Icon Male

Icon Male Review

Icon Male features hot sex between horny guys - you'll find smooth twinks, hunks, daddies and world-class gay porn stars in taboo themes. Icon Male was formed when Mile High Media teamed up with director Nica Noelle to produce a series of gay porn feature films focusing on high-production values, passion, intimacy, great sex, and that's exactly what they deliver. The company became well known for pushing boundaries and exploring fauxcest (sex between family members who aren't related by blood). Mindgeek, the owner of MEN.com, took over Icon Male's day-to-day operation in 2019 and continues to manage the site. It's been a while since our last review, and there's been some changes, so let's head over for another look.

The sets, lighting, and camera work are top notch, and the videos touch on themes ranging on the taboo side like stepfathers fucking stepsons, stepbrothers exploring gay sex together, inter-generational sex, and borderline inappropriate scenarios with a man fucking his daughter's boyfriend or his son's best friend. There are other boundary-pushing scenarios like priests having sex with congregants in the confessional, married and closeted men looking for love on the down-low, coaches and athletes, firemen fucking on duty, doctor and patients going at it in the exam room, and military scenarios including a movie called "Prisoner of War" featuring men in World War II uniforms.

The site offers masculine, mature men (some with hairy chests) like Joel Someone, Jesse Zeppelin, Colby Jansen, Dominic Pacifico, and silver daddy Lance Charger in scenes with slender, younger boyish or jock types in their twenties. There are plenty of hunky, well-built stars including Nick Fitt, Dante Colle, Michael Boston, and Jack Hunter. Some of the guys are clean-cut, while others have tattoos or a scruffy look. And you'll find some really big cocks. While most of the men are Caucasian, there are some men of color like Armond Rizzo, Zario Travezz, Devin Trez, Dillon Diaz, and others; altogether there are 38 interracial gay sex scenes. The producer casts the performers who best suit each particular storyline, so there's not particular type here.

The sex is definitely hot and also passionate; you can expect plenty of kissing, cock sucking and fucking, not to mention some ass and cum play. Everything is filmed well and shows hard cocks sliding in and out of hungry asses, men making out, and guys moving their warm mouths up and down big dicks. Sometimes the sex is rough and sometimes it's romantic; the videos here have actual plots, and the performers have really good chemistry, so you can expect eye contact and even tenderness in some scenes and hard ass drilling in others. The site delivered its first bareback scene in March of 2020, and while most of the newest releases continue to feature raw sex, the models are always free to choose condoms if they want; earlier scenes see the models fucking with condoms exclusively.

Icon Male now offers 536 videos in MP4 format, each a scene from an IconMale DVD. The big news is that downloads are now available with two of the membership options - the newest videos are good quality and available in five sizes up to 4K at 3840x2160, while the rest are offered in four sizes up to 1920x1080 at good amateur quality or better. You can also stream the videos on your desktop and mobiles; they're available in the same resolutions as the downloads; if you're on a large desktop and want to enlarge the videos to full screen, I recommend going with the highest resolution for the best results. I had no problem playing them on my Android phone. 

In June 2021, the site stopped adding picture galleries; before that episodes seemed to offer good quality digital stills displaying at 533x800 or 1200x800. I can't guarantee all of the older 467 episodes have galleries, but spot-checking suggests this is the case. You can save pics individually or download whole sets in zip files. I found many of the larger sets with 200 to 300 or more pics had lots of similar poses, so these could be pared down. There's a hands-free slideshow feature as well as manual forward and back controls.

Let's talk about updates. The IconMale episodes are dated, and updates have slowed. On our last visit, the site was updating twice a month, but for the past nine months has been adding a single update each month, although not always on the same date. 

There are some downsides. There's a pre-selected offer on a dropdown near the top of the billing page; if you're not interested, click where it says "Yes, add..." and change it to "No thanks". The new membership with downloads costs $10 more than the streaming-only membership. Trial memberships only give limited access, but they aren't specific about what those limitations are. Also, when joining IconMale, you are automatically added to an email list and will receive commercial emails. Sales tax will now be added if it's required in your jurisdiction. And the model pages lack information about the men.

Last, I want to address advertising. When logging in, you'll land on a long page full of advertising; the link that leads to the members area isn't hard to spot. Once you're in the members area, one of the rotating banners on the top of the page is an upsell for the entire network and there's another at the bottom of the page. Each video starts with a short ad, as well, and there's another banner beneath the video player. It's all easier to avoid than it sounds, but when I get ads on Netflix, it's because I pay a lower subscription price.

Icon Male has hot men and the action is sizzling, there are plenty of hunks and porn stars, and the quality of their productions are top notch. There's plenty of taboo themes like fauxcest, priest sex and doctor/patient sex, and the content is well-filmed. I was very excited to see downloads are now available for two of the memberships, so those members can now download and stream the videos on their desktops and mobiles, and for those who don't want downloads, they can pay less for a streaming-only subscription. I was disappointed that the site only updates once a month, but there's enough to keep you busy for a month or two, so I think the site is still worth checking out.

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