Porn Is A Cruel World If You're An Aging White Male
 

The outside world paints a picture of the porn industry where women, especially the young, are disposable sex machines that are exploited and then when used up, forgotten, junked. Mike South made a post on his blog about the recent death of veteran stunt dick Billy Glide from a drug overdose that may have been intentional. Even if not, the word was Glide was on a downward spiral. Mike went on to comment on the plight of the aging male talent, people for whom nobody in or out of porn care about. I've been thinking about it since reading that porn legend Tom Byron was living on somebody's couch. I've often noticed in my years watching and working in porn familiar male talent disappearing and wondering 'whatever happened to 'that dude'?'

In the mainstream movie industry the script is flipped. Female stars have short careers, by the time they reach 40 with rare exception they are either out of the business or taking supporting roles as older women. Older male stars remain viable as leading men, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, all 50 plus.

In porn where 'MILF' is an extremely popular genre, attractive older female porn stars like Lisa Ann, Julia Ann and Nina Hartley remain popular. Lisa Ann may be the most popular performer in the world of porn. Male talent with the exception of the guys who own their own studios and DVD lines just fade away when they get older, I assume the phone just stops ringing. You see some of them hanging on working for cheap for bottom of the barrell
producers.

It's got to be very depressing to face the reality that having spent 10 or 20 years making a good living fucking an endless parade of hot women that it's all over and you have nothing to fall back on.

I remember when Jon Dough killed himself, a guy who was a contemporary of Tom Byron and Peter North, back when I was a kid watching bootleg 10th generation VHS porn tapes that would get passed around. Recently one of Evil Angel's older hired gun performer/directors did himself in. How many other older male talents have committed suicide? I bet there are some that nobody knows about.

Interesting post

true but don't they realize getting into it? as far as im aware being male talent isn't highly profitable so i'm guessing they do it for the fun of fucking but if they don't have an exit strategy or become a director or whatever, they only have themselves to blame. unfortunately a number of them are addicts, dough was addict and his wife has said its the drugs that made him kill himself, not porn.

There has to be just as many dicks who know what a Roth IRA is and saved for the inevitable.

Pickup a book in your spare time ffs.

Male talent make a real good living, the top guys make as much as the top girls. The mid-level guys used to pretty well too but with so much less production going on there's not enough work for them. Brazzers has guys signed to exclusive deals.

What happened to Michael Stefano, he was a top guy and owned his own studio?

I said it on another board not long ago, I'd say it here as well: When you worked in this biz for several years, have no money saved and no plan b for your life than fucking on cam - your bad.

Dude, stunt dicks make like $200-$300 TOPS a scene. The girls get more and they're only getting $600 a scene (if lucky, some are doing scenes for $400).

Maybe contract guys get more but even then how much? Not 100k like contract girls. So any way you look at it it's not a lot of money. It's like being a fucking waiter, as in lots of cash flow but nothing steady. The downside to any physical labor is if you ain't physically laboring you ain't getting paid.

The girls in porn spend their money on Prada and coke. The very very rare ones have an exit strategy or a Plan on how much to save, etc. Some transition into other roles in the Industry. But it surprises me that most male talent does not transition into other areas.

I dunno, girls and blow and living the porn high life is fun for awhile but eventually you either make a real living out of it or move on.

How's Ron Jeremy and Max Hardcore doing these days? :)

The problem is is most people in the biz have problems. Largely financial problems. Instead of sacking it away, the whores buy cars, the guys get all tatted up & buy stupid shit, then they start flaking & become a liability. It's really nothing to feel sorry about because at every turn they had options to save, invest, and move on etc.
Duke

What one chooses to do their their earnings is their problem. I don't feel sorry for anyone who makes a lot of money and ends up on a sofa because they blew it all.

your numbers are all over the map :2 cents:

Hmmmmm, was waiting for you to explain why only white males were affected as implied by thread title.

Did not deliver.

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I know a lot of talent, female & male.

