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Corbin Fisher is an American film studio with a focus in gay pornography. The studio maintains a website at CorbinFisher.com; other web properties of the company include AmateurCollegeMen.com, AmateurCollegeSex.com and ShopCorbinFisher.com. The company also produces pornographic photo books. The company is based in San Diego, California. The founder of Corbin Fisher, who goes by the same name as an alias, started filming men and making videos during his spare time, and started the website CorbinFisher.com in 2004. AmateurCollegeMen.com was also begun in 2004, and the company grew quickly. It launched AmateurCollegeSex.com in 2006, and the company continued to focus on a niche of straight male actors performing in gay pornography.

In September 2008, the company began offering health benefits, scholarships, and 401(k) pension plans to actors who signed exclusive contracts with the company. The company released its first full-length DVD in September 2008, and a photobook Playing Hard to Get was produced in 2009. In 2009, the gay Europorn studio Bel Ami chose Corbin Fisher as its first collaboration on a production with a studio based in the United States. Free speech attorney Marc Randazza was brought on as the company's general counsel in 2009, and he helped bring about a settlement with a cellphone content provider after Corbin Fisher brought a copyright infringement claim against the provider. In November 2009, Corbin Fisher offered a contract deal to Levi Johnston, father of Republican party politician Sarah Palin's grandchild.

Corbin Fisher's products have been well-received, both by others within the industry and by media commentators. In 2006, Corbin Fisher won an award in the category of Adult Gay Megasite at the Cybersocket Awards. Since then, it has been recognized with multiple nominations for awards within the industry; both for its video content and websites. The company received the Free Speech Coalition Award of Excellence at the 2010 Cybersocket Awards, and was named Gay Site of the Year at the 2011 Xbiz Awards.

History

The founder of Corbin Fisher, who goes by the same name as an alias, previously held jobs including police officer and human resources manager. With a prior interest in pornography, Fisher began to film men during his weekends off from these jobs. In January 2004, he started the website CorbinFisher.com, and the business grew quickly since then. AmateurCollegeMen.com was also started in 2004. In a 2006 interview, he told Adult Video News, "It was a steep learning curve. I look back at some of my earliest work and cringe. Filming sex and getting the right shots while retaining some semblance of naturalness and spontaneity is not as easy as it sounds."

Excelsior Productions, the parent company of Corbin Fisher, was managed in 2005 by chief executive Jason Gibson. Brian Dunlap became marketing director at Excelsior Productions in November 2005. In February 2006, Corbin Fisher participated as a sponsor in "The Gay Phoenix Forum", an event held for webmasters and website visitors. In August 2006, Corbin Fisher launched the website AmateurCollegeSex.com, which focused on "straight-guy niche content". Brian Dunlap explained the emphasis of the new site, "The guys are straight. This is what they do when the cameras aren’t on, so we wanted to give surfers a glimpse into that part of who the guys are." The site was created to serve as a complement to Corbin Fisher's site AmateurCollegeMen.com, and Dunlap commented on the business potential of the two sites for webmasters, "Maybe a big portion of their traffic has already signed up to Corbin Fisher. Well, now they can start earning new money off those old surfers. This is an opportunity to promote not just one site, but two. There’s an opportunity to earn two commissions off one referral." By August 2007, AmateurCollegeMen.com had about 500 "solo and hardcore all-male videos".

In December 2007, Dylan Fox of Gaywired.com noted that Corbin Fisher had become successful. Fox wrote of Corbin Fisher, "gay man's obsession with straight guys has created a booming Internet business that is raking in the cash." The Spanish language media site ENewspaper also commented on this phenomenon, observing that Corbin Fisher had successfully capitalized on appealing to those that appreciate videos where supposedly heterosexual men act in gay film.

In August 2008 Corbin Fisher described itself at its website as offering media of amateur sex between attractive young people at universities. The website explained that most of the models on the site were heterosexual young men. In September 2008, Valeriano Elfodiluce of the Italian language site Gay.it reported that Corbin Fisher offered scholarships and 401(k) plans to actors who signed exclusive contracts with the company. Health benefits offered included medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage. "The contributions our models make to the success of our company have always been tremendous. We've long recognized that fact with very high pay rates and substantial income-earning opportunity for our performers, but we wanted to do all we could to further expand upon what our valued performers are offered, how we care for them and how we express our appreciation for all they do," explained then-vice president Brian Dunlap.

The company released its first full-length DVD in September 2008, called The Best of Lucas: Volume I. The DVD highlighted five scenes with Lucas, a favorite actor by fans of the website who was one of the site's first heterosexual models to appear in male-male scenes. Bruno Gmunder distributed the DVDs in Europe. Bruno Gmunder included content from the Corbin Fisher photo book Playing Hard to Get in some of its books released in 2009. In 2009, the gay Europorn studio BelAmi chose Corbin Fisher as its first collaboration on a production with a studio based in the United States. Production including filming in San Francisco, Prague and Budapest. In April 2009, ENewspaper classed Corbin Fisher in the world of gay pornography as among "website suppliers of videos", including SeanCody.com, RandyBlue.com, CockyBoys.com, and StraightBoysFucking.com.

