Site Reviews

[Membership to Next Door Buddies also includes access to Next Door Male; Tommy D and Friends; Next Door Hookups, Stroke That Dick and Cody Cummings. See Next Door Studios for a group review of these sites.]

Next Door Buddies, drills deeply into the huge collegiate model pool and brings you beautifully shot, mostly guy-on-guy videos, along with a handful of solo scenes. The site has a greatly increased number of videos and an all new design. As well, all the vids are now available in large screen (720x480 pixels). And don't forget: this is the gay hardcore centerpiece of the big value Next Door Pass suite of sites.


Next Door Buddies has a mirror-type tour with a full video index. For each episode you get nine decent-sized video captures and a preview clip. Overall, the tour is very thorough.


Next Door Buddies has a clean, attractive design. The members' home page starts you right off with the episode index. Click from there and you'll go to a page that includes a scene description, a photo gallery, and links for the video page; a separate video page gives you many options for streaming and downloading. Moving between pages of the episode index is cumbersome as there are over 40 pages and you can only advance by 3 pages at a time.


It's a really good sign when a site has lots of returning regulars. And it's a thrill when guys who started out with a nervous solo come back to suck and then fuck -- or to be fucked. We see a lot of this progression at Next Door Buddies , which is populated with a choice crew of 19-26 year old collegiate guys. Almost all of them are lean and muscular, many are super-handsome straight studs. Remember, these guys fuck real girls on Next Door "sister site" Next Door Hookups .

Duo sessions predominate at NDB and usually consist of an encounter indoors on a bed or a couch. Activities include kissing, sucking, fucking, rimming and dildo play. There's even a hot double penetration dildo session. What are the odds: two straight amateur bottoms in one room? The hot anal scene between Jessie and cute bottom-boy Samuel is one of our favorites, but don't miss young, deep-voiced, huge-dicked dirty blonde Josh. An invlauable top, Josh fucks the daylights out of at least half a dozen of these newbie bottom boys.

At review time there were 160 video episodes, mostly duos and a few solos. The site is updated weekly.

Video will stream or download in Windows Media or Quicktime formats. Within these formats there are numerous options, such as true streaming video in which you can skip back and forth through the video immediately, or progressive downloads, which are higher quality, but have to be completely downloaded before you can skip back and forth. There is plenty of help info right on the page and a nifty download calculator to help you estimate how long it will take to save the video to your hard drive.

With the recent redesign, all of the videos are now availabe at high speed, playing in a large (720x480 pixel) window. Videos are full-length only, not divided into clips. There is no DRM on the video, so you can keep it for as long as you like.

The videos are quite good quality. Throughout there is good light, clear sound, and a nice range of camera angles, close-ups, medium shots and model poses. The all-important cumshots are almost all there.

There are almost 140 picture galleries, averaging 35 images, the majority of which are digital pictures, with a few video captures thrown in. The lighting and poses in these images is definitely above average.



The sign-up process for Next Door Buddies is not user-friendly:
- you must enter information on three separate pages.
- you will be added to a mailing list unless you check off a box at the bottom of page one.
- the pricing information does not indicate that the memberships will rebill.
- you will be signed up for a 3 day trial membership to gaypornaccess.com unless you uncheck a box.

For all of these reasons, we have docked 3 points off the "Fairness" score.



The exclusive content and good looking amateur guys paired up at Next Door Buddies will appeal to those who like hot, straightish guys aged 19-26 who don't have that porn star aura. With all the videos now in large format, copious help info, no DRM and access to six other sites, NDM is definitely a good bet.