Some are very careful with their money and are doing well. I know several that paid off & own homes & cars before they turned 30. Others I know are still broke at 50.

Guys for the most part earn a lot more than the women since they have longevity on their side. Guys can work into their 40s. Women are lucky to make it to 25 or 30. The discrepancy in per scene rate is made up by the number of years.

The fact that there are so few guys also makes it better for them. I just talked to a well known male talent who has been averaging 25 scenes per month for the past 3-4 years at $750 per scene. That's $18,000+ a month. Don't feel too bad for them if you can't save with that kind of income.

They date and fall in love with female talent and them many of them have problems dealing with their porn star girlfriends fucking other guys on camera. I have seen this play out over and over. It can be very depressing.

And this ^^^^^^^
Ds

I'm tired of being treated like I'm a piece of meat

but what about

older-man younger woman sites

older-man younger-man sites

older man jerking himself sites


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Top guys make a lot. Try to hire Manuel Ferrara or James Deen. The top guys almost all end up at Evil Angel where they produce and own their own product.

Very true. I was speaking more of the average stunt cock but you and pornlaw are correct, of course.

How many guys do 25 scenes a month tho and at $750? Plus, you have to factor in the cost of all that Viagra and casperjet. LOL!

BTW: There are YouTube videos of all the porn stars who have commited suicide over the years and the number of guys is shocking (and sad - they're all incredibly sad).

PS: How is James Deen Cash doing I wonder? :)

750 is great. We pay about 450 a scene for guys who aren't newbs to the drill & will do 3-4 scenes a week. & that is steady work if the guy can perform to the standard we want. Plus, we are very generous with kill fees so that if a girl doesn't show the guy is still walking away with his pay if he's at the studio before we realize it's a flake. But all in all they all fuck it up somehow. Some get the brilliant idea of trying to make their own porn or just doing stupid shit where you're like "bro wtf was that"
Ds

This is not a porn specific issue. It happens to every industry.

Talent in general makes a ton of fast easy money, if they dont save or plan thats on them.

Anyways suicide is more emotional than financial.Finances are just an excuse.

Don't you also think that it's the average intelligence, metal stability, drug and alcohol use and thought process of as person willing to be talent creates a predetermined effect on what their long term prospects will be after working in the industry?

only the porn industry take advantage of people.
only the porn industry hire rape victims and troubled people.
only the porn industry drive people to suicide.

yep, true story.

Yeah plus it is some sort of "dream job",and while on begin it might look as dream job,problem is how people are unaware how it wont last forever.But that is curse with any job where you very easily earn money,for example you could draw parallel with all those 80's singers which had a single hit and never accomplished anything after that.

Very true. Especially in any kind of entertainment industry. The money can come fast and easy and people just assume it will last forever. Then it suddenly just dries up one day and they have nothing to show for it. The landscape of Los Angeles is littered with people who made some quick money in the movie and music business then their turn as flavor of the month was up and now they are back to being just a regular person with a regular job.

Porn Is A Cruel World If You're An Aging White Male...
 

But only possibly if you are on the other side of the camera....


FTFY :)

The thread title sounded like everyone white and male in the industry, but then it got really specific about pornstars. You got my click. I looked at the dog with the cone dominating the bowl. I'm not sure what happened here.

In the early 90's I worked for a small record label. There was a band that signed with them and got lucky. They had a song used in a TV commercial which helped it get some radio play. Suddenly the band was doing well and in demand. They toured non-stop for almost 2 years behind, basically, just that one song and made some nice cash.

Then they came home and started on the new album. It went nowhere. Almost overnight they disappeared off the radar. Most of the band members had just blown through the cash. One of them had spent thousands on hundreds of pairs of shoes. They just assumed they were going to be stars for a long time.

The only one that was smart was the guitar player who bought a small house and paid cash for it so he could live there on the cheap for the rest of his life if he wanted. Then he put most of the rest of the money into low yield, low risk investments.

