# Ask the (Not So) Amateur Porn Director **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805 "2012-08-08T00:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/101 "2012-08-08T17:36:31Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Thought you said fluffers were a myth. 🙂 they are…I would be a stunt cock not a fluffer 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/102 "2012-08-08T17:44:30Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > What kind of cameras do you use? How many do you use to shoot a typical scene? At the moment I use the Sony HVRZ5U with LED and or Florescent lighting, shotgun or lav mics etc. I usually use one or two cams, no real need for more. ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/103 "2012-08-08T17:48:01Z")
> [@Vicullum](#): > > How much has online piracy negatively affected your business? A LOT but we recently got a judgement against Oron and oron has been down for over a week now. We have been actively attacking affiliate accounts via paypal certifications for filesharing sites and have taken down many. We are currently working with VISA Mastercard to attack the visa/mc certifications of piracy sites and we are having success so the file locker type sites are falling left and right at the moment. Its a never ending battle though it seems. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/104 "2012-08-08T17:50:38Z")
> [@MikeSouth](#): > > **What do you think of Linda Lovelace’s allegations that her ex-husband forced her into the porn industry and made her perform scenes at gunpoint?** > > I knew Gerry Damiano, God rest his soul, and he told me point blank that was just made up horseshit and I believe him because I know Harry Reems and he told me the same thing. Watch the movie _[Inside Deep Throat](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418753/)_. Gerry Damiano said that every time they would do a scene, they would come up with some reason to send Linda’s husband Chuck Traynor off the set. Traynor may have been abusing her, but nobody on the set was. ---
**Author:** ![Vicullum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Vicullum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicullum)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/105 "2012-08-08T17:53:24Z")
What percentage of actresses are completely shaved? It seems like it’s 100% nowadays. Besides the performers, how many people are on a set during a typical shoot? Would you say the US porn industry is growing, stagnating, or declining? As for your more famous female performers, any of them act like a prima donna? ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/106 "2012-08-08T18:06:14Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Watch the movie _[Inside Deep Throat](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418753/)_. Gerry Damiano said that every time they would do a scene, they would come up with some reason to send Linda’s husband Chuck Traynor off the set. Traynor may have been abusing her, but nobody on the set was. Oh i have no doubt that Chuck Traynor was an abusive scumbag, my point was that nobody on set put a gun to her head off camera as was sometimes claimed. ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/107 "2012-08-08T18:11:01Z")
**What percentage of actresses are completely shaved? It seems like it’s 100% nowadays.** It aint just porn actresses, it seems to be the norm these days for girls who arent even strippers, and I must admit I prefer it, It eliminates odors, it feels better and no hair in my mouth and for the record yes I shave too **Besides the performers, how many people are on a set during a typical shoot?** On my sets I keep it to a minimum 3 or 4 tops on a large production there can be 20 or more. **Would you say the US porn industry is growing, stagnating, or declining?** It is currently in serious decline but things like this are cyclic **As for your more famous female performers, any of them act like a prima donna?** From time to time but its actually unusual I once reminded Kayden Kross not to be short with fans because she isnt really anything special, she fucks for a living thats it, she isnt curing cancer or anything, never forget without these fans…You would likely be working a fryer. LOL that tends to keep em from getting too big headed. ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/108 "2012-08-08T18:12:40Z")
I had a girl one time who was notorious for being late So I put a sign in the dressing room that said your shift starts at 4PM Mcdonalds starts at 430 AM You chose. She was never late again ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/109 "2012-08-08T18:19:03Z")
one of the more popular categories on my blog is stripper quotes. I have managed a strip club and so has my best friend so we save some of these gems and post them heres a recent one Stripper: You are the smartest guy I know Me: while that doesn’t really surprise I am sorry to hear that Stripper No really, do you think there is life on other planets? Me: Indubitably Stripper: Huh? Me: Means Yes! Stripper: I mean intelligent life. Me: Yes Stripper: How do you know? Me: Because it hasn’t tried to contact Earth, now go away. and another One of the lovely and talented dancers came to the DJ booth and told DJ Tim that she wanted to dance to “Brick House”. Then she says “You know, the original one by the Commode Doors” Lionel Ritchie and the “Commode Doors” We were in tears… ---
