Southern Strokes

Southern Strokes Review

Southern Strokes launched in 2008 from the rural United States, filming Southern amateurs stroking their cocks on camera and exploring first-time gay sex. After years of offering hot Southern jocks and amateurs, the site was purchased nearly nine years ago by a company that runs a number of twink sites. It's been a while since our last visit, and the site has gone through a major overhaul with the re-mastering of their entire catalog and the addition of lots of bonus content, so let's get inside and see what's happening.

The performers in the original videos are Southern Americans, a mix of straight, gay, and bi-curious, mostly jocks with great physiques, and many of them truly are having their first gay sexual experiences. Each solo opens with a short interview that lets us meet the guys and hear a little about how they came to be filming. The majority of the guys are true amateurs, but some of them got their start here and went on to have successful careers in the gay adult industry.

Starting in 2017, updates include a different mix of guys. No longer exclusively offering Southern American guys, the site began to feature other Americans as well as scenes with European guys. These days the models are decidedly more twinks with slim and smooth bodies, and since they're almost exclusively European, you'll be treated to lots of uncut cocks. You'll find fresh faces, but plenty of guys from the European gay porn scene like Ollie Barn, Gregor Gilead, Nico Vegas, Elio Pjatteryd, and Max Gen.

You'll find guys kissing and touching before they move into sucking each other's cocks, doing some rimming, and fucking in a variety of positions before they cum. Having long dropped the straight guy and Southerner themes, the newest scenes now offer us young soccer players, cyclists, and wrestlers in their early twenties sucking and fucking, so if you like sports gear, there's quite a lot of it in the new releases. These Europeans don't speak much English, and some none at all, so there's very little dialogue. The guys pretty much get right to groping, kissing, and stripping off their soccer shorts or other kits. The newer scenes are all bareback whereas the older scenes were filmed with condoms.

Southern Strokes offers 752 videos in MP4 format. The newer videos are now available to download in one size at 1920x1080; the site no longer offers two smaller sizes. The older videos have been completely remastered and now also come in the same size at 1920x1080, and they're fairly good quality although not as crisp as the newer ones, but considering they were produced more than a decade ago, this is a great step forward. You can stream all the videos in a player that resizes them to fit your desktop and mobiles. Most are good amateur quality. You can enlarge them to full screen, and the newer ones fare best.

There are also 1,043 picture sets; there are 291 solo sets in their own section, and each episode also includes a picture set with its corresponding video. Most of the pics are good quality digital stills, and the newest display at 1920x2560 (portrait) or 1920x1440 (landscape); the older pics are sized at 960x640 at good amateur quality. Some of the picture sets may offer screencaps, and with 16 years of content, you can expect to find other picture sizes in the mix. You can save the pictures individually and there are downloadable zip files, too. There are no slideshows, but there are forward and back controls on the viewer.

Since we last reviewed Southern Strokes there has been an major overhaul of the site and its content. First, all of the videos have been remastered and play at one large size at 1920x1080, this is particularly great news for the older scenes that look quite good in the enlarged versions. The site has fixed a navigation issue that had only allowed you to navigate two pages forward or back at a time, so browsing the catalog is now easier. All of the advertising has been moved from the members area to a tab called Discounts on the navbar, and this makes the site a lot less cluttered.

Let's talk about updates. SouthernStrokes adds two scenes a month, but the network adds two others each month from the selection of bonus sites, so you'll get a new video every week, although it may not be a new production. The site has 78 fewer videos than before, and it would appear that their remastering project continues, so you can expect to see older remastered scenes popping up, however the newest releases do seem to be new productions.

You'll get access to other sites produced by the same company: Daddy on Twink with dad/boy sessions, Touch That Boy with massage, handjob and oral scenes, Twinks in Shorts with guys in athletic apparel, a compilations section, as well as a Classic Southern Strokes channel that includes all of the site's original American productions. There are also channels from other gay porn sites like Badpuppy, Club Amateur USA, French Twinks, and Bareback Latinos.

There are some issues. There is a sales pop-up on the tour, and there are two pre-checked offers on the billing page, and they're easy to miss to the far right of the sign-up form. There are model pages, but there are no profiles about the guys, although some have a brief description. The members homepage includes all of the network weekly updates, so you'll have to look under Videos and SouthernStrokes on the navbar to see only the Southern Strokes scenes; this is where you can also browse all the bonus content by site. 

Southern Strokes features a mix of real amateur productions featuring sexy and horny Southern jocks and newer videos with a mix of European gay porn twinks and others in hardcore action. While the site's direction has completely changed, most of those original Southern guys were the real deal, and many truly had their first gay sex on camera. If you like guys in soccer, cycling, and wrestling gear, there's quite a lot of it in the newest scenes. The site now offers 752 videos to download, stream, and watch on your mobiles, and they add a new update every other week. Members also get access to 11 bonus sites with 393 videos as well as selection of compilations, and they add one of these every alternating week. There's a lot to see here in a simple and uncluttered members area.

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