Roped Studs

Roped Studs Review

Roped Studs features guys in bondage scenes who are left to struggle with their ropes before their dom has some fun tormenting them with corporal punishment or clipping things to their cocks and bodies or zapping them with electricity. These scenes look pretty exciting - at least for the dom and the viewers - and we last reviewed the site over two years ago, so let's head back and check it out.

The Roped Studs themselves are mostly guys who don't fall into any neatly-defined niche like jocks or twinks. What these 20 guys have in common is that they're in their twenties; beyond that, they have slender, athletic or slightly muscled bodies; some are smooth, others hairy, and they're sporting a mix of cut and uncut dicks. Most of the guys are White, but there are a handful of Black and Latin studs as well. Most of the guys are single-name studs who aren’t gay porn regulars yet, but I did recognize Kory Houston, Jordan Boss, Duncan Black, and Garrett Cooper.

The guys aren't simply tied up; they're wrapped with perfectly wound rope (beige, red, blue, or black) and secured with proper knots. The rope work is beautiful, and the movies include some of the bondage process - maybe not enough for enthusiasts, but enough for viewers like me who are turned on by bondage but are more interested in the action. The guys are bound to benches, chairs, wooden pillars, metal poles, or they're suspended from the rafters. And some of the scenes don't use rope at all, instead using plastic wrap, duct tape, leather restraints, handcuffs, or other bondage accoutrement.

Once the guys are secured, any number of things can happen. They are tormented with clothes pins, plastic clamps, and nipple clips; they're flogged, strapped, or caned; there's ass play with dildos and butt plugs; and there's cock bondage and CBT; there's just too much to detail completely. One dom really loves using pin wheels (a metal handle with a spiked wheel) that he rolls all over a bound stud's body, cock, and bare feet while he watches him writhe. And there seems to be a cumshot at the end of the entire bondage sessions, but I didn't watch every single one. Also worth mentioning is that there's not a lot of interaction between the dom and bound guy; there was no verbal humiliation that I heard, although that's not to say that we don't hear the subs gasping as they wince in pain or in some cases hollering and yelling.

There are 158 video updates on Roped Studs, and this requires further explaining. There are 20 guys on the site, each with a bondage session that is broken into parts, and each part is added as a separate update. Each guy's session has anywhere from four to ten parts, but when a new guy is introduced he’ll only have one part until his next update. The site adds two updates every Saturday, one from each of the two newest guys. They will continue to dominate the updates until all of their session parts have been added, which would take a total of ten weeks if there are ten parts.

Before we get into the video details, let's talk about membership options. You can join Roped Studs as a standalone site for 30 days and they're currently offering a 40% discount. But you can also join both Roped Studs and Dreamboy Bondage with even more hard-hitting BDSM and domination play for a $10 savings over joining each site individually.

The videos are exclusive and available in MP4 format. The scenes come in three sizes at 1920x1080, 1280x720 and 960x540. They're good quality productions with decent lighting and sound so we can hear the guys scream and beg for mercy. You can also stream the videos at 960x540, and there's a full-screen option that generally offers good results. I found the servers slow and streaming the videos required a lot of buffering, so I'd advise downloading them to watch them offline if you can. However, having said that, the downloads are slow as well. While the videos played on my cell phone, the site is not fully optimized for mobiles, so you’ll have to enlarge text to read it and links need to be enlarged to click them.

Each update includes a set of 30 to 40 decent screencaps sized at 1920x1080. You can view them as galleries or slideshows, or you can download each set in a zip file. I'd recommend opting for the zip files because these large pictures aren't resized to fit in the browser window, so depending on your browser, you may have to scroll horizontally to see the entire picture, and the slideshow is useless unless you have a large monitor. Still, if you're a fan of photos, these are good quality with lots of detail of the action, so they are worth downloading. 

And as I've already mentioned, each guy's full bondage session is broken into as many as ten parts, and each is added separately and used as one of the weekly Saturday updates. There are two sessions in rotation simultaneously, so they string us along for four to ten weeks waiting for each guy's complete session to roll out. Having said that, each RopedStuds update ends at a natural stopping point in the action, so you're not left hanging, pardon the pun. 

Roped Studs moves older sessions to an archive site which charges a separate membership fee. So when a new guy’s bondage journey begins, the oldest session on the site is moved to the archive. However, having said that, I'm not sure the site is producing new scenes as the two latest studs are both guys who haven't performed in gay porn videos in quite a while. It's been about three years for Kory Houston and six years for Jordan Boss.

RopedStuds could also use some navigation improvements. The episodes are added on the homepage, then you navigate using a "More" button to see the next 10 episodes, and you continue like this through 15 pages. You're probably better off navigating through the "The Studs" pages because each guy's section shows all of his available scenes along with his stats. Then on each of his scene pages there's a good description of the action along with the videos and picture gallery, but there are no links on these episode pages to the other scenes, so you have to go back to "The Studs" page. 

I think overall Roped Studs is a good site that delivers titillating and painful bondage sessions. I was happy that we didn't have to sit through all of the rope work, but there was enough of it to keep me interested. There's a good variety of action once the studs are all tied up with everything from CBT to spanking, and from teasing with a pinwheel to ass play, and a lot more that kept me excited and wanting to continue watching. The 158 updates represent 20 full scenes, the downloadable videos are large and played well, and the site is still updating, albeit very likely using recycled content. I think BDSM and bondage fans will be pleased with the offering of guys and variety of action.

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