I work in the porn industry, ama

I work in the porn industry, ama

I've done a handful of these over the years, but I'm soon to switch jobs into a non-porn job, so I thought I'd one last thread.

Some FAQs:

"Is porn real?"

Whether it's been in threads here, or from friends, or even from people who are looking to get into the industry, this is by far the number one question I get asked when people find out I work in porn. The answer, unfortunately, isn't a simple one.

First, people have a lot of different ideas of "real" when they ask this question? Are people really having sex? In most porn, yes, yes they are (there is some soft stuff on like premium cable where this isn't the case). Are they really having an orgasm? The people w/ penises usually are (this is sometimes fake, but pretty rarely). No one else is, but if you NEED this to be true to get off, sure. Some are. Is that really amateur? Probably not, tbh?

The short answer to the "is it real?" question is no. Even on like the base level of so called "amateur" porn isn't really real (Google the Hawthorne Effect). Porn isn't ever really gonna look the same as when people have sex in their day to day lives.

With that said, porn actors almost always enjoy their work, and get legitimate sexual enjoyment out of doing it. Almost all of them will tell you it's different then when they have sex with their partners, but that doesn't mean we still can't all get off to it.


"Is porn bad for me?"

A lot of people ask this too, and, while there are some studies out there that point to ED, and that men who regularly watch porn are less likely to get married (although this could be that marriage is less big of a deal in countries where porn is widely available), generally it's fine, and the benefits of masturbation have been widely documented.

However, it is important to consider that the way one has sex in porn rarely reflects reality, so it can cause some bad habits.

More FAQs in the comments.

"I'm circumcised/not circumcised, can I still work in porn?"

Yes. Generally, that's not a big issue. With the push in the last five years to stuff with more of an "amateur" feel to it, what a dick looks like is less meaningful to casting directors and producers.

It can be tough to break into the industry for dudes tho. You really need to be willing to start small, and do some solo videos (unless you're willing to do gay porn, but even that is tough too).

"Are all porn stars happy/sad?"

This is really common question, and usually it falls on gender lines. Most people assume female porn actors are miserable and most male ones are thrilled. As is with a lot of "common knowledge" neither is really accurate. There are DEFINITELY some people in porn that are acting out some learned trauma from when they were kids. Everyone in the industry knows it, and most know it when they see it.

But most porn actors just enjoy sex and found a way to make money from it. Usually, most people don't start because of "what will my parents think?" type concerns, but once they get into they love it, and the money is usually decent (retirement is crap tho; have an exit strategy).

"What do you do in the porn industry?"

I have done a lot at this point. I've never acted. Let's get that out of the way.

I got my bachelors in broadcasting and communications, so I started out doing a lot of audio work. It's easy and steady work. Eventually, I applied for a promotions vacancy and got it, so I spent a few years designing those terrible thumbnails for porn movies you can watch in hotel rooms. I eventually moved to sales where I called hotels (still a huge porn customer) and sold them videos, and ended up as a regional manager of a few different small studios. It's actually pretty boring office work that involves going to a few different porn studios all the time.

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"What does/do your wife/family/friends think?"

Not much at this point, it's been several years. My mom was definitely not a fan at first, but she stopped caring at some point. I met my wife after I got into the work, and she was kinda just like "oh cool" when I told her on our first date. She's never thought much of it. I don't need to bring a lot of work home usually, so it doesn't really seep into our lives at all. Tho office parties are a bit weirder than most.

I don't personally, no. I work in management. Oral sex videos are a great way to break into the industry tho, especially if you're a dude.

"Does anyone actually click on those terrible pop up adds on porn sites?"

Oh yeah. I mean, internet ads have a bad reputation, but they've gotten so good. They pull in a lot of money. The industry has shifted as such that that's kinda the corner stone now (it used to be selling to cable companies and hotel chains).

"How do porn companies stay in business?"

People are always willing to pay for porn. Yes, it's way easier to get free porn now, and there's a lot more of it available, but a LOT more people also have access to it. As we've seen with iTunes and Netflix, if you can make it easy for people to access your product, even if it's available free elsewhere, people will pay for it.

Do you work on big name studio stuff or semi amateur stuff like clip stores? I do the latter and love it.

Do any of those "one weird trick to make your dick bigger" things actually work?

Idk why people think I would know this, but as far as I know, no, no they don't. You gotta better chance of making it big in the porn industry as a dude with a small dick than making it bigger with anything from a pop up ad.

Bigger studio. The clip stores are the future for sure, especially as TVs and Computers continue to blend together.

