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Cloudburst
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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 12:19AM
I have to disagree. First let me say I've never been on an actual porn set so I have no idea what the real situation and vibe of a porn scene is like. That said when I watch porn most of the time the guy seems to be enjoying himself and it appears to be genuine.
You mentioned "10 people standing around" but many gonzo porn scenes are shot using only a camera guy and a lighting guy, so that's just two other people in the room watching you. Now that's still weird I'll admit but there is a difference between 10 people watching you and 2 people.

Edited by - Cloudburst on 2/11/2014 12:20:40 AM

Cloudburst
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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 12:25AM
Several people mentioned "uncomfortable positions" that male porn stars have to deal with as being a downside to working in porn. What exactly are you talking about when you say that? And how does it take away from the fact that you are fucking a hot slutty chick, I mean how "uncomfortable" could that be?

Edited by - Cloudburst on 2/11/2014 12:26:25 AM

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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 2:03AM
we all get grounded by our bosses in our jobs, we have to do work 9-5 making presentations, covering up boss's work, amking files,imagining to bang your hot co-worker and not getting it, every job is tough, so its better to become a pornstar where your job is to fuck bitches and have paid for sex...:D
evilpineapples
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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 3:22AM
^ Yeah, don't get me wrong, it's an awesome job, but it would be foolish to say that there are absolutely no downsides at all. There are absolutely downsides. They are totally worth it, but they still exist, so you're going to have bad days and bad experiences from time to time, just like you would in any other job.
I'll stop you right there. That's the problem. You've never been on a porn set and you're just making assumptions about what it's like based on your personal fantasies. That's perfectly understandable, because porn is all about the fantasy and the director goes to great lengths to MAKE YOU BELIEVE the fantasy, but it's not grounded in reality.
We're not saying that being a male porn star sucks, we're just saying that it's not sunshine and rainbows 100% of the time. Of course the guys enjoy themselves. Who wouldn't? But sometimes they have a bad day or the model is a bitch and it's not such a fun experience for them.
Try doing reverse cowgirl anal with a girl with your cock at an angle because her ass is up in the air for the camera, and with your arms holding her legs up and spreading her ass the entire time. That's not how most people would choose to fuck in the absence of a camera. It can be difficult to keep your rhythm with all that shit going on.
 
