Aymar Jean Christian researches visual culture - television, film, webisodes - at the Annenberg School of Communication in Pennsylvania. So when he says Sean Cody may be diversifying out of economic necessity, you damn well better believe that may or may not be true. But the fact the gang's all here and linked in Chistian's blog post, "In Adult Video Online, Does Diversity Sell" - the gang being me (Hi, everybody!!), Fleshbot, The Sword and Unzipped - all because of Sean Cody and Aymar's good sense to spot a story in gay porn before all of us professional bloviators called it first is a testament to the democratization of gay porn analysis:
"Sean Cody was really one of the first sites to capitalize on the use of amateur performers in adult online video, turning it into a solid business and proving you didn’t need to produce a six-figure scripted film to get people to pay for pleasure. It is true that his site, along with Randy Blue, really did start out quite diverse, when both sites needed to fill the content vacuum and get models who would work for cheap, as MOC Blog pointed out (not without controversy). Now the market might be running away from, or past, Sean Cody, and he’s needed to adapt, however slowly, to the changing and increasingly cutthroat environment."
Yeah. What he said. Besides, where do you watch television? (Via: Blog.AJChristian.org)
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