wow what is the time frame? webcam porn? porn for you’re partner only? risque pics on holiday? gotta be millions… do you mean commercial porn?
Okay, there’s only one way to settle this. I volunteer to go count them. I may be gone a while.
Abby Winters alone (Abby used to hang out here. Abby, you still here?) has a couple of thousand women on her site. And that’s just one site in one area of Australia.
I do think Bricker may be a bit sheltered, as we all are when it comes to prevalence of “doing it for dough” in the general population. The “Dr. Laura phenomenon,” that is, the coming to light of racy pictures in ones background, seems to happen quite regularly in my social circles. Although that’s not exactly the same as performing sex acts on film for money, I have discovered that a willingness is, um, widespread. Among teen and college age women I’d bet that the percentages are much much higher than 0.5%. Much.
If you factor in internet porn along with traditional videos, etc…I’d guess the worldwide total has to be several million. I note that a google image search for “fucking” produces 26.1 million hits. That’s just one generic search. Granted, that total is likely to contain a substantial number of duplicate images, and likely multiple “performances” by various women, but still…porn exists everywhere, and has been around pretty much as long as the human race.
We’re unlikely to arrive at a definitive answer to the OP’s question, but there does seem to be some evidence that might help us.
Google porn database and the first hit you’ll get is iafd.com, which stands for Internet Adult Film Database (NOT safe for work, although the home page is mainly text). It appears to be sort of the IMDB of porn. The home page says:
Now, this list of performers and directors includes men as well as women, and the database appears to include gay porn, so it’s not clear to me just how many of those 86,629 people are female performers.
Also, i don’t really know how comprehensive this site is. I’m guessing it’s far from exhaustive, given that it focuses on movies. I can’t imagine that it catalogs the women from sites like Abby Winters, or any of the hundreds of similar sites on the internet.
Good find. I was trying to get to something like that, but I couldn’t quite come up with it. I did find several sites claiming that about 11,000 new porn movies are released per year. Some women will appear in more than one movie, and many movies will have more than one woman, so that doesn’t tell us much except that there’s an assload of porn being churned out every year.
I’m not entirely sure how legit this is, but there is a sort of classified site for those wanting to get into sex work, including porn performers. Interestingly, when I looked, there were 985 new candidates and 51 new jobs in the porn movie area. I did not investigate very far, but the existence of this site suggests that there is a lively market for employment.
The site, if you’re interested is: (broken since it’s not really SFW): www (dot) adultstaffing (dot) com
This is what I’m afraid of. There is a lot of amateur porn out there. A. Lot. If I ever saw a girlfriend in porn (amateur or paid), the relationship would be over. Instantly.
Really? Professional… maybe, even probably. Amateur… I’d want to see if there was anything she would do on camera she wouldn’t do for me. If so, she’s out the door!
Another reason (until recent times) there was always demand for producing new porn, was that there was no particular care to preserve/archive the negatives/master tapes so a lot of what was produced was lost within the decade.
Still, may I say that Sparky812’s WAG of 750K is apparently an estimate for a number based upon a ratio applied to the universe of ALL currently living US females, which runs into issues of how you have to strike those under 16 (I know about legal ages,but I’m accounting for there being disciples of Traci Lords in the mix) and those NOT sexually active by choice or inability, plus account for lower past populations, and you cannot presume the same rates of such conduct for women coming of age back when it was 100% underground vs. now when Jenna Jameson is interviewed in showbiz gossip shows on TV w/o anyone batting an eyelash.
HOWEVER, that said, given that Bricker’s question is in the form of "explicit sex on camera, for money, ever, I do find it plausible that even with participation being a lower fraction of a percent, the *total historic *number could be in the high hundreds of thousandsfor the USA alone, as you’d imagine the genre would be prone to a high ratio of one-timers. Just as with regular performance professions, you’d have several would-be’s who had one job and went away for everyone who actually stuck around long enough to get her name into IAFD – and as mentioned, that’s just counting movies/video for the last 35 or so years.
Not as big, of course, but it was always there.
