What does it take to make an amateur a pornstar?
 

How does one (male or female) become a common name in the adult industry and known as a pornstar? What kind of work is needed? What should one not do?

What should you do : Work out, eat well, get a good agent ... and have a good dick .

Beeing able to get it up at the right time, control when you cum and stuff is important . (for a guy) .

Also how you look and act in front of the camera ...

It's like asking :
What makes a model a model

There is an obvious difference between an amateur and a pornstar. My question is, how does an amateur get there?

Sign up with one of the many talent agencies that farm out actors for web-shoots, and start building a portfolio. As your portfolio grows in size, you'll be able to approach established producers and take that next step.

And as the Doc said, performance is valued as much, if not more, than pecker size/cosmetics. Your ability to get hard on command, climax when they want you do, and not delay a shooting schedule is what determines your value.

you must be really, really, ridiculously good-looking.

First, you need to be in the gay area for a while, then you can jump on the real porn scene!

If you get a listing on Freeones you can sit back and relax and see it happen :winkwink:

not looking like an ugly piece of shit

I don't think that is all it takes.

Learn the art of crying while getting drilled...

basically, i think you are asking, when does a amateur become known as a porn star, right?

the way I have always figured it out, is when they start being listed on freeones.com and pornstarempire.com

males is a little harder, i don't really consider any males porn stars, except of course the realy famous $1000 a scene dudes, but there are so few of them

You mean your high school guidance counselor didn't tell you?

when a big production company sees one of your shitty video's and contracts you ..

Then when you can come back a second time .. you can concider yourself a pornstar ..

So start sending in those home movies :-)