Reviewed: 2008-05-02
Strong Men
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Videos
74 videos in WMV format, each vid offered in 2 sizes, high vids shown at 320x240 with 576k bitrate, lower vid shown at 320x240 with 192k bitrate, clips only - no full scenes offered, 216 full DVDs in WMV format in 3 sizes plus 1 size of MP4, videos downloadable, no DRM used.
Pictures
344 pic sets, most pics shown at 662x1000 at good quality, some are smaller and amateur quality, no slideshows offered, no downloadable zip files available.
Extras
73 gay bonus feeds in a wide variety of niches.
Issues
Main member page heavy on the ads on gutters and bottom of page.
Prices
- Monthly: $29.95 (recurring every 30 days)
- Quarterly: $69.95 (recurring every 90 days)
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Strong-Men is a site with several different focuses - muscular men in pics and videos, gay porn DVDs and other hardcore content. While the movies and pics focus on athletic hunks, the DVDs and other content do not. It's been a while since our last visit to the site, so let's log into the member area of Strong-Men and see what they have to offer.
At first glance it's pretty obvious that the Strong-Men member area is packed with content. Listed on the main member page are muscle videos, photo sets, downloadable DVDs, and on the right side of the page is a list of all the updates including the both the site's own content and the feeds. There's a menu on the upper left side of the page followed by several ads, and there are support links and several more ads on the bottom of the page.
Let's talk about updates. The muscle videos are dated and a new video is added once a week, although the pics are added more sporadically, none having been added in a couple weeks, but 9 sets having been added in the last month. There are feed updates pretty much every day, and all updates are conveniently dated and linked from the updates list, which is an improvement from our last visit.
There are currently 74 muscle videos, which is 24 more than our last visit. Each video is offered in 2 sizes, called wmv 512kb and wmv 128kb. Bother are shown at 320x240, but unless you're on a pretty slow connection, I'd recommend sticking to the 512k versions of these movies. Some of the guys are big and buff and flex and pose before jacking off, some athletic and defined and get right to business and some suck some cock. These aren't the huge bodybuilders you see on some sites, but most would be considered hunks and some are pretty hot.
Strong-Men currently offers 216 DVDs, which is 160 more than our last visit. The last DVD title added 6 days ago. Each DVD includes multiple scenes, most with between 4 and 9 scenes per video. Each video comes in 3 sizes of WMV: 128k, 512k and 1024k, and although those bitrates aren't exact, they're pretty close. There is also an MP4 version of each scene that can be downloaded for your iPod or watched on your Quicktime player. The movies are mostly pretty good quality with the 1024k videos shown at a nice large screen size of 640x480.
When you click on a DVD box cover you are taken to a page showing the cover for the DVD and listing each scene by number. Each scene has 8 preview thumbs showing the action so you can decide which scenes to watch. On the DVD pages, to the right of the movies, you will find a category list to help you browse.
There are currently 344 photo sets inside Strong-Men, with a focus on hunks and bodybuilders, although I did find a few sets featuring guys best described as twinks. I've seen some of the pic sets before, which means that at least some of the pic sets are non-exclusive. The pics are mostly shown at around 662x1000 and most are good quality, although some were smaller and amateur quality. One thing for sure - there are enough muscle and hardcore pic sets to keep you busy for quite a while.
There are too many feeds inside Strong-Men to describe so I'll mention the highlights. Frat Men features some truly gorgeous athletic college guys. The broadband is only 300k but the guys are still incredibly sexy. The 5 gay reality porn feeds are actually full-on bonus sites, complete with a great selection of videos and high rez pics and plenty of hardcore gay fucking and sucking. There is also a collection of niched feeds in a wide variety of mostly gay niches, although there's only 1 muscle feed.
One thing I didn't care for here was that in the video and picture sections you can only navigate one page at a time. I'd much rather have the option to browse any page in the listings, but while going one page at a time is a little annoying, it wasn't a big issue for me.
While Strong-Men didn't have the emphasis on muscular men and bodybuilders I was hoping for, there was a fair selection of muscle hunk videos and good sized collection of non-exclusive hunk and bodybuilder pic sets. Strong-Men shows their best side in the quality of the DVD scenes and the large amount of scenes. When you add in all the feeds and plugins, Strong-Men has enough videos to keep members horny for weeks with daily feed updates and weekly DVD and muscle video updates. If you're looking for a site featuring real bodybuilders or exclusive content, this may not be the site for you, but if you're looking for a site with some hot muscle hunks and tons of gay porn videos and feeds, be sure and check out Strong-Men.
Things we liked:
- Videos are downloadable
- No DRM used
- Videos and DVDs updated every week
- Good sized collection of DVDs and photo sets
Things we didn't like:
- Muscle videos are on the small side
- Not all pic sets are muscle guys
- Site has no real personality
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