Huge difference with the stigma of a 1 hit wonder, washed up B movie teen actor or a former porn "star".

it's called retirement and everyone with a career retires and has to deal with that change of working to not working. And we all look back on our careers from that angle with the bias of our own viewpoint.

So I can't gather any sympathy for someone who feels so sorry for themselves looking back on their career of fucking hot chicks in exotic locations and kinky positions that they decide to kill themselves.

That's pretty unsympathetic behavior.

@ThePornNerd - I have repped James Deen basically since he's been in the industry for both mainstream and porn. He has always done well. Even as a new guy he was booking 2-3 scenes a day at $300-$500 a scene - everyday. And he's very smart when it to come to finances.

He turns down more work than anyone else I know. And he's the only male pornstar I have ever known that has a legion of female fans from 15-75.

I did a luncheon for 75 students at my law school last year about being a porn lawyer. Afterwards I had 10 female law students stay to ask me questions... they only question they asked was how they could do a scene with James.

He's done Playboy, GQ, Details, Variety and a host of other mags. And was recently named 1 of the hottest 100 stars to watch in LA Weekly.

At some point he will eclipse Jenna, Ron & John Holmes as the most branded name in adult. Mainstream loves this guy.

Honestly this comes down to what a Vast majority of the people in the world are facing right now.

Choices.

You need to make good choices and live life the correct way to get ahead. Just because the fame you had faded does not mean you need to or that you should end up on someones sofa. Save a little, Invest a little and work your ass off while you can. Once you get older you wont want to work as much or may not be able to.

Yeah right, as if Justin Bieber could go back to high school without getting beat up everyday.
Rebecca Black had to quit school after her 1 hit wonder.

:2 cents:

Only idiots measure the quality of their life on how many paid whores they fucked.

Some guys probably get into porn because they were broke and out of options.
After fucking a few sluts they are still broke and out of options.

:2 cents:

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you're so fucking full of shit.

You think guys don't keep score on banging chicks?

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Are you really so completely dense that you can figure out that a successful porn actor's career is about fucking a lot of girls? the more girls they fuck the more successful their career is, that's how longevity happens.

In deference to you I'll explain it another way, it's not unlike a career salesman, he looks back on his career and determines success primarily based on how much he sold.

Let's talk about all of the porn webmasters that cleared 5 figures a month easily and now have nothing…

This is a human trait, further compounded by the odd social aspects of both porn and Internet. Combine all three and you have a tornado.

Yes, guys keep score, but basing you life on that score is a "manifesto" in the making.

:2 cents:

This thread is about the failures, not you specifically, but other failures in porn.

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yes, one fruitloop with a chicks banged score of 0 defines it all.

Same is true for most. Best thing anyone can do is always plan for the future as much as possible.

You said that with so much more flair than I did.

It's human nature to fuck up a good thing.

The formula is simple. Either work smart, save a little, put a plan B in place, and live well in the declining years
or live like a rockstar, save nothing, plan nothing, and end up on sleeping on someone's couch.

And I only get like $12 per banner, WTF?

I don't see Mark Ashley making many movies these days. I was thinking, how can you go from fucking the hottest girls alive and doing every nasty sex act imaginable, and having it on film -- and then stopping that? It must be really tough.

If a guy can have sex with an endless parade of hot girls, then what the fuck else does he need? Everything a guy does in life is to achieve that end. If you're a male porn star, you've achieved more than most guys ever will no matter how much money you make (or don't make). It's sad if they don't see it that way when they're actually in the middle of it. I'm sure Rocco Siffredi doesn't look at his life that way. There's a guy who obviously loves what he does with every cell in his body, regardless of the financial part.

Apparently some fucking money or we wouldn't have this thread.

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and why does a guy want to make money? So he can buy a Mercedes? Why does he need a nice car?

Because hot girls like nice cars and will want to have sex with him. It all loops back around to pussy no matter what way you look at it.