CockyBoys

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 site has drawn attention from both inside and outside the adult industry for blending arthouse erotica and experimental film with mainstream-style genre films. The 2012 reality television feature film Project GoGo Boy is considered the studio's breakout hit.[1]

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

Though CockyBoys primarily releases content through its website, the studio also manufactures a popular DVD line through EuroMedia Distribution. In addition to digital media, CockyBoys partnered with Bruno Gmünder in 2014 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 wrote of his vision: "No complicated stories, just a great location with hot boys fucking – 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 featuring an intimate look at 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 trend “Romantic Porn”

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]

Name of the Game (2011)

Project GoGo Boy (2012)

The Haunting (2012-2013)

Max & Jake's RoadStrip (2013)

A Thing Of Beauty (2013)

Answered Prayers (2013-2015)

Meeting Liam (2014-2015)

Meet The Morecocks (2013-2017)

One Erection: The Un-Making Of A Boy Band (2016)

Just Love (2016)

The Stillest Hour (2016)

Missed Connections (2017)

A CockyBoy Is ______ (2017)

Camp CockyBoys (2017)

Just One Night (2017)

Diablo In Madrid (2017) (as part of It_Is_Not_the_Pornographer_That_Is_Perverse...) directed by Bruce LaBruce

Call Me Lucky (2017) directed by Dominic Pacifico

Postcards From LA (2018)

Jake Jaxson's ALL SAiNTS Chapter One (2018)


 Bruce La Bruce's Flea Pit (2018) (as part of It_Is_Not_the_Pornographer_That_Is_Perverse...)

Bruce La Bruce's Uber Menschen (2018) (as part of It_Is_Not_the_Pornographer_That_Is_Perverse...)

Bruce La Bruce's Purple Army Faction (2018) (as part of It_Is_Not_the_Pornographer_That_Is_Perverse...)

Love Lost & Found (2018)

Before The Afterglow (2018)

It's Summer At Cocky Boys (2018)

Just Being Me (2018)

Jake Jaxson's ALL SAiNTS Chapter Two (2018-2020)

More Before The Afterglow (2018)

Le Garçon Scandaleux (2019)

A Is For Alpha (2019)

Dim The Lights (2019)

Hollywood & Vine (2020)

LOCK(DOWN) But Not Out (2020)

Jake Jaxson's ALL SAiNTS

Chapters One & Two Director's Cut (2020)

New Day (2020)


Fan base

CockyBoys has a cult following of fans described by Jaxson as "fan girls, moms, teenagers, older gentleman, male and female couples, male and male couples, bisexuals and transgender people."[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]

Notable performers

See also

References
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  2. Gray, Lila (2014-04-14). "CockyBoys Launches International Book Tour". XBIZ. Adnet Media. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  3. "Str8UpGayPorn's Best Of 2020 Awards". str8upgayporn.com.
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  7. Young, Molly (2012-07-29). "He & He & He". NYMag.com. New York Media LLC. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  8. Gray, Lila (2013-10-24). "CockyBoys Founders Host Vassar College Panel on Polyamory". XBIZ. Adnet Media. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  9. Gregorian, Dareh (2013-06-26). "Glenn Greenwald, journalist who broke Edward Snowden story, was once lawyer sued over porn business". NY Daily News. NYDailyNews.com. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  10. "Ballet school accused of kicking out dancer for doing porn". CBCNews. CBC. 2012-08-07. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  11. Gray, Lila (2014-09-25). "CockyBoys Films Screening at Berlin Porn Film Festival". XBIZ. Adnet Media. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  12. Matthews, Bradford (2013-07-03). "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 25 November 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  13. Linds, Justin (2013-01-09). "The Walt Whitman of gay porn". Salon. Salon Media Group. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
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