review of Top Shelf Studs, 2010-07-29

Top Shelf Studs is a new site from Topbucks focusing on those ever-gorgeous bodies and cocks found on the college jocks and amateur muscle dudes. Plenty of willing mouths and tight asses adorn the tour and I have to say, these six pack ab guys look absolutely fuckable. Member area navigation from the main home page is clean and crisp. While there are a lot of various areas and categories, they are clear about what they contain. Youre quickly shown the scene synopsis, a huge pic and assorted links to the latest site update as well as a link to a directory of all the episodes. Directly beneath it youre offered the episodes sorted by most recent, most watched and highest rated.

I opted to go to the view all episodes, and a new page opened up showcasing 12 decent sized thumbs with the guys names under them, and links to more pages of thumbs. Clicking a thumbnail brings up a really clean layout for the video scene synopsis, the links for various methods of watching and downloading, as well as a large thumb presentation of the available photos directly on the same page as the video links. Images are offered up in flash galleries where pics range in size from 533x800 and 800x1200. Also the pics can be downloaded in zip files. All the pics I checked out are good amateur quality.

Viewing options for the current 29 videos include streaming with Flash via clips or full scene, with 5 different connection speed choices, or you can elect to download wmv clips or the entire scene, again using any one of 5 connection speeds: dialup, DSL, Broadband, T1 or HD. I was surprised by the inclusion of some lower quicktime clips showing at 330x237, but those were few and the nice big 840x485 screen display was more the norm. Videos are crisp, and the camera leaves nothing to the imagination, moving in tight on filled pink holes and deep drilling cocks.

Site extras include 17 bonus feeds including Hard Issues, Twink Plus and Auto Studs. Plus there is access to 7 reality sites: Hot Muscle Dudes, Twinks for Cash, His First Facial, Gay College Sex Parties, His First Gay Sex, Gay Blind Date Sex and His First Huge Cock.

Upsells are nicely contained within a sectioned named “Bonus Networkâ€, where you have links for dating sites, live cam shows, dvd purchases, phone and ipod porn, sex toys and more.

Gay porn from this network have come a long way, baby. New gay site releases are actually focused on what appeals to the gay porn site member. Models have names now, theres good hardcore video and photos, and scenes have descriptions. Members have a community forum, a more in depth search feature, a place to save their favorites and even a way to submit an episode request.

Overall, I found Top Shelf Studs to be a decent new jock guy site addition to the world of gay porn, and though the videos are not fully exclusive, they were hot to watch. I particularly liked the downloadable HD videos, especially because they use no DRM. I would have liked to be able to more easily tell when new updates are being added, and it seems the site hasn't added a new update in 4 weeks since the order of videos on the view all episodes indexes doesnt show them in the order added to the site. Members get access to a good sized collection of bonus sites and feeds to help keep them busy. Top Shelf Studs content is hot, but the site is on the small side and isn't growing at a regular rate. Still, if you like what you see on the tour, you will probably like waht you find in the member area.

Things we liked:

• HD video quality is very good
• Videos are downloadable
• No DRM used
• Many video options, including full scenes and clips
• Site is searchable

Things we didn't like:

• Site has not updated in 7+ weeks
• 2 pre-checked offers on join page
• Site updates irregularly if at all
• Trial recurs at $10 more per month than regular monthly membership
• No dates / Updates are not listed in date order

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