Think you’ve got what it takes to be the next Rocco Siffredi or Lexington Steele?
While most of us know that we don’t have what it takes to become a male porn star, there are plenty of guys who do want to give it a go.
But, even if you are naturally endowed with incredible stamina, an impressively big dick and the chiseled good looks and physique of Adonis… there is much more to making it in the adult movie industry.
The truth is that hitting the big time is as much about dumb luck as it is about having a massive dong.
But there are some things you should know which can help tip the scales in your favor.
In this practical guide, we’ll show you what it takes for men to enter the porn industry, based on interviews with male adult stars, and advice from top industry producers and directors.
What Does It Take To Become a Male Porn Star?
“If you are a guy and you want to get into porn, your chances are about as good as a unicorn in a rainbow.”
– Ryan Driller.
Traditionally, it has always been easier for girls to break into the porn industry than it has been for guys.
Whilst this has changed a little over the last few decades, it is still more difficult for men than it is for women.
Unlike women, there is more of a demand on male porn stars to be able to ‘perform’.
Whilst women can act their way out of a scene where they just weren’t that turned on, guys simply cant do this.
As a result, studios and independent producers will often work with a small cast of male performers who are proven to be capable of performing on set and producing the goods on camera.
Most are reluctant to hire an unknown male performer as failure to get hard on demand or who gets performance shyness in front of a whole roomful of people could disrupt their filming schedule.
Productions are run on a tight budget and the longer the studio has to pay the whole crew to complete a shoot the less profit there is in the scene.
Put simply, if you can’t perform on demand then you won’t last long in this business. Yeah, sure, plenty of professionals have at least one or two experiences where they ‘failed’ a scene but with so much competition in this industry you wont get many chances.
So, other than being able to cope with having sex in front of a bunch of strangers, what basic skills or qualities do you need to possess in order to make it in the first place?
Age
Working in porn requires you to be at least 18 years of age with some studios requiring you to be 21 or over.
You will, of course, need to show proof of your age and copies of this documentation will be kept by the studio for as long as they are distributing content you are featuring in.
Size Matters
We’d be lying if we said that size didn’t matter but, in this industry, it really does.
Not only for the aesthetics but also for some practical reasons, size is important due to the mechanics of filming.
If you think about most hardcore scenes, the positions are rarely missionary but are instead a combination of more advanced techniques from doggy and spooning right through to the piledriver.
As the camera wants to see this action close up, a small cock just doesn’t allow for deep penetration in these positions to be visible.
Porn director Adam Glasser—who goes by the professional name Seymore Butts—says that the industry penile average is 8 inches. “A few are shorter,” he says, “but many are longer.” [Men’s Health, 2015]
Unless you are only going to work for a very small and specialised studio that produces small-dick porn, you better have a decent dangler.
You don’t need to be a John Holmes (10 inches), Mandingo (9.75 inches), or Julio Gomez (9.25) to work as a male porn actor, and you don’t have to be a black guy like Lexington Steele (8.75) to be hung. Danny D now holds the title of the biggest white dick in porn (8.75), and Spanish superstar, Jordi El Nino Polla only hosts seven inches.
Stamina
Far more important than size is your stamina for the work involved.
Most porn scenes aren’t shot in a single continuous sequence and those 20-minute clips you’ve enjoyed watching can actually take anywhere from 4-8 hours to film.
Yes, there might be plenty of breaks included in a day’s filming whilst cameramen and lighting guys mess about with their equipment but you will need to be able to get hard on cue, stay hard and fuck for as long as it takes until the scene is complete.
At the end of the day, porn is a performance based career and there is plenty of competition for that prime job banging the hottest names in the business so working hard is an absolute given.
But can you stay hard on demand?
A lot of male porn stars rely on drugs like Viagra or Cialis to enable them to power through a shoot whilst some guys even resort to getting injections(!) into their dick or even (in some extreme cases) having penile implants.
There are side effects to using drugs to promote an erection and the long term use of such interventions can have a negative affect on your ability to get hard naturally as well as potentially causing other health issues.
A word of warning comes from Dr Michael Krychman (Southern California Centre for Sexual Health) who points out that studies into the long-term effects of such drugs are lacking, and there may well be consequences of the overuse of certain drugs.
4.75 Tablespoons of Cum
If you want to be a male porn star, you better have enough juice in the tank.
Seymore Butts famously said that his male models must be able to shoot enough cum to ‘fully glaze a face.’
