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with a pedophile? He’s not supposed to have any contact with any child under the age of eighteen.” (32)
    Lockhart recalled that Kocis seemed to have few friends.
    “It got to a point where all we were doing was sitting in his dark house, barricaded away from the public,” Lockhart said. “We hardly ever left the house.” (33)
    Those who did gain entry to Kocis’ home described it as a typical 2,000 square-foot home of a marginally fastidious bachelor. The “hominess” of the place, however, was at times overrun by growing stacks of paperwork, DVDs and videos related to his business.
    Detective Rosencrans, who arrested Kocis in the home in 2001, said the first floor living area of the home was set up as a regular home, but the basement contained several studio “vignettes” or scenes for Cobra Video productions. By the time he was murdered six years later, the basement was little in use, detectives believed, and the burgeoning cottage industry of Cobra Video operated out of the dining room.
    As time went on and Kocis began seeking out locations beyond his own home for making videos, his home’s basement became overrun with “storage of everything imaginable, tons of porn,” Kocis’ friend Wagner said. “He would be getting porn from all sorts of studios that would ask him to review it. He would look at it (and then) throw it down there. Everything, he was continually buying stuff, so it would all get chucked in the basement. (34)

    A successful yet controversial cottage industry
    Cobra Video was growing, but not necessarily distinguishing itself. Kocis lived and worked far from the center of the adult entertainment industry in California observed J.C. Adams, a Los Angeles-based journalist and blogger on the gay porn industry and a former editor of Unzipped and Inside Porn magazine. Adams’ online site, www.gayporntimes.com, closely followed the Kocis case and is considered one of the definitive news and information sites on the gay porn empire. “He wasn’t well known at all. There are so many small, little companies like his that they tend to blend together,” Adams said. (35)
    Veteran gay porn producer Kevin Clarke was no fan of Bryan Kocis, calling him “a pariah in the porn business.” Clarke said “there are two types of people who make porn, those that are in it for the work and those that are in it for the boys. It is obvious which one of those Bryan Kocis was,” he wrote in an open letter posted on March 25, 2009 on the DeWayne in San Diego blog. (36)
    Clarke contends Kocis only goal was “getting into (the) pants (of young men) as much as it was shooting them in porn. He was a predator and an abuser.” (37)
    Clarke, the director of several eighteen to twenty-three year old twink videos such as The American Way, A Young Man’s World, Ashton Ryan’s B-Boys, and The Seduction of a Surfer, said “More often than not I would talk a young man out of doing porn if I thought it was not something they should do.”He adds, “If your goal is to bed them, you come from a different place.(Kocis) was not concerned with their welfare, he was concerned with their ass.” Clarke said, “His legacy of barebacking twinks stands as a homage to the debased mind of a predator,” referring to Kocis’ practice of filming gay sex scenes without condoms. “We as an industry should protect the youngest in it; we should have stopped Bryan by speaking out.” (38)
    The argument over using condoms in gay porn films has been brewing for a long time. Since HIV infection and AIDS swept the gay community in the 1980s, activists have continually called on porn companies to require condoms in all filmed scenes. Health officials have told the Los Angeles Times as recently as 2009 that they believe as many as half of the performers in gay porn movies are HIV-positive. As early as 2004, the Times reported that “A small number of producers, catering to customers who eroticize risk, have begun to produce so-called