# How much to star in a porno? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 8, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366 "2012-11-08T16:14:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/41 "2012-11-09T21:09:31Z")
If it meant I got to sleep with James Deen, I’d do it for $1,000. Actually, I might give him some for free, but he’s not taping it for free. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/42 "2012-11-10T03:34:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > There’s always a demand for short subjects. > > Regards, > Shodan She didn’t say it was short, she said it was cute! ---
**Author:** ![RockytheflyingS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RockytheflyingS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RockytheflyingS)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/43 "2012-11-10T03:41:14Z")
I’d do it for free. I’ve already made a sex tape with an ex. I have tenure and any morality clause in my contract. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/44 "2012-11-10T07:23:56Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > Oddly enough though there actually is a porn movie with a dead ringer lookalike of me in it. I know this cause it was discovered and then pointed out to me by amused colleagues somewhere I used to work and upon seeing it for a few moments _I_ actually wondered how on earth I’d been so drunk I forgot I made a porno. And this is why I think slut shaming won’t matter. You just claim it really isn’t you. Nothing in the hypothetical says your name appears on it. And, yes, the other option, that it was just a personal video that got released, is useful, too. You could probably play it up and make people wind up hating the star for releasing it–that they did it because they wanted a sex video. You can even play up a story about how they promised to marry you or something. I don’t think I’d need money to do it, but it would be irrational not to try and take as much as I can get. I don’t even have to worry about my morality since I get to pick the partner. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/45 "2012-11-10T12:40:55Z")
Like in the movie _42nd Street_, will I have a stage-door Janie telling me “you’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!”? Many’s the time I’ve rehearsed for that exact role … on my own. They say it pays to advertise. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/46 "2012-11-10T14:20:22Z")
After reading this thread two nights ago, I had a dream where I was dating Mila Kunis. Alas, we were not doing anything remotely involving sex or porn. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/47 "2012-11-10T17:17:13Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I’d do it for free. > > I don’t see how having a sex tape out there would be more damaging than what’s already out there. Understood, but a surprising number of people do not post to the internet pictures of themselves dressed up as wizards with their dicks sticking out of their robes. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/48 "2012-11-10T21:49:10Z")
> [@The\_Lurker\_Above](#): > > Exactly. Do it and you can win pretty much any locker room bragging contest ever. “I had sex with [insert celebrity of choice]… and got **paid**.” What if it was Flipper? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/49 "2012-11-10T23:00:42Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > Like in the movie _42nd Street_, will I have a stage-door Janie telling me “you’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!”? Are you willing to…feed the bear? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/50 "2012-11-10T23:06:55Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I’d do it for free. > > I don’t see how having a sex tape out there would be more damaging than what’s already out there. Cite? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/51 "2012-11-11T23:46:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Are you willing to…feed the bear? :eek: I could consent **IF** it’s an essential element in the story’s thematic development and consistent and harmonious with the personalities, background, dreams and aspirations of the characters, plus it would have to be tastefully choreographed with a toe-tapping soundtrack **BUT** most importantly, my women co-stars _MUST_ have a diminutive big toes (and that paramedics be standing by) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366/52 "2012-11-13T02:10:55Z")
So to make sure I have this straight. 1. I get to pick who I consider to be the most attractive woman in the world and have sex with her 2. There’s video evidence so I can show everyone my accomplishment until the end of time 3. You… compensate… me? Unless you’re like president of a country or CEO of a multinational corporaton and have something big to lose via scandal, all of the responses here requiring a lot of compensation or saying you’d never do it are quite bizarre. Even if I were married, I’d like to think my spouse would be cool with a sexception sort of thing if I had a chance to do what basically no one like me would ever get to do. Now if you made the poll “how much would you have to be paid to have sex with some skanky, disgusting porn star?”, that’s a legitimately difficult question. But as stated - kinda silly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-star-in-a-porno/640366.md?page=2)