Men.com
Producer of gay internet pornography
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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]
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Gay pornography, Bisexual pornography |
| Genre | Pornography |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Parent | Aylo |
| Website | www |
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.[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
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
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
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Year | Nomination | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Gay Site of the Year | Men.com | Won | [21] |
In popular culture
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] 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.[24]