KB Castings

KB Castings Review

Kristen Bjorn filmed his first movie in 1989 and rose the top as one of the industry's best-known gay porn directors. His movies were classics with gorgeous muscular men sucking and fucking in highly choreographed and beautiful sex scenes – they were more like works of art than porn videos. He's well-known for featuring the sexiest European and South American hunks. KB Castings features audition videos from the company's "Casting Couch" series where experienced performers take newcomers under their wing to show them how to have sex for the cameras. While these are audition videos, they are every bit as professional as Bjorn's other videos. We last visited the site in June 2024 and updates seemed to have slowed on Kristen Bjorn, so we thought we'd take a look at his other sites and what's happening.

Kristen Bjorn calls Spain home, so the site is currently full of Spanish men, as well as South American men who have moved to Europe in pursuit of a new life. You'll find other European men here including some French, British, German, Czech, and Italian men. As we've said, they're a mix of established gay porn stars, lesser-known performers, and newcomers. Kristen Bjorn originally favored smooth men, but many hairy hunks have made their way in front of his camera. There are lots of men wearing face scruff or beards and a mixture of men with tattoos or not. Most of the guys have well-defined, muscular physiques – so many gorgeous gym hunks. And of course, there are lots of uncut cocks.

You'll recognize many gay porn regulars here like Sir Peter, Viktor Rom, Andy Star, Andy Onassis, Santi Konnor (aka Santi Sexy), Gianni Maggio, Max Duro, Kike Gil, Guido Plaza, and many others. Of course many of the newcomers get a taste of being in front of the camera and go on to make careers for themselves appearing in many other Kirsten Bjorn videos as well as other producers and sites. 

Most of the videos come from the Kristen Bjorn series called "Casting Couch", and the first 325 or so filmed condom sex. But the last 220 or so have been bareback fuck sessions and carry a "Raw" banner on their episode graphics. The pairing is usually a more experienced man with a newcomer, but not always. They are almost always filmed in hotel suites or well-appointed condos or apartments. These are largely duos, but there are also 18 threeways. The site is now featuring almost exclusively bareback action.

There are 552 semi-exclusive videos in MP4 format and they run from 17 to 24 minutes or so. Newer downloads are offered in four sizes from 360p (low SD) to 1080 (Full HD) and older in two sizes at 240 (low SD) and 480 (SD). The newer videos are decent to good quality. Streaming, mobile-compatible vids are available in an adaptive player that will resize the videos to fit your devices from large monitors to smaller mobiles. The newer videos are decent quality, but they could be sharper, and although they looked good on my phone, they don't always look the best a full screen on my larger monitor.

The older videos play smaller at 480p (SD) and 240p (low SD) and the quality is average at best; they could really use remastering. These older videos show four streaming options available, but the two largest called HD and Full HD produce an error message: "The request content cannot be loaded. Please try again later." The message makes it seems as though it's a temporary technical glitch, but they can't play because they aren't available in HD or Full HD sizes. The videos played well on my phone and didn't suffer from the same quality issues I experienced on my large desktop monitor. You can pay for and download a video à la carte without a membership, and these cost $10.67 each. And finally, until you sign up for a membership, you're only able to watch 10 free previews in one day.

Each episode includes a set of good quality digital stills or high-quality screencaps. The newer pics are sized at 1555x1030, medium age pics display at 1094x1642 and the oldest display at 320x240, which in my opinion is too small to even bother looking at. You can save the pictures individually or you can save entire sets in zip files. There are forward and back controls on the picture viewer, but there's no slideshow feature available. There are between 10 and 38 pictures per set.

Now let's talk about updates. The episodes here are not dated, so I have no idea how often the site is adding new content. The latest "Casting Couch" episode is #513 but there are #534 in the series on Kristen Bjorn. When we last reviewed the site, we said that Kristen Bjorn was producing a new "Casting Couch" scene every two weeks and these appeared immediately on KB Castings. But they haven't added the last 21 episodes, so I'm not sure what that means. Finally, they have added 26 videos in the past 24 months, so that's basically one a month.

The KJ Casting site is actually a pared-down version of Kristen Bjorn's main site, which features over 2,000 scenes, so if you want more videos, it may be better to join the main site. However, having said that, Kristen Bjorn seems to be in recycling mode and hasn't seem to produce a new scene in many weeks.

One of the things I don't like about this site is that upon entering an episode's page, a preview starts to play and it may or may not have the sound on. If it does, you might be panicking and clicking the screen to pause the video, but nothing works. You'll want to look toward the bottom right of the screen for a sound icon and clicking that will mute the sound. Until you figure things out, it's probably best mute your sound for the first few minutes of using the site.

The "Sites" dropdown menu on the navbar leads to other Kristen Bjorn sites, but these sites aren't included in your membership. Not really an issue, but there is also a link on the dropdown to a Kristen Bjorn tube site that allows you to watch short trailers of all the company's content, however, you can do the same on Kristen Bjorn itself. There's also a Blog link there, but it no longer works and takes you back out to the tour.

The site could be organized better, I found it a little confusing to navigate and many of the homepage headers simply reorganize the same content in different ways like "Most Viewed" and "Discovery of the Year"or "Most Popular Beginners" and "Male Porn Stars" The Videos section separates the videos into Raw Castings (bareback) and Other Castings (bareback and condom together).

Kristen Bjorn has always featured very hot men in their videos, and KB Castings is a good way of seeing auditioning up-and-coming performers as well as some of your favorites. Many of the "Casting Couch" men have gone on to not only film multiple videos for KB but move into full-on porn careers, I'm talking about men like Harry Louis, Lucio Saints, Diesel O'Green, and Jean Franko. I'm a hound for Spanish men and uncut cocks, so I'm pretty turned on by the hunks here. There are 552 semi-exclusive videos and updates happen now about once a month. KBCastings doesn't bog you down with a lot of extras and stuff you don't want, just horny and steamy audition sex between very hot European and South American men, and the site is a fraction of a membership at the main site.

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