What went wrong with Sean Cody?

WHET me?

I'm not a WHORE!

Like lots of late 90s/early 00s porn, it eventually became too glossy and overproduced. It was so much better early on.

[quote]I'm not a WHORE!

We know you're not the real Brandon, who famously proclaimed "I am not a PROSTATUTE!"

Straight people took over. End of story.

Talk about how the mighty have fallen.

I recently canceled my subscription, which I had had a very long time. Unlike other sites, they did not bounce back well from COVID -- updates slowed to a crawl and when they did post a new video the sex was a crashing bore. Also, it seemed all of their hot models left during the shutdown and didn't return except for Jax, who just didn't look the same. In short, it just wasn't worth the money anymore and, barring a spectacular comeback, it'll be interesting to see if it stays around for much longer.

For the first time they featured TWO Asian guys hooking up

Didn't they get bought by a larger company that owns a range of porn sites and was more corporate? (Pretty sure I learned that on DL)

When SeanCody himself owned it, there was a sweetness to it, because ti was so amateurish and the guys didn't realize they were hot, were kind of shy and nervous about having gay sex.

They also didn't do much back then--mostly just sit back and let someone blow them.

When CorbinFisher introduced kissing it was a big deal.

That site is a total bore and has been for a while.

Look how old and grizzled Daniel is now.

I still want Daniel aka Andy Catlin to fuck me.

r9 Smoking, drinking, bad diet will do that to you

Getting rid of their solos was a big mistake. So what if the majority didn't return to do more? Many of them were still hot. And people are willing to pay to watch a hot guy pleasure himself. Look at OnlyFans. I continued to keep my subscription for the solos, but after they nixed them several years ago, I stopped altogether. I just went to check SC because of this thread and the models are so subpar, it's tragic. A shadow of its former self.

Remember the days (until 2015 or so) when there was a new model update every other day? You'd get two solos and one fuck scene in one week. And since each solo and fuck scene had two cum shots, it was well worth it. Not anymore.

Cute Asher

Corbin Fisher is actually much hotter at the moment.

I was never a fan - not really into those college jock/frat boy 'straight' boy types so I have never followed them closely.

The only porn studio that I like really is Raging Stallion, they have the hottest guys although I don't like the overly tattooed ones.

r15 I mean I agree but they only have about 3 models anymore. Dane and Elian must be close to shooting blanks they're so overworked.

I believed they got rid of huge chunk of the their older vides ( pre-2015 ) . This included from the Abe-creampie golden age era. Its not worth to subscribe to the sue anymore.

Did something go wrong with Sean Cody? I mean, nothing lasts forever. The original owner was done with it, for whatever reason (age, frustration with illegal file sharing, the business with SC's Jarec vs. Donald Burns, etc.) and sold it off to Mindgeek which fucked it up by not caring about the content (remember that time when countless clips were filmed with some strange color distortion and nobody noticed it for week? And Mindgeek released the clips without making any post-production adjustments).

Sorry, .... and nobody noticed it at the studio for weeks?

They were bought out. It was never the same after

Just like with Falcon Studios. With each time it got sold off it got worse and worse. Now it's owned by video-on-demand company AEBN and nobody cares.

I think it's a general business thing where companies don't really understand what makes their new acquisitions great and expand on that. Sure, sometimes companies buy its competition to destroy them to stay on top, but in a lot of cases these companies just buy assets and don't know what to do with them to turn a profit with the help of the new company's management.

SeanCody started off independently owned and he found hot guys and his scenes were fun and the angles great.

He sold it to these Chinese people.

Only Fans has to have a great deal with the current sorry state of Sean Cody.

r23. MindGeek is a Canadian company.

[quote] MindGeek (formerly Manwin) is a privately held Canadian company[8] that primarily focuses on pornography.[1] ... and operates many popular pornographic websites,[10] including video sharing services Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn, as well as adult film production companies Brazzers, Digital Playground, Men.com, Reality Kings, [bold] Sean Cody[/bold], and WhyNotBi.com, among others.[11] MindGeek is headquartered in Luxembourg, and maintains additional offices in Bucharest, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, and Montreal.[12][13

R18 When that removal happened, BananaGuide had a brief note on the subject indicating that SC would eventually put them all back up.

[quote] In December 2020, two-thirds of the videos (1800 of 2700) were removed from Sean Cody, leaving under 900. While MindGeek has provided no reason, they have informed us that the videos will be reinstated in early 2021.

And when I mentioned that in a prior DL thread a few months ago, someone responded that it had to do with the parent company (MindGeek) now going back and verifying ages of all past models.

Well, "early 2021" has come and gone, so who knows what they're doing.

They're the Ambercrombie & Fitch of porn. They have a target audience within the gay community that's too narrow. They never grew. Part of being gay (for many) is the ability to explore things and people outside the mainstream or what is expected. Sean Cody is too white bread and yes, it's boring as fuck.

[quote]going back and verifying ages of all past models.

That sounds pretty serious.

The initial selling point was that it was amateur, as in they were getting actual straight guys to try gay sex.

And the awkward camera angles and lengthy interviews with the guys and all of them having sex with Sean himself was part of the appeal.

In the early days they didn't kiss and the sex was awkward but it was hot because it all seemed real.

There was a period when they had a lot of hot guys who still seemed sort of real, like the good looking guy working at Trader Joe's, someone you might actually meet IRL and then that devolved into guys who looked like white trash models with shaved and plucked bodies and zero personality, and the whole thrill was gone and the videos looked just like Men.com only without any plot lines.

One other factor was that 20 years ago guys didn't realize that the Internet Is Forever and that their gay porn videos would be available somewhere 20 years later. So they got a different type of guy.

^^By "real" I mean the guys either seemed awkward or embarrassed or had that "can you believe we're actually doing this!!!" look.

Now they all just look bored.

I've marveled at DLers encyclopedic knowledge of Sean Cody's assortment of "models" over the years, since I've generally found them to be overall quite generic and indistinct from each other.

You have to admit that Sean Cody was a great business model. And like most great business models, they always somehow get fucked up. Look at what happened to Falcon Video. It was once an iconic brand, now it's... this. Yuck.

In all seriousness, business model aside, I think one of things that ruined this type of porn, was that the type of guys who would do this sort of thing suddenly grew in number. You can see a hot "straight" or "identifies as straight" guy anywhere - maybe not always naked, but pretty close. Oversaturation of hot straight guys killed Sean Cody.

Chaos Men was just sold, too.

R28 I believe the poster who mentioned this said it was in relation to MG removing all the "user-uploaded" videos from Pornhub -- which were said to be lacking the site's new standard for uploading (regardless of how old models-actors looked in such videos). .. The article below discusses the business reasons. Another article on the subject also said that "the verification policy would apply to all sites owned by MindGeek, Pornhub’s parent company," so it's not specific to Sean Cody.

I don't like overly produced porn. I do love Treasure Island Media though. Unscripted but hot sex scenes.

What sells nowadays is the straight looking guys with openly feminine guys or even with a M-F transexuals (in any stage). They could also have added more color.

More guys are out nowadays than when Sean Cody started which means they have many more opportunities to get "experience" earlier. The two awkward "boys" trying to figure it out is less common nowadays. One of them is gonna know what to do. Their formula is just not as realistic as back in the day.

Most people just don't want what they're selling.

Traditional studio porn is not big with youngest Millennials and Gen Z. Gen Z likes the less produced, interactive content of OnlyFans and Justfans. Also, the new platforms have a lot more fantasy caliber fitness model types than SC or the oldline studios. On OF, you can find guys who are/were college jocks, real hotties, not washed up or sleazy looking unattractive guys.

