Being A Porn Star

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The label "porn star " is overused, but not in Courtney Cummz's case. She's been in porn for a decade, has guested on Howard Stern's show, and has 300,000 Twitter followers. She spoke candidly about how young women are mistreated in the industry, her boyfriends' reactions when they find out she does porn, and how much she likes anal. (A lot.)
Initially I was a college student working at a nudist resort, and I was broke. My neighbor was in the industry and she had just started about the same time as I did. She was telling me that if I didn't want to be broke anymore to start doing porn. I did my first scene that was a solo scene at the Fetishcon in Tampa. It was slaves, S&M, and those guys wanted to shoot a solo masturbation, so my agent booked me for it. I'm a nudist so I felt comfortable with that aspect. But I had to use a sex toy that's double the size that I was used to, so I was definitely feeling a bit insecure. I was even shaking. But I started to block out the people and the lights and cameras and I started to get into it. Obviously you relax and get horny, and I just kinda went with it. From there, I met the agent for Redd Rose and she brought me to LA. So it just kind of happened.
I've been in the industry for over 10 years, which is 9 1/2 years more than most who enter the biz. I am known for my booty and anal scenes! I was twerking long before Miley. I love doing scenes like Requiem For a Cream for Brazzers when I worked with Scott Nails. A little story, a take-off on a film, and some great sex. I love the gonzo style where I just get down and dirty.
Gonzo is more hardcore and aggressive. The features involve more acting. I don't want to bash any of the girls, but I just find that the features are faker. Every shot takes 20 minutes, and you know she's not enjoying that. It looks pretty, but from a performer standpoint, it's a different perspective. These days they're very scripted and structured. Gonzo is more like, they give you the gist, and whatever happens happens.
If it's anal or deep penetration, I generally have two orgasms on set. For me its all about the intensity. I want hardcore. In real life, you have passion and intimacy, and it's gentler, but overall on camera, I just expect and want a rougher sexual experience. If you're single [and in porn] you're basically having your cake and eating it too. It's not that different from how most guys have their side chick and their main girl. I enjoy it. If it's regular sex, I come less often. Maybe once per scene.
As for things I won't do, I'm really not into pooping or peeing on people. When I am booked, the company who is shooting me knows what I will and will not do. Plus, they have a list of who I will not work with. Other than that, I try my best to do what the director asks me to do in a scene yet enjoy every moment. I am not into being hurt, so I choose not to work those types of scenes. [In a BDSM scene] I'm a dominatrix. I'm normally the one in control of the hardcore S&M. I'm not prejudiced, but I'm not interested in bisexual men, because men who are bi go back and forth from gay to straight [porn], and gay porn stars are not as frequently tested. If they have body odor, I don't want to work with them. Or if I had sex with them before, and they were rude to me. Or if they choked me and took it to the max, or did any other things that I'm uncomfortable with.
Women in porn do make more money — generally they're the one fans pay to see, and they're more marketable. Men normally last longer in the biz if they're a good performer. As for mastering your role in the industry, as a girl, it's called living and learning. Experience is the best learning tool you can have. You find out who you can trust and want to work with. It's amazing to see how much new talent is only around for three to six months and you never hear of them again.
A lot of it is drugs. They're making a lot of money at once, and a lot of people thrive on those weak girls. They spend all their money, and then their parents want them back home because they're a hot mess. Or they don't like it as much as they thought, or the company doesn't want them anymore. You need to have it all these days, because there are a lot less companies than there used to be.
I've seen directors do some negative things to girls, especially new girls. They take advantage. For instance, shooting anal when the girl was only booked to do a boy-girl scene. When you see directors do that, you kind of lose the respect for them.
My second scene ever was anal with Peter North. I was supposed to do two anal scenes in one day. Peter North is huge. I couldn't do my second anal scene because I was too sore. So he sent me to a bus station in Miami in a cab, even though there weren't any more buses. Basically he sent me into the middle of a strange city, dropped me off, and turned off his phone. After that, I knew what kind of person he was. It was just unprofessional. But I wasn't going to let one person ruin it for me.
When I am shooting, I test for STDs every 14 days. There's a regular STD testing rule in L.A., but I think it should be a rule everywhere. You're only as good as your last test. If it's a fresh test, we can do it without a condom sometimes. Sometimes I am completely shaved and sometimes I have a landing strip. Just depends on my mood.
I have a membership to a health club where I have a personal trainer. I have three workout sessions a week with my trainer and also do cardio on the treadmill. When I am at home, I try to eat healthy. I have juicer that I mix my fruit and supplements into shakes. I try to lay off the soda and try to drink plenty of water.
And I don't date guys in the industry. I want to date a guy who has his own life and wants me for who I am and not just the porn star. Sometimes I'll be out with a guy I'm dating, and someone on the street will go "Hey, Courtney," and the guy I'm dating is really confused. I was at the Lexus dealership getting a car, and the dealer was like, "You look so familiar, I've definitely seen you somewhere." That happens a lot. If it's a new relationship, I don't tell [the guy I'm dating]. I say I build websites for a living, because I did build my own website. I prefer to date guys who don't watch a lot of porn. If they do, usually they prefer to have less sex and masturbate more.
I was married to a porn addict. I wanted to watch it with him, because I'm really open-minded and wanted to share the experience with him, and I'm probably even hornier than he ever was. But those guys like to watch it alone. They like to feel like they're getting away with something. Also, what kind of porn are they watching? Some guys are into very young girls, guys being penetrated with strap-ons or being peed on.
