# Do these Sex site actors participants get paid?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 21, 1999, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-these-sex-site-actors-participants-get-paid/2139 "1999-07-21T06:17:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 1999, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-these-sex-site-actors-participants-get-paid/2139/21 "1999-07-24T18:29:00Z")

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> Somehow, I can’t believe this is true. I think that the fact that the sex is filmed or photographed turns it into a first amendment issue of freedom of expression, and that’s why actors can legally get paid for getting laid. – cmkeller

This had long since been shaken out in court. In trying to label porn as prostitution, the “John” would have to be the person who buys a video tape or pays a subscription to a site. Courts didn’t buy that.

Perhaps saying “Getting paid by the person you have sex with is illegal.” was too simplistic, but prostitution definitely has a narrower definition than simply getting paid to have sex.

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