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(From Gaydemon) Icon Male features hot sex between a mix of performers, including smooth twinks, hunks, daddies and world-class porn stars in taboo themes. Icon Male was formed when Mile High Media teamed up with director Nica Noelle to produce a series of gay porn feature films focusing on high-production values, passion, intimacy, great sex, and that's exactly what they deliver. The company became well known for pushing boundaries and exploring fauxcest (sex between family members who aren't related by blood). Mindgeek, the owner of MEN.com, took over Icon Male's day-to-day operation in 2019 and continues to manage the site. It's been two and a half years since our last review, so let's head over for another look.
The sets, lighting, and camera work are top notch, and the videos touch on themes ranging on the taboo side like stepfathers fucking stepsons, stepbrothers exploring gay sex together, inter-generational sex, and borderline inappropriate scenarios with a man fucking his daughter's boyfriend or his son's best friend. There are other boundary-pushing scenarios like priests having sex with congregants in the confessional, married and closeted men looking for love on the down-low, coaches and athletes, firemen fucking on duty, doctor and patients going at it in the exam room, and military scenarios including a movie called "Prisoner of War" featuring men in World War II uniforms.
The site offers masculine, mature men (some with hairy chests) like Joel Someone, Jesse Zeppelin, Colby Jansen, Dominic Pacifico, and silver daddy Lance Charger in scenes with slender, younger boyish or jock types in their twenties. There are plenty of hunky, well-built stars including Nick Fitt, Dante Colle, Michael Boston, and Jack Hunter. Some of the guys are clean-cut, while others have tattoos or a scruffy look. And you'll find some really big cocks. While most of the men are Caucasian, there are some men of color like Armond Rizzo, Zario Travezz, Devin Trez, Dillon Diaz, and others; altogether there are 38 interracial sex scenes. The producer casts the performers who best suit each particular storyline, so there's not particular type here.
The sex is definitely hot and also passionate; you can expect plenty of kissing, cock sucking and fucking, not to mention some ass and cum play. Everything is filmed well and shows hard cocks sliding in and out of hungry asses, men making out, and guys moving their warm mouths up and down big dicks. Sometimes the sex is rough, and sometimes it's romantic; the videos here have actual plots, and the performers have really good chemistry, so you can expect eye contact and even tenderness in some scenes and hard ass drilling in others. The site delivered its first bareback scene in March of 2020, and while most of the newest releases continue to feature raw sex, the models are always free to choose condoms if they want; earlier scenes see the models fucking with condoms exclusively.
Icon Male now offers 490 scenes from 118 DVDs. The videos stream in MP4 format in an adaptive player that plays them as large as 1582x892, if you have a large monitor; otherwise, the videos resize automatically to fit your device. All the videos are good quality or better, and the newest 30 vids are also offered in 4K. The streaming player also has a full-screen option and the videos mostly fare pretty well with no loss of quality. The videos are mobile compatible, and I had no problem playing them on my Android phone. Downloads are not available.
In June 2021, the site stopped adding picture galleries; before that episodes seemed to offer good quality digital stills displaying at 533x800 or 1200x800. I can't guarantee all of the older 467 episodes have galleries, but spot-checking suggests this is the case. You can save pics individually or download whole sets in zip files. I found many of the larger sets with 200 to 300 or more pics had lots of similar poses, so these could be pared down. There's a hands-free slideshow feature as well as manual forward and back controls.
The IconMale episodes are dated, and November 2020 was the last month the site updated weekly. In December 2020 and January 2021, the site only added one update each, then going forward they added two scenes a month consistently. Members used to get access to interracial gay sex site Noir Male, but this has been removed.
I did find a few more issues we need to discuss. There's a pre-checked offer on the billing page, but it's easy enough to uncheck if you don't want it. Trial memberships only give limited access, but they aren't specific about what those limitations are. Also, when joining IconMale, you are automatically added to an email list and will receive commercial emails. A fairly new change is that sales tax will now be added if it's required in your jurisdiction. And the model pages lack information about the men.
Last, there's a lot of advertising here. First, when logging in you'll pass through a full-page ad packed with banners for other sites you can join. Look for "Continue to Icon Male" on the right side of the page to get to the content. There are also banners and top-of-page links that present you with other ways to spend more money, but it's all avoidable once you get a lay of the site.
Icon Male still gets a mixed review from me. The men and the action are full of heat, there are plenty of porn stars, and the quality of their productions are top notch. But disappointing is that videos are still streaming-only, and the site has discontinued bonus access to Noir Male. Members get access to 490 exclusive, mobile compatible videos and twice monthly updates, so I think the site is still worth checking out.