Two revealing and insightful studies of the gay adult film industry. Sex/Life in LA Part One - It's not easy making a buck. But if you are young, beautiful and willing to use your body, the Los Angeles is the best place in the world to ply your wares. Staring Tony Ward, former beau of Madonna. Cycles of Porn - Sex / Life In L.A. Part 2 documents the lives of aging porn actors and throws a harrowing spotlight on the gay film industry in Los Angeles.

PART 1

Muscular pin-ups, glossy magazines and washboard stomachs are just for starters. Sex / Life In L.A. part 1 is a documentary style feature that turns the spotlight on Hollywood, celebrity and the seemingly inexhaustible flood of male erotica.

When the spotlights are off and the male models assume their private lives, we are drawn into a world of porn actors, call boys, male hustlers and photographers who have one thing in common: they earn their living with their bodies. The potentialities are enormous in terms of the magnitude of partners to choose from, sex hotlines and innumerable clubs.

Each of the men utilize their bodies as both the object of desire and the subject of art. Not for the sake of power, but to achieve a lifestyle full of excitement and diversity, which can only be seen to enhance the limitations setup in run-of-the-mill America. This film entertains and offers us a behind-the-scenes look into a part of society that has been undiscovered by a major section of the public.

PART 2

Director Jochen Hick, pulled no punches in making this documentary and takes its audience on a riveting journey into the world of low-budget sex films.

Driven by a sense of adventure and narcissism, It incisively tracks the fortunes of a group of young gay actors who live together in an apartment fitted with web cameras in the hope of achieving stardom in their industry. Here, sexual pleasures and dreams are fulfilled which contrasts their wide-eyed ambitions. Three of the men are now retired from making porn films. But it solicits the question can there be winners in this game? Is there anything left of sex itself? And is there a life after porn?