Treasure Island Media

Treasure Island Media Review

Treasure Island Media (also known as TIM) was founded by Paul Morris in 1998, and it was the first commercial producer of gay bareback videos. It emerged out of an underground movement of men who wanted the freedom to explore sex without condoms or guilt from the safe-sex movement. Since then, it has produced over 290 DVDs and still maintains its San Francisco studio, but they still have New York, London and Mexico City production houses, and for a while, they were filming regularly in South Africa. The TIM membership site brings together content from its six brands under one roof. There’s a lot to cover here including a simplified navigation system and over 2,300 new videos, so let’s get started.

Treasure Island Media has a good mix of popular porn performers and amateur men and first-timers, although there are many more of the latter. Horny men and cum pigs all over the world dream of taking loads or giving them in a TIM video, so you’ll find almost every type of man imaginable. While there aren't many twinks or big-bellied bears, you'll find all kinds of other body types here including slim, in shape, athletic, or muscular and they come from a variety of backgrounds – Caucasians, Latins, Black men, and a handful of Asian men – in fact BruthaLoad and Latin Loads focus specifically on men of color. The men range from 18 to 60 and come in all kinds of flavors – smooth and hairy, tattooed or not, cut and uncut. You can sort the men on the Men page by hair and eye color, body type, cock size and type (uncut or cut), tattoos, sex role (top, bottom, versatile), or you can use a freeform field to search for a model's name.

Treasure Island Media is renown for dirty and raunchy bareback sex videos featuring cocksuckers into guzzling cum, bottoms getting fucked with raw cocks and taking loads in their freshly-fucked holes, and there’s some masturbation here, as well. The action includes duos, threeways, fourways, and fiveways, but TIM is well known for it’s massive gang bangs with men piling into a hotel room to fuck each other or to focus their breeding efforts on one man. "Dawson’s 20 Load Weekend" rocked the world in 2004 with this infamous bottom taking 20 loads over the course of a weekend, and a year later, they released "Dawson’s 50 Load Weekend". These were groundbreaking back then, but they are regular events 20 years later on other sites.  

You’ll find men sucking and fucking in hotel rooms, warehouses, dirty basements, bar playrooms, parking garages, stairwells, and even some outdoor action. The camera work is always fantastic with the crew getting in close for lots of cock-in-hole and creamy load action. Honestly, if you’re inner pig is hankering to get out for a horny jack-off session, it doesn’t get much hotter than Treasure Island Media.

TreasureIslandMedia gives you access to TIM Fuck with bareback fucking in duos and groups, TIM Suck with blowjobs and cum eating, TIM Jack offers solo masturbation, BruthaLoad featuring Black-on-Black action, Latin Loads brings us Latin men, and Grindhouse Raw takes us to South Africa for more bareback fucking. The site brings together 290+ movies, 6,000+ scenes and 3,400+ men. 

Treasure Island has 6,068 total scenes and that's 2,394 more videos than we here 21 months ago. We can't explain this massive increase as this translates into 114 videos per month, so either we made a mistake in counting during our last review, which is possible since the site's navigation has been so confusing, or TIM has added a huge number of videos from its back catalogue. 

The videos stream in MP4 format and they run anywhere from eight to 15 minutes, although there are some running as long 30 minutes. The videos are offered in 540p (SD) and HD, but since we can't download them, we're not sure if the HD versions are 720p or 1080p. The site automatically selects the 540p option and changing it to HD didn’t seem to improve the quality. The video player is adaptive, so it’ll resize the videos to fit your screen. There is a full-screen option and the results vary on the age of the video. Many of the oldest scenes look just as good as the newer ones, but some are smaller in size and only average quality. That’s to be expected when production spans more than 25 years, but nevertheless, they’re enjoyable. All the videos are mobile compatible. Unfortunately, downloads will cost you extra, but it's been like this for a while. 

Each scene has a picture set. The pics are screencaps ranging from 406x360 (oldest) to 1600x900 (newest), and they range in quality from not great to good. The galleries appear under each episode’s video player with anywhere up to 30 pics, but many have less. You can save the pictures individually, but there’s no downloadable zip files. There are forward and back controls on the viewer, but there’s no slideshow feature.

None of the videos are dated, so we can't give much information about how often the site updates. The site's tour does say that three new updates are added every week and we'll have to take them at their word. Of the latest 20 releases, 14 of them come from TIM Fuck, five are TIM Suck scenes, and one is a TIM Jack scene. We didn't find any BruthaLoad or Latin Loads videos in the latest 20 updates, but there are certainly Black and Latin men in many of the new releases, so we're not sure what's happening with the those two sites, and without dates it's just impossible to tell.

In the past, I have found the navigation here terribly awkward, but they have simplified it which I appreciate. On the Scenes page, you're able to sort the movies by the seven brands on hand. This is so much easier – show us everything and let us sort it if we want to. And if you don't care about sorting by the various brands, you can sort by original release date, alphabetically, or by the date added to the site. There's also an option to sort by various category tags like groups, big balls, blowjobs, cut cocks, and dozens of others. There’s also a freeform search field which is of limited use because it only displays results for your keyword if it appears in the scene description.

There is a selection on navbar called Video Vault and this is a paid extra that will cost you another $24.95 per month. It includes 7,000 movies from over 200 studios. And while this theater is in the Treasure Island Media members area, it doesn't include any Treasure Island Media movies, these are all included in your membership.

There used to be user-submitted videos in a section called TIM X Tube, but it has disappeared. The TIM News is a blog is still around; in fact they just published a new post yesterday. It covers mostly Treasure Island news, but there are stories like one where TIM visited Body Zone, a Detroit bathhouse; there's also an article about TIM heading back to Folsom Filth and another about the third anniversary party of Filth, a popular party at the San Francisco Eagle.

There are all sorts of other things to explore on the TreasureIslandMedia site, but most of them will cost you extra. You can buy movies to download or have DVDs shipped to your home; there’s a Toys & Gear store where you can buy lube and BDSM gear, along with sex toys and clothing.

No site is perfect, so let’s talk about a few downsides. The biggest drawback here is that the membership options aren't really clear cut. Aside from the monthly and six-month options on the join page, there appear to be Tim Pass and Tim Pass+ plus options which seem to give you 40% and 50% options off downloads, but it's difficult finding the cost without jumping through a whole bunch of hoops. The site terms say by joining you agree to receive emails, so if you're not interested, you may have to opt out again after the first email arrives. As I mentioned, downloads aren’t included, and while there is a store where you can buy DVDs or scenes, it appears that only scenes released on DVDs are available. Also, the site's search is of limited use.

Treasure Island Media brings together all six of TIM's brands together on one big site, and thankfully, they have simplified the navigation and allow you to sort the videos yourself rather than placing them in seven different sections. You’ll have access to nearly 6,100 of the filthiest bareback and breeding videos you’ll find anywhere. TIM always pushes the envelope taking us deeper into the dark and depraved world of raw, cum-filled sex. While some nice bonuses have been removed, the site has added over 2,300 videos since our last visit 21 months ago. You'll get lost in here, drunk of cum and fantasizing of big dicks plowing your hole, or maybe even fucking and breeding a few of your own.

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