With Marcello Review

With Marcello is a site put out by Italian Lee Henshaw. I know that it started out as his home away from home, a space where he could indulge and share his fetishes and fantasies with the world. It's been a few years since the last time I paid him a visit, but it looks like the vision of WithMarcello has expanded into some new and interesting territories. However, this hot, dark-haired stud still enjoys his suits, his socks and every other fetish he has.

WithMarcello has been online since 2006 and it's a relatively unique site in the gay niche. There are solo masturbation scenes and there are gay hardcore ones, but it's the added element of fetish that makes this one stand out amongst others. Lee Henshaw has a thing for suits and socks and even socks pinched by garters. He certainly comes off as a bit of a playboy, even down to silk robes. The guy is hunky, but so are his friends and a lot of them are also into suits and socks.

The site has a relatively plain design and it seems a bit amateur, but the layout is clean and things are easy enough to find. A page-top menu takes you to content Marcello/Lee's content, as well as to hardcore, solo and interview scenes.

Updates are weekly, which is good and there is a bio for those wanting to know more about, and gain greater insight into With Marcello and into Lee and his interests. There used to be a blog, but Wordpress was probably not a great place to house it and so far as I can see it has been suspended. I'd like to see it back up and running, perhaps even as part of the site itself. In any case, there are some friends links, but there aren't free bonus sites or that many other extras.

You'll find 286 videos starring Lee and all of these come with sets of pictures. Most are solo masturbation and fetish scenes, but there is hardcore and fellatio scenes, as well. A lot of the content in the WithMarcello gallery is repeated in the other galleries and this is where I begin to wish for some added navigation features. However, to break it down a bit, there appear to be 16 hardcore videos, 30 solo hunk scenes starring Lee's hot friends and 24 interview scenes. Interviews aren't accompanied by sets of photos, but the solo hunks have both pictures and movies.

It depends on the set, but you can expect roughly 25 or more pictures in each one. The video lengths depend on the action, but anticipate an average of 15 minutes per film. Pictures are sharp and you'll always find some hot sets of Marcello or the other guys and there are always fantastic shots of stiff cocks. You can browse the photos online, but there isn't a slideshow. You can also save individual pictures or whole sets. Online photos are 800x533 pixels, but the Zip files contain much larger 1500x1000 images.

When it comes to videos, the quality is a bit all over the map. There is only one link to a movie, which means one format and one quality, and you can left-click to play or you can right-click to download. Windows Media Video is the sole format. Some older videos are offered in clips and in full and newer movies are only downloadable in full, which is fine by me. The big problem is the quality. Lee and his friends are super hot, kinky and their scenes are a real turn on, but the quality is not up to par with the standards we have come to expect in 2012. As a matter of fact, the quality is a bit all over the map, here. The newest video is an 820kbps, 640x480 WMV. The update before this delivers a 4570kbps, 320x240 flick and oldest films on the site are 250kbps, 480x360 and these are pretty ancient and hard to watch. When lucky, you'll find 2100kbps, 720x576 flicks.

Final Verdict

With Marcello has a very good amount of content and updates are coming in regularly, so there is always something to look forward to seeing. The pictures are nice quality, but the WMV episodes can be hit and miss. Some are very good, some are very poor quality, but nothing here is available in HD as far as I could find and this really puts a damper on total enjoyment. Lee Henshaw is a very handsome and beefy stud with a big cock that's always ready for action. When he indulges in his fetishes, the experience is unique and truthfully, it's hard not to love the guy. However, on the whole things (from design and navigation to quality) are a bit outdated and this is really holding WithMarcello back from being great.