**Author:** ![Vicullum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Vicullum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicullum)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/110 "2012-08-08T18:19:53Z")
What’s your feelings on fake breasts? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/111 "2012-08-08T18:22:48Z")
In your opinion, since you have known or worked with the greats over at least 3 decades, Which woman, in their prime, was the hottest beauty-wise and performance-wise (at least on camera; I don’t need to get into your personal biz)? ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/112 "2012-08-08T18:25:45Z")
> [@Vicullum](#): > > What’s your feelings on fake breasts? As a general rule I prefer them real. I have seen some excellent boob jobs though and in some circumstances I can understand a girl wanting them lifted or whatever but the big giant ones tend to be more of a turn off for me. all in all I like them real better than fake. ---
**Author:** ![Vicullum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Vicullum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicullum)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/113 "2012-08-08T18:29:07Z")
For your more vanilla films, ever been guilty of using the Pizza boy with a “special delivery” trope? (Cue the requisite Bow Chika Wow Wow techno beat) ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/114 "2012-08-08T18:38:33Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > In your opinion, since you have known or worked with the greats over at least 3 decades, > > Which woman, in their prime, was the hottest beauty-wise and performance-wise (at least on camera; I don’t need to get into your personal biz)? hey i have no real personal secrets so no worries. Kayden Kross is one of the most photogenic girls ever to come into this biz, I talk about her a lot because we are very close. I also thought Shay Jordan was stunning, I didn’t know her very well but in person she was gorgeous. ditto Felicia Foxx, Melissa Hill, Midori and Bianca Trump. Another was Carmen Luvana, she was so much fun to hang out with and without a doubt one of the prettiest girl to ever wear the uniform. Anastasia Blue was cute but both on and off camera she was one of the all time hottest encounters of my life, she was absolutely crazy about sex. But after she got into the biz for a couple of months we feel out of touch. My all time most memorable though was/is my friend Trixie Kelly, I love tall statuesque girls and she was so fresh and so cute, she wouldnt drink, smoke or even consider drugs and she was extremely smart and quick witted. We became and remain very very close to this day. her life took many changes from the first time we met and many weren’t for the better but I love her just the same. I have maintained so many close friendships as a result of the biz, I consider it a blessing in that regard. I know I’m kind of blurring personal preference into this but I can’t really help that ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/115 "2012-08-08T18:40:36Z")
For your more vanilla films, ever been guilty of using the Pizza boy with a “special delivery” trope? (Cue the requisite Bow Chika Wow Wow techno beat) LOL no I tend to try to avoid cliches…as a photographer I used to refuse to shoot a girl with a guitar, a motorcycle or a car… I did to some pickup type scenarios though and many were convincing to the viewers. ---
**Author:** ![Vicullum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Vicullum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicullum)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/116 "2012-08-08T18:51:48Z")
Ever thought about branching into other niche markets? You could single-handedly bring back [Sasquatch porn!](http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/11/02/the-geek.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/117 "2012-08-08T19:02:23Z")
> [@MikeSouth](#): > > **Do you ever get commissions from individuals for specific things ?** > > Every day and some are pretty out there. The obvious questions: What were the most out there? Were there any funny requests? ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/118 "2012-08-08T19:49:24Z")
I find that in many clips there’s a cut from the foreplay to penetration. That is, the actual “insertion” is not shown. Any insight as to why this is? Do your male performers do any special preparation for a bukkake shoot? ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/119 "2012-08-08T20:16:17Z")
Have you done it with a pornstar? If so, which? I go to another forum where a porn cameraman made a similar AMA thread. He said he’s had sex with several well-known stars. Like, they would offer him BJs or straight up sex. ---
**Author:** ![MikeSouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MikeSouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeSouth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805/120 "2012-08-08T20:28:18Z")
> [@Vicullum](#): > > Ever thought about branching into other niche markets? You could single-handedly bring back [Sasquatch porn!](http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/11/02/the-geek.aspx) LOL very funny…why ya think Im trying to refrain from performing these days as for other niches I have tried but I have come to an important realization, if you dont understand a fetish you cant shoot it for people who do. I tried a foray into bondage once and got killed because the ropes were the wrong color, she wasnt bound correctly, the knots were wrong…Im like whoa…got it…not my niche. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-so-amateur-porn-director/630805.md?page=7)