Reviewed 2008-07-01 l Last update on 2020-09-26
Gay King is a site Ive never seen before and it looks to be something new and fresh. There is a great collection of images and videos, a clean and simple design once you are inside and navigation is easy. There are some hot studs in here, some younger guys, some ethnic action and all manner of hot and sexy gay things going on. The tour, though it looks cluttered, will give you and idea of what to expect once inside.
I have to say I like the look of the members area at Gay King. Whereas the tour pages look kind of standard, crowded with pics from the movies and loads of guys having sex, the members area appears clean and fresh. There are four areas of content clearly marked out; Picture sets, DVD movies, Bonus sites and Live Extra.
Ill start with the Picture Sets; the link took me down the page where I found more details. The galleries are arranged in six categories with the most recent additions being displayed separately in thumbnails. There were 88 sets in the big dicks category and 60 in the cum shots area. I found images here that were 450 x 600 in size and that were clear, well focused and good quality. There were a further 19 ethnic sets, 23 hardcore, 90 stud sets and 52 twinks. There is some doubling up going on in there with studs appearing in hardcore and so on but its a great collection of good quality images. Most of the sets have 120 images in them but numbers do vary.
The guys in the photos were hot and a good mixture of types too. Young and slim, older and more muscled, big cocks and cute bubble butts; there were solo sets as well as couples in action and, all in all, my experience of viewing the sets was a good one - no faults whatsoever and good navigation options too, about which I will talk more later.
Once Id managed to tear myself away from the picture sets I moved on to the movies. There were 14 pages of movies here (a total of around 150) with a new scene promised every day. Now then, good things and bad things: There is a great variety in the movies and you can see what each one contains from the set of small video caps that come beneath the download link. But these arent exclusive videos and you may have seen them before. But if you like variety then its fine; there are military themed movies, ones with younger guys, a few fetish ones and some interracial and ethnic ones too.
But heres another but: I couldnt actually view any of them. The download links opened my media player but I was then told there was a problem. Ive seen this happen before on sites and sometimes you need the latest update for the programme or a plug in. I checked the FAQ page. (I eventually found it: bottom of the members page leads to the first public page leads to the FAQ page leads to a technical support page) I even downloaded the suggested extras, still no joy, I checked I had Windows Medial Player 11, I did and still no joy. I tried a right click and save target as but only saved the HTML not the file. Im afraid this happened on every file apart from one that I found which had an AVI format but that was over 300 MBs in size and would have taken hours to download and I didnt want to hang around for that, possibly to find out it still wouldnt run.
So I had to give up on the movies and try the other content instead. This took the form of some bonus gay sites that I was able to access. There were two that were fitness sites, a sex discussion site, an advice site and a penis enlargement guide that, thankfully, could not be found. I should point out that these sites would appear to both straight and gay folk alike, as long as youre interested in knowing how to get fit and enlarge your penis if you can find it. Not your usual bonus material.
The other feature of the site was the Live Extra area. There was a link here to a feed site that provided 24 clips from live shows. Some lasted two minutes while others ran for over 20; the guys were varied and, after my disappointment with the videos, it was nice just to see some movement on the site. The clips play in their own on-line movie player but you can use the time-line slider to jump forwards and backwards, cutting to the cum shots if you cant wait. Also on the live Extras page were thumbnail shots of various guys that I could chat live to there and then. In theory. This was one of those extras that I dont like cos its not really an extra you can log in to a site for free and do some chat but to get involved in anything good or sexy youll have to sign up.
As for navigation and getting around Gay King: Navigation in the photo sets was really good there were pages of thumbnails with each small image clicking up to a larger sized one. Thats kind of standard and what you would expect but the pages were clearly numbered so you could jump from page one to page six, for example, there was also a slideshow option with the images in different sizes. Ive seen slideshows before but not very often with a choice of size, the original size (450 x 600) was available and then there were three more sizes, up to 1024 x 768 and then you could also opt for seeing a half or a quarter of the image too. There were also six speeds in which to view the slideshow a good amount. And then beneath each page of thumbnails were the headings for the other categories in the gallery so again it was easy to move on, or back.
The main pages are neatly designed and everything runs from the main home page youll always be able to find a link to the pics, photos, bonuses or live chat page from wherever you are. At the bottom of the page are links to customer support which did take me round in a circle but I got there in the end. And when I did I found the FAQs very helpful and well written, there were also link to e-mails and live people should you not find the answer youre looking for. There is also an intro page and details on how to use the site, again linked from the bottom of the main page, worth a read if this is your first web site. If, at anytime you want to return to the members home page simply click the top banner.
I liked the design and layout of this site and I thought the image sets were very good quality and worth viewing. I had such trouble with the videos though that I couldnt see them or test drive them for you. I hope you dont have the same problems as they looked worth watching; actually as theyre not exclusive Ive seen some before on other sites and they are definitely worth watching! Take the $1.00 trial if youre not sure and see if you can get them to work, its a good collection.
