Many questions have been raised about performers' legal troubles and their violent past. What is surprising in my mind was that Sean Cody himself was never on the receiving end of any of that violence at least on camera that we know of. In the early films, Sean really pushed the boundaries with models like Dylan, Luke, Patrick, etc. Who knows how much push back from the models ever occurred or if it was just edited out to keep the fantasy alive. Another interesting fact I hadn't realized was that the site had premiered literally days prior to the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. I can't help wondering if 9/11's complete domination of the news cycle helped prevent cultural push back from conservative circles from killing the site in its infancy. Had their been no 9/11, would news of a gay porn website that was 'forcing straight men into gay sex' have been picked up by conservative media pundits and used as fodder in the culture wars? What I am trying to say is that the absence of prying eyes allowed the gay porn industry to flourish while the rest of the world was distracted by grief porn from 9/11. I don't think that there was ever any doubt that the site was not going to be successful; the gay porn market was untapped and ripe for exploiting, and Sean Cody came around at the right time to cater to that market, but you have to admit that the stars really came into alignment for its launch date.