Is it true that porn sets smell really bad?
Is poor personal hygiene a common problem among performers?

Honestly, I've been in the industry for over a decade, and I'd bet that in a decade most TVs will just have a "porn" app on them where you just buy clips for anywhere from a few dollars to $20. I know movies exist in that form now if you have cable, but those movies are mostly soft core, and mostly consistently priced.

The big hold back for that is someone needs to be the first to do it. Apple has historically been too afraid to deal with porn, so it won't be them lol.

OP why is porn now so formulaic and hideously boring? say whatever shit you wanna about amateur but at least it looks real enough to make my dick hard...

I'd hate to see what kind of people actually pay money for the typical "tattooed muscle bro fucks tattooed bimbo stripper on a couch" that constitutes 90% of commercial porn these days

Porn sets smell fucking awful by the end of the day. It's not really a hygiene thing (although producers have told me they've definitely had to remind performers to shower before shooting), it's just a lot of sex happening in an enclosed space, all fucking day tends to have an impact on odor.

What has been the most awkward moment on the porn set?

I'm thin as a rail and it makes my penis look gigantic by comparison (it's hardly 7'') could I possibly get work in porn aside from gay stuff and niche autofellcio stuff?

Money. In the 70s it was such a fringe industry that there was not "right" way to do things, so making a 90 minute movie like Behind the Green Door wasn't considered risky. Now days, anything that hasn't been done before is risky af.

I've got nothing against "amateur" at all, and in fact the push rn is to have the best of both worlds with stuff that appears amateur, and can be cheaply produced, but isn't dependent on some broken hearted loser sending in clips for a hundred bucks.

Yeah, I think big porn studio stuff will always have a place, but the small producers still have a ton of room for growth. There are endless amounts of girls out there that have no problem working in porn but can't market themselves or run their stores for shit. Goldmine.

So, question though, do bigger sites even bother with fighting piracy anymore? Seems like the target market is people who wouldn't know how to steal porn anyway.

When a dude can't cum. It's so fucking awkward when it's time for him to finish and he just can't.

If you're willing to start and do a lot of solo first, yeah. Muscle bound dudes are hardly the norm anymore, but there's just a lot of dudes willing to do porn.

We don't give a shit about piracy because the hotels we sell to don't give a shit about piracy because the businessmen paying out the ass to watch a forty minute porn movie aren't pirating shit on their work computers.

well (and thanks for the answer) that middle ground you describe makes total sense

any way to get the overly tatted stripper looking bitches out and more girl next door types?

then porn might be good again

>If you're willing to start and do a lot of solo first, yeah. Muscle bound dudes are hardly the norm anymore, but there's just a lot of dudes willing to do porn.

who would be good to work for that? I know I'm not gonna make good money at first but I don't want to just get exploited for something that would not even help my career.

Because it's so easy to access porn is one of the few areas of society where "market driven" isn't a bullshit buzz term. If enough people are willing to click on the girl next door, absolutely.

Shifts happen fast in porn, but they still take time. I think we're on the other side of the traditional "blonde haired, big boobed woman fucking a muscle bound dude", but a LOT of the money (baby boomers/gen xers) still thinks that's what porn is and should be. Younger viewers tend to want a "genuine" looking clip/movie, but they also are the least likely to pay.

Makes sense. It's a bit more annoying on the clip store side, but for the stores I manage I don't do more than go after super obvious stuff like the big streaming sites. I lol at the dumb bitches that offer their whole catalog for membership streaming though, miss missax got fucked hard by that earlier this year.

Don't send your video in anywhere. That ends with you not getting paid. Do some digging in your area and see if there's a place close enough to you that will bring you in to do some shoots. They won't pay well, but once you've done a handful, you can look at bigger studios and ask them to consider you for work.

Also, if you do go to a shoot BRING SOMEONE ELSE WITH YOU. Porn overall has been cleaned up a lot since the wild west type days, but creepy shit still happens. Bring someone with you always, and tell them what you're willing to do before hand so they can help you say no.

thanks for the reply again

it sounds like my biggest beefs with porn might be organically moving in the direction I desire given a few more years

appreciate the insight

Thanksssssss

Yeah, the clip market is like how the whole industry used to be. I'm not against torrenting, but "site rips" are just fucking brutal, and usually just the result of poor marketing/business sense.

np, give it time. What's funny/annoying is that a lot of people in the industry feel the way you do, but it takes someone to actually, you know, be willing to do something different lol.

Have you ever done incest porn? Is all of it fake on the web?

