The Casting Room

26 Nov 2020 Score 76 / 100 thecastingroom.net Not Mobile friendly


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  • Pictures 4 stars
  • Unique 4 stars
  • Size 4 stars
Review score 76
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  • 3 stars Usability
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Introduction to thecastingroom.net

The Casting Room features horny straight guys, either tricked or going gay-for-pay, get their chances in front of the camera to do a porn audition. After an interview, they strip for a thorough and humiliating exam before they jack off; there are a few dozen gay-for-pay sex scenes. 1,417 downloadable videos, many of which are mobile compatible.

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Since Last Review

  • Site has added 204 updates

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Video info

Videos offered for download and streaming

1,417 video updates. Newer: MP4 sized at 1920x1080 and 1280x720 at good amateur quality or better, mobile compatible. Older: WMVs at 640x360 at fairly good amateur quality, no mobile vids. Some older vids broken into 3 updates. Newer vids available to stream. No DRM used.

Picture info

1,417 picture sets. Pics are screencaps sized at 1200x675, newer are good amateur quality, older are still pretty good. Each set broken into 3 parts. No slideshows or zip files available. Pics can be individually downloaded.

Site issues

$1.95 processing fee added to price of membership. Exaggerated number of videos on tour. Lots of ads in member area including some that could be mistaken for content. Oldest videos aren't HD (as offered on the tour). Some new updates are recycled or from other sites from the same studio.

Membership cost of The Casting Room

  • Monthly: $38.00 (recurring at $34.95 every 30 days)

The Casting Room Review

The Casting Room is a porn audition site where the guys answer an ad looking for guys interested in performing in porn. As part of their auditions, they're interviewed, examined, weighed and measured, and they are made to pose naked for the camera from just about every angle. There are some cock closeups, and the guys also have to lean over and spread their cheeks, giving us a nice view of their tight and often virgin assholes. When it's finally time for their screen tests, each man shows us what he's made of as he gets his cock hard, then jerks off and shoots his load on camera. It's been two and a half years since our last look inside, so let's head back and see how things are going.

The site started filming in 2005, and it has changed things up over the years. It started off as a tricked straight guy site where the studs replied to ads to appear in straight porn, but of course this is a fantasy. And while they only masturbated in their auditions, those scenes were destined for this membership site marketed to gay men. However, many of the most recent guys are Eastern Europeans where it's quite common for straight guys to go gay-for-pay to earn a living, and there's no hint that any of them have to be tricked.

Most of these the porn hopefuls are from Europe with a large percentage of the earlier ones from the UK. The latest updates have more variety with guys from Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and even Estonia, but I also saw a guy from South Africa and another from Venezuela. The guys range from 18 to 35 years of age, although most seem to be in their twenties. And with such a variety of guys, you can also expect different physiques from slim to athletic or muscled, and of course some are hairy and others are smooth, some clean shaven and others with facial hair. Most are sporting uncut dicks. And while many of the guys are amateurs or first-timers, I have seen some of the guys in scenes on other gay porn sites. Of the latest 60, I recognized five of them as established porn performers, all with extensive catalogs of work.

Each guy's session is divided into three separate parts: the interview, the physical exam, and the masturbation test. During the interview they're asked a series of questions about their sexual experiences. Have they had sex with women? With men? Have they ever gotten a blowjob from a guy or given one? The interviewer asks them about their turn-ons and more personal sexual questions about what types of activities they're willing to do like will they get a blowjob from a woman or a man or will they have a dildo put in their ass. They're measured during the physical exam where they also have to show off their bodies including their butt holes, which some find humiliating.

Then the guys have to do an Erection, Masturbation, Ejaculation Test to show that they can get a hard-on and cum on demand. For many of the guys, this is it - they shoot their loads, and we never see them again. But a handful of the guys actually come back to do a second video where they do guy-on-guy gay sex sessions, sucking some dick or getting fucked on camera for pay. There are 59 episodes of these hardcore sessions, and the guys often get fucked by one of the site's producers, but sometimes the model appears with another auditioning guy. I didn't see every one, but these guys do it all: giving and getting oral sex, bottoming (sometimes topping), and the cumshots were mostly facials with the models gobbling cum then blowing their wad in their scene partner's mouth.

The Casting Room now offers 1,417 video updates and adds a new one every week, usually on Wednesdays. As I mentioned earlier, each episode is broken into three parts - the Interview, the Physical Examination, and the Erection, Masturbation, Ejaculation Test - and lately all three parts are added as a single update, but in the past they were sometimes added separately. The newest videos are offered for download in MP4 format in two sizes: 1920x1080 and 1280x720. Older episodes are offered in WMV and MP4 formats at various smaller sizes, and the very oldest scenes only come in WMV format, which means they won't play on mobiles, but most of the videos played on my Android phone and for the most part looked good.. The newer vids are also available to stream at 698x396 on my desktop monitor and fared decently in full-screen mode.

Each episode comes with a set of pictures and as with the videos, the pic sets are broken up into three sections. These are surprisingly good quality screencaps (even the oldest ones from 2005 look pretty good) sized at 1200x675, and while there are no zip files or slideshows, the pics can be individually downloaded.

Some of the updates are actually videos from other sites from this same producer. The site has grown by 204 updates over the past 30 months, but these take a bit of explanation. In 2020, the site has added 115 updates – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – but only the Wednesday scene is a new production, the others are recycled older scenes or videos from a couple of other sites.

Let's talk about issues. First, there's a good-sized collection of ads on the bottom of the members homepage, filling at least a third of the page; most of these are animated to catch the eye, and some could be mistaken for content. Next, the tour states the videos have been "HD Since Jan 2005", and maybe they were shot in HD, but the older videos are delivered to members in standard definition only. The site exaggerates the number of videos, claiming there are 7,832 videos, but they count every video's format as a unique video even though they're the same scene. Then there's a $1.95 processing fee members must pay on top of the already rather steep monthly membership cost. It's worth mentioning that the videos all have the same name, so you'll want to remember to rename them or else you may overwrite the one you already saved. The video watermark periodically changes location, and this can be distracting. In the pictures, the watermark often intrudes by appearing across part of the model's body.

The Casting Room is all about guys going through their auditions to become porn performers. Some of the guys are straight who think they're auditioning for straight porn jobs, and others don't care and are open to any kind of action as long as it pays. The examinations are particularly titillating with a very detailed look at the guy. Of the over 1,400 video updates, there are a few hardcore man-on-man episodes, but most of the action is solo. The site has been adding four videos per month for the past several months, and they've also been bringing older scenes back to the front of the line and some of these have appeared on other sites. The videos are good amateur quality, downloadable, DRM-free, and the newer vids are mobile compatible. The porn audition isn't a new theme, but The Casting Room executes it quite well, and in my opinion, does it the best.

Things we disliked

  • Some updates are recycled
  • Site's navigation can be confusing
  • Huge amount of ads on member home page
  • Watermarks are sometimes intrusive
  • Older updates only part of a full scene
  • Older vids not HD as claimed

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