Featured Strokers in this Review (in order of appearance):
Khloe Hart, Jordan, Celeste, TS Foxxy

INTRODUCTION
Shemale Strokers is one of the longest running Transsexual sites still in operation today. The concept behind the site is direct and simple, much like their tagline, “They Strip! They Stroke! They Splooge!” Although simple in conception and design, Shemale Strokers is wickedly effective in its efforts. The site delivers some of the hottest Shemale pornstars in the world, many of them near or at the beginning of their careers, in some of the hottest pictures and videos available. I’ve got to say, I’m amazed at the ability of Mancini Productions, who owns and operates the site, to sniff out the hottest Shemale talents across the industry.

Mancini Productions is also the company behind the famous “Shemale Strokers” series of videos and DVD’s as well as “Black Tranny Whackers,” “Suck My Tranny Cock,” and “Bang My Tranny Ass.”

SITE DESIGN AND NAVIGATION
The design of Shemale Strokers is pretty basic. In fact, I’ll go ahead and say that it’s probably one of the most straight-forward and basic adult paysites in operation. Don’t let this put you off though, I’ve seen a great deal of well designed sites that don’t even come close to the value that Shemale Strokers offers its Members. Shemale Strokers is designed ‘old-school’ with tables accounting for much of the design scheme. This leads to a relatively simple design which flows linearly from to top to bottom. If your hardware is like the site, you’ll want to upgrade you monitor as the site is clearly designed for larger screen resolutions of at least 1280×800 or higher. Viewing the site at a lower resolution causes side-scrolling to be necessary and we all know how lazy we’ve become in this day and age… nobody likes to side-scroll. Otherwise, the interface is fairly easy to navigate and buttons are clearly labeled. The background is a simple black which makes reading the type and finding buttons extremely easy. There are small details which make the design of the site a little unsightly, such as un-centered photos and type, but these do not greatly affect the overall navigation.

The Tour Area of Shemale Strokers is fairly extensive, offering a mixture of pictures and a trailer for each update. An interesting twist to the Tour Area is the ability to purchase the entire movie outright without having to join the site via an attached internet storefront. One movie in WMV format is $9.99 which is expensive considering the relative costs of joining the site for the whole she-bang, but it’s a great option for those who want to see a particular video but don’t want to have to deal with monthly subscriptions.

MEMBER’S AREA
The Member’s Area of Shemale Strokers is again, very basic in design but effective in content. Again, a reminder to set your screen resolution to at least 1280×800 to avoid constant side-scrolling on the mainpage is in order. The mainpage of the the Member’s Area consists of thumbnail animations teasing you with ‘Cumming Soon’ graphics of models to be making appearances at a later date. All actual content for the site can be found on individual pages (Jump To Shemale Strokers Page…) compiled by thumbnails of the models. Navigation could use some help as much of the design elements are text based and tend to get lost amid the animated thumbnails.

One thing I really like about the site is that since your Membership includes the other sites listed above, you can seamlessly navigate to them directly from the mainpage without having to leave the site, re-enter a user/pass combination, and then return to the site again. One things I really dislike about the site is that no dates accompany the updates to tell Members which content is the most recent, although in it’s defense, Shemale Strokers gives Members a little credit in the ‘has brains’ category and trusts that they will understand that newer content is towards the top of the page. But, dates are always nice… especially for new Members.

PHOTO CONTENT
As I stated earlier, Shemale Strokers has some amazing Transsexual models in their portfolio from classic stars such as Megan Chavalier, Danielle Foxxx (pre-surgery), and Joanna Jet to newer stars such as Kimber James, TS Jesse, and Hazel Tucker. If you’ve heard of them, chances are they’ve appeared on Shemale Strokers at some point or another in their careers!

Photos for each of the models can either be viewed individually or else downloaded as a ZIP file. I would probably recommend the ZIP file since viewing each photo from the thumbnail is a slow and tedious process of clicking then back-clicking… there is no self-propelled option for navigating through the photos. Photo quality is very good though and Mancini Productions has done a great job of having quality photographers on the payroll. Sets are varied locations and photos are all well lighted, well framed, and crisp.

VIDEO CONTENT
The video content of Shemale Strokers is terrific but execution could use some help. Older movies are split into segments of either MPEG or WMV AND MOV files. There isn’t an option to download the entire video. Newer videos though do have this option and it’s a good thing… in this day and age of high-speed internet, the days of segmented video clips really are on their way out the door. I don’t quite understand the continued option of offering MOV files since WMV files can play on MACS with a small add-on but since it’s not my site and nor am I a MAC user, I’ll just assume that there’s a good reason for it.

A great feature of Shemale Strokers is the ‘Stroker Shots’ section which includes the cumshots of all the videos in small MOV or WMV files. So, if you’re a big fan of the cumshot… you’ll love this feature. You can also browse ‘Sammy’s All Time Favorite Scenes’ which gives you a look into the mind of Shemale Strokers creator, Sammy Mancini.

Video quality is high with the newer videos and the site is extremely fast. I downloaded clips at approximately 1.1 – 1.5 MB/s which is very fast for most similar paysites. This means that a full movie approximately 250MB to 290MB in length took a blazing fast 3 or 4 minutes to download entirely. In porn, quick is good and this is one of the quickest sites I’ve ever downloaded content from. I’ve already stated that the site has some of the biggest names in the industry and I gotta say… wow… there are some very hot scenes in Shemale Strokers that you won’t find elsewhere!

JOINING SHEMALE STROKERS
For a limited time, Shemale Strokers is offering a “Recession Buster” pricing tier of $24.95 (recurring) for 30 days access (remember, this includes full access to the sites listed above). You can also purchase 2 months for $44.95 which rebills after that time at $19.95. In addition you can purchase 6 months for $99.95 which rebills at $17.95 when the 6-months is over. You can also just purchase a full year of Shemale Strokers for $199.95 which doesn’t rebill at all. Basically, the more you shell out in the beginning, the more you’ll save in the long-run.

CONCLUSION AND SITE OVERVIEW
I REALLY WANT to like this site. The reasons for doing so are obvious… content is awesome, varied, and updated frequently. However, the site has some major design flaws and some poorer execution which makes it difficult to spend time surfing the site. Luckily, the site is amazingly fast so you can ‘get in, grab your content, and get out,’ which, unfortunately, is probably what most Members are doing. I could be wrong, but I expect the retention rate of Shemale Strokers is probably on the lower side due in part to poor design and navigation. In this day and age, people just expect better from a paysite… things like self-propelling photo galleries are no longer options as they once were, only found on a few ‘high end’ sites. Today’s porn surfers are a smart, young crowd and most know that options like this are easy to make and thus expected.

With a little site-wide redesign – and I’m not talking more ‘flashy’ – just better execution and navigation, Shemale Strokers would be at the top of my list for solo scene Transsexual sites. Even with the flaws, it still ranks up there as one of my favorite sites. It looks as if Shemale Strokers is taking some baby steps in this direction… the newer galleries are much, much better than the older galleries. So, perhaps this is in the works… in the meantime, I would say, if you can put up with the simple design and some annoying navigation, then the content is definitely worth the price of admission… whichever one of the 4 billing options you end up choosing.

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