Our company doesn't, but it's REALLY common and I know some producers that deal with that. If you need it to be real to get off, just ignore me, but it's fake. Fake as hell. Even the "TOTALLY REAL HIDDEN CAM" type stuff is fake.

With "hidden cam" stuff in general, if you're wondering whether it's fake, consider how fucking cheap it is to make compared to an actual video. It's fake. And there is an audience for it.

Thanks for all the questions so far! I'll hang around for a few more minutes if anyone has any others.

How do I get into the industry as a guy?

One more FAQ: "can you get a job after porn?"

It really depends. It can be tough for actors if they don't have a plan. A lot will put themselves through school, or do something else on the side they can pick up full time when they stop getting work.

For me, I've had no issues. I mean, i've been in the industry since college, but I've interviewed places and got offers from stuff outside the porn industry, and rarely has it been an issue.

Once tho this really nice woman from this company's HR department set up the interview knowing what my previous work was, but the dude actually doing the interview did NOT and he apparently couldn't be bothered (I'm clearly still a little annoyed) to read my resume before I was physically in the room in front of him and when he figured it out you could see it in his face. He wanted no part of me and barely wanted to shake my hand.

Do solo work first.

Alright, I'm outta here. Thanks for some fun threads over the years and a lot of cool questions.

Just remember:

The actors are real people who are really having sex, but porn is fake as hell.

>With that said, porn actors almost always enjoy their work, and get legitimate sexual enjoyment out of doing it.
You are full of shit. Those bitches are there for their drug/pimp money and hate being in porn.
This is Tori Black's pimp Lyndell Anderson. They used to live in my condos in Woodland Hills. This bitch turned tricks all day and was a drug addict. All her money went to her pimp. Porn is for bottom feeders.

You retirement strategy is to go back to being a loser. Poor Gauge went to nursing school, but her past followed her everywhere and she was fired over and over. Back to stripping and trick turning for her man.

if she hired a decent lawyer she could sue the pants off a lot of those institutions. Hospitals are big money and discrimination shit makes headlines. Could probably even get a huge settlement.

>"Is porn bad for me?"

Gotta have issue with you here. Wish I didn't, I love porn way too much, first bashed one out to pron when I was 11 years old.

But you can't escape the fact that it a) sets hopelessly unrealistic expectations and b) sexually desensitises users.

Sooner or later it will severely desensitise you too.

I'm pretty damn old, but normal sex with the woman I otherwise love just doesn't happen.

Never went this far myself: but a lot of convicted pedofiles are just otherwise ordinary guys who got desensitised to EVERYTHING else...

>Pissing into an ocean of piss, but if you can limit yourself, your dick will thank you someday.

Than

somehow this struck me more than the other times i heard it.

thank you for the thread op, interesting insights.

I think you're grossly overestimating the amount sex humans should be having. We're a long lived species that has offspring one at a time and spend several years raising them. It's boredom and our culture that are telling us we need to be having sex all the time. If you were raised in a culture where all nudity was not sexualized it would be different. There would be completely different associations. There's nothing wrong with not feeling like fucking someone every day of the week.

>Younger viewers tend to want a "genuine" looking clip/movie, but they also are the least likely to pay.
What is "every form of digital medium bar videogames", Alex? Seriously, Videogames are the one case where it's easier to just buy, unless someone has created a crack tool for it or it CAN be straight ripped. You can basically ALWAYS find similar porn, if no one has.

>a lot of convicted pedofiles are just otherwise ordinary guys who got desensitised to EVERYTHING else
ah, the good old american gateway theory
"first you smoke pot, then you end up dying from a crack OD in a dirty street"
they apply it to everything, and it was never true in the first place

have u fucked a pornstar?

HTHs

You misunderstand - individual sex drive sets the pattern, society adds to that. Fact is now, I'm about down to zero for normal sex, and long abstinence isn't fixing it.

Ain't on a crusade, just letting people know too muc pron/fapping Does have consequences for real people in the real world.

You're the guy making the generalisation. Personally I believe some pedos were born that way and some are just weak personalities that got broken on the way to adulthood, but some are people who just got desensitised to errrrything else. That shit happens, just not all the time.

How many pornstars and involved has std?

Can you even have a normal sexlife or a professional after HPV or gonorrhea??

The best thing to happen to porn is VR. I have a gearVR headset and it's the shit OP. You can't smell the pussy, but it's right there in your face. Thoughts?