That’s the industry terminology for a facial.
What is enough semen to cover a woman or man’s face?
Butts stipulates his men must be able to provide “At least 4.75 tablespoons,” and, it should be deliverable from any distance.
Shape
We don’t want to make you self-conscious over the state of your junk so this is the last we’ll say on the matter but the shape and look of your cock is also reasonably important.
And, whilst there are no set ‘standards’ for penis beauty, there are some obvious things that producers (and their audiences) don’t want to see including bends, bumps and growths.
Pubic Hair
The trend of hairlessness in pornography has been a progressive march over the last four or five decades.
From the 1970s when both the men and women sported a full and springy bush through to the 1990s when it was popular for men to trim and women to create ‘landing strips’, there is no consensus on exactly why it has become common practice for both genders to now be completely denuded in this area.
Some believe it helps with the aesthetics and allows an audience an uninterrupted view of the mechanics (or ‘ins and outs’) of sex whilst others believe it helps guys make their cocks look bigger.
A more popular theory is a general one relating to hygiene and the absence of pubic hair around the genitals just seems ‘cleaner’ to the current generation.
There is some evidence to suggest that pubic hair might be making a comeback in porn but, whatever your thoughts or feelings are on the subject, the bottom line is that pubic hair should at very least be well trimmed and groomed, if not completely gone.
Location
If you’ve done your research you’ll know that San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California is the porn capital of the world.
With many of the major American studios filming from this area, it stands to reason that they are hiring from the same region.
This doesn’t mean you have to up sticks and move but your chances of being cast are greatly improved by being located close to where the filming happens.
Some porn stars do commute to work but if you are just starting out and want to pick up on those opportunities of last minute casting calls and attend adult industry events then you might want to think about where you are located.
Other big hubs for the adult movie business in the United States include:
- New York City, New York
- Orlando, Tampa, and Miami, Florida
- San Diego and San Francisco, California
- Portland, Oregon
Over in Europe, the equivalent to San Fernando Valley is Prague in Czechia but there are some great studios and producers right across this area including:
- Hungary
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- Denmark
- Netherlands
Back in 2016, it was revealed that Sutton, a leafy London borough, was ‘the porn capital of the UK.’
That turned out to be because one of the ‘Fake’ sites was using a car park to shoot reality porn. When the news began to grow, the company moved to other car parks in other towns. The point is, porn travels, and you must be prepared to travel too.
Professionalism
In an article for GQ, Michael Vegas took the reporter through the making of a porn scene with his on-screen partner, Siouxsie Q.
The pre-shoot routine is essential for any respectable porn studio, and it involves more than just getting hard on demand:
- Cleanliness.
- The male model is to be ‘pegged’ (fucked with a strap-on) and fisted, so he spends 45 minutes taking an enema.
- Both models are expected to be completely clean; it’s bad manners not to be.
- Legalities.
- Both models sign a 2257 age verification form.
- Both sign a model release form.
- Health.
- Both models exchange results of STD testing that are less than two weeks old.
- Understanding The Brief.
- The models discuss the scene that’s about to happen, including where and how the cum shot will happen.
Making a porn movie is a business and there is far more to filming than just pointing a few cameras at people having sex.
A shoot requires a full crew of sound and lighting engineers, cameramen as well as production assistants, costume, make-up, writers and, of course, the director.
And that’s not the half of it, specialist filming for VR might involve the hire of expensive technology and studios might also work on location.
Co-ordinating all of this equipment and people to be on set at the right time takes an enormous amount of effort so being on time is a super important asset to any wannabe male porn star.
Hold up a movie shoot and you will find your blacklisted by any studio worth their salt.
A single scene can take a full day to shoot and you will need to be patient and attentive, ready for action when required.
The process can mean shooting, re-shooting, posing and re-posing and all whilst remembering your lines. Yes, this is an acting job after all and though many people can be denigratory towards performers in the industry, you do have to deliver on this front.
Just like regular actors you will need to hit your placements and these are particularly important in porn as being in the wrong position makes a huge difference.
So, do you think you can find a piece of tape marked on the ground without looking at it whilst a hot naked woman distracts you and remember to act?
Etiquette On Set
Aside from this prepping (which is different from ‘fluffing’), there are other often unspoken rules about being on a porn set, whether you are an actor, part of the crew, or just there to watch.
Various porn models from across the industry have commented on on-set etiquette in a variety of interviews. Some of the main tips to be distilled from those interviews include:
- Leave your phone outside so no-one thinks you’re trying to sneak pictures of the shoot.
