While it’s not something that I do myself, I actually have a lot of respect for guys who do gay bondage. While most people treat sex as something quick and easy, these dudes are finding special equipment, installing chains and ropes in their homes, and building crazy torture devices, all to have some of the most intense sexual experiences in the world. And they know that not everybody has the time or energy to do this kind of shit, so they also record it so that others can enjoy it. It’s an inspiring hobby, so the least I could do is write some reviews about it!
A massive collection of gay bondage, I sure wish I could see them
ThisVid.com describes itself as “The #1 place for your homemade videos”, and clearly it’s a pretty popular one:
it brags that it has over 80,000 gay bondage videos alone, which is a number that should satisfy even the most addicted of you porn goblins. However, while I believe that there really are that many videos here, you might be a little fucking disappointed when you try to actually watch them.
At first glance, ThisVid looks a lot like any other porn site you’ve ever seen: A bunch of thumbnails, a search bar, some categories to click on to refine your search, classic shit. However, one thing you’ll notice is that a lot of videos have a padlock icon on their thumbnail. Uh oh, is this some sort of premium service? Nope, it’s worse – the padlock indicates that the video is private, meaning that only people who are friends with the uploader can view it. There’s a separate community tab where you can chat with other members and become friends with them, so maybe it’s not too hard to get the videos you want, but personally I’ve got enough friends and porn in my life, so I don’t feel like fucking around with that.
What makes the private videos really fucking annoying, however, is that you have no way of filtering them out from your search. In fact, the website doesn’t have any filters at all, which already sucks, but I cannot think of a time I wanted a filter more than right here, right now. And when I said a lot of them are private, I wasn’t kidding either – maybe 10% of the videos here aren’t private, so that means that practically speaking, there’s only 8,000 videos unless you start making friends on this goddamn site. Which isn’t a terrible number, but even then it’s bullshit that I can’t actually view most of the videos being shown.
The video variety is excellent, even if your access is limited
So, what kind of videos can you actually find? Well, it’s thankfully still a pretty big collection, and there’s a lot of fun stuff to find here. Most private videos seem to be of professional quality, with almost all of them being HD and averaging 15-20 minutes in length; but there’s plenty of good stuff to find in the free videos too, both amateur and pro. In fact, it’s actually hard to find a video that isn’t HD here, so that’s good news for those of you who can’t cum unless you can count the individual hairs on a man’s ballsack.
One thing that appears very common here is full rubber bondage videos, with hundreds of dudes dressed up in full gimp suits and rubber cocoons; if there’s fleshy parts sticking out of them, it’s always gonna be either a throbbing cock or a muscly ass. These guys also get most of the punishment in the videos I’ve seen, too, so if you want to see some rubber boys getting fucked hard, just look for the full-body leather videos.
Another very common theme is men in uniform abusing their prisoners. Whether you like doctors, soldiers, cops or mailmen, you can find all of them bending hunks over car hoods or operating tables and tying them into place before they turn them into their fuck toys. I actually never understood why this is such a common fantasy, because every time I’ve been taken in by a cop, the last thing I wanted was to get fucked by him.
Actually, speaking of cops and uniforms, prison seems to be the most common of all scenarios here. I guess it makes sense, though, because all you need for your set to look like a prison is fucking gray walls and a dude wearing an orange shirt. I have to say that a lot of the prison roleplay videos are disappointingly low-effort for what they are; I’m not saying that they need to be 100%, I’m just saying that I find it hard to believe that there’s any prison out there where prisoners have access to a kitchen with barless windows and drawers full of fucking knives. Maybe in Monaco.
My favorite type of video on Thisvid, though, is the “bondage escape challenge”, which is not something I’ve really seen before. It’s exactly what you think it is: a dude gets tied up with belts or ropes, and they have a certain amount of time to escape before they get fucked as punishment. None of the guys ever actually manage to escape on time, so either these videos are just roleplay and they’re just fucking around until the actual sex starts, or they’re real and these people really know how to tie some strong fucking knots. Either way, it’s just incredibly funny to me, because I can’t think of a single other genre of porn where people try to escape the porno first. I recommend looking for these if you want to laugh before you yank it.
Surprisingly few (other) annoying things on the site
While I admit that the “private” thing pisses me the fuck off, I don’t actually have that much else to complain about here. The website is simple but functional, videos load quickly, and it’s not too hard to find stuff you want. There aren’t too many features, but honestly it doesn’t feel like it needs them.
You can make and save playlists for yourself, although obviously you need a profile for that. You can also watch playlists other people have made, although I have no idea why you would ever use them – every playlist is either one video long containing something random in it, or they’re hundreds of videos long with titles like “my playlist” or “horny”; so if there’s some sort of involved community of freaks making and sharing playlists here, I certainly didn’t run into any of them.
Another pleasant surprise is that there are no ads. This is so unusual that I was starting to get paranoid as I was going through the site, just waiting for some sort of popup or redirect to fuck me over, constantly keeping an eye on my windows just in case a new one opened without telling me. But nope, not a single ad anywhere on this website. I have no idea how these guys are making money, and I don’t really care, as long as the porn is there.
There is one thing that fucking confuses me though, it’s the “Straight/Gay” dropdown box. I guess I technically lied about there being no filters, because this one box exists, with four options: Straight, Straight Extreme, Gay, Gay Extreme. Makes sense I guess. Except as far as I can tell, there are no Gay Extreme videos on this website. I can’t tell if that’s a bug or if there really just isn’t anything tagged as gay extreme on this website, but I’ll leave that one up to you to figure out. I guess BDSM just isn’t extreme enough for these motherfuckers.
There’s more to love than there is to hate
ThisVid is a site that doesn’t do much, but what matters is that it does everything you need it to. There’s a sizable collection of gay bondage videos with some great variety, and while the search is lackluster, the lack of ads makes up for that fact. In my opinion, the only part that absolutely sucks is the private video thing, because so much of the website is just sitting there, making fun of you for not being able to click on it. But hey, maybe that’s the point! Maybe you’ll like the site enough to join the community, start chatting with the various members who uploaded all the videos, and maybe even end up befriending the weirdos so you can start sharing around porn invites like fucking trading cards. You get as much out of it as you put into it.
