# Fluffers: Urban legend or otherwise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 27, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145 "2003-01-27T02:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/1 "2003-01-27T02:43:27Z")
In staff reports ( [Where do male porn stars get their stamina?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpornstamina.html) ), Euty claims that, “There are actually employees in the porn business called “fluffers” whose job it is to get the boys erect again so they can go back to work.” HA! Or rather, (ha?). I’ve “heard” that fluffers are the work of overactive teenage imaginations and that the entire notion is an urban legend. I’ve also heard [otherwise](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158507) . I’ve searched google and snopes and come up empty. So I put it to you, Cece, what’s the straight dope on fluffers? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/2 "2003-01-27T03:02:59Z")
It looks real. Mind you, there’s only so much I can take of Google searching that ends up in a whole lot of porn industry tell-alls, so no cite. _Roger’s Profanisaurus_ has a listing, though. > [@](#): > > **fluffer** _n._ On a dirty film set, a person employed to get the best from a male actors _part_ between takes. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/3 "2003-01-27T03:03:53Z")
Well, I saw an excerpt from a porn “documentary” in which some porn queen was trying to break a record for most consecutive fucks (I think the record was several hundred, perhaps over a thousand). They put out a call for male volunteers and held the event in a large stadium. While the queen was going at it with one guy, there were women “preparing” the next guys. I can’t think of any other term to describe them except fluffers. That’s what they were clearly doing. How widespread the practice is, I couldn’t say. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/4 "2003-01-27T03:07:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \* > \*\*Well, I saw an excerpt from a porn “documentary” in which some porn queen was trying to break a record for most consecutive fucks (I think the record was several hundred, perhaps over a thousand). They put out a call for male volunteers and held the event in a large stadium. > > While the queen was going at it with one guy, there were women “preparing” the next guys. I can’t think of any other term to describe them except fluffers. That’s what they were clearly doing. > > How widespread the practice is, I couldn’t say. \*\* I was just going to post something along these lines. I could have sworn during the “houston 500” that, in order to get the men ready, a “pregame” show was begun. Keep in mind I haven’t seen the “houston 500” (at least not all of it:D ) , I believe I heard her and a “fluffer” on Howard Stern a while back. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/5 "2003-01-27T03:17:59Z")
I’m hanging in Asia Carrera’s chat right now and I am told that they are not common or really used at all in normal porn, but that for gang bangs they are common. One of them provided this link: [http://www.rame.net/faq/part5.html#xtocid44617](http://www.rame.net/faq/part5.html#xtocid44617) ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/6 "2003-01-27T03:22:04Z")
My best friend, who is not given to flights of fancy, tells me that he once worked as a fluffer (for all-male porn films). He’s never told me an outrageous tale before, and this is completely in keeping with his character (bless his heart!), so I believe him. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/7 "2003-01-27T03:30:50Z")
The logic of a fluffer on a standard porn set escapes me. If there is a prettier, younger, more voluptuous girl available to keep the male stars “up,” why aren’t those girls the ones performing on camera? Wouldn’t they have a similar effect on the intended audience? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/8 "2003-01-27T03:33:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Musicat \* > **If there is a prettier, younger, more voluptuous girl available to keep the male stars “up,” why aren’t those girls the ones performing on camera?** Perhaps those girls are not willing to be seen on film. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/9 "2003-01-27T03:52:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Musicat \* > \*\*The logic of a fluffer on a standard porn set escapes me. If there is a prettier, younger, more voluptuous girl available to keep the male stars “up,” why aren’t those girls the ones performing on camera? Wouldn’t they have a similar effect on the intended audience? \*\* She may not be prettier, or younger, just better at foreplay. One of the worst BJs I ever got was from a girl who was doing it like they do in pornos. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/10 "2003-01-27T04:31:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\* One of the worst BJs I ever got … \*\* I’m reading the words, _but…they…don’t…make…sense._ ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/11 "2003-01-27T04:58:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Meatros \* > \*\*I was just going to post something along these lines. I could have sworn during the “houston 500” that, in order to get the men ready, a “pregame” show was begun. > > Keep in mind I haven’t seen the “houston 500” (at least not all of it:D ) , I believe I heard her and a “fluffer” on Howard Stern a while back. \*\* I seem to recall Ron Jeremy mentioning ‘fluffers’ in the Houston 500 pregame. Jeremy was going over the ground rules for the festivities. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/12 "2003-01-27T17:09:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\*I’m reading the words, _but…they…don’t…make…sense._ \*\* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluffers-urban-legend-or-otherwise/151145/13 "2003-01-27T23:39:37Z")
Just a note, but if you are commenting on one of his columns, then you use the commenting on Ceceil’s Columns forum 🙂 Link to the page you want to ask about when you do so.