- Don’t stare at the naked people unless the cameras are rolling.
- Be polite and respectful, and don’t touch (unless you’re being hired to).
- Leave your judgements at the door.
- Silence and stillness when the cameras are rolling.
- Only speak to who you have to speak to, but don’t interrupt the proceedings.
- Don’t get in the way; let others do their jobs, and you do yours.
- Don’t get an erection. (I assume that one relates to visitors and viewers on set, and not the male models!)
- Don’t join in, unless it’s your job.
As one observer on MetaFilter put it:
“Just pretend like you’ve seen all this eighty million times before and it’s not a big deal.“
– A Very Wise Man
A Clean Bill of Sexual Health
As well as showing up on time and delivering the goods on camera, you will also need to attend every shoot with the right documentation.
For a new porn star this usually means bringing along ID and proof of age along with a clean certification of sexual health.
In the United States, the porn industry works with the FSC-PASS system and all performers need to have been tested for the full gamut of STIs within a 14-day window of any shoot they are involved in.
The rules on filming vary by country so if you perform outside of the U.S. then you will need to ensure that you comply with their legislation on health screening.
A typical test covers everything from HIV, gonorrhea and chlamydia to hepatitis B or C, syphilis and trichomoniasis.
Remember that though most work in the porn industry in the U.S. is shot without the use of condoms, your co-performers are all regularly screened.
As long as you practice safe sex outside of your job then the theory is that the whole industry stays clear, although this has been the source of much contention over the years.
An investigation by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in 2016, highlighted a case where a male porn model unknowingly became infected with HIV. Although he was tested and the results showed as negative, there was a period of 22 days during which he was unaware of his positive HIV status, and passed on the virus to another performer and a sex partner outside of work.
During the 22 days, the model had sex with 12 male performers, five other men he was able to name, and several that he wasn’t.
A Porn Pseudonym
Porn actors use a pseudonym for a variety of reasons. Mainly, it’s to keep their real life separate from their porn life, but also, it’s to make them more memorable.
Some use their real name. John Holmes, for example, was born, John Curtin Holmes.
Some go for a hybrid version, like former male porn star, Ron Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt.
Some go for ‘real’ names that are not their own, like Colby Janson, whose real name is Joseph William Boswell, and Ángel Muñoz García is otherwise known as Jodi El Nino Polla (meaning the Dick Boy).
Others go for something that sounds distinctly, well… porny. Tommy Pistol (Aramis Sartorio), and Tommy Gunn (Thomas Joseph Strada), for example. Other pornstar names often use a sexy and macho-sounding last name such as Alex Legend, Johnny Castle, Sean Lawless, and Scott Nails.
What you don’t want to do is head straight to the cliché cupboard and pull out something like Tom Wanks, John Cutesack, or Bill Clitton. (These are or were used by some very hunky porn actors.)
Tip: There are plenty of male porn star name generators where you can come up with some good (or bad) personas for your fledgling career. Here’s one you can try. (Keep refreshing until you get one that fits. 😉
How Can Guys Get Started in the Porn Industry?
Getting your big break in the porn industry is far harder for the guys than it is for the girls and, typically, most male adult performers have broken into porn by knowing someone else or by being ridiculously lucky.
Ryan Driller says that men are at a major disadvantage when it comes to entering the industry. “It’s all dumb luck,” he insists. “You can’t ask another guy to get you in. You can’t ask studios to try out you. You can’t get a girl to bring you in.”
That being said, there are some established routes into the world of adult film acting which can help newcomers.
Partner Up
One of the most common ways for guys to get their break in porn is because of the company they kept.
Aaron “Small Hands” Thompson, for example, entered the industry through his wife, porn star, Joanna Angel. She got him to perform with her for her website, Burning Angel.
“Basically I became a male pornstar because it was ‘free labour’ for my wife.” Thompson told MensHealth.
The adult movie business is littered with double acts who made their names by exclusively filming together so, if you want to boost your chances of being discovered or being picked up by a studio then find yourself a gorgeous woman who wants to work in porn with you.
Even better if she will only work with you!
Check For Casting Calls
Despite the industry being a competitive one, there are still small studios and independent producers who reach out to amateurs and newcomers for casting calls.
They often do this for reasons of affordability or because they are too small for any well known performers to want to bother with. Sometimes they are located outside of the usual porn hubs which might make their shoot unappealing for other performers.
