His notable credits include Grabby Award-nominated performances in Heaven to Hell (2005) and The Velvet Mafia (2006), and the 2007 film The Ivy League, for which he won two Grabby Awards. He began appearing in films produced by Raging Stallion Studios when the studio merged with Falcon in 2011. Over the course of his career, Rhodes appeared in over 40 scenes with Falcon, and directed eight films for the Falcon subsidiary Mustang Studios. The role would be Rhodes' sole non-Falcon gay pornographic feature film he would sign an exclusive contract with Falcon in 2004, and made his debut with the studio that same year with the film Super Soaked. He broke into the adult film industry at the age of 22, in the 2004 film Flesh produced by Studio 2000. Rhodes worked at a CVS and a sex shop before working as a stripper, go-go dancer, and a male escort, where he was discovered by a recruiter for the gay pornography studio Falcon Entertainment.
He has an identical twin brother, Jon Naughtin. Rhodes was born James Elliott Naughtin in Massapequa, New York.
