BOOKS: SUMMER BOYS.

By RJ Sebastian and Jake Jaxson

Jaxson and Sebastian met in Los Angeles, fell in love and, in the first decade of the new millennium, decided to quit their careers (RJ was an actor/model, Jake was a TV producer) and become full-time gay pornographers.

Thus their porn company, Cocky Boys was born. But this new business also involved a physical move to the more extreme temperatures of New York City and away from the everlasting summer vibe of California.

For RJ, every time the couple return to LA, “the summer boy within me comes back to life”. It’s this special lustful energy that this new book aims to capture and celebrate.

The photographs were partly shot in the woods that surround the couple’s house in upstate New York, and partly by the piers and beaches of Malibu. The book features 30 different well-known models including Blake Mitchell and Hayden Brier, Carter Dane, Jacen Zhu, Levi Karter, Ricky Roman, Allen King, Josh Moore, Taylor Reign, Danny Montero, Alam Wernik and Calvin Banks.

The photographs are not as explicit as you might imagine from Cocky Boys and only about 25 per cent feature frontal nudity. The remainder are largely shirtless or semi-naked and overall Summer Boys is more romantic than hardcore. It could feature on your coffee table without startling anyone too much.

In tune with Cocky Boys arthouse ambitions, the photographs are interspersed with some well-chosen excerpts from Walt Whitman’s

Leaves Of Grass.