We’d recommend signing up on platforms like SexyJobs (mainly United States, reviewed here) or OutlineTalent (mainly Europe) and posting your resume online as well as being proactive and searching for any casting calls.
Though not porn work, you can also check out modelling agencies and adult forums to respond to any potential job opportunities.
Don’t Bother Cold Calling
Sending your details to adult film studios is a waste of time, according to XBiz Male Performer of the Year, Ryan Driller.
Producers and directors get hundreds of emails from wannabe male porn stars every day and these just end up straight in the trash folder.
Instead, Driller suggests trying to get onto the books of an agency.
Find an Agency
Getting an in at a good agency is all about your approach and your professionalism so take your time to draft a formal letter of introduction but one that shows off your personality and ambition.
You should be able to include some professional body and head shots (see below) and if you have made any decent amateur content then include links to this too.
If they like your approach and your sample work then they will contact you to arrange representation.
Finding a good agent is going to depend on where you are, and it will be far harder to find an agent in a small town than in a city. If you are in Los Angeles, USA, there will probably be too many; if you are in the wilds of Scotland, there probably won’t be any.
Start with an internet search for ‘Adult Industry Agents’ and/or ‘Representatives in…’ your location. Check what they are looking for, and only send them what they ask for.
- For the USA, Adult Industry News keeps a handy and current list of agents.
- Always double-check information from Wikipedia, but right now, they have a pretty comprehensive list of porn production companies around the world. Find the list here, and remember, you can approach porn studios direct, though working through an agent is more likely to bring better results.
- Lustfel also has a useful list and some details of adult industry talent agencies.
- The list includes the USA porn industry’s biggie, LA Direct Models.
- IMDB is another good place to check.
- Look up a pornstar by name.
- If they have an IMDB page, you often find a note of their representation. For example, I could find that Ricky Spanish Is represented by Riley Reynolds and his California licensed & bonded adult talent agency Hussie Models LLC.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of scam agencies out there who promise deals and ask for payment in return for representation. Often citing expenses for producing portfolios and hiring professional photographers, any reputable agency won’t ask you for money up front.
Though there are set-up costs involved, these should be deducted from your first contracted job.
You will have to pay your agency commission on all work they secure for you through them but the perks of getting more regular work and possibly becoming a preferred performer outweigh this.
Always check your contract with an agency before signing it and get some legal advice if you are unsure about the small print.
Professional Shots
Just as in any other movie business you will need some head and body shots but, as this is porn, you will need to have these both nude and clothed.
Four shots should cover everything and must be taken professionally in high resolution.
Working with a good photographer can help to show off your best assets so try to find someone who has experience in the industry.
Perhaps you have a great chest or butt, someone who works with nude models can make these parts of your body the real focus of a shot.
You should have a portfolio ready to offer to agencies and should include:
- One head shot
- A couple of nude shots
- One clothed shot
A common mistake when putting together a portfolio is to only have nude shots or to include a close up shot of your genitals. Heads-up: it’s gonna take more than a dick pic to turn this in to a career.
Build a Network
As in most industries, getting your foot in the door isn’t always about what you know but about who you know. Unless you have a sister who runs a porn studio, building a network of useful contacts can take time and effort but is well worth your investment.
Attending as many adult industry events as possible is a given and try to hit up social events at these gigs.
We can’t do the smooth talking for you but we can recommend not jumping straight in with a copy of your latest show reel.
Instead, be relaxed, be yourself and try to work your way into conversations naturally. You never know but a night spent wisely at the bar during an Adult Expo in Las Vegas might just lead to a few good introductions.
Better yet, buddy up with that hot female partner of yours and you might find yourself opening more doors together.
Start at the Bottom
A lot of porn stars start out by making amateur porn or, at very least, by saying yes to low budget and independent movies.
It is highly unlikely that your first foray into porn will be for a big studio banging Valentina Nappi (or any Goddess-tier actresses) so be prepared to put your time in at the coal face first.
If you are producing your own amateur content then it is worth trying to make this look as professional as possible so you can use this as a show reel to demonstrate your skills to potential employers.
Many agencies and producers will ask for any URLs you can supply them with to show off your talent (see ‘Create Your Own Content’, below for more ways to max your earnings).
Nailing The Audition
With very few exceptions, you only get one shot at nailing your audition so you need to be ready to perform and to do this in a room full of strangers.
