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Men.com
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryGay pornography, Bisexual pornography
GenrePornography
Founded2003
Headquarters
Las Vegas, Nevada
,
U.S.
ParentAylo
Websitewww.men.com

Men.com is a gay pornographic website founded in 2003. It is owned by the Canadian company Aylo (formerly MindGeek), owner of the monopoly on Internet pornography.[1][2][3]

History

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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.[4] Scenes production began around 2011.[5] 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.[6]

As of 2020, Men.com was the second most-watched gay porn website and it had expanded to nine individual sites.[7]

Actors and directors

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Notable pornography actors that have worked for Men.com include Rocco Reed, who had worked in over 400 straight porn titles.[8] Matthew Camp starred in a film series inspired on Tom of Finland.[9] Matt Lambert directed one of these scenes, "Pleasure Park".[10]

Reception

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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".[7]

In January 2020, Men.com had a traffic ranking of 31,083 according to Alexa Internet.[11]

Awards

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GayVN Awards
Year Nomination Recipient Result Ref.
2018 Best Marketing – Company Image Men.com Won [12]
2021 Best Fetish Sex Scene Dirk Caber, Nate Grimes, Jaxx Thanatos and Kurtis Wolfe Won [13]
2024 Spikey Dee and Joey Mills Won [14]
2025 Best Directing – Featurette Alter Sin Won [15]
Best Featurette "Prisoner of War: 10 Years Later" Won
Best Supporting Actor – Featurette Allen King Won
Grabby Awards
Year Nomination Recipient Result Ref.
2015 Best Web Original Content Men.com Won [16]
2017 Best Videography Tarzan: A Gay XXX Parody Won [17]
Best Art Direction Star Wars : A Gay XXX Parody Won
2019 Best Actor Diego Sans Won [18]
Best Parody Pirates: A Gay XXX Parody Won
2024 Best Scene Mr. Deep Voice and Papi Kocic Won [19][20]
Best Director/Web Series Alter Sin Won
Best Screenplay Won
Best Movie/Web Series "Royally Fucked" Won
XBIZ Awards
Year Nomination Recipient Result Ref.
2022 Gay Site of the Year Men.com Won [21]
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In 2017, a line from a Men.com scene titled "Private Lessons, Part 3" (later renamed "Right in Front of My Salad?") 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?!"[22] The "right in front of my salad" meme is used in response to a post that is disgusting or unseemly.[23]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mathias, Shanti (November 9, 2022). "Who owns all the porn on the internet?". The Spinoff. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
  2. ^ Auerbach, David (October 23, 2014). "Vampire Porn". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
  3. ^ Spangler, Todd (March 16, 2023). "Pornhub Parent Company Acquired by Canadian Private-Equity Firm". Variety. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
  4. ^ "Domain names once again fetch top dollar". CNN. New York. Associated Press. December 25, 2003. Archived from the original on February 13, 2004. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  5. ^ Adams, JC (August 2, 2021). "Men.com Sets Monthlong 10th Anniversary Celebration". XBIZ. Los Angeles. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  6. ^ Tollini, Craig (October 4, 2019). "How two holdouts went bareback: CockyBoys and Men.com's initial transition to producing videos without condoms". Porn Studies. 6 (3): 282–300. doi:10.1080/23268743.2019.1602958.
  7. ^ a b Brennan, Joseph (2020). ""I Think That's My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave": Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com's Gay Superhero Porn Parodies". Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. pp. 265–290. ISBN 978-1-4773-2160-7 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "Rocco Reed Makes Bottoming Debut for Men.com". XBIZ. October 27, 2012. Archived from the original on October 27, 2012. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
  9. ^ Street, Mikelle (December 4, 2019). "Matthew Camp to Star in Tom of Finland Gay Porn Series". Out. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  10. ^ Akers, Tyler. "Pleasure Park – Matt Lambert – Tom of Finland Foundation – Men.com". Gayletter. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  11. ^ "Men.com Alexa Ranking". Alexa.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  12. ^ Street, Sharan (January 21, 2018). "2018 GayVN Awards Winners Announced". AVN. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  13. ^ "2021 GayVN Award Winners Announced". AVN. January 18, 2021. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  14. ^ "2024 GayVN Award Winners Announced". AVN. January 26, 2024. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  15. ^ "Winners". AVN. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  16. ^ Street, Sharan (March 25, 2015). "2015 Grabby Award Winners Announced". AVN. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  17. ^ Street, Sharan. "2018 GayVN Awards Winners Announced AVN". AVN. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  18. ^ "2019 GayVN Awards Winners Announced". AVN. January 22, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  19. ^ "Grabbys Europe 2024". Grabby Awards. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  20. ^ "2024 Winners". Grabby Awards. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  21. ^ XBIZ (January 10, 2022). "2022 XBIZ Awards Winners Announced". XBIZ. Los Angeles. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  22. ^ Jackman, Josh (September 6, 2017). "The viral 'Right in front of my salad?' film has a brilliant sequel". PinkNews. Pink News. Archived from the original on August 15, 2018. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  23. ^ Jalili, Candice (August 3, 2017). "There's A New Internet Meme Out There And You Can Thank Porn For This Gem". Elite Daily. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
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