Helix Studios' Real-Life Couples Featured by Into Magazine

Above, Helix stars Joey Mills, Max Carter, Kyle Ross and Blake Mitchell at the 2018 GayVN Awards Show; photo by JFK/FUBARwebmasters.com CYBERSPACE—Helix Studios received some good press this week in the mainstream gay-oriented online magazine Into for its habit of encouraging existing couples to shoot hardcore scenes together in Helix videos. In fact, the “gay porn power couple” of Kyle Ross and Max Carter—who have filmed scenes for Helix throughout the five years of their romantic relationship—announced their engagement in December, marking the most prominent success story of Helix real-life couples. Ross and Carter continue to shoot scenes for Helix, Into wrote, by they have also moved up within the studio’s business hierarchy. Carter now oversees the studio’s subsidiary site 8TeenBoy.com, while Ross has moved into an administrative position with the company. “I love filming boyfriends,” Helix producer Casey Roman said, quoted by Into. “Since we cast based on looks and personality, the guys will come out here for a party and it'll be like 20 guys, and they'll all be the hottest guys, and they'll all have the best personalities. So it's the perfect Grindr for everybody.” But, the article notes, not every real-life relationship that crosses over into on-camera sex has been as successful as Ross and Carter’s ongoing romance. Performers Joey Mills and Ashton Summers split late last year not long after going public with their off-screen relationship.  Another “power couple,” Evan Parker and Andy Taylor, called it quits back in 2014 while fan favorites Blake Mitchell and Casey Tanner dissolved their relationship amidst allegations of infidelity.  But even post-breakup, some Helix couples remain together—at least in the minds of their fans, according to Into. “You can break up and it's done and there's still going to be people,” Mills told the site. “There are fan accounts that are for me and him being together and it's all people tweet about. People base their whole fandom, whatever, on that one piece. So it sticks around. It will never go away.” Many of those fans, viewing Helix videos and investing in the models’ real-life relationships, are women, the site reported. “That just came out of nowhere,” Ross said. “It's not like we are catering or pandering to females or anything. We are just making gay porn. On Twitter, it turns out quite a bit of our big fans are females.”