No need to over analyze.

They had a formula that worked twenty years ago, they let it get stale and slick, they spawned a whole host of competitors and so what once seemed fresh and unique now seems tired.

This sort of lifecycle is not limited to pron-- it happens in just about every industry.

The site actually had a more diverse selection of guys in the first few years of the site. More blacks and latinos than in the proceeding years combined. I actually preferred the first 5 years or so of the website because they didn't really have a set type of guys looks wise really. Although some bordered on barley passable or ugly even. And like a previous poster said, it seemed more real. Things just seemed to progress naturally for the ones that came back for more scenes. Later, it seemed the site became more like a standard porn site, the set number of positions and sex acts happened in just about every video. Then after mindgeek took over, the quality on everything went down. I don't blame Sean Cody getting out when he did though, memberships have gone way down on all sites pretty much over the last decade.

I'm not sure I believe the age verification things. From the beginning the site had the same standards for record keeping than any other commercial site - valid government IDs, signed model releases, and photographed holding their IDs next to their face. All of that documentation would've been handed over when the sale was finalized. More likely mindgeek doesn't care about what is on their site or what fans want to see. Little effort as possible for them. Less scenes, less bandwidth being used.

Wanted to add that in terms of overall revenue, what went wrong with Sean Cody was MyVidster, Gay0Day, YourPornGod and all the other streaming sites where you can find their videos for free.

Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher releases used to be events where you could see guys experimenting and going further into gay sex. There were a variety of jock/twink types (Noel, Pete, Logan, Connor) who learned a lot on-screen. Back then, you had a chance of being on these semi-amateur sites and thinking that you wouldn't be outed in real life.

Nowadays, that delusion isn't present, everyone knows they'll be plastered all over the Internet. So the models are people who don't mind that, they've already worked for other studios or OnlyFans.

Now that SC has taken down its earlier videos, there's basically no reason to sign up for the site.

[quote]More likely mindgeek doesn't care about what is on their site or what fans want to see. Little effort as possible for them. Less scenes, less bandwidth being used.

Which begs the question, why bother? If you're just going to ruin the site and make people want to cancel their memberships, then why buy it? It's not like you're going to be making more money, you're going to be making less, so what's the point?

[quote] What sells nowadays is the straight looking guys with openly feminine guys or even with a M-F transexuals (in any stage). They could also have added more color.

THAT’s what sells nowadays? Not to me it doesn’t. I won’t watch an openly feminine guy fuck *for free* even, let alone a tranny.

Too bad that ChaosMen got sold. I’ve had lots of favorite models on that site over the years, far more than Sean Cody. At least I still have Sketchy Sex, with its execrable “camerawork”. And MalePhysicals (formerly Jock Physicals) is back.

COVID-19

Porn continues to evolve. It went from sketches, to photographs, to phone sex, to videos and now you have interactive websites (including websites) and of course Only Fans where people are cutting out the big production companies and going straight to the consumers.

All the big production companies are going to have to evolve or die.

The golden era of porn still has not been surpassed by any of this cheap, digital shit—as many times as I’ve gotten off to it. Nothing compares to 16mm film stock and the real men who were photographed with it back then.

NextDoorRaw is okay.

NextDoor has some hot models and still turns out some pretty hot clips. Their only problem is they use the same 2 or 3 models over and over. I love Dakota Payne but he's in like every other clip.

The most beautiful model on NextDoor, Roman Todd (see link below) is sadly married or engaged to a woman. But he sure fucks and gets fucked like a homo.

Donte Thick is another favorite of mine—absolutely massive cock and balls, and a total pervert—but he’s also bisexual.

OF ruined gay porn in general. The quality of guys in almost all sites have gone down and hot guys do the bare minimum and probably make just as much on OF.

R43 you are actually making my point. A lot of the big successful houses (like Sean Cody) are dying because they are not responsive to the market and the times. They have people like you who prefer them but a lot of other people (obviously) want something else. SC did not change with the times. People have MORE OPTIONS now and they are exercising them. Plus there is a lot of FREE stuff. If you are gonna charge for porn it better damn-well be EXACTLY what people want to see.

To clarify this, there was a time when gay men had to beat off to straight porn and just imagine the parts where and how they wanted them to be. There was gay porn but it was not readily accessible. Everything wasn't online and at your fingertips. A lot of men were not willing to walk in a porn shop for straight porn much less go in and select a "gay video." Similar to the way regular G and R rated movies did not have have representation of gay characters we HAD TO WATCH them if we wanted entertainment. There was nothing else.

Now people have OPTIONS!

Translation: Everybody doesn't wanna watch two cisgender looking blonde haired blue-eyed skinny white boys fuck each other.

Sean Cody went wrong when they shaved Randy's hairy butt, or allowed him to shave it.

I'm happy I have all the old videos downloaded. They were a lot of fun.

I have ALL Brandon, Stu, and Daniel videos downloaded! FOREVER!!!!

The hottest dudes have always done the bare minimum. They have fans just by showing up

only fans happened. WHy go work for him when you can work for yourself?

This postmortem has been occurring for the past several years when everyone knows the answer!

I know from firsthand knowledge that Mindgeek doesn’t pay shit, while in their heyday, SeanCody would pay thousands for scenes. Mindgeek won’t even let SeanCody entice popular former models to come back for special appearances because that would mean less money for the owners to buy tacky houses and other…things. To make matters worse, the PornHub scandal sidelined the only thing SeanCody still had going for it: A back catalogue of hot men in their prime having sex. Now they’ve fully embraced the MindGeek model and only hire washed up (insert profession here) willing to do porn for a couple of hundred a scene.

[quote]What went wrong with Sean Cody?

He's fine! He sends his love!

I have a lot of the old SC videos downloaded, too. So glad I kept them.

Brandon was the ultimate Boyfriend Experience!

It always comes down to $$$

BRandon was the last fantasy jock superstar

He really was, R62!

The days of the Jock Superstar are over forever.

Now, it's just dull OF/JFF with a single cam shot far off.

The quality of models at Corbin Fisher indicates they’re the last of the 2000s era amateur sites still offering decent paydays. Their regular models don’t have social media accounts under their stage names, they don’t escort, and they stick around for years…which indicates CF is paying out for exclusivity (as in a few thousand per scene….not enough to live on, but enough to keep coming back).

In general, studio porn has lost its subversive appeal where viewers are members of an audience watching hot guys doing things for the first time on camera. You still get that on cam and other amateur sites. Sites like SC, CF, CM, etc. created their own exclusive porn stars who were only available on their sites (at least before BelAmi had this idea of doing crossovers).

[quote] Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher releases used to be events where you could see guys experimenting and going further into gay sex.

Brandt's Boys is trying to do that with his clips showing guys, like Jordan, do gay stuff for the first time.

What kills commercial porn is easy access to free content (including downloading active membership required hardcore porn content illegally). When a customer is satisfied with the free stuff there is no way he's paying for it when it's not significantly better or there's a benefit he doesn't get from free stuff, like feeling "close" to the performer (like, say, Only Fans).

The main problem with a lot of the non-studio pron being produced right now (OF, JFF. etc. ) is that there's no cameraman/director getting the shots that viewers want to see. You can't beat the great camerawork with which I always associate classic Sean Cody.

After Archie left I cancelled my membership. You can find all the best stuff 2002-2015 for free anyway.

