The Story of
The San Diego based Helix Studios has been a massively successful international porn studio. It started just after the Millenium with some incredibly successful twink spanking films and soon grew into the mega-studio it is today specialising in the 18-23 year old model bracket of twinks and college boys. They are the Bel Ami of Nor th America- so Paul Stag spoke to the Helix team to find out what makes a modern day porn studio successful and popular.
How did Helix Studios come about? Helix Studios first started producing spanking movies under the label Spank This with its first release in January of 2002. Keith Miller AKA Jeff Sterne was already known in the spanking community. He began filming spanking videos in these early days of internet video. As the company released more and more spanking videos, it gained a large following and quickly came to dominate the gay male spanking fetish world. Spanking videos don’ t typically incorporate sex in them. It’ s much more about dominance and submissiveness and corporal punishment. The young handsome spankees would inevitably get hard and extremely horny after the videos were shot. Their pink rosy ass cheeks having been stimulated would cause a rush of hormones through their bodies and they would need to be“ finished” off properly before everything was over. After filming the first ten pank This movies, Helix Studios had signed a long list of sexy hardbodied young gay men from South Florida where the company was based out of in those early years. Although SpankThis. com was already doing well and SpankThis DVDs were selling to this fetish market, Keith Miller realized the potential to go beyond just spanking. It would take very little to expand into sex. only condom scenes. It brought to After all, what do you do with all these screen the essence of that youthful horny and exhibitionist guys who live sexual discovery stage that we all in one of the sexiest places on earth go through. Many of the models had with raging hormones and an ability boyfriends and they wanted to film to perform on screen? A huge benefit bareback scenes together. So that’ s to beginning as a spank studio is how how our bareback line HotStuds started. That became our most popular important the role of storytelling is to the fetish, the scenario and chemistry line very quickly. The bareback video between actors is what drives the eroticism. It was natural to carry over those sex between lovers and uninhibited
we film feature some of the hottest
skills and values to full sex scenes. sex. With so many Latin models on our hands we decided to film several
What gap in the porn world did Latin oriented films as well under the
Helix aim to fill?
LatinStuds label. These were bareback videos featuring the 18-23 Latin
It started in online without DVD or VHS distribution at first. We were one boys of South Florida. As some of our of the only ones filling the fetish gap most successful models grew older online. Today Helix Studios has carved into twentysomethings, we aunched a niche in the 18-23 age gay porn. It’ s our Fratboy line featuring the more become known for its erotic scenarios jocky, muscular 20-something models. There was a clear emphasis and cinematic approach to filming with themes ranging from spanking to sports towards sports and college themes and everything in between. at Fratboy. com. Eventually by 2006,
How has the studio style developed over the 13 years? all these lines were merged into one
as the company moved to California,
The first all sex movie from Helix mega site because we realized that a Studios launched in June 2003. common theme had developed. We Latin Lovers featured some really were filming guys who were exploding with sexual energy in their sexual gorgeous young guys and starred Mateas Perez with his massive 9” prime of a certain age group. We paid uncut cock. The cast was a mix of attention to quality and strived to do hot Latinos and some blond blue better each shoot. From filming to eyed white boys. The DVD had great lighting to editing to selection of guys success and it launched on the new who were in it for sexual gratification site 8teenboy. com( which now is rather than just a pay check- and accessible via helixstudios. com) delivery on our websites. Everything with a bang. 8teenboy quickly found had to improve. We hired talented its niche in the 18-21 models filming film crew, editors and designers who
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