Recent Trends in Gay Porn

This one had me scratching my head. I’ve been looking at gay porn sites for years now, reviewing them and writing up my thoughts about them. I reckon I have reviewed around 5,000 sites in the last six years, give or take the occasional, accidental, straight one, and not including the TS/TV ones. So, you’d think I should know what the latest trends in gay porn are wouldn’t you? Well, I had to stop and think, and look back at notes, and stand back a bit to see the wood for the trees, as it were.

The thing that strikes me most is the improvement in technology. The trend these days that’s first in my mind is the trend for mobile porn. Now you will find the good, solid sites come not only with mobile phone versions of their movies, but with whole sites compatible for viewing on a hand-held something. I have to admit that last night was the first time I touched and iPad. (Honestly! But I really want one now.) So now when I see ‘suitable for iPads’ I will know what the site means. But I also see, in members’ areas, things like: iPhone, iPod, 3GP and other strange letters and off spellings, and now it’s starting to make sense. These days the front runner for gay porn trends has to be formatting of videos for all kinds of iThings.

There are also improvements in technology, with bigger, better and higher resolution files for movies, and there have been improvements in bandwidths and access to internet connections to support such large files. This only worries me when I think of some folk who are still on dial-up and slow connections. I recently saw a standard 20 minute length porn movie for download that was so big in quality/resolution terms that it was over 3GB. On my mid-range connection that would take a few hours to come down. Let’s hope it’s a belter of a show.

But as for the actual porn itself, what’s trendy now? Well, we seem to be seeing an increase in reality sites again. These stared out a few years back and then seemed to level off, but recently I’ve found more and more what I call ‘tube style’ sites coming online. Loads of little sites where “we’ve hacked Facebook and found your hidden photos” kind of stuff. Rubbish mainly, I have to say. I’ve seen so many where the tour is better than the often expensive members’ area; once inside you have a couple of nicked videos from XTube or somewhere and lots of non-exclusive stuff you’ve seen before. So, avoid them and look for things with real companies behind them, like Bait Bus from Bang Bros, for example.

Straights go gay for pay had its heyday a while back too, but it is still going strong and on the increase once more. Way back when, when Broke Straight Boys hit the streets running it was something new and a great invention. And then everyone jumped on the bandwagon and every other site was about ‘straight’ guys doing gay sex. Sadly this meant that many sites got it wrong, and you got nameless, silent men jerking off beneath the screaming headline: “this is a straight guy doing gay stuff, wow!” Well, actually no; this was a man having a wank and no one knew (or cared) if he was straight or gay, and what’s gay about jerking off anyway? So, the point here is that straight going gay is still around and on the increase again, but once more we have to watch out for the imposters.

I checked up on who is accessing the most gay porn, and found a ‘trends’ survey carried out by the largest search engine company you can think of. Apparently, according to web statistics, the Czech Republic accesses the most gay porn sites and the number has been on the increase since 2004 (up to 2009). Not surprising then that where once czechboys.com was the only decent Czech site and Eastboys.com the only Eastern Europe one, that now we have hundreds, and even William Higgins in now based in East Europe rather than the Wild West.

So, I’d say the biggest trend in gay porn these days is the increase in technology and visual, recording standards. That and the continuing trend for reality porn, straights going gay and smooth and sexy posers from Prague that you can now hold in the palm of your hand and jerk off to when on the bus. (If you do, get someone to record it and you too could make a fortune in gay, reality porn.)