Patrick, Patrick, Patrick. Forever Patrick.

r68=Mame Dennis

Speaking for men over 50, I think a lot of us don’t like tattoos which so many of the current performers have. Secondly, there are fewer very good looking models working now as others have said.

R63, the hot jock types are on Onlyfans, or just doing softcore stuff on TikTok and Instagram

I can only enjoy a Sean Cody scene if it’s bareback.

You just can’t get the high caliber of hot, cleancut muscle jocks to do porn for studios today. For one, they are afraid their family, friends, and employers will discover it and ruin their lives. Further, they would rather be on Onlyfans or live cam sites and control their money and content. Now, they Don’t have to engage in sex acts with people they are repulsed by or engage in any act they don’t find comfortable. More control

[quote]You just can’t get the high caliber of hot, cleancut muscle jocks to do porn for studios today. For one, they are afraid their family, friends, and employers will discover it and ruin their lives.

I don't agree with this at all. All those high caliber hot, cleancut muscle jocks just moved over to Chaturbate, TikTok and Insta and Twitch. It has nothing to do with lives being ruined. This generation has been filmed they were in in utero.

You misunderstand R74

There was a level of innocence and naivete that you got with SC's Zack or CF's Lucas and Dawson that you do not get with the current crop precisely because they have been on camera forever and everything feels stages and planned.

As for Brandt's Boys, he's trying to recreate that magic R65, but it's so clearly staged and fake--no one buys that Jordan's never done this before, while it was clear that many of the early SC and CF guys clearly never had, even though they might have been curious about it.

Hot guys don't need studio porn to make them stars. They can show off on Instagram, accumulate a following and then start an OnlyFans where they share, for a price, stuff that's too graphic for Instagram.

[quote] As for Brandt's Boys, he's trying to recreate that magic [R65], but it's so clearly staged and fake

Yeah, that's why I used trying at r65. I fully agree with you.

[quote] You just can’t get the high caliber of hot, cleancut muscle jocks to do porn for studios today. For one, they are afraid their family, friends, and employers will discover it and ruin their lives.

Not sure how opting to do Only Fans and/or live cam shows instead of studio porn prevents such discovery from happening. The long feature article in GQ this past February on Only Fans even discussed this common fear.

Not into anyone at CF like the guys they had in the aughts.

They don’t have bigger, muscular guys or super gorgeous like Travis anymore.

But r73 means less money for the homophobic models who won’t have sex with “anyone they’re disgusted by.”

There are only so many times most people are willing to pay to watch a guy jack off or fuck his girlfriend. Then their value is over.

Same goes for the cock-teasers on OF who only do soft porn. They’re worth a lot less than guys who actually do oral and anal on a regular basis with different people.

Add the freetube piracy and it’s a quick burn for the cock teasers with lame camerawork and/or boring content.

R70 YES! Some modern commercial porn loses me with the lack of realism. I don't wanna see guys hyped up on steroids, tatted and pierced from head to toe, weird haircuts and fucking in a sling. WTF? That experience is so far removed from anything most guys experience (or would ever wanna) experience in real life.

That said, SC is not the only one being forced out of the industry. Between the oldies but goodies circulating for free, new stuff illegally downloaded every day, and access to Only Fans, the traditional porn industry is becoming increasingly irrelevant. They're completely out of touch with what most fans want.

They need one stop shopping... the days of niche market are over. If you're a porn maker, you need more variety. Going for the extreme in either direction is not going to sustain you. Consumers are all over the map with their tastes and looking to experiment more. Today I may wanna see daddy porn, tomorrow interracial and the next day a tranny hooker in a gang bang. I'm not gonna "subscribe" to get the same old same old or something totally unrealistic to me.

Twitter has a ton of content. You can follow hot Instagram fitness model Bros are certain specific themes, such as hot blatinos or Arab dudes.

[quote]You misunderstand [R74]

[quote]There was a level of innocence and naivete that you got with SC's Zack or CF's Lucas and Dawson that you do not get with the current crop precisely because they have been on camera forever and everything feels stages and planned.

I don't disagree with either of those things. My issue was with this.

[quote]they are afraid their family, friends, and employers will discover it and ruin their lives.

I don't believe that MANY of the kind of guys who will get naked and jack off or fuck on camera give two shits about people finding out. And I do not believe that this stuff is the 'life ruiner' that it once was.

And while I am not one to say that everything is all roses and butterflies for gay people, a lot of these guys on Instagram, TikTok, Chaturbate and other places are deliberately gay baiting because they know that's where the money is for them.

Hell, even main stream performers have taken to gay baiting to get followers and up their profiles.

[quote] I can only enjoy a Sean Cody scene if it’s bareback.

Me too. But isn’t most of SC bareback?

The same way that PornHub deleted all videos that weren’t “verified”, all porn featuring condoms should be scrubbed from the internet, too.

Yeah, rubbers are for real time "hookups!" Nobody wants to see rubbers in porn.

[Quote]The bottom line is don't make assume that you are (or will always remain) in the driver's seat because you are young and cute. You're not doing him any favors by staying with him especially if you don't want him. Also, he is not gonna reward you later for your "sacrifice." You have to do what is best for YOU!

Exactly R84 And I would go a step further to say that anyone who puts naked pictures or any type of sexual activity (showing their face) gives a shit if people know.

oops! ignore that!

[Quote]I don't believe that MANY of the kind of guys who will get naked and jack off or fuck on camera give two shits about people finding out.

Exactly [R84] And I would go a step further to say that anyone who puts naked pictures or any type of sexual activity (showing their face) gives a shit if people know.

They've scrubbed a boatload of scenes from their golden years, 2013-2016. If they don't bring those back, or learn from them, they'll never recover.

[quote] Yeah, rubbers are for real time "hookups!" Nobody wants to see rubbers in porn.

PrEP is for real-life hook-ups. Rubbers have no place in modern, polite society.

Maybe those earlier scenes were scrubbed because they were deemed "problematic" to the demographic they are trying to reach now.

R91 works for big pharma. Everyone is not on PrEP and there could be any number of reasons including: expense; health; or no desire to take unnecessary medication.

Plus "hooking up" bareback can (and often does) result in other diseases. Rubbers for hookups is smart!

Face it, when Brandon left is when SC fell apart.

Brandon was the ultimate straight jock boyfriend. His closest rival, Stu, didn't even com close.

No one at SC has been able to have that same magic with subscribers.

I only like the ones with creampies, and so many of them were lost in the purge. Doubt I’ll renew for next year.

Brandon, at the height of his powers, was one of the most gorgeous guys to have ever done porn. If his dick matched that face and that body, instead of being a superstar, he would have been unstoppable. It just never ends well for people that good looking.

I could never understand the “King Brandon” worship on this site. Nor his refusal to bottom for such a long time. Remember when he finally did? I’m sorry, but if your dick is below average (and his most definitely is), you are neither a “King” nor are you entitled to “total top” privilege or whatever. Your dick is small? Guess what, you have to get fucked. A little versatility is okay, sure, but come on guys.

[quote] Plus "hooking up" bareback can (and often does) result in other diseases. Rubbers for hookups is smart!

In that case, you’d have to insist on rubbers for even oral sex. And no one does that.

Crazy Brandon > porn Brandon. Better looking and superior dong.

[quote]I could never understand the “King Brandon” worship on this site.

You couldn't understand a bunch of gay men obsessing over a hot guy? It's kind of in the DNA of this message board. I understand that a guy's hotness is subjective, but Brandon sort of checked off a bunch of hot boxes. Brandon had everything, except for the dick.

