Sean Cody

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Sean Cody
legal form Private company
founding September 2001
Seat San Diego , California , United States
United StatesUnited States 
management Mindgeek
Branch Sex industry
Website Sean Cody

Sean Cody is a US company headquartered in San Diego , California . It was founded in the fall of 2001 and specializes in gay pornography . The distribution of the porn is exclusively digital .

From 2003 to 2015, the brand was managed by Cody Media Inc until it was sold to media and IT company Mindgeek .

The enterprise

In June 2010, ex-actor Devon Hunter (known as actor under the pseudonym Ryan ) shared his experience with the company while filming. In his opinion, he criticizes the gay-for-pay concept, but above all the criticism that he experienced homophobia on the set is worth mentioning . But it seems that the “gay-for-pay” concept in homosexual porn was more likely to spark a debate among gay men. After his criticism, Sean Cody then published Hunter's personal data, which brought the company under strong criticism and deleted the post with the data.

Cody Media Inc filed charges in January 2012 of illegal file sharing by 122 distributors on the company's first barebacking video entitled "Brandon & Pierce Unwrapped," which was released in December 2011. This was the first indictment by Cody Media Inc or Sean Cody, with which the company has since been described as aggressive in its policy against file sharing.

With the sale to Mindgeek , the future quality of the videos was called into question, as Mindgeek maintains competition Men.com , among others . Mindgeek has come under constant criticism for showing monopoly behavior in the pornographic sex industry market and abandoning low-profit brands. This is probably also due to the fact that it does not invest strategically in successful brands and thus does not adapt them to market changes. According to Google Trends , Sean Cody took the course towards the high point in the focus of the interested public in 2015, but has been falling steadily since 2016. Although there was a takeover effect through conceptual restructuring in 2015, the lack of investment has a negative effect on the strategic result of public interest out.

actor

Sean Cody focuses on mostly young and muscular men who act in solo and hardcore scenes. The company also has a strict rule whereby men sign the contract that they have not previously had any active pornographic experience and thus exclusively contracts the actors .

Some of the cast later became more or less celebrities in public, for example underwear model Simon Dexter worked for Sean Cody before his career. Also Aaron Savvy, a fitness model and MMA athlete who also appeared on the Hole in the Wall competitive show in the United States. Dakota Cochrane, also an MMA athlete who appeared in the 15th season of Ultimate Fighting Championship on FX Network, appeared under the pseudonym Danny in 2007. He said he regretted the decision to make the videos. Dayton O'Connor, Colby Keller, Paul Wagner and Brady Jensen became professional porn actors. A former actor Sean (official first name Ben ) came on the documentary series True Life of MTV in December 2015 episode I Am a Gay-for-pay porn star , where he talked about his family and career in the gay sex industry. The actor Forrest (officially Anthony ) also appeared in this episode.

Sean Cody is now also best known for the dark side of the actors, some of whom were arrested as murderers. Jason Andrews, who worked as Addison for Sean Cody in 2008, was the first case. He was arrested for first degree murder in 2010 . It is particularly worth mentioning that he is said to have been popular among the Sean Cody viewers of his time and shot seven videos for Sean Cody from April to July 2008. Andrews pleaded first degree murder and was sentenced to life without parole. Also, in March 2015, Teofil Brank, popular in the pornographic sex industry as Jarec Wentworth , was charged with blackmailing MagicJack board member Donald Burns, who is also a prominent Republican politician in the United States. Brank was subsequently found guilty in July 2015 and sentenced to six years in prison in October 2015 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ QUEER ME NOW, January 8, 2015 Sean Cody Acquired by MindGeek (Men.com) In queermenow.net (English; not accessible to minors!), Accessed January 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Devon, June 15, 2010 Know before you go, part 1 of 3: Sean Cody In devonhunter.info , accessed January 22, 2018
  3. ↑ Ryan Tedder, June 21, 2010 at 2:06 p.m. Diary of a Sean Cody Performer In queerty.com , accessed January 22, 2018
  4. ↑ Rhett Pardon, January 26, 2012 at 9:45 am Sean Cody's Parent Company Files Porn BitTorrent Suits Against 122 In XBIZ , accessed January 22, 2018
  5. ↑ a b David Auerbach, on October 23, 2014 at 4:36 p.m. Vampire Porn In slate.com (English), accessed on January 22, 2018
  6. ↑ Google Trends Sean Cody ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In Google Trends (German), accessed on January 22, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / trends.google.de
  7. ^ Project Q Atlanta, August 30, 2010 at 8:25 a.m. Monday: Simon Dexter's intense practice In Q MAGAZINE , accessed on January 22, 2018
  8. ↑ Andy Dehnart, on February 29, 2012 at 10:06 am Ultimate Fighter's gay porn career: “a big mistake,” Dakota Cochrane says In reality blurred , accessed on January 22, 2018
  9. ^ IAFD Dayton O'Connor In IAFD , accessed January 22, 2018
  10. ↑ IAFD Colby Keller In IAFD , accessed January 22, 2018
  11. ↑ IAFD Paul Wagner In IAFD (English), accessed on January 22, 2018
  12. ↑ QUEER ME NOW, on December 10, 2015 MTV True Life “I'm A Gay For Pay Porn Star” Highlights with Vadim Black, Sean, Forrest, Diego Sans & Devon Felix In queermenow.net (English; not accessible to minors! ), accessed January 22, 2018
  13. ↑ OUT.COM EDITORS, Monday, February 6, 2012 at 5:03 p.m. Former Sean Cody Porn Star Convicted of Murder In out.com , accessed January 22, 2018
  14. ↑ DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER and Snejana Farberov, on October 28, 2015 at 4:16 pm Gay porn actor jailed for six years for extorting $ 500,000 and a state-of-the-art Audi from cell phone tycoon by threatening to expose their secret sexual liaisons In Daily Mail , Retrieved January 22, 2018