NEW YORK—CockyBoys is attempting to redefine how people watch porn online and the latest episode of RoadStrip is a prime example. The Bangover, the third episode in the company's reality series, takes Max Ryder and Jake Bass — with camera crew in tow — to Los Angeles for the 2013 Cybersocket Awards.
The night features guest appearances by everyone from Sister Roma to BelAmi's Mick Lovell to The Sword's Zach Sire. There's also some frank talk by Bass and Ryder about finally meeting all the bloggers who've been writing about them.
But it's a party the next night — where Bass and Ryder black out — that really kicks off the adventure.
The twosome brings two new boys, Aiden and JD, to their suite at the W hotel. There's drunken four-way night sex, partner-swapping morning sex and plenty of intertwined limbs.
The Bangover, might sound like the hoary porn staple — a remake — in this case the title is a reference to The Hangover movies. Except, instead of the crutch of cheap parody, here conceit is used as a launching point for an entirely new way of looking at filmed sex.
Rather than concoct an elaborate plot or try to get porn models to read lines, director Jake Jaxson based the RoadStrip reality series around the real-life friendship of Max Ryder and Jake Bass (known affectionately, and collectively, as "Jax"), so that the set-ups never feel staged and the sex comes naturally.
Perhaps that's why it wasn't surprising to hear that CockyBoys has 19 nominations for the upcoming Grabby Awards in Chicago later this month. Or that the company just swept the TLA Gay Awards, taking home Studio of the Year, as well as Best Director (Jake Jaxson) and "Must Own of The Year" for the company's previous reality venture, Project GoGoBoy.
At a time when many companies rely on heavy-handed plots or bare-bones sex scenes, CockyBoys is showing the industry what the medium can do in 2013. The Bangover, for instance, runs a full 40 minutes between the sex and live footage.
