CockyBoys
Company typePrivate
IndustryGay pornography
Founded2007
HeadquartersNew York City, United States
Key people
Jake Jaxson
RJ Sebastian
Benny Morecock
ProductsInternet pornography and Pornographic films
Websitecockyboys.com

CockyBoys is a New York City-based producer of gay internet pornography, managed by CEO Jake Jaxson and his two partners, RJ Sebastian and Benny Morecock. The 2012 reality television feature film Project GoGo Boy is considered the studio's breakout hit.[1]

In 2014, CockyBoys partnered with Bruno Gmünder and published a book of erotic photography titled A Thing of Beauty leading to an international book tour.[2]

CockyBoys has earned multiple nominations and over 80 awards, most recently Str8UpGayPorn's Best of 2020 Fan Choice Awards.[3]

History

CockyBoys was founded by Kyle Majors in 2007. Based in Los Angeles, Majors' version of the site took a voyeuristic approach focusing heavily on jocks, tattooed guys, and southern California culture. Majors was inspired by a friend's desire for, "no complicated stories, ... no lavish costumes or stupid uniforms – just cock pounding ass."[4]

In early 2010, CockyBoys was sold to New York-based filmmaker Jake Jaxson, becoming one of only two major gay adult studios in the city's five boroughs.[5] The site briefly went offline to undergo a complete transformation, and re-launched with a new design, full HD content, mobile device compatibility, and a streamlined sign-up process. A new roster of exclusively signed models was recruited including Mason Star, Gabriel Clark, and Tommy Defendi. The look and feel of the films also changed drastically, with more attention to cinematography and editing.[6]

The inner-workings of the studio came to light in August 2012, when New York Magazine profiled self-taught web designer Benny Morecock and his relationship with Jake Jaxson and RJ Sebastian.[7] The article, He & He & He, was later adapted into a play titled "Gay Sex" for a Vassar College student's senior thesis. The writer led a panel discussion with Morecock, Jaxson, and Sebastian on life, love, and their art porn movement.[8]

In June 2013, Jaxson garnered international headlines when the New York Daily News revealed that his former business partner was Glenn Greenwald, the journalist behind the National Security Agency scandal.[9] Additionally, CockyBoys signed a professional dancer they named Jett Black in 2013, who was subsequently expelled from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for his work with the studio. Both Jett Black and CockyBoys became the center of an international news story when CBC News in Canada interviewed Jaxson and Black for a feature that ran online and on television about the whole scandal.[10]

In October 2014, CockyBoys announced that two of its films were selected to screen at the 2014 Berlin Porn Film Festival: Fuck Yeah Levi Karter, a documentary about the CockyBoys star's life and fast rise to porn stardom composed entirely of footage from his own phones, computers, and cameras, and Answered Prayers: The Banker, part one of an allegorical morality play set against an ancient family feud and the follies of men.[11] The six-part miniseries was profiled in The Village Voice with a multi-page story detailing the inspiration behind the project.[5]

On April 3, 2015, CockyBoys appeared at the Schwules Sex Museum in Berlin during the museum's Porn That Way exhibition to present their new photo book Sixty Nine: Joyful Gay Sex. In addition, CockyBoy CEO Jake Jaxson and photographer RJ Sebastian along with models Tayte Hanson, Levi Karter and Liam Riley participated on a panel before an audience forum to discuss the "Romantic Porn" trend.

Feature film productions & mini-series

CockyBoys has built a reputation for its avant-garde approach to gay sex, often incorporating mainstream genres and personal anecdotes from both the models and the filmmakers with porn. In describing Jaxson's creative impact on the adult industry, Bradford Matthews of Fleshbot wrote, "There's plenty of filmmakers that have explored pornography in independent films, but I can honestly say Jaxson is one of first pornographers I've seen successfully work in the opposite direction, exploring the art of creative filmmaking through pornography."[12]

Partial list

Fan base

CockyBoys has a cult following of fans of many genders and sexualities.[13] In 2013, CockyBoys was the only exclusively gay male porn producer included in a Cosmopolitan article listing the very best porn for women.[14] Jaxson described CockyBoys' uniquely large following of female fans as "porn moms" in a 2014 interview with The Daily Telegraph.[15]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d as part of It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse...

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Bob (September 14, 2014). "Cockyboys Announces 'Project GoGoBoy' World Tour". XBIZ. Adnet Media. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Gray, Lila (April 14, 2014). "CockyBoys Launches International Book Tour". XBIZ. Adnet Media. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  3. ^ "Str8UpGayPorn's Best Of 2020 Awards". str8upgayporn.com.
  4. ^ "Kyle Majors' CockyBoys The Web Just Got Hotter". Mark's List. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  5. ^ a b Stuart, Tessa (November 20, 2013). "There's Drama on Both Sides of the Camera at NYC Porn Powerhouse CockyBoys". The Village Voice. Village Voice, LLC. Archived from the original on November 20, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  6. ^ Feist, Jeremy (October 19, 2011). "The CockyBoys Re-rehaul". Daily Xtra. Pink Triangle Press. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Young, Molly (July 29, 2012). "He & He & He". NYMag.com. New York Media LLC. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  8. ^ Gray, Lila (October 24, 2013). "CockyBoys Founders Host Vassar College Panel on Polyamory". XBIZ. Adnet Media. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  9. ^ Gregorian, Dareh (June 26, 2013). "Glenn Greenwald, journalist who broke Edward Snowden story, was once lawyer sued over porn business". NY Daily News. NYDailyNews.com. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  10. ^ "Ballet school accused of kicking out dancer for doing porn". CBCNews. CBC. August 7, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  11. ^ Gray, Lila (September 25, 2014). "CockyBoys Films Screening at Berlin Porn Film Festival". XBIZ. Adnet Media. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  12. ^ Matthews, Bradford (July 3, 2013). "Welcome To the New Era of Pornography: In Praise of CockyBoys' "The Haunting: A Kiss Before Goodnight"". Fleshbot. SK Intertainment. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  13. ^ Linds, Justin (January 9, 2013). "The Walt Whitman of gay porn". Salon. Salon Media Group. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  14. ^ Triffin, Molly (2013). "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: The Very Best Porn for Women". Cosmopolitan. Hearst Communications, Inc. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  15. ^ Welsh, Kaite (August 25, 2014). "'Watching two handsome guys? There's nothing better.' How women fell for gay porn". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved June 12, 2018.

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