We don’t want to put your under pressure (and you need to get used to this kind of stress) but if you fail to ‘perform’ then that is the nail in our coffin as a porn star.
The industry is a small and pretty clique one so having a reputation as the guy who can’t stay hard or who shoots his load too soon will be hard to shake.
You’ll be asked to masturbate while the auditioning panel take notes and consider who they could put you to work with, while the tea lady brings in biscuits, discusses the weather, and wanders out. Those are the kind of distracting things that’ll be going on during a porn audition, and you’re expected to stay hard and horny throughout.
Some models will tell you that the male model needs to be able to ejaculate ‘on demand,’ which seems like an unusual skill to master. They don’t mean, ‘right now!’ but, ‘Ok, we’re going for the money shot next.’
That kind of direction might come four hours after they started shooting the scene, so male models also have to be able to stay hard for a long time.
They’ll also want you to be fit and flexible, as you’ll be expected to hold your women (and/or men) in various positions, but at the end of the day, as one retired model put it: ‘Keep in mind, they’re looking for shots of the woman and you’re just a dick.’
Beyond the practicalities of performing on set you should also:
- Arrive in good time. It’s always better to be a bit early than have a full studio full of other cast and crew waiting for you.
- Wear something sharp, be clean and well-groomed. You will likely be asked to shower before you audition anyway but arriving to meet your co-stars and potential employers looking and smelling great goes a long way.
- Bring along your proof of age documentation and most recent STD test.
How Much Money Can a Male Porn Star Earn?
Whilst the porn industry can be an extremely lucrative one, there are some common misconceptions about the earning potential of its performers.
For a typical shoot over a single scene, most porn actors will be remunerated at a rate of around $150-$300.
The top performers can potentially make $1,000+ whilst those few mega male stars of the porn world can pretty much name their price.
Unfortunately, women are paid at least twice as much as the guys so, realistically, jobbing male porn stars will be making around $300-$500 for their involvement.
Some studios will pay expenses on top of the fee whilst others won’t. Always check this out before accepting a role as overnight stays and travel costs can rack up. If your agency is also taking a cut then you might just find some offers are more paltry than they first seem.
Having said that, in order to get your foot in the door, you need to be prepared to take some low-paying roles in your first few months to get your ‘face’ seen.
A bit part as third gardener or spare pizza delivery boy for a big studio like BangBros or Burning Angel might lead to bigger and better things.
How to Max Your Earnings as a Male Porn Star
There are ways to increase your earning potential as a male porn star which include diversifying your income, creating (and owning) your own content as well as expanding your horizons with the kind of genre you perform in.
Expand Your Limits
The bottom line here is that traditional porn is at the lower end of the pay scale in the adult entertainment industry.
The more vanilla the market, the more performers who are competing to take part.
Looking to other genres, particularly those niche fetish ones and you find that there are fewer guys prepared to give it a go and more money being offered for those that do.
There are roles for other body types, too.
The faux stepfamily taboo niche is ever-expanding, and this, and other niche porn, requires older stepdad types, the dirty uncle kind of character who may not look like a gym addict. There is such a thing as grandpa porn, then you have Dilfs, and in the gay world, bears and chubbies, twinks, twunks, and all stops in between.
Whilst, we can never recommend that you perform in anything outside of your comfort zone, we would suggest looking beyond the mainstream markets if you want to increase your earning potential.
Consider Gay Porn
In the same way that vanilla porn pays less than kinky on-screen sex, homosexual roles can also be a good way to boost your income.
You don’t have to switch to exclusively filming gay content but there is a good market for straight male actors who perform homosexual acts on film.
Known as ‘gay for pay’, the economics of same-sex porn can be pretty persuasive.
Broke Straight Boys is just one example of a specialist studio brand which pays hetero guys to be ‘lured’ or ‘duped’ into sex with other guys.
Many successful male porn models are versatile in that they appear in duo scenes, group action, threesomes, indoors, outdoors, and some fetish work. It’s possible that you turn up for a gig only to discover you’re going to be playing against a Milf in the morning, a BBW in the afternoon, and over the weekend, they’d like you to do a bi-sex scene with a girl and another guy.
Tommy Pistol offers his OnlyFans videos of him fucking himself with dildos, which isn’t exactly gay porn, but still, fans get off on it. Zeb Atlas famously fucked Peter North in a scene, but North later claimed they used a body double. Maxx Diesel is also known as Christian XXX depending on whether he’s doing straight or gay porn.
