‘In gay porn, it’s a similar situation but with that you are the star.’ Getting black-listed from the industry So he stayed in straight porn for a long time. ‘Because I was dating a woman in straight porn, she also had baggage around it as her dad is gay. ‘Straight porn producers would say to me, “We don’t want you to do gay porn because there’s a HIV risk.” ‘We don’t want you to do gay porn because there’s a HIV risk.’ ‘There is a stigma against men in straight porn doing any kind of gay porn,’ he explained. You gotta pick a side if you want a career,’ Chris said, noting there’s a lot of ‘old man money’ tied up in porn. ‘When I moved to Los Angeles I discovered, as a guy, you can’t do both.
You gotta pick a side if you want a career.’Īs he felt open about his bisexuality, he did both gay and straight scenes in San Francisco. She introduced him to producers, agents and filmmakers in the adult industry, and his career started to flourish. ‘They would say your cock looks better,’ he said. ‘In my head, I was like, if I was going to do any kind of porn my family probably wouldn’t look at this.’Ĭhris had a little experience as a naked model for gay photographers who wanted him to masturbate in front of them. ‘I didn’t know a lot about BDSM at the time,’ he told Gay Star News. He became Danny Wylde, one of ’s first male models in femdom porn. This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.When porn actor Chris Zeischegg answered a Craigslist ad looking for guys to get penetrated by women wearing dildos on camera, little did he know that decision would change his life.
Female actor in scene with another woman: $910 - $1570.Female actor in straight scene: $390 - $1950.Actors also earn premium rates as an incentive to perform scenes they haven’t done before.Īmerica’s CNBC did their own research - and delved into the earning of everyone involved in the making of adult movies, from those in front of the camera to the production assistant and the writers. Mr Hay said it was a “universally known” fact that women are paid “a lot more” than men - but blokes get the opportunity to do more jobs. But if some of the top stars are making £240,000 to £320,000 per year, by most people’s perception that would still be a lot of money I think.” “I don’t think there’s anybody, even the biggest stars, who are making more than half a million a year. “I don’t think that adult stars make as much money as the general public perceives them to make,” Mr Hay said. However, jobs in the porn industry are not as lucrative as people might expect, even for performers at the top of their game. This pay could go up or down by 10-20 per cent depending on who the actor is and whether they are well known, he added.
He told The Independent a female actress could expect to earn $1300 for a scene with a man, and $895 for a scene with another woman. That’s according to founder of LA Direct Models, Derek Hay, a man who represents many top adult performers and used to work as an actor himself. It’s a multibillion-dollar industry, and while its top stars have the potential to rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, many new performers could be paid as little as $390 per movie, The Sun reports.Īnd those behind the scenes aren’t paid nearly as well as their Hollywood counterparts, despite the industry’s multi-billion pound price tag. AT ANY given second, there are thought to be 28,000 people watching internet porn around the world.