The first time I saw Brandon, I was like, "Boy needs to bottom." .. And the only video of his that I ever watched more than once is the one where Brendan plays with hole.

On Datalounge, r102, he may have lost points—lots and lots of points, let's face it—for his "Oh, dear!" offenses.

Brandon being a dolt makes him hotter to me.

Stupidity when beautiful, if the offender is a man, is attractive, definitely.

R102, he’s gorgeous, but his little dick and his longtime refusal to bottom should have prevented him from ever reaching “King” status on this site. Maybe it was just the same 2 or 3 DLers calling him “King Brandon” all the time, I don’t know. But when you’re a porn star and your wang is more of a Wong (think: B.D.), you are not “King” anything.

R106 there were guys on here and in social media who got pissed off when Brandon bottomed. I'm not sure why, but it was a thing.

r105=Kathleen Turner in "Body Heat."

Porn needs to introduce smell technology. I want to be able to sniff the model's asshole when I'm jacking. Chaosmen used to be my fave but the models are not as hot as they used to get.

Not that long ago, DL seemed to be more interested in Brandon's brother than him.

That was June 2020, R110.

Andrew/Tyler hasn't made any gay-baiting posts on his OnlyFans since September, and hasn't even visited the site since January of this year.

Andrew/Tyler only posted ONE cock shot...

And one stem/shaft shot after he came.

Otherwise, just ass shots and hole shots.

Facebook’s growing popularity slowly killed Sean Cody, not to mention that Facebook owns Onlyfans which has taken a lot of the money hungry guys away from traditional porn.

Having your porn career follow someone around to every job and friend by crazy stalkers killed porn. Now with TikTok young men are really started to understand their own beauty and what it can buy (attention, sponsors). So even a boy from flyover land now knows what their beauty is worth so recruiting for porn became 10x as hard.

The brother got the larger dick. Are they full brothers or half-brothers?

[quote]not to mention that Facebook owns Onlyfans

Stop making shit up.

The company that owns Facebook also owns OnlyFans as one of many business under their growing umbrella. Mark Z owns both you dumb bitch. Look it up. Facebook also owns Instagram in case you’re the only bitch in here that doesn’t know this common information. Try me again ,r119.

r120 Why don't YOU look it up. There's not one mention of Facebook on the OnlyFans Wikipedia page.

Oh--and Mark Z. does not "own" Facebook. It's a publicly-traded corporation.

[quote]I only like the ones with creampies, and so many of them were lost in the purge. Doubt I’ll renew for next year.

Especially the internals. That was real passion and proof the models were enjoying the sex.

Maybe I was wrong 😬. My apologies. Your still a bitch though 😏

Brandon's appeal was that, in the early days anyway, he seemed very sweet and naive and very into his partners and making sure they were enjoying themselves.

That was Abe's appeal too.

Both hearkened back to the early days of SC where the guys really were completely naive and eager to please and the audience could imagine actually knowing someone like that.

Only Fans allows for interaction, but the guys are all so transactional and "here's my Amazon wish list" that it does not work quite as well.

[quote]Your still a bitch though

Oh, dear.

Brandon’s appeal is he looked like a college football player and acted like one. He had a bod of an elite fitness model.

Guys who look and act like BRandon usually only did solo scenes, oral kinky, or very few scenes. He was the rare fantasy guy who had a longterm career in male porn. It was like having the hot college quarterback as a porn star

You are both missing the point R127 and R128

What set Brandon apart from other guys with his looks was his personality.

He was open, friendly and seemed to care that his scene partner was enjoying themselves. He seemed into it in a way that seemed real, not all the fake moans and cries you get with so many other performers.

It was the fantasy that the "hot college quarterback" was actually a nice guy who would be fun to hang out with.

That was his ticket.

I knew that Brandon was something different when I read a post on here admitting that he had sent Brandon a new MacBook and a new (it was either ) 65 or 75 inch TV. All I could think at the time was, when cheap DL bastards are sending this guy shit from his Amazon wish-list that is beyond underwear and jockstraps he ain't no ordinary porn star.

Instagram models who look like BRandon get similar gifts from admirers without even doing porn. Random people send them wishlist gifts just because they are hot bros

Studio Gay porn really can’t compete with the hotties on Instagram, Tiktok, and Onlyfans. Compare the looks and image of the top guys in studio porn to the Alphas on social media today, mad it’s clear they are outmatched

it can, it is better produced and directed, I hate the amateur bullshit only fans stuff

R133, you’re a distinct and dwindling minority today

Commercial gay porn is a farce. The guys are all fugly skanks that graduated from College of Silent Film School Acting.

Yep, I hear so many complain about how Shanky, fem, weird, drugged out, out of shape, and/or plain unattached studio porn performers are today. Why would anyone pay for content with guys who aren’t head turners?

Plain unattractive

Why isn't YourMillennialCunt singing his posts in this thread. He has most of the Brandon/college jock posts in this thread.

Why not signature, Cunt?

Brandon is a perfect example for how Sean Cody made these guys look appealing and got a great performance out of them (and why, in the early years, SC didn't want the models to have a social media presence ... to keep the mystique going). The moment Brandon thought he could make money away from Sean Cody we got "I'M NOT A PROSTATUTE!" killing his own appeal. Angry, tiny dick insecure douche bag.

Several DLers were VERY upset when Brandon decided to bottom on camera for the first time.

Sean Cody hasn't been the same long time favorite topman Jess moved on.

Can’t believe the guy getting railed by Jess at R141 (Peter) is now an ultra-conservative married Christian with a couple of kids. He was such an enthusiastic bottom and cock sucker…and the photo shown is actually from an infamous scene in which Jess came seconds after penetration.

I loved Jess. One of the best tops SC ever had.

Didn’t Jess and his wife run some now defunct wellness website? I can see him returning to Sean Cody when the money runs out.

WHET to DL's favorite non prostatute Jeff/Brandon ? No thread on him in a while.

Did not realize that's what had become of Peter, R142

He was enthusiastic and often kind of funny.

In addition to that scene with Jess, he had another very hot scene with David, another guy who I learned from DL is now a married father with a respectable professional job.

This video was posted by Brandon (not a prostatute) 4 months ago…

King BRandon still is hot

Little dick aside, it's hard to deny just how beautiful he was.

I don’t care about penis size. He’s stunning

SC went to shit when they were sold to the owner of men dot com. The appeal of the site was that the guys were all slightly awkward and looked like they were unsure what to do sometimes. Now the scenes are full of over the top moaning and shouting, which isn't surprising if you look at what the directors at men dot com consider "good porn".

Brandon is pretty but he is a small dick wannabe top. I like Abe, David as well as Harley and Patrick from the early days.

Re: Abe

I recently re-watched the scene where he returned after a years-long absence, and noticed his dick really wasn't that big (not bigger than Brandon's at least). The difference is, he knew how to use it and didn't act like having sex with him was some gift in itself. Brandon is handsome, but I've never ever understood the appeal because he has zero personality.

I'm probably the only person who remembers this Sean Cody guy, but his name was Ross. He was around the same time as Patrick. I thought he was so hot. This guy is probably married with 6 kids and has gained 50 pounds and is an assistant manager at Lowes now, but he really did something for me back then.

You can easily find the good stuff with Abe,Brandon,Stu,Peter,Marshall,Brodie for free on gay vid sites.

