Its just staggering how many people are involved in the adult industry. However, i have never really seen a database for job seeking adult film stars.
So where do these sites get in contact with their actors?
Purely networking?
Ads in the paper, craigslist, recruiting websites. Girls with loose morals and pretty looks can even just email a porn site and say they want to model on it and they’ll be sent in the right direction.
It also depends on the city. If you’re in LA the ads are thick with “adult modeling” jobs. If you’re in Hoboken, not so much.
:rolleyes:
If you’re signing up to be gang-banged, it’s not just your morals that are going to be loose, before too long.
I generally don’t provide my cell number so I usually get called at home.
But how do the guys break into the business? Surely there must be a waiting list somewhere? 
Newark
Eastern Europe.
via Newark
Have you ever been to Newark?
I assure you that you wouldn’t want to see the average resident of Newark naked.
There’d be a lot more activity in the local Job Centres if they advertised this kind of work.
What is wrong with this sentence:
Most porn people go out of their way to make sure they only hire adults. Hiring underaged “girls” is illegal.
It takes two to do porn, and often the other one is a [del]boy[/del] man.
Do men who email porn sites have to have loose morals or just big dicks (that is a strange sentence).
Well, sometimes it takes a lot more than two.
Laurence Fishburne’s house.
This is a fun topic (no, wait, the sentence isn’t over yet) to do one of those blue-sky math approximations on, the kind that firms such as Microsoft or Google like to give to prospective hires.
Porn is a worldwide business, but to make the numbers smaller and easier to work with, let’s stick to just the U.S.
Women can enter porn at age 18. How big a pool is that? Well, in 1992 there were 4,084,000 births in the U.S. It was rising from a low 20 years earlier, but for rounding lets say that 4,000,000 turn 18 every year and that half, 2,000,000, are female.
How many females are willing to do porn? I don’t know and I’ve never seen any studies on the subject. Let’s be conservative and say that only 1 in 100 will. That’s 20,000.
Porn is also based on appearance. Although there are fetish porn videos for almost every taste, most porn uses women who are slim and attractive. There is far more porn on the internet than in the video industry and the standards there vary more. Let’s say that only that top 25% in beauty are right for the industry. That’s 5,000.
So every year 5,000 U.S. females turn 18 and are candidates for the porn industry. That’s cumulative, though. Not every women enters porn at 18. Many drop out quickly but many stay in the industry or return when the need money. Let’s take it out 20 years, since women of 38 are still prevalent in porn.
So our total pool of U.S. women willing to do porn is 100,000.
That’s really a lot. Even granted that many don’t do porn or are never asked or leave the industry, the fact that they can do large number of shoots during a year means that finding women for 100,000 shoots is reasonable.
You then have to add all the women not born in the U.S. who come here and wind up doing porn at some time in their lives. And then add to that all the non-U.S. porn from a base of women that is ten-times larger. Globally, you have the potential for 1,000,000 porn shoots a year, just of youngish women of above-average attractiveness.
Since nudity is less frowned upon than porn, and modeling is less frowned upon than nudity, you can multiply these numbers by some x factor to get the total number of women in attractiveness professions.
I’d love to know how close to reality these numbers are, but I think that for a first-order approximation they make sense. The population is really big and the industry is smaller than it appears due to the reuse of actresses and videos across many sites.
Comments?
Isn’t the general progression like this?
- Move to CA to become a famous actress
- Work a waitress job while trying to get acting roles
- Start working porn because you can’t get conventional acting roles
4a. Keep your self-esteem and come out relatively ok
OR
4b. Get addicted to drugs and die an early death.
I recently watched a movie called “This Girl’s Life”, it was about a relatively well-adjusted woman in the porn business, and showed her day-to-day life. Not sure how realistic it is, but it seemed real enough. It’s available on Netflix streaming.
In the San Fernando Valley, virtually all the women are represented by one of a handful of modeling agencies that specialize in the adult industry. Jim South’s World Modeling Talent Agency is the most successful. Like any other talent agency, they produce still images and screen tests, and the only difference is that they also shoot nudes and video and maintain a database of what sexual acts they will perform on film and if they require condoms to be used. Also, before anyone can work in the Valley, they have to have a recent AIDS test from AIM, the Adult Industry Medical service set up by Sharon Mitchell, the former porn actress.
Various documentaries about the porn industry make it perfectly clear that the women applying to the talent agencies know exactly what the are doing. They do have to be very familiar with the industry and know what type of video each producer makes, so they don’t wind up in a situation they can’t handle.
Men who go into porn need morals just as loose as the women, but it’s not a sufficient condition. From what I’ve heard, the other requirement isn’t so much having a big dick, but having a reliable one: It’s supposedly pretty difficult to keep it up and performing on cue when you’re on a set under hot stage lights with a woman wearing too much makeup and who doesn’t actually look that great up close, while a bunch of guys with cameras and other equipment are watching. Really, is it any secret that women have a lot easier time getting into porn than men do?
The various ED drugs have utterly changed that, for the worse. Pre-Viagra, there were only a handful of reliable “Woodsmen” like Ron Jeremy who were in hundreds or even thousands of titles. They had to be able to get and remain excited.
But post-Viagra, the stakes are much lower. Personally, I think it has resulted in a trend to violence and misogyny. Viagra brought us vicious creeps like “Max Hardcore”.
What about the newbies getting screwed figuratively? As in, not getting a good contract? Are the agencies legitimately working for the actors’ behalf or simply acting as the studios procurers of new talent?