Here’s a street war waiting to happen. I have two screens open, on one side is Thug Boy and on the other is Straight Naked Thugs. Which site is the best? That’s the challenge and now we are going to find out.
But first… What is meant by ‘Thug’. Turning to my trusty dictionary the modern definition is: “a violent and aggressive man, especially a criminal.” No race mentioned – anyone can be a thug. And that is clear from the two tours I have in front of me:
Thug Boy features black and Latino guys, it uses street language, for example, “In here ya can check out all dem phine azz thugz before layin down ya loot!” whereas SN Thugs relies on images of (mainly) white boys in hoodies, with attitude to publicize it’s content. But it’s not always language that makes a site though Thug Boy does take the street-wise Bi Latino thug theme one stage further by using it. At the same time it can get tiresome reading colloquialisms and, at times, it can sound condescending. Basically there is no competition here because the two sites are very different in appearance and they way they ‘speak’ to surfers.
They are also different in the content that they have on offer: Whereas Thug Boy concentrates on hardcore gay sex between black guys, with solo Bi Latino content too, Straight Naked Thugs sticks with its straight-boy niche and even includes some girls in the scenes – for that added reality touch. It also covers some fetish content which I’ll mention in a moment.
Things start to heat up as we look at the quantity and quality of what’s on offer:
Thug Boy: 120 + videos in Quicktime and WMV formats that are 480 x 360 in size and is now adding HD versions.
SN Thugs: 28 videos in Quicktime format at 820k bit rate and 640 x 360 screen size.
Ok, so maybe one site is newer than the other, hence the amounts of content and, looking at both, there really isn’t much between them in terms of filming quality, navigation, layout and updates.
The big question is: what do you want to see? And the divide here, without getting into a race argument, is the skin color of the guys. Black on one site, white (with some Latino) on the other. You get the feeling that Thug Boy is American based while SN Thugs is British.
Some more differences: Thug Boy is purely Latino content and contains not only videos but galleries too. There are also lots of cool extras such as: nine stories, a model index with over 250 guys featured with descriptions, email addresses and a rating system for members. The site also lists VOD sites, there’s a live video and chat area, calendars, puzzles and wallpapers.
SN Thugs offers you videos and galleries, lots of straight street guys with their dicks out, bondage action, an alphabetical model index, an ‘add to favorite’ function, search engine and links to DVD stores. There are also two new fetish sections for ‘arrest/cop fantasies’ that include strip searches and line ups. Somehow this site feels more ‘real’, the guys here don’t look as much like your classic porn model as the Thug Boy boys do. Thug Boy has hard and chiselled, well built, clean and tidy Bi Latino performers who get rough in the sex scenes while SN Thugs has ordinary looking, rough around the edges, Chavs and lads.
Two different sites and both are using the word Thug in the title. What’s it going to be?
I think the simple answer is: for black and Latino gay content go to Thug Boy; for ordinary, real looking, white-trash straight guys go to SN Thugs. And for those of you like me who can’t make up your mind, simply join both. That way we can avoid gang warfare and a lot of mess.