I think one of the first Brandon scenes I ever saw was when he was paired with Marshall, who I found very attractive. Unfortunately, that guy was heavy into drugs during his SeanCody stint. I sent him a DM on Twitter around that period and he sent me his email address and an offer to escort.

Here is the 2nd Sean Cody guy that I loved, who no one else remembers. His name was Keefe.

All I now is on PornHub my favorite categories are Black, Interracial and Latino porn. That latter category has some full movies in there that are muy caliente.

Landon was the hottest guy on Sean Cody.

I loved my beautiful Robbie:

I thought Malcolm was absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately, he didn't stay with the site very long and I haven't seen him anywhere since.

Looking at all the shots you guys are posting of your favorites, another thing stands out: they all look like regular guys. None of them have the trendy Basic Gay high and tight haircut so many of the current models do, they're not plucked and overly groomed and while they're in shape, they are not overly worked out gym bunnies.

In other words, they looked like a guy you might know--the cute guy at work, the hot UPS guy, etc. There were so many very good looking guys too.

The current crop all look like gay porn models. And act like it in the videos. There's none of the spontaneity or awkwardness.

R158 yes I share the Landon love. I frequently jerk off to the vid where he fucks equally big dick Randy.

R100 where have you been? Plenty of people use rubbers for oral.

[quote][R100] where have you been? Plenty of people use rubbers for oral.

Gurl, are you posting from 1987?

R163, please define "plenty."

The word usually implies a lot more than just the speaker.

[quote]Can’t believe the guy getting railed by Jess at [R141] (Peter) is now an ultra-conservative married Christian with a couple of kids. He was such an enthusiastic bottom and cock sucker…and the photo shown is actually from an infamous scene in which Jess came seconds after penetration.

Ryan Rose claimed he had a threesome with Peter and his gf off camera and fucked them both.

Compare any of the guys above to this, their most recent release.

There's nothing wrong with it per se, it just doesn't look like SeanCody. None of the vibe the site once had.

Have Blake and Lane retired from SC? I think Lane still has an OnlyFans.

Yeah, I think so, R168. Lane has an OF and Blake does too...or at least does webcam. He's going through something because a lot of his content contains him getting pegged by women.

R160 Still hot.

He is handsome…

I wonder why he did porn in the first place if he quickly had a change of heart.

He got in and quickly got out. If you’re gonna do porn that’s probably the best way!

R171 In his solo video, he said he'd been a viewer-fan of Sean Cody videos himself adding, “My boyfriend has been bugging me for a couple of years to do it, so I figured I’d give it a shot.”

Thanks r169. Blake and Lane were the last models on SC that I cared for. I do like Sean but he bulked up and doesn’t look as good IMO. And Randy got too thin.

Randy is a crackhead…ok, ok, I dort know if he does crack, but he definitely has a drug problem. He looks gross these days and is constantly begging people for money. During the whole Jared/Don Burns scandal it was revealed Randy and Peter were at the top of Burns’ wishlist. While there are rumors Curtis (who met up with Burns multiple times) was able to make the meet up with Peter happen, Randy was the one who got away. However, Randy now maintains that he was never asked, and if he had been, he would’ve met up with Burns.

And you know this R175 because _________________

Randy’s scene with Blake is one of my favorites.

I find Blake gross, especially because he protests about being 'straight' but seems like the gayest guy on the site.

Brandon seems boring and pathetic in the video posted at R147. Who cares about your classes, dude. The cheesy bikini model girl as his laptop’s wallpaper is a turn-off, too.

What drug(s) is Brandon on in that video?

None, is my guess, R180. He sounds like he could use some, however.

Brandon’s appeal to many is that he is a simple country jock bro

Bump

R166 Peter aka Joel Reed. Now Redneck Flawda Trumptard. Nothing more tiresome than a reformed whore.

AMEN TO THAT!

That's bananas R184

Trumpism aside, he's gained about 50 lbs--he was so skinny when he was on SC I had no idea how Jess's dick was going to fit inside him.

R186 "he was so skinny when he was on SC I had no idea how Jess's dick was going to fit inside him. "

According to Jess it was a very tight fit.

Danny was so hot and masculine

Sean Cody put a lot of time and effort into making their models look polished. For a few years, the site released behind the scenes clips to further create the illusion of how much fun these straight (STRAIGHT!) guys are having while filming gay sex for the site.

IMO, apart from Blake, none of the Sean Cody guys come off well when they are on their own on social media. Most of them turn out to be right wing gun nuts, murderers (Addison, Francisco), drug addicts, bitter homophobes, etc. Some, like Stu, even distance themselves from their porn work to focus on some other career.

I think the time when a site invests time and effort to make their models look and behave "on-brand" is gone.

Just last night watched the Tanner and Stu video. Absolutely smoking. The site is a shadow of itself.

R189, imagine that? Former porn stars distancing themselves from something they previously did that could ruin their current lives.

Stu flip flop!

Stu and DL Fave, Jarek/Teofil!

Nothing will beat Josh and Noel, who was literally shaking with excitement, whether it was his “first time” or not. Josh and Noel are up on Jarek and Brandon’s level looks wise too.

I still remember sean Cody himself

R193 and they are using condoms????

R196 The official title of the video is "Stu & Jarek: Bareback."

r195

the video where Sean gets the model to get fucked by him always gets me off

These two probably did my most favorite videos. Very playful and obviously having fun. The fun in this video looked so real, not staged. And when boys have so much fun, I don't even care if they were a condom or not.

And this guy, he was called Sean, was my favorite. One of the very first models. He was cute and and learned on screen how to take a finger or dick.

Wasn’t Sawyer Calhoun initially on Sean Cody? He’s my type.

R200 That's Sean Cody??? This is what y'all are swooning over? Nothing about that guy says gorgeous. He's nothing to fantasize about. By today's pornstar standards I'd say he's a bit below average. I hope he saved his money.

R201 He usually goes by "Calhoun Sawyer" these days. He actually started out as "Calhoun" at ChaosMen. More that site's type, imho. .. I was rather surprised to see Corbin Fisher subsequently pick him up and feature him as "Sawyer." .. Eventually he combined the two names when working at other studios, mainly Broke Straight Boys and MEN.com. At Military Classified, he's been called "Cash."

Other early Sean Cody models were Colby Keller and my porn boyfriend, Paul Wagner, who went by "Barry."

Thank you for that info, R203. I love his accent, his overall manliness, his commitment to condom-free fucking, and his unshaven bush. Bless him.

…and his fat cock, but that goes without saying, I guess.

Those losers simply think a top can never bottom or he loses his masculinity and ability to dominate, r107

They’re just pea-brained bigots.

Bigots? Is that the word you chose?

R200 / R202 - that is Zack, one of the early SC stars, not Sean Cody himself.

This video shows the two together

You're right! That was Zack! My bad. Cute guy. Loved the dynamic in those videos back then.

This is true r189. Models were made into their characters by SC giving them makeovers before the cameras turned on. Only early GH did that. Everyone else lets their modes come as they are. It’s really a testament to the site and what they do create that image and illusion of clean cut, boy next door jock

I think the breaking point for me was the changed attitude of the models. I doubt that any of the early models signed up with SC to start a career in porn. At best this gig could be considered 'testing the waters and see if I like it'. And then they tested on screen to see how far they could take it in terms of looks and actions. That approach was somewhat matched on the production site. The direction was still very amateurish and action in front of the camera was very little directed. A nice result was this cute and sexy awkwardness on screen that is now completely missing.

