GayDemon's review of Southern Strokes

Southern Strokes focuses on cute amateur guys from the South - of the U.S., that is. These sexy southern guys seem to be between 18 and 27 years old, with attractive faces and great physiques. You can browse all the guys, and if you click on each model's sample pic, you are taken to a page with a nice juicy description and 3 sample pics from his shoot. The tour is greatly improved from our last visit and really a very good preview of what the site has to offer. The site promises downloadable DRM-free videos, a member forum and 2 weekly updates, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday. Sound good? Then join me for a closer look at Southern Strokes.

There's been a lot of improvements since our last visit to Southern Strokes when they were a brand-new site. All the videos are available in both WMV and Quicktime, and are offered in HD - the highest quality WMVs are shown at 1280x720 with a bitrate of 5.3 Mbps and the highest quality Quicktimes are shown at 960x540 with a bitrate of around 7.6 Mbps. The site has grown in the last 11 1/2 months from 15 videos to 62, which means 47 more videos. Each episode now includes the date it was added to the site, which is handy as we can now tell how often the site updates and when. The pics are now available as thumbnailed galleries, slideshows or downloadable zip files.

Southern Strokes offers their videos in either 3 or 4 sizes depending on the age and format of the video. The largest WMVs are shown at 1280x720 with a bitrate of 5.3 Mbps. This is very large and looks very good, but the bitrate may be a bit much for those who aren't on powerful new computers, but don't worry because there are at least 2 smaller broadband sizes of each WMV. In the case of the newest videos, I recommend the downloadable Hi Res Videos as opposed to the Super Res videos as their bitrate of just over 1.7 Mbps is more palatable for most computers The Hi Rs Quicktime vids aren't quite as large in screen size, being shown at 960x540, but with a bitrate of about 7.6 Mbps they can be enlarged to just about any side but older or less robust computers may run into some problems. Luckily all the videos are also offered at 640x360 at between 900k and 1 Mbps, which is also the size of the streaming WMVs.

Each episode also comes with a set of digital stills. These are shown at 640x960 and are good amateur quality. Each gallery has between 30 and 56 pics that are shown on the same pages as the vids. The pics can be browsed or if you prefer they can be downloaded as a zip file or enjoyed as a hands-free slideshow.

The guys of Southern Strokes are mostly amateur jocks or hunks with muscular bodies, a good attitude and nice-sized cocks. They range from college boys to construction workers, but one thing they all have in common is that southern twang. Ah, yes - and a willingness to get off on camera. The solo shoots start off with brief interviews so we can get to know the guys where the hardcore shoots seem to get right to the action between two horny southern boys. It's hard to say which I like the most because... well, these guys are hot and I like 'em all.

Southern Strokes does have a couple of minor issues. They claim they update twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but that's not correct at the current time. Some recent updates are only 4 days apart, but I found two recent updates that were 8 days apart and another two that were 10. Also they aren't alternating the solo and hardcore content as they say on the join page. Are these things deal breakers? Absolutely not. It would be nice if the site updated on a schedule, but if they just changed their join page claims, there'd be nothing to complain about. One other minor issue is that I would have preferred to see the bigger videos with a bitrate of around 3 Mbps so that the most people could play them. Still, a lot of people will have no problems with the highest size WMVs and there are smaller broadband sizes available.

Southern Strokes delivers some very hot and sometimes intimate content of southern jocks. The guys are mostly good looking, horny and eager to get naked on camera, and the site is a mix of hardcore and solo, although the older shoots are mostly solo. The videos are offered in both WMV and Quicktime, and the Hi Res vids are very high quality with good amateur photography. The pics are good, too, and you'll like the descriptions of the shoots. Updates come an average of 6 or 7 days apart, some as frequently as every 4 days although once in a while there's a gap of up to 10 days. The site offers a forum, although it's not busy, and also a very handy search feature. If you love all-American southern boys with hard cocks, I recommend you check out Southern Strokes.

Things we liked:

• Cute southern amateur guys
• Exclusive content
• No DRM used
• Videos are downloadable
• HD videos
• Can do 4 simultaneous downloads
• Updates are dated

Things we didn't like:

• Irregular updates
• Site is doing approx 1 update per week but join page says 2..

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