Sean Cody (company name: MG Premium Ltd.) is a gay pornography label founded in September 2001. The website predominantly features young, muscular men in solo and hardcore bareback scenes. Sean Cody has a strict model selection, with contracts requiring no prior pornographic experience ("exclusive" men).
History
Sean Cody studio was established in 2001 by Sean Cody, a software engineer turned photographer. According to his self-introduction on the original website, he had a religious upbringing up until he turned 18 and left for college. He admitted that he always had a fascination for male beauty, and so after a stint in a large software company after graduation, he launched seancody.com at the age of 30. The studio featured a slate of clean-cut, straight-looking young male models, a reflection of his ideal masculinity and someone he lost his "virginity" to.[2]
He owned and ran the company Cody Media Inc until 2015, when he sold it to porn conglomerate MindGeek (who owns other competitor studios such as Men.com).[3] This raised some questions around the quality and exclusivity of the content, as the same parent company owned the content-sharing websites that have negatively affected many other studios. A 2014 article by Internet magazine Slate explained how "MindGeek has become the porn monopoly, putting industry members in the paradoxical position of working for the very company that profits from the piracy of their work."