Now it's all planned out. The models have either been on screen before , or the SC gig is seen as the first step of either escorting or moving on in porn in a very professional way - with a body that has been prepared for this for years. And the production matches this approach. You cannot start as a model if you haven't prepared your body through gym or pharmacy. (And you better be white because for some reason dark skin doesn't seem to sell well.) Performance is heavily choreographed with fucking position that are so ridiculous at times. There is nothing amateurish and cute/awkward anymore. This is fine if they still get customers to subscribe to it. But it's a very different concept by now.

I'll be the first to admit I'm a biased Peter fan, but how do you know he is a Trumptard, r184? Getting married to a woman and procreating after getting out of porn isn't exactly uncommon unfortunately. And maybe the frau drags him to church r142. As others have said, he was definitely enthusiastic in his scenes.

[quote]At best this gig could be considered 'testing the waters and see if I like it'.

Just my opinion, but I think those early guys were regular working class guys looking for a quick infusion of cash. I used to joke that they needed a down payment for a truck or first plus last plus security deposit or beer money or a trip to Panama City for spring break. Quick and easy money and no one at 20, especially back then, was thinking about the forever aspects of the internet or Sean Cody.

Sean Cody would bring them in, clean them up a little bit, but not so much as they would look overly done, plucked and preened, like they do now. Sometimes they would come back. Sometimes, for the right money, they would do more.

As you can tell most of them have gone back into obscurity and those of you who follow them have reported they've fallen back into type. Small towns, republicans, Trumpers, wife and kids and some kind of blue collar job.

While I'm not holding my breath, I'm still waiting for the first former Sean Cody model to run for office. You know it's coming and they will probably be running as Trumper.

If they run as a Trumper their porn past won’t faze them. GQP looks past previous accounts of “deviancy” now.

Brandt's Boys is using an updated version of the old Sean Cody model - and it's working big time for them!

The HOTTEST "straight" guys in porn right now, in very hot scenes and scenarios, with ongoing storylines.

It's sad that a lot seem to be Trumpers, conspiracy theorists, covid deniers. anti vaxxers, ect. Although a good amount of porn stars in general (both gay and straight) seems to be a least one of the above.

I'm glad that my all-time-fave SC model, the original Luke, seems to be none of the above. Although he is married to a woman.

The original Zack mentioned a few posts above, seems to be sane and sable also. He has his own business as well. Haven't been able to find much on his personal life, although I suspect he's probably bi.

R214 you're right. The GOP is hypocritical as fuck! They called Clinton immoral for getting a few blow jobs when Henry Hyde cheated on his wife for five years which he called a "youthful indiscretion" - starting when he was 41 years old!

Even easier R217

Melania was pregnant, Twitler was banging porn stars and they decide that's okay because Jesus sent Trump to America to stop the Bolsheviks.

(Or something like that)

R218 Instead it became Trump to America to join the Russians

R212. Joel Reed/ Peter check out his FB page 100% Trumptard. BTW Joel had a son before he was filming gay porn. One of the reasons he got into gay porn was he was arrested for not paying child support. He eventual re- upped Army and married his baby mama. Like most GFP ers he appears to have developed amnesia about his time enthusiastically taking it up the ass.

R220 But now he can look back at those times he was getting banged up the ass with nostalgia.

Better link.

The good old SC vibe.

You can't re-create that magic of early Sean Cody introducing straight guys to gay sex watching their progress from solo to getting sucked, fucking someone, to getting fucked. Even straight guys are even more self-aware of how the internet and social media work these days. Back then, you could convince guys (well, the dumb and desperate ones) that none of their friends and families will ever find out. Nowadays, sexting and sharing your dick pics on Reddit are a lot more common.

Guys were convinced to contact certain porn sites to do solos by recruiters. I don't think that is happening these days. Guys apply for doing porn (studio or website) on their own.

Damn, r220. I can't Facebook stalk worth a damn, so I can't find his page and will have to take your word for it. But that sucks. Does he post homophobic shit? He sure SEEMED to enjoy gay sex. Well Joel Reed might be a worthless cunt, but Peter will still be the dick of my dreams lol.

Recruiters are still a thing R224. They just go to Chaturbate and other cam sites and other social media now.

WHET RandyBlue?

Kyle is gay though and so is Nash. BrandtsBoys are not authentic. I know they have Jordan and that new Texas teenage stud but I think they weren’t guys picked up randomly in a gym. I genuinely think they picked off Grindr or whatever

Jordan is far hotter than Brandon ever was!

Seriously, is there any site out there (except OnlyFans I guess) where hot, openly gay gay men have amazing sex with other hot, openly gay men? I know he is utterly repulsive, but Lucas is probably the closest thing to it.

Guy in Sweatpants. Austin Wilde has a strict no gay for pay rule now.

Re: Peter

He’s a registered Republican, but I followed him on social media through most of Trump’s first term and he didn’t seem particularly Trumpy. He never even mentioned politics or social issues…most of his posts were about grilling and traveling the world. After SeanCody he joined the Navy and did a minimum enlistment before becoming a contractor working in the Middle East. Now he’s back in Florida, married with kids, and a small business owner.

Again, while I’ve never seen anything pro-Trump from him, he’s a registered Republican in Florida. He was also friends with Curtis, another Republican Floridian who happens to be a rightwing nutcase. His only significant flaw these days (other than aging horribly) is that he’s ultra religious these days. The last time I saw his Facebook page it was a bunch of BS about the Bible and he even had a picture of him and his family at church.

Oh, and regarding Stu: There was a time he went through great lengths to walk away from his porn past, but a few years ago SeanCody started doing a feature where facts about “classic” scenes would pop up (like Pop Up Video in the ‘90s)….and Stu filmed s feature for them. He was actually the very first model to appear on their TikTok account in a video that had been filmed last year.

Never cared for their (or Corbin Fisher's) product. Too vanilla and passion/lust free. And the boys were pretty, not hot.

There are various levels of gay for pay too.

I suspect that someone who does nothing more than watch a straight porn video while another guy blows him has a markedly different experience than someone who makes out with a guy, sucks cock and gets fucked, cumming while the top's hard cock is hammering away at his prostate and then feeling the top cum inside him.

And by "experience" I don't just mean in the moment, but in how they eventually process it and in how they look at other guys and how they understand women in the years ahead.

Side Note: As for the religion thing, given that so many guys turn to porn to pay off drug, gambling or other debts, being a gay for pay porn actor may not be at the top of the list of "sins" the are trying to repent from.

[quote]Never cared for their (or Corbin Fisher's) product. Too vanilla and passion/lust free.

You must've never seen scenes with Cade, Travis, Lucas, Derek, Tom, Zeb, Trey, or Harper.

PLENTY of sizzle in their scenes!

There is a hot clip from Corbin Fisher where shaggy haired Jared introduces, or "introduces", Travis to anal sex. Jared cums while getting fucked by Travis and has the most porny facial expression when he backs up against Travis' cock (you can't see it in the link though).

One more thing about early SC: we know there is nothing particularly sexy about the way porn is filmed--lots of disjointed takes, trying to get the model hard, a full crew surrounding the guys, frequent breaks, oftentimes straight porn playing in the background.

But very early SC was just Sean and a cameraman and it was clear there weren't too many breaks or takes--his production skills were pretty limited--and at some level that made it hotter. Many of the OnlyFans videos have that too, where you can see the guy leaning over to turn the camera on his phone on, or picking up his phone and holding it to get a close-up.

Naw, Jordan is okay, but I’m not into the rough tatted type. BRandon as his college dudebro peak was hotter

Brandon is considered a college dudebro even tnough he's functionally illiterate?