I have a question about male cumshots, internal or oral: why in the fuck have most companies now started using fake cum? And why the fuck is it so good damned obvious when they do? (Cutting right before he screams "I'm cumming!" and then the girls mouth/pussy is magically overflowing with this weird looking cum)

I know it must be cheaper since you can do 3 or 4 scenes in a row with 10-20 mins of fucking without having to wait inbetween. But fuck, I want at least something of it to be real, and real cum is a big part of that.

I watch alot of fake incest porn, don't know why but it turns me the fuck on, and if there is no real creampie then the taboo and excitement of it is gone.
Tell your friends in the biz to cut it out.

>individual sex drive sets the pattern, society adds to that
That's not really true at least not anymore. Don't mean to go with the appeal to nature fallacy on this hear me out. If you were to take a group of humans are raise them like modern humans but with no cloths, no grooming just hair everywhere. Their response to seeing a naked body would not be half as intense as ours. Now back to normal humans we're constantly fed this narrative that sex makes you cool sex is the ultimate indication of value. The vast majority of our media typically relates either directly or indirectly to sexual conquest. One of the most common betrayals in any media (print of otherwise) is cheating the sexual betrayal of a mate. Our very sense of decency is largely inherited from times in which the sexual insecurity of the ruling class was made legal institution. Now we have everyone peppering sex into everything because it gets attention. I'm not saying saying this is medias faults but rather this is a culmination of things that has been happening since before recorded history. There is so much disparity between how we are biologically wired and our ideal or what we expect from other humans. To point the finger at porn is to ignore everything else that led to this. And just simplify it all to one thing we can put the target on. It's a modern witch hunt fueled by pseudoscience instead of dogma.

What are the creepy shits that happen? Any cool/ funny story to share?

If I'm willing to do anything a man wants for a porn, how likely am I to make money, and how much?

I have a question for you.

Why so many males top-level like Rocco Siffredi and others declares a lenght they don't have? Why people don't notice it?

Greentext good 'office party' story please.

not OP, but that's textbook marketing.
>can I get a 6?
>we've got a 7 over here
>sounds good
>fuck that guy check out this 8!
If overstating the same product gets you're more sells why the fuck not? There's no incentive for honesty.

The number of such idiots must be depleting rapidly.. every traveller will have an extra private tablet or phone, And what do you actually need? Milllions of clips to watch for free that do the trick fine.. 3 minute fap and done.. close clip as fast as you can because nothing worse then watching porn when not crazy horny.

You should type less and comprehend more. Jesus.

I'm ok with this, but why everybody act like "yeah, it's totally 9!"

probably because they want to believe it is. Fantasy, wish fulfillment and what not.

tl;dr
human sexuality: nurture>>>>>>>nature

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do you know kagney lynn karter

is she really fucked up in real life

also what kind of free sex is abailable on set

what are the craziest gay porn acc you make?

why do you guys have porn for men and have close up of mens mfaces


all the time it's really annoying and a turn off

we are making ear fucking

it's a new thing going on in the club

we made ear casts of famous porn actors and legit actors to sell as ear holes for gay guys to fuck it's like a flesh light tube

Why do they always finish on her face? Why are the old good butt/belly cumshots gone?

holy shit. they fuck fleshlight ears?
waddafak
what else?
you must come across all the weirdest

how much coke is done on set?

Who was the biggest diva you ever worked with?

Have you ever met the male pornstar 'James Deen'? What are your thoughts on him?

THAT'S THE MOST AMAZING PART.

whats the biggest drama you have encounter on set ?

Hey OP, not sure if you've seen "Hot girls wanted", it's basically a documentary about girls going into porn and what they do after they leave.
There was this one girl, Stella May, and in one point you see hear talking to her mum, looking at pics of her back when she was in school and shit, and absolutely nothing before in my life has got me that hard.
Seeing her as a genuine person outside of porn, the juxtaposition made it so much better.
THAT SAID, is there any interest in the industry to commercialise on this?
I mean, 20 minutes of a girl talking at the start of a casting video kinda does it, but it almost always feels scripted.
Also, any other thoughts you have on this?
Cheers.

>Tho office parties are a bit weirder than most.
My sides are gone imagining this.
Bringing your wife along or something, everyone trying to recruit her/assuming she's doing something like editing or whatever.

I don't think he's saying "You start by looking at CP, then you become a pedo and fuck an 8 year old", I think it literally is just desensitization.
These days the only things I can really fap to is guro, VR games and handholding.
Desensitization is real, people just respond to it differently.
For example, I am not desensitized to the emotional lovey dovey shit so when I'm actually fucking girls, I have no problems.
Fucking a hooker, that could be a different story.

have you ever had an actress come in wearing a sanitary pad and still expect to be able to do a scene