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Twinks.com has been around for over 8 years, and it's been a long time since our last review of the site. In that time the site has gone through some changes. The first change is their modern tour with a focus on videos. One issue I have with the new tour is that one of the videos starts playing automatically, so if you don't want your boss or your roommate to unexpectedly hear the sounds of twinks fucking, turn down your speaker before you check out the site. The new tour has a bunch of short trailers, which is a plus. You can also preview the entire member area and every model in it.

The Twinks.com member home page is fairly busy, so let me tell you the basics. There is a navigation bar running across the top of the page that is easy to use, but leaves a few sections out - specifically the entire archive of the older member area content and the bonus sites. You'll find those running down the right side of the page along with a member poll, links to the most popular updates and the live show link.

There is a single dated update for each section - JERKOFF VIDEOS, BUDDY VIDEOS, JERKOFF GALLERIES and BUDDY GALLERIES - on the member home page, but none of the other content is dated. That makes it difficult to know how often this site is updated. The latest video was added 4 days ago and another one added 6 days ago, but there's no way to know whether the site adds 2 updates a week, follows a schedule or just puts out updates periodically. There does seem to be a live show every week.

There are 166 photo sets in the newer section of the site, and over 500 in the archives. Most of the pics range from 675x900 to 683x1024 in size, and quality varied but for the most part, pics were average quality or better - except for some of the really old sets. All the archived pic sets I saw were non-exclusive - including some sets that said EXCLUSIVE right on them.

There are currently 19 videos in the main member section and over 200 videos in the archives. Let's look at the new videos first. There are both downloadable and streaming videos available. The downloadable videos are WMVs shown at 640x480 with a bitrate of around 700k. I'd call these average quality - they could be a little sharper and clearer, but they're not bad at all. These videos do not use DRM, so if you save some for later, they'll still play even after your membership has expired.

The streaming videos are the way to go for those who prefer Flash to WMV or are on slow internet connections. They are offered in your choice of WMV or Flash and come in 4 sizes, the largest being about the same as the downloadable videos - 640x480 with an approximate 700k bitrate. Both streaming and downloadable videos have good sound, although I felt that the WMVs played just a little more smoothly than the Flash videos.

The archived videos are mostly shown at 320x240, which is a bit on the small side, but then these are older videos. They mostly had a bitrate around 320k or so, and looked good at their original size, losing some quality when enlarged. All the videos I saw are available in clips only, and around half are offered in both WMV and MPG, the other half being WMV only. There is one catch to these videos - the archive video section link doesn't work, so I had to find a link to a video update and then change the number in the url each time I wanted to see a different video page. We wrote to them about this problem, and I'll let you know when they fix it.

The new content at Twinks.com is pretty good stuff, and there are plenty of pic sets, but their video section needs to grow for a while and there's no update schedule. There is also a scheduled weekly live show. There's a lot of content in the archive, but it's non-exclusive and many of the links in that section don't work. Even so, if you're looking for all sorts of gay bonus content, Twinks.com members get access to Bang Bang Boys, Collin Oneal, Hot Barebacking, Fratmen and Czech Boys as well as a couple more feeds and gay stories. If that sounds good, why not head on over to Twinks.com and see what you think!

Things we liked:

• Videos are downloadable
• No DRM used
• Scheduled live shows
• Large collection of archived pic sets

Things we didn't like:

• Only latest updates are dated
• Main section needs more videos
• Archive videos are on the small side
• Some links don't work in the archive

Membership prices: ( billing by CCBill  Paycom  )

Half Year: $99.99 (180 days, non recurring)

Reviewed on 2008-06-20

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