In July 2009, Corbin Fisher and Bel Ami announced collaboration on a project which would produce a full-length DVD titled, Five Americans in Prague. The first scene that developed out of the collaboration with Bel Ami was released in July 2009. Though one actor spoke English and the other Czech, the language barrier was not an issue during filming. Corbin Fisher hired lawyer and free speech specialist Marc Randazza as its general counsel in July 2009.

In October 2009, Corbin Fisher settled a legal dispute with Hunkfest, a cellphone content provider. The dispute was over a copyright infringement claim by Corbin Fisher against Hunkfest. The company attempted to settle with Hunkfest first but filed suit in United States federal court when their offer was rejected. "When we approach infringers, we usually offer a reasonable settlement. When it is rejected, my orders are to go full-bore. This company will take even the smallest infringer to court," said general counsel Randazza. Hunkfest's lawyer acknowledged that the settlement amount was significant but reasonable.

On November 19, 2009, Corbin Fisher offered a studio deal to Levi Johnston, father with Bristol Palin of Republican party politician Sarah Palin's grandchild. The potential studio contract was posted in December 2009 to the legal analysis website AboveTheLaw.com. The deal was for US$100,000, in addition to royalties of five percent on gross revenue of sales of DVD including the actor. According to Corbin Fisher's general counsel Randazza, representatives of Johnston "They were very polite but said that the money was not enough."

In February 2010, Corbin Fisher won a $990,000 judgment in United States federal court against an individual from Texas who had copied 66 of the company's films to DVD and sold them on eBay. The company took over a site that had copyrighted material without permission, PornILove.net, and cooperated in conjunction with other companies in the industry in order to attempt to ascertain the identities of the content pirates.

Commentary

In September 2005, RealLiveGuys.com Marketing director Eddie K characterized Corbin Fisher as among "new hit gay porn sites that specialize in straight guys". In July 2008, Falcon Entertainment CEO Todd Montgomery said he admired the company and its development, "I've always had a lot of professional and personal admiration for because they really defined a new space in gay adult entertainment that didn't exist prior to the real broad adoption of the Internet." In August 2008, Gary Blumenthal, manager of a different pornographic site OnTheHunt.com, commented on the focus of Corbin Fisher and another competitor. Videos at Corbin Fisher are generally 40 minutes longer in duration than those of OnTheHunt.com. "Both http://www.SeanCody.com and http://www.CorbinFisher.com are niche-specific Web sites focusing on all-American jock-type guys, many of whom are 'gay for pay,'" observed Blumenthal.

Ernie Alderete of Bay Area Reporter reviewed the Corbin Fisher color photo collection Corbin Fisher's Amateur College Men distributed by Bruno Gmunder, and described it as "a collection of exciting color photos of college-age athletes in sexual poses progressing from soft-core to fully erect and stiff hard-core". Alderete criticized the focus of pictures in the book and the book's size, "But several factors prevent Amateur College Men from achieving greatness. Inexplicably, several of the photographs are out of focus." The review concluded, "Despite its flaws, this book is packed with interesting faces and nice bodies, the stuff many dreams could be made of. And it certainly lives up to its name: it delivers tons of absolutely fresh, USDA prime meat!"

In June 2009, Jason Salzenstein of Edge Boston commented favorably of the Corbin Fisher-produced photo book Playing Hard to Get distributed by Bruno Gmunder. "In fact, one of the best things about this volume is its simplicity, and the natural beauty of the models. When 'boy next door' has come to mean Abercrombie & Fitch perfection, it’s refreshing to see a book filled with guys who actually look like they could live in your neighborhood," wrote Salzenstein. Carsten Weidemann of the German language site Queer.de gave Playing Hard to Get a positive review, and noted that Corbin Fisher became successful quickly. Weidemann called Corbin Fisher, "athletic, sexy".

Awards and nominations

See also

• List of male performers in gay porn films
• List of pornographic magazines
• List of pornographic movie studios
• Gay for pay
• Gay pornography
• Pornographic actor

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Further reading

• Escoffier, Jeffrey (2009). Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore. Running Press. ISBN 0786720107.
• Paasonen, Susanna (2008). Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture. Berg Publishers. ISBN 1845207041. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Sheppard, Simon (2007). Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica. Carroll & Graf/Running Press. ISBN 0786717556.

External links

• Official site
• AVN Industry Directory - CorbinFisher, Adult Video News
• Corbin Fisher ACM Review, BananaGuide

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• Gay male pornography