Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers
"For the first time, a massive data set of 10,000 porn stars has been extracted from the worlds largest database of adult films and performers. Ive spent the last six months analyzing it to discover the truth about what the average performer looks like, what they do on film, and how their role has evolved over the last fortyyears." - http://jonmillward.com/blog/studies/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars/
Professional Porno in the US is big business, or at least used to be. With the advent of a smaller yet technically superior medium to "film" your own business, amateur talent (most of it free depending if you know where to look) has taken over.
The old porn stars do need a "Hall Of Fame"...if for no other reason than they represent the trail blazers of a time where sex was considered the gateway to hell.
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Professional Porno was a multibillion dollar a year business in the US until video cams came along. Now, people post their junk for free. The "Old School" model is gone.
Pornography still is a multi-billion dollar industry, just not as centralized. The article is basically whimsical fluff by a fan-boy of pornography. The piece was just over-the-top superficial with zero substance.
I'm sorry, but anyone taking the above paragraph as journalistic endeavor has lost touch with reality. Granted, our society is sexually repressed but, IMO, pornography is not the means to alleviate that situation. Respect and admiration of the human body along with the realization that after survival, sex is the next greatest impulse of the human being, will go much further in diminishing that repression than a proliferation of pornography.
One could infer from his logic presented above that footage of a man ramming his cock down the throat of a teen till she pukes is not only not demeaning but a "sport!" Wow, line up the Christians and bring in those lions.
But let's take it from another perspective, since pornography, in the author's eyes, is not demeaning to the actors, they will all, most certainly, display with pride their exploits for their eventual children and grandchildren, no? "Yeah, that's right kids," she said with a twinkle in her eye, "I could fit 2 huge cocks in my ass at the same time." "Heh, heh, why that's me there kids, rubbing cocks with Dick Bentley in grandma's ass," chimed in Grandpa.
No, there is a better way to mitigate sexual repression in our society and pornography is not that way.
Aside from prostitution being the worlds oldest profession, porn comes in second.
There are far worse professions than being in pornography, like being a Republican (or Democrat) politician.
On that I will agree, though I would venture that the morality and ethics of politicians and pornographers are not too dissimilar.
However, IMO, pornography as a profession for women is dicey at best. Very few women aspire to be a porn star without extenuating, and usually tragic, circumstances. For men, they're virtually invisible (except in gay porn) and are less stigmatized, generally, by the experience. The industry operates on the fringe of acceptable society with virtually no successful crossover into other forms of entertainment. So longevity becomes an issue. And then what? If you're one of the "lucky" handful you get to direct or produce. If not, what, fluffer? Or you go on the circuit of adult clubs as long as your body holds up.
Definitely not a life I would voluntarily seek out.
Perhaps...I will not deny that there are massive pitfalls working in pornography and/or being a prostitute but not all is as seedy as the media paints it. Aside from that, while many take public umbrage at porn, those that purchase it (a billion dollar industry in the US) cut across all races, creeds, nationalities and cultures. Therein lays a bit of hypocrisy.
Well said.
I found these words from the end notes of Bernard Shaw's Cashel Byron's Profession, which I finished reading this morning, to be apropos:
Touche!
What is porn anyway? the SCOTUS could not define it, case was brought up years ago. They ruled it was in the eye of the beholder and to shut it down would be a violation of the first amendment. So like so much of what is going on in this world today if you don't like something don't do it but don't shove your morality, ethics, theology or anything else on the rest of the USA by attempting to legislate it away. If you do we no longer have a "free" society. What is needed is the teaching of the fact that a democracy requires a good solid education so people can take responsibility for their own actions incumbent on them by living in a free society. We as a nation seem to have forgotten that.
Since the proliferation of filming technology, amateur porn is fast replacing so-called professional porn so with that in mind, anyone can be a star.
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Unless you are very good or get into specialized porn, it's a short lived career that doesn't pay that well.
LOL, actually its said that politics is the 2nd oldest proffession and has a lot in common with the 1st oldest.( taking money to screw someone)