Sounds realistic to me

I think Jess and his wife are no longer together. He also looks like he’s gained at least 20 pounds. His parents are both super Trumptards.

Facebook, op. Facebook's rise started Sean Cody's downfall. Sure, they could use it and Myspace to recruit, but after awhile, people would post links to these guy's porn profiles for their colleagues, friends, and family to see. There was no hope of keeping their porn and real life separate.

The site also didn't keep proper records of their release forms so Mind Geek had to scrub most of the archives from SC's golden era off the site. In a way, it's a wonderful "fuck you" to Mind Geek, but also a shame since that's what was worth seeing.

Porn is forever changing, Falcon had it's day flying close to the sun but fizzled out when porn music became outdated. SC had it's time.

Bright side, Corbin Fisher is stilling putting in the good fight and should be commended to keeping to it's roots. Same with Chaosmen.

R244, I agree with most of what you said, but you have to strike ChaosMen from your comment. The former owner finally sold to the Canadian porn conglomerate (not MindGeek) behind Next Door and Active Duty. While they still put out scenes with longtime ChaosMen models, they've already started occasionally putting out scenes with fugly Eastern European men.

Yeah I noticed the Chaosmen models aren't as sexy as they were

I found Abe’s current FB account (he has at least three). He’s an electrician in the Pacific Northwest, so making a decent living. Still looks good but apparently decided to get a hideous hand tattoo.

Critical thinking isn’t their forte, R247.

It's not just Sean Cody. People are less interested in traditional porn cranked out by the big studios. The world has moved on.

- While it is easier to access, sellers of porn online now have so much competition. There are literally thousands of porn sites. It's not like back in the day when there was just one (maybe two) Adult bookstore in the seedy part of town where everyone went to get videos. - There is also so much FREE porn online. You don't "need" to buy it. - A lot of the new stuff just isn't as good. It's hard to fantasize when everyone's tatted and pierced. Also ALL the old stuff was bareback. - There is OnlyFans which caters more specifically to the customer. - There are porn games online with animation which eliminates the need for actors. - Most R rated movies now provide a scene or two of gratuitous soft-core porn you can FAP to! - The internet has made it so much easier to hookup with people and live out porn fantasies with real people. - Also people are secretly filming themselves or others having sex to enjoy later.

So don't be so hard on Sean Cody. All of the industry is gonna have to change with the times or they're going under. Will there always be a porn industry? Of course! But the demand for traditional porn is just not as strong. Consumers have too many other options.

^ They need to launch a TCP (Turner Classic Porn) for all us geezers who actual appreciate framing and focused camera work.

Looks and persona are supreme for msny. So much so, many will pay to see their ultimate fantasy jock only do solo or have limited sex than watch less hot guys have more involved, enthusiastic interactive sex.

People will pay just to watch hot fantasy dudes flex, so solo, or do body worship

r252

that looks fakey

Fakey? You think it’s CGI?

^it’s been known to happen!

Link?

Elian from CF is fantastic.

I just watched Sean Cody's video with Deacon & Blake Ryan.

They're one of the hotter pairs they've featured in quite some time.

No amount of professional lighting and acting could compete with the love and passion in lovemaking that is in amateur porn.

Doesn’t matter because Deacon has hundreds of OF videos of him bareback fucking non-porn models and well know porn models.

Please fund my meth addiction!

R261 Randy is easily among the all time top 5 Sean Cody models. That current photo of him shows how far he has descended into drug addiction. Some models use their porn money to support their drug addiction rather that supplement their primary income. I'm glad to know he's entering rehab. Hope his treatment works and he get back on the road to sobriety.

261

anyone care share the pic?

R261 Been there done that.

R261, holy crap.

I always liked Randy. Hopefully he is really serious about getting help for his drug and mental health issues. It's a big step in admitting that. But with addicts, you never know when their being totally truthful.

Serious downgrade in models. What is that thing on his head?

They sold the site to someone in Canada, who ran it into the ground.

They even deleted most old scenes from the site and only keep newer ones.

SC is no Treasure Island where your hand is always near the pause button.

[quote]But with addicts, you never know when their being totally truthful.

Oh, dear.

They are doing a crossover with BelAmi. 6 BelAmi hoes and 4 Sean Cody hoes.

From BelAmi:

Bart Cuban, Jim Durden, Tom Houston, Ashton Montana, Ethan O'Pry and Yannis Paluan

From Sean Cody:

Asher, Deacon, Justin and Manny.

They never tried to make black bottoms happen like every other site.

I think at this point, Asher and Deacon do Sean Cody clips to promote their own OnlyFans account (Johnny and Ricky D.).

I believe the times of new, fresh-faced hunks doing studio porn is long gone. Social media made younger generations a lot more self-aware how to create your own brand, get followers, and cash in on your own image and content, cutting out the middle man: Porn studios and porn sites. There are plenty of examples where OnlyFans content creators collaborate with other OF content creators for cross promotion and giving their fans something new.

Asher, Deacon and Manny need to retire. 🥱

The site is dead. The only models left are using it to promote their fan sites.

Sean Cody models collectively had a nice ass but couldn’t live forever 😢.

Episode 1 Tom(BelAmi) x Justin(SC)

Did anybody else every watch the Straight College Men site? It was around in 2005-06. The owner was a total drug addict who would go live into chat rooms and literally pass out after huffing god knows what. It was straight out of AbFab. Life imitating art.

R277 You can see the difference in quality of models lol sean cody.

Episode 2 Jim Durden(BelAmi) x Manny(SC)

The sean cody guys are all basic bottoms.

Have Blake and Lane officially retired from SC?

Episode 3 Ashton Monana(BelAmi) x Asher(SC)

R283 Asher is fug. Literrally looks tired , old and drunk next to a model.

[quote]I found Abe’s current FB account (he has at least three). He’s an electrician in the Pacific Northwest, so making a decent living. Still looks good but apparently decided to get a hideous hand tattoo.

Somebody on MaleGeneral catfished him on Facebook and posted DMs as proof. He posed as a fellow SC performer who was having personal problems and asked him for life advice. Abe, big dumb galoot that he is, took the bait and opened up about his past troubles.

• He signed up with SC to pay his legal bills after he got arrested for selling coke. He loved being treated like a celebrity, ended up blowing the money he made on partying, and went to prison for three months. He also did a straight scene for Brazzers before signing up with SC.

• Some former high school classmates found out that he did gay porn and outed him to his parents and his employer at the time. Someone messaged his mother on Facebook, but she couldn't figure out how to open the message and asked hm for help; he deleted the message before she could read it. Eventually his parents found out anyway, and he confessed that he did porn because he needed the money. His mom was understanding; his dad is homophobic and didn't take it well, but eventually he came around. His employer was cool and even let him return to film his final SC scene.

• SC offered him $10,000 to bottom. He went for it, but the scene didn't work out because bottoming was too painful and his scene partner was fucked up on Xanax. He doesn't remember his partner's SC name.

• He considers himself straight and doesn't hook up with guys outside of porn, but he freely admits that he's attracted to men.

• Finally, he says he wants to pitch a series to Netflix about the stigma of doing porn.

^ To your last bullet point it could be an ongoing SC docuseries.

Season One - Abe, Season Two - Brandon, Season Three - Calvin, etc.

R285 "He considers himself straight and doesn't hook up with guys outside of porn, but he freely admits that he's attracted to men."

The gaslighting just to not say "bisexual", pathetic loon.