evilpineapples
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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 3:22AM
Also, I neglected to mention the biggest downside of all.
Social ostracization.
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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 3:46AM
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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 2:32PM
Doesn't it get boring for the women, shagging the same five or six guys all the time?
To be honest, if I were to do porn I probably wouldn't want to be a 'stud'. I'd be more than happy to do bukkake/gokkun, where the only requirement is to jerk off in a chick's face. That'd do me.
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Posted - Feb 11 2014 : 3:06PM
I remember that episode of family Business with Seymore Butts it was the shoot for the Film Casa La Butts I remember seeing The Black guy take Viagra right before the shoot I think he took the Viagra pill to late thats why he couldnt get it up
Edited by - jadablaze01 on 2/11/2014 3:08:41 PM
Cloudburst
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Posted - Feb 12 2014 : 1:28AM
Not trying to be rude but are guys really ostracized for working in porn in 2014? I would think most people (especially males) would think that it's pretty awesome.
evilpineapples
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Posted - Feb 12 2014 : 6:46AM
It's definitely still a problem. Try getting a good job if your boss knows you've done porn.
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Posted - Feb 12 2014 : 8:58PM
I don't remember that part, but that explanation doesn't make sense. If he took it too late, he could have just waited an hour for it to take effect. He couldn't get it up, simple as that. Viagra isn't a magical boner pill. It won't make an everyday schlub into a porn star.
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Posted - Feb 12 2014 : 10:17PM
I don't think being ostracized is an issue. Especially in the civilian life off set in L.A. I mean it isn't uncommon at all to hear about flings A-List actors or athletes have had with porn stars. Some porn stars have even broken into mainstream by using porn fame as a boost to get through the door.
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Posted - Feb 13 2014 : 2:58PM
I remember watching this backstage video of Aletta Ocean for some movie where the cock was provided by the Perry dude from Evilangel.He was doing her doggystyle and he suddenly pulled her hair.She let out a huge shriek and said in a pretty commanding tone "No i don't like it" and the dude had to immediately let go.The director then intervened and asked Aletta to allow the hair pull.She then agreed and the Perry/Percy guy then pulled her hair.
Aletta didn't really care for the male talent and was totally focussed on looking her seductive best.The cock had to keep beating himself up to be honest with not much attention from Aletta.
The cameraman was at times standing right above the shoulder of the cock and then there was a moment when the camera was right in front of the perry dude's face from above his right shoulder focussing on Aletta's ass while perry was inside Aletta!
Didn't seem like a great experience for Perry and i vividly remember him beating his cock and yawning while Aletta took her time with the make-up and all
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Posted - Feb 13 2014 : 3:07PM
^ By 'the Perry dude' do you mean David Perry? Congratulations, anyway - that must be the most emoticons I've ever seen in a single post.
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Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 12:21AM
Obviously, he meant Rick Perry.
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Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 12:44PM
^ Haha well yes noodles i meant David Perry and i do like the smileys on this forum even though i wish we could just click them and didn't need to type them which is the reason i suspect more people don't use them
I also remember a video where Tori Black was talking about how in the olden days the focus would shift towards the male during scenes and how she felt it was stupid to show the man having a contorted face whilst he was cumming.She said the focus should be on "me" and the female and the camera should not show the male's expression as he cums but only the female's face as she takes the cumshot.
I do agree with her on that and we hardly see men shown with their "ohh i just came" expression anymore.In the olden days the focus would shift to the man quite a lot tbh and i do remember wondering during a Nick Manning scene whether i really did tune in for the female or for him considering how much the focus would go to his face and his expressions
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Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 2:12PM
Evil Pineapples, you will be waiting a long time for that Rick Perry scene. He is an ultra-conservative Republican (essentially he would be an extremely far right Tory in the UK and colonies). I doubt he has ever fucked except for procreation, a social trait of US Republicans.
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Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 4:22PM
^^i also dislike to see that if i'm in jerkoff mode, because it kind of ruins the mood and my wood.
rocco siffredi & christoph clark show closeups of the males faces during sex & cumshots in their recent movies. i don't want to tell them how to film their porn because they're the directors who pay everything and shoot everything in the style they want.
classic porn is almost unwatchable for me nowadays, it's ridiculous how often they'd show peter norths face in his scenes (nothing against him) and those pictures will be burnt into your mind sooner or later.
straight male viewers want to see as much of the female body/face as possible and as little as possible of the male body/face. that way you can insert yourself better into the scene.
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Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 5:50PM
Not sure if serious or just trolling.
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Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 6:10PM
^ He didn't realize you were making a joke. He meant well.
evilpineapples
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Posted - Feb 17 2014 : 6:28PM
I know, I know. Now I feel like a smarmy jerk. =/
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Posted - Feb 18 2014 : 4:10PM
Unfortunately I didn't get the joke as Kill Bill surmised. I don't think Evil Pineapple is a jerk though. Apologies.
I will admit that the remark about Rick Perry not ever fucking except for procreation was a snide one, however.
Edited by - mharris127 on 2/18/2014 4:12:16 PM
 
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Posted - May 1 2014 : 5:50PM
The biggest downside is that not only you have to be able to get hard and fuck and lick smelly pussies but you also have to fuck the male partners who are presented to you.
In other words you must be able to do gay stuffs otherwise you have nearly no chance of starting in this business. If you can't get a hard on because a second male is next to you, in a MFM scene, nobody will hire you. There are thousands of guy who can do men and women indifferently so don't even try to tell that you want to do only girls.
It's a complete phantasy to think that by doing porn you will fuck hundreds of hot chicks. You will be sodomized by dozen of hairy sweeting men before you can come close to the first pussy of your carreer. And that's likely to be a tranny or an oversized at first...
Enjoy!
Cloudburst
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Posted - May 3 2014 : 2:10AM
Not true. Plenty of guys (probably the majority) who work in straight porn have never done any gay stuff.
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Posted - May 3 2014 : 7:16PM
^ The poster two posts up went a bit overboard with bringing gay scenes into it, but speaking in a more limited manner he's got a point (somehow). Only established veterans and maybe newcomers who immediately display an "it" factor (looks, performance, whatever) are able to call the shots enough to do only B/G or B/GG scenes. Most average newcomers won't be working enough if they refuse to do straight scenes in which multiple men are present. And I do think many men who dream of getting into porn don't really dream of doing BB/G scenes, gang bangs, etc.
Edited by - shalalin on 5/3/2014 7:22:07 PM
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Posted - Jul 18 2014 : 9:58AM
I had fun being a porn actor: I fucked beautiful girls and got paid for it. What I didn't like was having to watch other guys dicks and hairy asses in group scenes, but you get used to it and focus on the girls.
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Posted - Jul 19 2014 : 12:25PM

