NEW YORK, NY — 2013 has been a year of accolades for CockyBoys. Its art porn movement has been making waves across mainstream, gaystream and adult press alike. Now, CockyBoys' owner and director Jake Jaxson is ready to show off his art porn in grand style with the launch of his Porn Haus Film Festival which is now playing only on CockyBoys.
The festival runs through October and features over five adult film experiences beginning with the one hour and 10 min, Boys to Adore Galore, based on Andy Warhol's art vs. porn conversation.
In this short film, directed by Jaxson, CockyBoys is taking fans on an exciting, celebratory journey through history while also witnessing it being created. As much of a tribute to Andy Warhol as it is inspired by the artist, Boys to Adore Galore features an ensemble of CockyBoys' most popular models in a very natural state, behind-the-scenes. Bravo Delta, Dillon Rossi, Max Ryder, Levi Karter, JD Phoenix, Ricky Roman, and Jett Black all come together.
Intercut with nuggets of knowledge from Warhol's era, this film features two simultaneous three-ways. But in the same free-spirited style as Warhol, nothing's off limits when all the CockyBoys get together. And if you didn't think it could get any better, then just wait until the end when JD joins the party. If Warhol's unfinished film Orgy had ever been completed, it would probably look something like this scene in Boys to Adore Galore.
Read the essay from Director Jake Jaxson below about the inspiration for this incredible film.
Andy Warhol was a Pornographer
By Jake Jaxson
I love Andy Warhol. In fact, I'm a disciple of what has become known as his Business Art Philosophy.
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." -- Andy Warhol
My fascination with Warhol began when I was in high school. I would read anything I could about him. I dreamed of going to Studio 54 and even got excited when he would make his appearances on The Love Boat — a show I was forbidden to watch on Saturday nights. My mother called it The Lust Boat, but my babysitter was happy to look the other way and we would watch it together.
Recently, I found myself referencing Warhol and porn in a series of interviews I did for CBC, Buzzfeed, and the Village Voice in defense of Jett Black's expulsion from his ballet school and the art versus porn conversation. That debate is like a dog chasing his tail and neither bore me.
In fact, Andy reveled in it. He was very clear and connected to what he was doing with his "pornography" and understood its relevance to its time, provocation, and its value in the future. His early films could only be shown in porn houses or underground theaters — Blow Job, Bike Boy, and Fuck (retitled Blue Movie) in particular. Blue Movie was, in fact, confiscated by police and the theater owner was changed with obscenity. On September 17, 1969, a three-judge panel ruled that Blue Movie met the criteria for hardcore pornography on all three counts — it aroused prurient interest; it offended community standards; and it had no redeeming social value. Today, Blue Movie is nothing compared to what we see on basic cable or, God forbid, HBO.
I now stop myself from saying that I used to work in "mainstream entertainment" because I believe my work now, as a filmmaker is as mainstream as anything else. Frank Rich from the New York Times said it best. "At $10 billion, porn is no longer a sideshow to the mainstream like, say, the $600 million Broadway theater industry — it is the mainstream..."
Read the rest of the essay from Jake Jaxson and watch the full movie only on CockyBoys.com.
