces coming attractions, new bonus sites, promises of updates to come. The next section is RealBareBack's Latest Photos and Videos, which is where the latest updates are. There are also bonus sites plus several items that look like content but are actually ads - we'll go into those later.

There are 37 videos inside Real Bareback, each listed with a thumb, title, brief description and the date it was added to the site. When you click "view here" under a video, you are taken to a page where you will find the same description, thumb and info along with a link to the movie - sort of. The movies here are each offered as a single file. The reason I say file rather than full video is that each movie is downloadable only as a zip file, so in order to watch, you have no choice but to download the entire thing and unzip it before you can watch it. I don't care for this - some people would rather just watch a little of the video before deciding whether they want to download it, some don't want to save movies to their harddrive and some don't know how to unzip a file.

Inside the zip files the movies are offered in a single MPG file. They're good amateur quality vids shown at a screen size of
640x480, and they lose only a little quality if you go full screen, so the movies still look okay. While the movies play smoothly with good sound, some people may not be that happy to be forced to download MPG videos that are often over 300 Mb each. I'd say that offering the videos in clips would have been a plus, but not if the clips all had to be downloaded first.

One warning here - if you're on dialup or ISDN, i wouldn't recommend Real Bareback as each video could take hours to download.

There are 33 photo sets inside Real Bareback. Each set of pics has a different size of photos - one set I checked was 768x1024, another had even bigger pics shown at around 900x1200. Still others seemed to be vidcaps and were shown at 720x480. Pic quality varies but is mostly good amateur quality, and - strangely for a site that zips up the videos - the pic sets are not offered in downloadable zip sets.

The movie content here is from DVDs or - as far as I can tell - licensed from adult content brokers. That means that the overall quality varies as does the feel of the scene, which makes sense since different directors and creative teams were involved in different vids. Some performers are a lot more enthusiastic than others, and some videos feature hand held camcorders that move around enough to make viewers seasick where others are steady and make it easier to focus on the action.

Real Bareback offers some bonus sites. My favorite was Wild Gay College Sex Parties, which I've seen before but it's pretty good stuff. There's also Gaykey, which seems to be some kind of porn network, and features regular updates and various niches of porn as well as some feeds. Real Bareback also includes a collection of rather old-school feeds that are listed as 4 feeds in High Definition Streaming Videos and also on a page listed on the left side of the page as Super Stream Streaming Videos. Also these videos claim to be HD, they aren't - they're fairly high quality standard videos that are constrained in a small player, so be sure and go full screen to get the most out of them. They're okay as long as you aren't expecting true HD. The site also offers a collection of stories plus links to a couple live feeds, although Studs Direct actually took me to an asian girl site.

Although for me the biggest issue with Real Bareback is the movies being offered in zip files, the site news from around 6 weeks ago says that the site will soon be offering streaming videos in Flash format. While they don't mention a date where the Flash videos will be added, it will definitely add to the appeal of this site. The Daily Short Video Clips are very small and very short, but very high on advertising content, the thumbs of all the guys on the main member page listed as Live Sex Shows with Chat all lead to a single live site and the guys only get real nasty if you pay by the minute, and while the Special Member's Bonus at the bottom of the page does really get you a free online movie rental, but expect plenty of advertising there, too.

It's no surprise that all the videos inside Real Bareback are hardcore and feature condom free sucking and fucking. The performers include twinks, bears and other types of guys. This smaller site offers 37 videos, 32 pic sets and a collection of rather old-fashioned feesd as well as one pretty good bonus site. Videos are good quality MPGs that must be downloaded in zip files, which is somewhat inconvenient but the site is working on adding streaming versions of the videos, which will help. The site adds one video and one pic set per week, and updates are very regular. If you're looking for a variety of types of guys barebacking, and you don't mind downloading vids in zip files, Real Bareback may have what you're looking for!

Things we liked:

• Videos downloadable
• All vids are bareback
• No DRM used
• Regular updates

Things we didn't like:

• All vids must be downloaded in zip files
• Smallish site - could use some growth

Membership prices: ( billing by Paycom  )

• Monthly: $29.95 (recurring every 30 days)
• Quarterly: $69.95 (recurring every 30 days at $29.95)

Reviewed on 2007-07-12

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