CockyBoys: Damian Night Dominates Nick Floyd in a Passionate Encounter

DeeGee says:

I'm here for the politics.

Elza says:

Yeah, I haven't seen you around nearly as much lately! I'm curious to hear more about what you feel porn is lacking these days that it used to have. I definitely feel that way with SC at least, and there's soooo much more being produced privately (OF) rather than through studios.

DeeGee says:

As William Goldman famously put it: "Nobody knows anything." I certainly know what I like, as does my Doggy friend. I could't begin to explain the business model or aesthetic logic behind a studio like Men dot Dumb. I've never heard of one person say "I want more non-professional women interrupting sex scenes." And it's certainly not how they got their start. Falcon/RagingHouse seem to be on the decline. NakedSword is doing some weird divide and conquer thing by coopting (ish) Rhyheim while plagiarizing a certain scandalizing school teacher named Collin's WorldofMen approach, and don't get me started on CF or SC.

OF and social media disrupted the studio and subscription site model (social media by making it more difficult to recruit those "straight" frat types that were open to performing with men, but not if their entire network of friends was going to know about it within days of shooting). But those models were never perfection. SC (and to a lesser extent, CF) trafficked in very homophobic cultural tropes, forcing their performers to renounce sexual fluidity or gay identity. The classic FalconHotStallion studios were equally rigid in their ideas about casting and obligatory "narrative structure" in gay porn (suck, rim, fuck).

I think Matthew Ellis (who is everywhere these days, but not at all in a bad way) got to the heart of the issue in an interview/post. He nails the fake industry orthodoxy of career progression and how the studios try to regulate both diversity, taste and performer brands:

I'll start by saying that working with studios can be a very interesting experience, and just like in any work environment, you can have wonderful days and you can have terrible days. My first studio experiences were in July/August of last year, and it was all very positive.

Shortly after I wrapped up my scenes in San Diego I travelled to LA and started filming my first ever collabs (you might remember a particularly iconic poolside DP scene with Rhyheim Shabazz and Elijah Zayne 👀). We decided to release that scene about one week later once I was back in Australia and it really put me on the map and things started to heat up for me. LIFE WAS GREAT!

The studios, however, thought it was not so great and they proceeded to tell me that by releasing not only a DP scene, but an 'interracial' DP scene (their words not mine – you guys know that race is not something I ever focus on in my content), that I had essentially 'damaged' the longevity of my career before it even started. They explained to me that there is a clear progression that porn actors must follow to ensure the longevity of their careers, and I had basically jumped 10 steps ahead. They told me that they would no longer have any way to 'market' me, and that I was essentially useless to them now.

At the time, I remember feeling a lot of frustration because I did not share any of these opinions, and in fact I had a thorough business plan/strategy that involved me getting my name and face out into the big, wide world of gay porn as fast as humanly possible. And that is exactly what I achieved. Studio exposure was just one part of that plan but it revolved primarily around my own ability to build my brand and networks within the industry myself.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and that poolside DP scene had gone viral. My X exploded. My OF exploded. I was being contacted by some of the biggest names in the industry for collaborations. That same scene received a nomination for the 'best all-male collab' of the year at the 2024 GayVNs, AND WE EVEN WON! 🏆

Now, back to this latest studio scene with Phoenix & Shadow… About 1 month later (and much to my surprise) the studios reached out to me and said that they would like to book me for some more scenes in September. Now, I am not one to ever want to burn bridges and instead was seeking to mend what I hoped could still be a valuable relationship to maintain, and so I accepted their offer.

I had to laugh when I learned that I would be filming not one, not two, but THREE DP scenes, one of which was an 'interracial DP' scene (with Phoenix and Shadow). The very thing that I had been warned would completely derail the longevity of my career in this industry just one month earlier! As you'll all see when/if you do watch this latest studio scene, there really shouldn't be any hard or fast rules around these things – because if there were then we certainly wouldn't have ended up with this great scene that the 3 of us created together! Overall, I couldn't be more happy or proud that I followed my gut and did things exactly the way that I planned them.

moondoggy says:

I'm wondering if there's a distinction here between the content of the video and the marketing around it. And first, recognize what you already know about me, that SC almost didn't exist for me until they went bareback. I remember Bailey's Fuck Buddy and a Nolan scene in a kitchen that I thought looked amazing, but I otherwise ignored them until 2012. At that time, the models in the scenes acted as if they were starved for each other and getting piggier and piggier with Ryan being every hung top's fleshtube; Aidan and Pierce becoming early star bottoms with scene frequency that began to annoy people on this board; and Daniel obviously screaming "cum in my ass" at the top of his lungs while shooting his own load. All of that seemed progressive to me at the time.

The only place where any gay panic is legible to me in the videos is in the athletic frolicking that precedes the video (which in my mind SC adopted from Bel Ami). But in the sex itself, the versatile rimming, sucking, breeding, the relishing of cum, all of those things stood at SC in stark contrast to CM (where Bryan was in love with the stoic models who had to be coaxed into what they were doing), and especially Cocksuremen where guys like Leo Giamani almost never bottomed, almost never gave head, rarely did anything but piston their dicks in an ass. Park Wiley (obviously gay and down for everything) was the exception at CSM and Vander the exception at CM in contradistinction to Brandon (SC’s version of Leo Giamani), the exception at SC rather than the rule, although certainly a heavily promoted exception.

Does what I’m saying resonate as true, tunnel vision, revisionist, or what? And please give me any excuse to go back to 2012 and spell out all of the scenes I’m half-remembering where the SC models delighted in the chance to become pigs without regard to labels or gay panic! I’m not throwing down a gauntlet here, just trying to understand what I missed.