William Higgins review

Mr. Pink’s review of William Higgins
Review Date - 08/31/2011

Overview:
Few men in the gay porn industry have as sterling a reputation as William Higgins. The director of more than 25 titles, many of them award-winning, Higgins has devoted his life’s work to depicting explicit homosexuality in films of lofty artistic ambition. Known for pioneering the “California look” - sunny beaches, lush fields, muscular men - there’s a reason this GayVN Hall of Famer named his influential production company after a resort-filled Southern Californian island. With titles from his Catalina Video company and more than 10,000 photo sets, High Definition “hard action” videos, live video casting, backstage footage, and daily updates to this exclusive collection, William Higgins self-titled online home appears to be a rousing, raging all-male party. And, if you know Mr. Higgins, you know it’s going to get pretty wild and very, very naked at this lil’ shindig. Finding your way to William Higgins’ little slice of paradise will cost you $34.95 a month, but with so many gorgeous hunks of man-meat lining the tour pages, and with Higgins’ impeccable reputation for delivering the hottest hardcore gay porn on the planet, I’d say you’re in pretty safe hands.

Pros:
Immediately upon entering William Higgins - the site; not the man - members find themselves in a tightly designed and very detailed website. The clean arrangement of menus, updates, model profiles, previews, and additional content looks good and functions very nicely.

The men Mr. Higgins has hired to perform in his movies are, it must be said, some of the hunkiest in all of gay porn. Generally quite ripped and mostly hairless they may be, but there’s also room for twinks, bears, daddies, and silver foxes in these fantastical hardcore sex scenes, which range from one-on-one bedroom action to three and four-way outdoor extravaganzas.

Each scene can be viewed numerous ways; videos are offered in seven viewing formats, the best of which reach 1280x720 pixel High Definition resolutions and look superb, while photos can be viewed at 800x600 and 1280x1024ps resolutions, the latter being quite impressive.

William Higgins has had a long and distinguished career and you can see the results of this hard work here on his official website. Adding a new scene/gallery package every day and already holding a huge collection of around 3,800 videos (approx. 380 of them new) and nearly 7,600 (380 new). This extensive archive, combined with plenty of backstage, casting, interview, and supplementary footage and photos provide hours and hours of explicit gay fun.

Cons:
The streaming videos provided by Higgins and his crew are unfortunately only available at Standard Definition resolutions of 640x360 pixels. Considering there are 720p and even 1080p videos available - the latter must be purchased separately from a connected site; another disappointment - the lack of HD streams is (if you’ll excuse the pun) a real bummer.

It’s great to see a site so jam-packed with pornographic goodies and plenty of bells and whistles, but William Higgins can seem a bit too intimidating for first time users for this exact reason. I’m not sure whether a redesign is in order or simply refining the expansive content base, but it can get confusing ‘round here.

While the 720p downloadable videos do look great and are very welcome, the availability of 1080p videos is even more exciting. What a pity then that these videos must be purchased individually from an affiliated site and aren’t included in a regular William Higgins membership.

With a long and distinguished career behind him, it’s no surprise that Higgins’s site hosts a huge collection of content. It’s just a tad frustrating that all pre-2010 content is still housed on the poorly designed, outdated, older William Higgins site. You’ll have to re-enter your log in details to access this poor quality content; couldn’t it be integrated more efficiently?

Conclusion:
William Higgins is one of the biggest names in gay porn and his official site makes it abundantly clear why. With a huge collection (possibly the biggest in online gay porn) of photo and video content, all of it original and exclusive and starring some of the brightest and hunkiest young talents in gay porn, Higgins’ site presents ample opportunity for vicarious carnal gratification and although at $34.95 a month it is quite expensive (it gets less so with each month, however) you do get a hell of a lot of bang for your buck. HD videos and high-res photos look fantastic and present the mostly European jocks, twinks, hunks, and studs in beautiful fashion. It’s hard to fault a site this professional, prolific, and dynamic, so let’s not. Instead, lean back, grab a kleenex or ten, and enjoy the plentiful fruit of William Higgins’s years and years of hard work.