Here's an interview with Manuel Ferrar. In it talks about how lot of male performers are using ED pills to get hard:
..in France, the guy who had to pop a pill was pointed at, whispered about. Then, arriving for his first shoot here, “on set, they had a bowl full of pills. It was crazy.”
Manuel shrugs. “Well, in America, they treat it like a business. If this is what you need to get the job done, you take it. I don’t think it’s good for the performers, nor do I think some 20 year-old guy should be popping Viagra every day.”
“Well, he shouldn’t have to!”
“Look, everyone has different libidos. I was shy growing up, I would not take showers in front of people. But then I go to a casting call for a porn, and I’m the only guy, out of all the guys at the casting call, who could do it, get hard. You don’t know until you try. It’s like basketball, anyone can play basketball, not everyone can be Kobe Bryant. Everyone can fuck at home, not everyone can fuck on camera.”

Worse lot of them have to resort to injecting more hardcore prescription ED meds into their dicks after the pills lose effectiveness. There is rumor that Prince Yashur didn't really damage his penis doing rough sex but that he had to stop performing for a while because he was taking too much ED meds. I don't know if this is true? But when I've seen some of his recent performances I don't see any signs of surgery having been done on his penis?
Manuel also mentions problems with having relationships in part 2. Says he used to be in relationship with Katsuni (who is also from France) and he used to be married to Dana Vespoli.

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Posted - Mar 12 2015 : 12:26AM
There was an article in the New York Post today about one of Japan's top male performers. It said the guy's first job when he entered porn was to eat a plate of feces for $160 which landed him in the hospital.
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Posted - Mar 12 2015 : 5:48AM
That's a good, charming interview with Manuel.
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Posted - Mar 12 2015 : 9:51PM
Being a male porn star would be a great job and a shit job at times. Always great to fuck beautiful women and get paid for it. But on the down side u have to deal with getting std's mainly chlymidia, gonarhea, herpes, and more. Also, these guys have smelled some horrible scents on set (unclean pussy & ass). And who wants a girl to shit on them from doing anal!
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Posted - Mar 12 2015 : 10:51PM
Well, the big difference is the POV. Fans see the girls as fantasy objects but the guys who have to work with them on a regular basis have to put up with their bitchiness and other assorted issues. This comes from a couple of male performers that I chatted with in LV during th AEE.
 
