Sean Cody

Vorlage:AdvertVorlage:RefimproveVorlage:Infobox company Sean Cody is a gay pornographic film director and the founder of Seancody.com, his namesake gay-pornography film company. Cody's site is one of the top names in gay pornography pay sites and is famous for its quality movies featuring a large collection of young, muscular amateur men (18–40 years) talking about themselves and engaging in sexual activity.

Biography

Vorlage:Unreferenced section Sean Cody is a gay male photographer and filmmaker. He was born in Utah and was a Mormon up until the age of eighteen. He was fascinated with the male body even from school days. In his college days, he didn't admit he was gay and dated women exclusively. He graduated from university with a master's degree and worked in a large software company for a while. He came out as gay in his mid-twenties. In 2001, at age 30, he launched seancody.com.

SeanCody.com

SeanCody.com website shows original, quality short films featuring attractive amateur men baring it all for the camera. Recruitment for the men in the films is made through advertising, referrals, and at times through approaching men on the street, at the beach or in a store. The men displayed on the site may be straight, gay or bisexual, but most of the guys claim to be straight. They are paid for their appearances, and are in most cases clean-cut and in-shape attractive young men between 18 and 30, with good athletic builds, handsome faces, and well-endowed. For most of the guys, it may well be their first video shoot. Sean Cody's main competitors are Randy Blue, and Corbin Fisher.Vorlage:Citation needed

Models

The popularity of Sean Cody's Web site has propelled many of its models into Internet semi-stardom. Models featured on seancody.com have large fan followings, mostly in gay online communities, and some have made names for themselves after leaving the site. Alums of seancody.com include Simon Czaplinski (known as "Harley" on Sean Cody), an underwear model who appears under the name Simon Dexter; Aaron Savvy ("Ajay"), a fitness model and Ultimate Fighter who has appeared on reality television and in online collaborations such as the It Gets Better Project; and Dayton O'Connor, Colby Keller, Paul Wagner, and Brady Jensen ("Dayton," "Colby," "Barry," and "Jonah" respectively), now professional porn actors. Jeremy Skott Snider, son of soap star Katherine Kelly Lang, has appeared on the site as "Nick." Another Ultimate Fighter, Dakota Cochrane, who appeared on the 15th season of The Ultimate Fighter on FX, modeled as "Danny" on Sean Cody in 2007 and 2008 -- a decision he now regrets.

Controversy

Jason Andrews, who appeared on the site as "Addison" in 2008, was arrested for first degree murder in 2010. Addison was very popular among fans and he appeared in seven videos from April to July 2008. Andrews later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The site has been criticized by professional porn actor Devon Hunter, who modeled as "Ryan" on SeanCody.com in 2009. Hunter, who is openly gay, claimed the atmosphere on the SC set was charged with "latent homophobia" and that the other models there were overly aggressive with him in sex scenes.

In January 2012, SeanCody.com's parent company filed suit in a federal court against 122 unidentified filesharers for allegedly trading pirated copies of the site's first condom-free video, "Brandon & Pierce Unwrapped", in December 2011. This is the first time Sean Cody has sued over online piracy.

Awards and recognition

• 2010 XBIZ Award Nominee: GLBT Company of the Year

See also

• List of male performers in gay porn films
• List of pornographic movie studios
• List of gay pornographic magazines

External links

• Vorlage:Official website (Adult Content)