There are some considerations when doing this which you need to be aware of and this is largely due to the unfair perception that the industry has with gay men being a higher HIV risk than straight men.
As a result of performing in gay porn, some mainstream studios may not hire you afterwards.
Build Your Profile
The more well known you become, or the more fans you can amass, then the better the performance fees you can negotiate.
Until such time as you are a regular on the mainstream studio circuits, this means taking your own marketing seriously.
These days, all porn stars have a social media following as well their own model pages on subscription sales sites like OnlyFans, ModelHub or ManyVids.
The key is to build your fanbase and engage with an audience directly so you can raise your profile.
If you can get a following of several thousand fans on social media or through subscription sites then not only could you monetizing this for extra income but producers will like the idea of using a male porn star who comes with his own dedicated audience.
Create Your Own Content
Another way to increase your earning potential is to create your own content and to sell it digitally. In other words: sell your own homemade porn.
By owning the copyright of videos and photos yourself then you get all of the profits (net of commission from third-party platform sales).
Even if you don’t sell loads of content, producing your own material means you always have a regular and up to date reel to show to producers.
Again, if you can team up with some willing women who also want to get into porn then this can work for both of you.
For those guys who have the means, if you can produce and distribute content using your own studio brand then this is a massive way to expand your earning potential.
You’d need to hire other performers and a crew (with the equipment) but basically you’d be the leading man in all of your own video shoots.
Not only that but you’d also be earning royalties from video sales and not just taking a fixed fee per shoot.
There are hundreds of sites where you can sell your own homemade porn. Which one you choose is up to you, but you can appear on more than one at a time. However, don’t spread yourself too thin, or you will lose your exclusivity.
The following sites allow users to monetise their self-made content (even though they take a cut of the income, usually between 20% and 40%):
Things to Consider If You Become a Male Porn Star
Having a career where your job is to have sex with loads of women might seem like you’ve landed the jackpot.
But there are some factors to think about before you become a male porn star.
Notoriety & Fame
Firstly, (and it’s an obvious but important one) everything you do on film remains public forever.
Even when adult films were just available on VHS, it was difficult to put a career in porn behind you but in the age of the internet, there is every chance that your stint as the next Rocco Siffredi will follow you for many years.
Whilst few people can see how that might be a problem when they are in your 20s, imagine having to explain this period of your life to your children, your prospective in-laws or at a job interview.
There is nothing to be ashamed about in working for the porn industry but not everyone will see it that way.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of anecdotal evidence about employers refusing to hire people (or firing people) who have been found to have a past in adult movies.
Health Risk
Secondly, working in porn carries some obvious health risks and although the adult film industry in the United States has some incredible procedures and systems in place to limit the risk of performers contracting sexually transmitted diseases, it is by no means infallible.
Personal Relationships
Next, you will have to consider the impact that a career as an adult film performer can have on your personal relationships.
Just as the truth of your new job might follow you around for years after you have retired, maintaining close relationships whilst you are an active porn star can be very difficult. This is particularly true when it comes to those intimate ones such as with a girlfriend/boyfriend or your wife/husband.
It’s no coincidence that many professional porn stars end up dating within the industry as few people can cope with the demands of their partner sleeping with other people for a job.
Physical Demands
As we’ve alluded to already, a 30-minute sex scene on film might take several hours to shoot so you will probably feel pretty spent once you’ve finished shooting for the day.
If you are doing this three or four times a week then it can have an impact on your physical performance off set.
Also, the work you do on set is heavily based around your physical appearance and, with the exception of niche performers, this means you have a commitment to stay in shape and to look good on camera.
This doesn’t mean you have to be huge and musclebound, and there are exceptions to this, but in the main, studios would rather work with athletic looking guys rather than pot-bellied ones.
Don’t Give Up The Day Job
And finally, one thing to consider is that porn work can be pretty sporadic and, until you hit the big time, you will need to be prepared to have a day job.
A lot of guys try to find work within the industry so they can keep their finger on the pulse of the action.
Working as a production assistant or crew member can mean you are on hand if there are any last-minute demands for an actor. Some guys also choose to work as an escort whilst they wait for the roles to come in.
It’s really up to you and what you feel comfortable with.
We’ll leave you with some more wise words from a man who knows:
“The moment that you’re labelled a porn star, your credibility is gone, your morality is seen as faulty and compromised, your intelligence is questioned, and your well-being is doubted. I do not recommend it for anyone unless they absolutely want to be here.”
– Ryan Driller