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Posted - Mar 14 2015 : 7:44AM
Mark Ashley used to call it "a killer job" and "the best job in the world" and why should anybody doubt Mark Ashley. I just feel that you gotta be either him back then or James Deen or Manuel Ferrera today to be able to state that. There so many that probably won't be on everyone's wishlist. And that must be a downside. Not to make it one some hot newbies or loose supersluts' yes-list.
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Posted - Mar 23 2015 : 4:01AM
On the Tim Von Swine thread he was asked how many guys had to inject themselves and he gave a surprisingly high percentage (it's in the thread, but I can't recall where in the thread unfortunately). Being a porn fan I've seen lots of interviews, articles, etc. I've also read somewhere else that guys sometimes take sedatives to keep from coming too soon. My mom was prescribed for anxiety attacks the sedative Citrolopram (which was mentioned in a porn article I saw) and when she started getting nightmares I asked the doctor if she could stop. He told me it's dangerous to quit cold turkey and she's been taking a half a pill at night ever since. One of the side effects listed on the information sheet is it can cause erectile disfunction. I remember an interview with Tinslee Reagan who said the guys have it tougher since they have to stop and start almost continually when they film. She said it was easier as a female because she didn't have to show obvious arousal like an erect penis. There is a reddit posted by a guy named Michael Alexander who was a former porn cameraman. He got the job through his then girlfriend Taylor Vixen. He mentioned getting accidentally squirted on by Ruby Knox and another incident (not too detailed) of a gal who didn't clean out properly and basically did a dump on her male costar. Kind of interesting reddit. He even posts a link to his picture and Xander Corvus shows up and says a little shoutout to Alexander and to have lunch. It's definitely legit and you can google it I'm sure. Alexander went back to his previous profession as an insurance broker. He says it's better paying and he has more normal hours. He says porn shoots can run on for hours so you have trouble keeping a normal schedule. He says his current companion didn't like his porn filming profession any way. Funny how some posters think as a porn stud you'd be having sex with the A-level females. There are lots of niches out there like morbidly obese women that you probably have to "pay your dues" with as you climb the ladder to male porn stud status. Got to edit....I remember something else. I recall reading years ago that guys like golden age performers like Jamie Gillis asked girls to pinch his nipples, etc. because he had become so jaded "normal sex" wouldn't arouse him enough. Very likely it happens even now to others.
Edited by - Float_my_boat on 3/23/2015 4:23:30 AM
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A Day in the Life of a Male Porn Star-Tyler Knight
Malik stops the assault and I position myself behind the girl's ass. Her sphincter is open, red and raw. Her gaping O-ring is damn near blown out, offering a clear shot of her textured, pink innards that seem to tumble on to infinity. On her rim, flecks of fecal matter that have the consistency of gruel and the color of bread gone bad. A scent.no.an unholy stench of slaughtered cows suspended in a vat of mayonnaise left to turn in the desert leaps out of her exposed cavity and slaps my face like a dame in a Bogart movie. The worst part of this is, the Viagra-and-exasperation cocktail has left me short of breath. And my mouth is open.
I snap my mouth shut and vacuum seal my lips, but the phantom taste still lingers on my palate.
Jackson peeks over the top of the camera's viewfinder. "Go ahead, nigga. Fuck ass. I'm rolling camera."
"I need a minute," I say.
Malik and the girl, giddy with porn-induced psychosis, continue their sport fucking while I kneel next to them with my cold cock in hand. Normally if my dick goes down I just have to look at a girl's ass and I'm dealt back in the hand, but I'm taking a bad beat on the river because sewer cheeks has eliminated my last out. Looking at her ass is not an option.
I'm rubbing a brittle, dry-rotted eraser passing for my dick with the business end of her ass, seen through my peripheral vision, aimed at me. I get off the bed and go into my mind.

It gets much, much worse...
Dragon Sign
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Posted - Apr 16 2017 : 3:15PM
This should be taken care of by the individuals themselves, and those within their cirles. Outside of the bubble it seems to me to be one of the few meaningful jobs.
Dragon Sign
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Posted - Apr 16 2017 : 3:17PM
It represents both freedom and artistic expression, those are two core values hard to combine working 9-5.
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Posted - Apr 16 2017 : 3:22PM
Wood issues must be the downside. Quitting smoking tobacco, eating shit containing right supply and so on. Any downside within reach shouldn't be that unfixable as long as you're not a fucking more-on dealing with IQ issues as well.
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Posted - Apr 16 2017 : 3:27PM
And if there's a wiener involved, and not close to a goddamn monster cock, I quite frankly can't see why the fuck they're in in the first place. It's like any Johnson going to the Olympics trying to acchieve some success swimming along with goddamn US monterswimmer getting twenty golden medals.
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Posted - Apr 16 2017 : 3:30PM
The ladies are all built for it, so should the guys.
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you gotta fuck girls you may not be attracted to.
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Posted - Apr 16 2017 : 6:42PM
Yeah, I've seen that coming during those trailers showing up there at my porn highway. Every time Lethal Hardcore takes a spin at Cash For Chunkers I back down a bit.
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Posted - Apr 16 2017 : 8:56PM
Thanks for posting that i must admit i did howl with laughter at "sewer cheeks" comment :)
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Sobering moments like these, sneak up on you.

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