Streamen

It’s funny how Streamen’s 18+ warning is at the very bottom of their front page, below the flexing men with their wieners hanging out, the guys jerking off and the elephant cocks aimed at the camera. That little disclaimer should clear up any confusion you have about whether the BDSM grandpas and buff guys with butt plugs are performing live cam shows for all-ages audiences, or if the live anal sex would be suitable for a family viewing. Then again, if you’re illiterate as well as stupid, you may well believe the teen twinks and burly bears are doing something SFW on the platform, but I guess that’s between you and the HR department.

As the name implies, Streamen.com is a live webcam site full of male cam models. They’ve been around for a couple decades now, having gotten in on the webcam sex game really early on. Perhaps that early entry helped cement their position, because they’re still going strong all these years later. They got a couple million visits last month, which is actually down a bit but still a hell of a lot better than most of the wannabe gay Chaturbates out there. Let’s see what kind of studs all those viewers are watching while they pretend to work from home. More like jerk from home, am I right?

Jerking from Home to Gay Camwhores

Those weren’t hypothetical examples I listed in my opening paragraph. Literally the first things I saw when I loaded up the site, right before I noticed the Adults-Only warning, were flexing dudes and big dicks. There’s an animated signup banner at the top of the screen that really teases the content in a comically borderline SFW manner: all the dudes flashing by are clearly jerking off, though you don’t see their boners, only their moving arms, their naked torsos and their fuck-me faces.

As far as presentation goes, it’s a straightforward webcam affair. This is literally the exact layout I’d imagine if you told me to check out a cam site established in 2003. That’s not a burn exactly, since newer sites don’t look all that different. Perhaps the biggest thing that sets Streamen apart from the other guys is the simplicity of the whole thing. They’ve got a simple logo that doesn’t even hint at the perversion within, letting the thumbnails do that heavy lifting.

And lift it does. I’d say a quarter of the dudes are flexing their biceps in their front-page thumbnails, while other muscular dudes just flash their pecs and their abs while swinging their ding-dongs around. If strong men ain’t your bag, no worries, because there are skinny dudes, hairy chubsters, femboys and stereotypically straight-looking camboys next door.

It really is a nice selection of male camwhores to choose from. Ethnicities are all over the place, even more than what I expect from most cam sites. Maybe half of the dudes out front are white, the rest consisting of Asians, black dudes, Latinos and mysteriously ethnic hunks from around the world. That ain’t just a figure of speech, as evidenced by location flags representing everywhere from Italy to Spain to Venezuela to Colombia, not to mention the Americans grinning at the camera or pointing their erections at the viewer.

If I have one complaint about the general design of Streamen.com, it’s that the thumbnails ain’t the live, moving previews you get on a lot of sites. Most of the dudes on the front page seem to have snapped their thumbnail shot during their current live session, but it doesn’t necessarily give you a preview of what they’re currently doing at this very moment. That makes it slightly more difficult to find a perfect show, especially if you’re among the cheapskates looking for free live entertainment.

Who Do You Want to Fap to Tonight?

Streamen ain’t quite as hopping as the really big joints like LiveJasmin, but you should have your pick of a couple hundred live male camwhores. I’m writing up this review on a Monday afternoon and there are just about 200 dudes online, spread across a four-page picture menu of hunks, studs, and a few uggos. They give you the option to look at the offline guys, too, which may come in handy if your dream camwhore ain’t currently online.

The picture menu ain’t too overwhelming to just pick one from the thumbnail, but you could always dial in more precise sexual preferences using their search filters. The main set of filters is decent, allowing you to choose Regions, Ages, Ethnicity and Languages. There’s a Features menu that lets you choose different show types, like Party Chat, Interactive Vibrator and Fan Club. Under Fetishes, you can check off a couple dozen boxes like Anal, BDSM, Leather and Roleplay.

Interestingly, they’ve got some traditionally female-led fetishes, like Femdom and Lactation. Either that’s a reflection on gender as a spectrum, or leftover code from a sister site of female camwhores. I’m guessing it’s the latter, because I feel Streamen is lacking some obvious male-oriented filters, like cock size and model type. For anything outside of the filters, you’ll have to look for categories like Big Cock, Bears, Daddy, Straight and Guy Next Door. It ain’t perfect nor ideal, but it gets the job done. Contrast that to a site like Cam4, which includes more search options aimed at horny gay masturbators.

I clicked Athletic under Categories and the selection was narrowed down to 78 dudes. Checking off the Interactive Vibrator option brought it down to 20, and then I whittled it to 16 by looking for Latin Americans who could speak English. Checking the Anal box narrowed it to just five streaming men on Streamen, which is a much easier number to work with if you’re the indecisive type.

Where’s the Free Beef?

It’s unclear what order Streamen.com displays those search results or the default spread, and there’s no way to reshuffle them based on popularity, recently online or viewer numbers, like you can on most webcam sites. Combine that with the non-live thumbnails and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to find any good free shows. As you’ve probably figured out by now, all cam sites offer free shows, but only the better sites deliver with any consistency.

Fortunately, it turned out my fears were totally unfounded. There are a ton of legitimately free live webcam sex shows on Streamen. The first dude I clicked on was lubing up his boner as soon as I entered the chat, the second guy was flexing in the buff, and the third? Well, the third was just some asshole’s empty living room, but the fourth was a pair of Colombian dudes playing with each other’s dongs. They were still in their boxer briefs with fat bulges, but probably just a tip away from showing us at least the tips.

I felt like I struck gold more often on the first page, with more clothed webcam models as I worked my way further down the selection. That makes me suspect they’re ordered based on some popularity metric. I’d really love to see the option to reshuffle the stack in the usual ways, because that would go a long way in helping the bums find the free stuff.

I tried signing up for an account, hoping for some free credits. No dice on that front. It’s worth noting that Streamen.com doesn’t even let you create an account without adding a credit card or PayPal account, which is kind of a bummer. At the end of the day, I’m not sure it matters, because I know a lot of you had no intention of paying for anything. That’s just the nature of online pornography.

Whether you’re looking to have your fantasies played out over webcam for a few bucks or you just want some free dicks to fondle yourself to, Steamen.com has you covered. As one of the oldest male webcam platforms, they maintain a healthy amount of traffic that all but guarantees a nice selection of cams to choose from at any given moment. It doesn’t cost anything for a peek, so you may as well see who’s performing right now.