Men.com is a gay pornographic website founded in 2003. It is owned by the Canadian company Aylo (formerly MindGeek).
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
+GayVN AwardsYearNominationRecipientResult2018Best Marketing – Company ImageMen.com 2021Best Fetish Sex SceneDirk Caber, Nate Grimes, Jaxx Thanatos and Kurtis Wolfe 2024Spikey Dee and Joey Mills2025Best Directing – FeaturetteAlter SinBest Featurette"Prisoner of War: 10 Years Later"Best Supporting Actor – FeaturetteAllen King
+Grabby AwardsYearNominationRecipientResult2015Best Web Original ContentMen.com2017Best VideographyTarzan: A Gay XXX ParodyBest Art Direction Star Wars : A Gay XXX Parody2019Best ActorDiego SansBest ParodyPirates: A Gay XXX Parody2024Best SceneMr. Deep Voice and Papi KocicBest Director/Web SeriesAlter SinBest ScreenplayBest Movie/Web Series"Royally Fucked"
+XBIZ AwardsYearNominationRecipientResult2022Gay Site of the YearMen.com
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?!" 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.
See also List of male performers in gay porn films List of pornographic film studios
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