There were other ways to distribute it besides mail – UPS was around since 1907 and they had no restrictions. American Express (originally a delivery service) dates from 1852. You could also have the railroads to ship things directly without going through the mails.
It always was profitable (sex always is), but the market was more limited until the home VCR.
Not enough. I can think of several women who still need to do porn for the archives to be complete.
I admit, I forgot to take into account children, overagers, etc. in my estimate, but the OP’s question was about the magnitude of women who have “had explicit sex on camera for money”.
Even if I were to rehash the numbers say 1 in 500 (0.02%) out of 100 million adult women it would still be 200,000 women in the US alone. Again, now add in all former stars, webcams, amateurs, other countries, etc. and even some prostitutes who may have engaged in the practice.
I stand by my original opinion that the total number of women is much higher than previous estimates of 10,000 or 80,000 or 100,000.
Really? This is interesting to me. My girlfriend is a stripper, and I’ve had more than one guy react with bewilderment upon learning this. People frequently say they “couldn’t handle it.” I’m not one of those guys who gets off on other men checking out his girlfriend, but it doesn’t really bother me, either. I guess I’m not really the jealous type.
Whether she chooses to show off her body for money or not (and what a body it is 
), it doesn’t change the fact that she’s a warm and loving girl. I’m curious why you would instantly end a relationship with someone over something they’d done in the past, especially if it was before they ever met you.
Heh.
Steve Martin, stunned to see his first Las Vegas stage show: “There must be… 59 tits up there!”
I’m confident the number has absolutely ballooned thanks to the Internet. Porn is half the reason the Internet exists, and the demand for more porn babes is endless. Thousands of women get into the industry every month, if not every week. It seems to employ half the women in Russia.
I’d imagine the number’s closer to a million than a hundred thousand.
My motto has alway been…If you got’em …show’em to me!!!
My WAG is close to 250,000 or so in the US, voluntarily and knowing that it’s for a purpose of sexual titillation rather than art (Spencer Tunick group photos, modellng in college art classes, etc.) or personal consumption (boudoir photos for boyfriends/husbands, etc.). This considers photo sets, homemade porn that is released on various sites but which includes no credits, photos with limited circulation from private adult modeling sessions (e.g. women that answer the calls for models found in alternative freesheets like The Reader).
I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen threads on other message boards where someone mentions a woman that was featured in some porn film, posts a few SFW photos, and someone responds with “Oh my God, I went to the senior prom with her!” or “Oh my God, she was my sister’s best friend!”, posting several undoctored photos to back up their claims.
There’s only so much that I’d be willing to accept when the old “I was young and stupid” excuse is used.
“I was young and stupid, and got really drunk every night in college and ended up having a few one night stands” is excusable.
“I decided to let some guy fuck me on camera knowing full well it was going to end up on the internet” is not.
To make the conscious decision (assuming you weren’t picked up drunk or drugged) to have sex on camera is to acknowledge that the footage that is produced will exist FOREVER. And if you’re not smart enough to consider, before making that choice, that someday, your future boyfriend/SO/husband may stumble upon your “stupid mistake, tee hee” and be none-too-thrilled, then I’d have trouble having any respect for you, whether you filmed it 2 weeks before we got together, or 20 years.
You’ve got to consider that some porn stars aren’t ashamed of their jobs and don’t expect to have to ever use that excuse, as they wouldn’t want a partner (especially one who consumes porn) to see their past/present job as beneath respect.
But this doesn’t really answer the question.
No-one used the “I was young and stupid” defense. What if the woman said, “Yep i did it. I don’t regret it. I wouldn’t undo it even if i could”?
The question, i guess, is why her decision to have sex on camera would turn you against her so immediately and irrevocably? I mean, it can’t be the sex thing, unless you’re the sort of guy who will only date virgins (good luck with that).
So it must be the sex on camera thing. And while i understand that this might make someone a little uncomfortable initially, i don’t understand why it would be such a big deal that someone would be willing to immediately and forcefully terminate an ongoing relationship.