Southern Strokes

Southern Strokes Review

Southern Strokes launched in 2008 from the rural United States, filming Southern amateurs stroking their cocks on camera and exploring first-time gay sex. After years of offering hot Southern jocks and amateurs, the site was purchased by a company around six years ago. It's been a couple of years since our last visit, so let's get inside and see what's been going on.

The performers in the original videos are Southern Americans, a mix of straight, gay, and bi-curious, mostly jocks with great physiques, and many of them truly are having their first gay sexual experiences. Each solo opens with a short interview that lets us meet the guys and hear a little about how they came to be filming. One of my favorites is Connor, a stocky, blond 21-year-old who just had his first experience with a guy six months before he made his video. He was going to college to become a doctor. He was at a party, got a little drunk, and ended up relaxing on a bed with another guy. He says they kind of just looked at each other, and it happened. The majority of the guys are true amateurs, but some of them got their start here and went on to have successful careers in the adult industry.

Starting in 2017's updates, there's a new mix of guys. No longer exclusively offering Southern guys, the site began to feature other Americans as well as scenes with European guys from another site called Twinks in Shorts. There are fewer amateurs with many more regular porn performers. I saw Brian Bonds, Declan Moore, Grayson Lange, Seth Knight, and Aiden Ward in the line-up. The newer scenes are all bareback whereas the older scenes were filmed with condoms.

You'll find guys kissing and touching before they move into sucking each other's cocks, doing some rimming, and fucking in a variety of positions before they cum. Having long dropped the straight guy and Southerner themes, the newest scenes now offer us young soccer players, cyclists, and wrestlers in their early twenties sucking and fucking, so if you like sports gear, there's quite a lot of it now. The newest performers don't speak much English, and some none at all, so there's very little dialogue. The guys pretty much get right to groping, kissing, and stripping off their soccer shorts or other kits.

Southern Strokes offers 830 videos in MP4 format. The newer videos are available to download in three sizes: 1920x1080, 1280x720 and 640x360, and while these are all labelled 4K in the filename, they aren't 4K. The older videos come in two sizes at 960x540 and 640x360, and they're amateur to fairly good amateur quality and have pretty good sound and lighting. You can stream all the videos in an adaptive player that displays as large as 1400x786 on large monitors and will also play on your mobiles. Most range from decent to good amateur quality, although the older ones aren't as crisp as we like to see, but they're from the last decade, so this isn't surprising. You can enlarge them to full screen and the newer ones fare better than the rest.

There are also 1,204 picture sets. There are 374 solo sets in their own section, and each episode also includes a picture set on the same page as their corresponding video. Most of the pics are good amateur-quality digital stills; most added after 2017 are quite large, sized at 1600x2400 or 1800x2400 at good amateur quality while the older pics are sized at 960x640 at fairly good to good amateur quality. Some of the picture sets may offer screencaps, but none I checked today did. You can save the pictures individually, and there are downloadable zip files, too. There are no slideshows, but there are forward and back controls on the viewer.

When we last reviewed the site, SouthernStrokes had been updating a couple of times a week with exclusive and non-exclusive videos, but now they're adding only one new exclusive scene a week. They may have beefed up the updates during the pandemic when new productions weren't happening much, if at all. The latest 24 videos are all duos with no solos or threeways. There hasn't been a solo since March 2021, and the last threeway was just under two years ago.

Members also get access to the feed versions of nine bonus sites from this company's network, and eight offer 12 videos while one offers 17. If you like twinks, you'll be happy with Bareback Twinks, Brash Boys, and some more videos from Twinks in Shorts, and even the athletic guys at Hard Brit Lads will probably appeal to you. The rest feature hairy and mature men and lots more barebacking.

Now let's talk about issues. There are two pre-checked offers on the billing page, and they're easy to miss because they're small and located on the far right away from the sign-up form. The yearly membership does recur, but you'll only discover this on the billing page. The tour claims there are multiple weekly updates, but there's only one these days. You can only navigate two pages forward or back at a time, and with 35 pages of videos that can mean a lot of clicking. Although there are model pages, there are no profiles or info about the guys. The members homepage has a row Discounts from Our Partners and these are actually ads for third-party sites, but they're clearly marked. There are also large banners throughout the site and links to a Store and Cam site on the navbar. Finally, I noticed a number of broken images on the category page.

While not precisely an issue, be aware that over 100 of SouthernStrokes' core videos are borrowed from two other sites. There are 103 videos from Twinks in Shorts and six from French Twinks, there had been a handful from another site, but they have been removed. Again, these aren't showing as bonus videos, but part of the site's main videos.

Southern Strokes features a mix of real amateur productions featuring sexy and horny Southern jocks and newer videos with a mix of European porn regulars and American guys getting hardcore or stroking their cocks. While the site's direction has completely changed, most of those original Southern guys were the real deal, and many truly had their first gay sex on camera. If you like guys in soccer, cycling, and wrestling gear, there's quite a lot of it in the newest scenes. The site now offers 830 videos to download, stream, and watch on your mobiles, and they add a new update each week. I love the real Southern amateurs in the original 400 videos, and with over 400 newer videos featuring Euro guys, twinks, and average guys, there's a lot to see here.

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