Men.com


Men.com is a gay pornographic website founded in 2003. It is owned by the Canadian company Aylo, owner of the monopoly on Internet pornography.

History

Men.com LLC purchased the domain in December 2003 from entrepreneur Rick Schwartz for US$1.3 million; Schwartz had acquired it for US$15,000 in 1997. Scenes production began around 2011. The website initially featured videos of actors performing sexual acts with condoms, but it gradually shifted to bareback content. In an article for Porn Studies, Craig Tollini analyzed how producers such as Men.com and CockyBoys "follow the normalization of pornography without condoms", and examined the impact of this transition on both media and audiences.
As of 2020, Men.com was the second most-watched gay porn website and it had expanded to nine individual sites.

Actors and directors

Notable pornography actors that have worked for Men.com include Rocco Reed, who had worked in over 400 straight porn titles. Matthew Camp starred in a film series inspired on Tom of Finland. Matt Lambert directed one of these scenes, "Pleasure Park".

Reception

Joseph Brennan was critical of the actors featured on Men.com, describing their performances as "monolithic" and confined to specific top and bottom roles. In his review of the subsite Super Gay Hero, which includes parodies of popular franchises such as Pokémon Go, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Pirates of the Caribbean, Brennan noted that, like other Men.com productions, the subsite features hypermasculine actors portraying superheroes. He concluded that the microsite "replicates tried-and-tested gay porn conventions, rather than using parody to subvert them".
In January 2020, Men.com had a traffic ranking of 31,083 according to Alexa Internet.

Awards

YearNominationRecipientResult
2018Best Marketing – Company ImageMen.comWon
2021Best Fetish Sex SceneDirk Caber, Nate Grimes, Jaxx Thanatos and Kurtis WolfeWon
2024Best Fetish Sex SceneSpikey Dee and Joey MillsWon
2025Best Directing – FeaturetteAlter SinWon
2025Best Featurette"Prisoner of War: 10 Years Later"Won
2025Best Supporting Actor – FeaturetteAllen KingWon

YearNominationRecipientResult
2015Best Web Original ContentMen.comWon
2017Best VideographyTarzan: A Gay XXX ParodyWon
2017Best Art DirectionStar Wars : A Gay XXX ParodyWon
2019Best ActorDiego SansWon
2019Best ParodyPirates: A Gay XXX ParodyWon
2024Best SceneMr. Deep Voice and Papi KocicWon
2024Best Director/Web SeriesAlter SinWon
2024Best ScreenplayAlter SinWon
2024Best Movie/Web Series"Royally Fucked"Won

YearNominationRecipientResult
2022Gay Site of the YearMen.comWon

In popular culture

In 2017, a line from a Men.com scene titled "Private Lessons, Part 3" became an Internet meme. The scene depicts a woman eating a salad before noticing the cook is having sex with her husband behind the kitchen counter, and exclaiming, "Are you guys fucking? Right in front of my salad?!" The "right in front of my salad" meme is used in response to a post that is disgusting or unseemly. In the same year, a video was criticized in Australia for featuring an actor being penetrated with a didgeridoo, a musical instrument created by Aboriginal Australians.