Both SC and CF are trash now both fugly and boring especially after Elian and Max retired, but CF is better because there no performers who fuck mutilated females, SC is full of tranny fuckers now.

Lane makes a cumback.

Well, when you produce 500 million videos a year that are all exactly the same, that tends to happen.

They've got a lot of fatties recently.

Stu still the hottest performer that who joined SC, all currently roster compared to him are fugly tranny chasers.

It appears Daniel is doing Men.com scenes now.

Daniel LeBang” 🙄

Once they allowed Randy to shave the fur from his butt cheeks, it was all downhill for Sean Cody.

Onlyfans crap + social media destroyed gay porn, imo.

I miss the times when pron performers was hot and anonymous.

Early Chaosmen was great in the Vander years.

Good looking guys and no ridiculous manscaping.

I think it has fallen further than Sean Cody.

Brandon probably had your average everyman dick but a small 'porn dick'.

I miss the whitebread days of Sean Cody. I cant recall any black models which for me was fine because they don't float my boat.

Tattoos ruined porn.

I remember the early SC vids when "SC" hmself would direct the guys.

There was a guy (Troy/Trent?), a smaller-framed guy, who was kind of cocky. I thought he was cute.

It is a wonder that any of these sites survive, given how quickly their clips wind up on streaming sites.

Their charm was that they felt like amateur sites with all the inherent awkwardness and the illusion that you were actually watching something unscripted and that the guys were doing this for the first time, that making a Sean Cody or Corbin Fisher video was how they were coming to terms with their attraction to other guys.

The guys also looked more real-- handsome faces but normal bodies-- they were in shape but not roided out. And they did those interviews before the videos where you got a sense of their personalities, which made watching them have sex a little hotter

Back in the day, people like Patrick, Bailey, Rodney, Dave, Trey et al were being exposed to gay sex and you could tell they liked it way more than they ever thought they would... that was not acting

Agree R300.

You could always tell from the kissing, which is much harder to fake. Most of them just wanted to get it over with ASAP and kept their mouths closed, but others really got into it, especially the after-sex kissing

The problem is that viewers can build a "better" connection to the performers through sites like Only Fans.

(Hardcore) fans are the (only) ones paying for porn these days. If you invest in a VPN you save a shit ton of money torrenting porn, music, movies, TV shows, computer and console games, magazines, books, etc. Like, 100- 200 bucks a year for a VPN can save you thousands of US Dollars spent on entertainment and streaming platform subscriptions. From an economical point of view you'd save a lot of money, but when you're a (hardcore) fan, you gladly pay to feel close or having paid your dues to be part of a semi cult fandom.

Sites like BelAmi and Kinky Angels / Freshmen remain successful, because they are run outside the US and deliver new fresh faces and bodies who remain exclusives for the most part and are not overexposed like the US performers who jump from one studio to the next and have social media presence ruining their image by being total homophobic dicks, conspiracy or gun nuts, etc .

[quote]Once they allowed Randy to shave the fur from his butt cheeks, it was all downhill for Sean Cody.

Not as downhill as it was for Randy.

R.I.P.

Can't believe no one has explained this to you guys. I thought this was common knowledge:

Sean Cody got in to porn working as a probation officer. It gave him access to thousands of hot guys who got in to trouble and needed to make some quick cash. This explains why you've noticed that "I don't know what I'm doing here!" expression, and their naïveté of gay sex (and gay porn). SC's formula worked incredibly well.

So well, it got the attention of pirates and thieves, who stole his content and made a fortune giving it away as an advertising vehicle on the tube sites and then selling $15 a month memberships to every porn scene on the planet. These "entrepreneurs", in turn, used the money they'd stolen from SC to buy SC. I don't blame SC, fighting against porn pirates was a losing proposition. There aren't many attorneys, let alone judges, who want to take IP cases for adult material. (Here's a big clue for you: Glenn Greenwald was such an attorney and further made the foolish mistake of getting personally involved with the owner of Stud Mall right before his world collapsed.) And even when an IP owner "won", they usually got nothing but a big legal bill. SC was smart to sell when he did, take the money, and enjoy life.

Gosh, Sean Cody - brings back memories. Probably the first porn I ever saw when I got access to the internet. Before that it was all underwear catalogues, sports annuals and medical textbooks. I was only a teen at the time though, so no money to pay for it (will admit though to using the old Napster at the time - sometimes taking days to get one short video).

I used to like it a lot. I liked the guys, I liked the "frat guy next door" look of a lot of them, and at the time I was only 14 or 15 so they were older men to me and I liked that. I think I just stopped bothering with SC (and Corbin Fisher and Straight College Men) as I got closer in age to the models, then I was looking for something older, hairier etc.

I liked how many of the models there were fit, but not this overprocessed, overly muscled, no body fat look that so many have nowadays.

I'd love to find my old videos and rewatch sometime. Looking online now, I did find this compilation:

SC cumback - most people in the comments think it is Blake.

Turns out it’s Evan (never heard of him).

r307

who?

Who was the straight bodybuilder who gif one scene with a guy? He was short with a tight tight body and his buddy was taller. Dildos and ass licking we’re involved. He went on to have a career as a bodybuilder. Is this the thread where I can ask this?

bailey?

R304 Sean Cody got in to porn working as a probation officer.

Wrong. That was the guy who founded Corbin Fisher. In Phoneix. Apparently he was a real sleaze. He specialized in prettying up ex-cons.

[quote]Turns out it’s Evan (never heard of him)

I doubt he's the comeback model, he's only done 2 recent scenes?

[quote]Bailey?

I was thinking Bailey as well

Bailey's scene with his friend is one of the best examples of 2 people truly discovering they seem to enjoy gay sex

Sean Cody porn was always boring, dull and uninspired. Eventually the market reacted accordingly and moved on.

Deacon is now doing trans porn and Calan is back at Corbin Fisher.

Here's Bailey and his friend

Blake IS back. And with a hideous arm tattoo.

I remember early Sean Cody when Sean Cody would molest the models and eat their cum.

It seemed more real. You knew he was really into the guys, unlike many of their gay-for-pay models.

the video where Sean fucked one of the guys is one of my favorite videos still

The real Sean Cody was a pretty nice-looking guy (not buff like some of you porno queens demand) and had a good dick.

The easy answer OP is it became a business.

I was inspired to check out a few of the early videos and they're very amateur - you can often see the camera guy's hand and/or the second camera in the shot, you can see someone fiddling with the lighting. The guys seem real, like this is the first time they've ever done anything like this (sex with a guy, sex on camera, sex in front of another person) whereas know many are experienced OF stars.

They also look "real" -- they look like the hot guy in your Econ class, the guy in the cubicle near the copiers, the guy you see with his girlfriend at Starbucks.

Today's models all look like Gay Porn Stars.

That, or they're ugly AF.

There was something about the actual Sean Cody's technique -- the way he interviewed them, the fact that he was pretty good looking, the fact that he was not at all swishy and camp - that made it seem not creepy the way other "real people" porn did.

Studio porn is dull and vacuous. Just a bunch of jaded drugged up guys going through the motions. Amateur porn with ordinary relatable people can be much hotter.

I love Bailey’s hot dirty talk in that video with Jess. I tried it with a guy and he was insulted. Most guys love nasty talk.

[quote]Most guys love nasty talk.

When I guy does that, I just assume he watches too much porn.

Deacon was hot in the start of his pron career, now he's fugly af.

He's bi and I'm suprised that he don't fucked women on screen yet.

r325

He's bi??? that surprises me