Porn Surfing 101

Porn Portals

There are hundreds of directories, search engines, review sites and blogs that specialize in gay porn -- and most of them are just plain awful. The reason most gay porn portals are not very good is because they are primarily designed to make their owners money by sending you to pay sites rather than by helping you find what you want.  

Review Sites

When BananaGuide launched in 2000 it was the very first site to specialize in providing objective reviews of gay membership sites. In recent years, review sites have become commonplace, though really good ones are still quite rare. Here are a few review sites aside from BananaGuide that we think do a good job:

Gay Demon started doing site reviews shortly after BananaGuide.

The Best Porn, which covers both straight and gay sites, went online in 2003.

Just Us Boys started doing site reviews in 2006.

Porn Blogs

There are a zillion porn blogs that offer surfers free photos or video clips. Often it you click on a photo in the blog you'll be taken to the paysite that provided the photo. If you already know that the site is a good one it's a safe bet to join, but if you're not sure try to find a review of the site from a trusted source, like BananaGuide.

Directories (link lists)

Below are three of the better gay adult directories. Each has very good coverage and significant editorial input - in other words real human beings look at the sites before they are listed in the directory.

Fab Free Sites, which used to be a part of BananaGuide, lists thousands of free sites and is updated every Thursday.

Hunkhunter's Haunts is the most comprehensive directory of gay free and Adult Entertainment Network (AEN) sites on the Net. Sites are categorized and rated with little penis icons according to the number of pictures they offer.

ManPics is an enormous directory of free and AEN sites - and it has no advertising! Updated weekly.