KB Castings

KB Castings Review

Kristen Bjorn is one of the best-known gay porn directors around. He made his first movie in 1989, and he's well-known for featuring the sexiest European and South American hunks. But every porn performer has to start somewhere, usually with an audition. KB Castings features audition videos where newcomers are paired up with experienced performers. But "audition" doesn't mean a slapped-together quickie - the guys auditioning may be new, but the videos are shot professionally. We last visited just over two years ago, so it's time to head back and see what's been happening.

The men on KB Castings are mostly in their twenties and thirties, a mix of established gay porn stars, newcomers, and lesser-known porn regulars. Most are European with the majority coming from Spain, but there are some French, British, German and Czech men, as well as just over three dozen Black/Blatino men, and a few dozen guys from South America. Kristen Bjorn tends to favor smooth men, but he doesn't shy away from hairy hunks, guys with furry asses, and men wearing face scruff or beards. Most of the guys have well-defined, muscular physiques. And of course, there are lots of uncut cocks.

While the men are usually fresh faces when they audition at KBCastings, many of them go on to be regular performers on the site. A few performers I recognized are Sir Peter, Viktor Rom, Andy Star, Andy Onassis, Santi Konnor (aka Santi Sexy), Gianni Maggio, Max Duro, Kike Gil, Guido Plaza, and many others.

Most of the videos come from the Kristen Bjorn series called Casting Couch, and they're numbered sequentially. The action here is between men wanting to perform in gay porn videos with the absence of directors. The site says that these "interviews" are usually between an established performer and a newcomer, but this isn't always the case. There are plenty of scenes between known porn stars to see if they have what Kristen Bjorn is looking for.

The men explore a whole range of action from kissing and touching to sucking and fucking. These simple sessions are shot in a condo, house or hotel suite and don't usually involve elaborate sets, and when the scenes open, the men generally get right to it. These are largely duos, but there are also a couple dozen threeways. The site is now shooting bareback action almost exclusively; there have only been two condom scenes in the past 120 updates.

There are 526 semi-exclusive videos in MP4 format. Newer downloads are offered in four sizes from 640x360 to 1920x1080 and older in two sizes at 320x240 and 640x480. The newer videos are decent to good amateur quality, but many were not quite as sharp and clear as I'd like to see, and some suffered from interlacing. Streaming, mobile-compatible vids are available in an adaptive player that can get as big as 1508x850 but resizes to fit your devices from large monitors to smaller mobiles. The newer videos are decent quality, but at full screen on my desktop they could be sharper, although they looked good on my phone.

The older videos play smaller and could really use remastering; I found the quality was average at best. Also, these older videos show four streaming options available, but the two largest called HD and Full HD aren't available, and you only discover this after clicking the option's button. Videos played well on my phone and didn't suffer from the same quality issues I experienced on my desktop. Finally, you can pay for and download a video à la carte without a membership, and these cost $10.67 each.

Each episode includes a picture set. These are good quality pictures that could be either digital stills or high-quality screencaps, it's hard to tell. The newer pics are sized at 1094x1642 or vise versa; the oldest display at 685x914 at average quality, although there may be other sizes. You can save the pictures individually or if you prefer, you can save entire sets in zip files. Also, there's no slideshow, but there are forward/back controls on the picture viewer. There are between 10 and 38 pictures per set.

Now let's talk about updates. There are still no dates on the updates and no schedule listed, but Kristen Bjorn seems to be producing a new Casting Couch scene around every two weeks, and these immediately appear on KB Castings. The site is actually a pared-down version of Kristen Bjorn's main site, which features over 2,000 scenes. You'll find the Casting Couch videos on both sites, but this shouldn't be a problem if you haven't recently been a member of Kristen Bjorn and are primarily interested in the audition videos or just want to take advantage of KBCasting's low membership prices.

There's very little to complain about here. The "Sites" dropdown menu on the navbar leads to other Kristen Bjorn sites, but these sites aren't included in your membership. Not really an issue, but there is also a link on the dropdown to a Kristen Bjorn tube site that allows you to watch short trailers of all the company's content, however you can do the same on Kristen Bjorn itself. 

I'm not a fan of the site's homepage where you'll find videos presented in old YouTube style navigation and each row of thumbs can be browsed horizontally by using forward and back arrows. The site has both Raw Castings and Other Castings under All Videos on the navbar, and while the first only shows bareback scenes, the other shows both bareback and condom scenes together, which seems odd. 

Kristen Bjorn has always featured very hot men in their videos, and KB Castings is a good way of seeing auditioning up-and-coming performers as well as some of your favorites. Many of the Casting Couch men have gone on to become big names in the business; you'll find some of their bigger stars as well as older porn stars like Harry Louis, Lucio Saints, Diesel O'Green, and Jean Franko. I'm a hound for Spanish men and uncut cocks, so I'm pretty turned on by the hunks here. There are 526 semi-exclusive videos, and updates are added about every two weeks, give or take. KBCastings doesn't bog you down with a lot of extras and stuff you don't want, just horny and steamy sex between very hot European and South American men, and the very nice low prices make this site one of the best deals in gay porn.

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