“It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to do what you love in a small company of professionals who are tight-knit friends and lifestyle players at the top of their game,” Black said of his return to the company that kick-started his career. “I’m happy I can focus my attention on a single project where the quality of the final product is what matters to everyone.”

Intersec Chief Executive Officer Matt Williams, who also moved from Intersec to Kink.com and back again, said Black’s hiring represents part of an overall restructuring plan for the studio.

“We are moving to a one director, one site business model,” Williams explained, adding that his personal project is SexuallyBroken.com. “We want our directors to focus all their creative energy into one property, thus ensuring the site is enriched with originality, creativity and profitability. When directors are overworked, or forced to run two or even three sites, they must spread that creative spark too thin, creating a product that is common, cookie-cutter and lazy.

“[Cyd’s] experience with Eastern and Western rope styles in conjunction with his safe and sane handling skills, plus years of experience, make him the perfect fit for HardTied,” Williams continued. “Cyd is a creator. He is not the type to look and copy what others have done, which is all too common in this business today. His work is often stunning, even seemingly to himself, at times. His ability to push beautiful women to new sexual heights while remaining within their limits is a rare gift.”