I have a really strong work ethic, which you might not realize because of what I do. You have to be driven and motivated to work every day to really make it in this business. Some people are 9 to 5ers. Other people want to be high half the time and work half the time. My ex-husband's mother knew what I did and judged me for it. But she raised the kids and never had a job in her life. I'm a businesswoman.

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By Jeremy Glass and Zachary Zane Published: Jul 24, 2020
Aaron "Small Hands" Thompson, with wife Joanna Angel.
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"Stamina is more important [than size] for sure."
"Performing in porn is a forever thing."
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"Stamina is more important than size for sure."
There’s a point in nearly every man’s life when he thinks to himself, I wonder if I could become a porn star. Wait, how do you become a porn star?
There are many, many misconceptions that people have about the adult industry. Chief among them is that it’s an easy gig: we love the idea of a job where all you have to do is show up, take off your clothes, and have sex all day. And while that’s a large part of it, there’s a lot more to doing porn than just showing up—particularly for dudes.
Of course, you need to be well-endowed— like super well-endowed —but you also need to have the stamina to perform for hours under hot lights. That 27-minute clip you watched on Pornhub? That likely took an entire day to shoot—or at least multiple hours. You also need to be able to perform with a dozen crew members watching. As for the pay , it’s not nearly as good as you think it is unless you’re one of the top porn stars in the world. (Although with the rise of personal content subscription services like Onlyfans and JustforFans, some adult performers are starting to make five figures a month .)
So for those guys who think they’re ready to march into a porno production company in the San Fernando Valley and plop their members on the casting agent’s table, here’s what you need to know about becoming a male porn star.
A lot of guys ask male porn stars how to break into the industry, which is a fair question: after all, there’s no LinkedIn or Indeed.com for male porn stars, right? But Ryan Driller (above), who has performed in porn for nearly a decade, says that guys are at a major disadvantage when it comes to entering the industry. “It’s all dumb luck,” he told MensHealth.com. “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. Most of the time.”
Not every guy has this experience . Aaron “Small Hands” Thompson , for instance, entered the industry through his wife, porn star (and MensHealth.com contributor) Joanna Angel , who tapped him to perform with her for her website Burning Angel. “Basically I became a male pornstar because it was ‘free labor’ for my wife,” he told MensHealth.com . But if you don’t have the benefit of waking up every morning next to one of the most popular female performers in the industry, you’re probably out of luck.
When it comes to straight porn, directors only want a few simple things from male performers: “They want to know that you can get hard, last the time required, give them the performance that they want, and pop when they need you to,” says Driller. “Your face, your look, etc. are all not important.”
Sounds easy, right? Well, not so much. Driller says that even though most guys think they’d be able to perform on a porn set, more often than not that’s not the case. So while you may think that you can get hard and stay hard with dozens of people watching, “you don’t actually know until you’re there. That stage fright is why new guys only get their shot on a last-minute, dire-need try out basis... no one is really willing to take a gamble on whether or not you’ll be able to perform in the setting needed.”
If you’re a porn actor, you have to, well, act. While that might not seem obvious from some of the more low-budget clips you’ve probably seen on Pornhub, at the very least, you have to be able to adapt to the demands of different kinds of scenes.
“Some scenes are more challenging than others,” says Driller. “ Virtual reality (VR) scenes are an animal all their own, given the equipment needed, and the lack of connection between you and your costar. And feature movies are a different beast depending on the script. Everything is always different, so that means you have to be on your toes.”
A major myth that Thompson always tries to dispel is that working in porn is all about having incredible sex with attractive people. But in truth, that’s only a small part of the job, particularly if you run your own production company, as he does with Angel. “The reality is you’re going to bed early, working out, eating clean, walking the dog, making dinner for your wife, doing post-production, editing, cleaning up dog poop, writing music for the movie soundtracks… it’s work, work, work,” he says.
On the other hand...you’re having incredible sex with attractive people every day. “I love it. I love sex,” Driller says. “When you break it down, or how I look at it, my day at work is a scheduled booty call.”
For many guys, this is the ultimate question: do you need to have a large penis to work in porn?
While you don’t necessarily have to look like you’re smuggling an anaconda in your shorts every time you go to the beach, it probably helps if you’re slightly larger than average. “I won't say you need a big dick,” Thompson says, “but I will say if it's small, your chances of making it are… smaller.”
Part of that has to do with the sheer mechanics of shooting sex on film. “Most of the guys in the industry are not huge,” says Driller. “They’re probably around the 7" to 8” mark, [because] sex on film is not what you do at home. Think about spoon sex. It feels great for both people, but for porn she has to be arched, and spread, and twisted, and you’re shoved behind her in the back of the couch. An average-sized penis simply would not allow for any of the sex to be visible.”
Ultimately, both performers agree that it’s way more important to have a ton of endurance than it is to be well-endowed. “Stamina is more important [than size] for sure,” Driller says. Guys have to stay hard for hours at a time, which means that even if they naturally have a lot of stamina, they often have to resort to drugs like Viagra or Cialis to keep them going. Some men even resort to getting injections in their penis .
You might think that it would be awesome to have sex with gorgeous women for a living. But the unfortunate reality is, doing sex work comes with a lot of stigma for men and women alike — and that stigma will follow you around for the rest of your life, even if you leave the industry and get another job.
“Performing in porn is a forever thing,” says Driller, “I knew that I was closing a lot of doors in pursuing the industry.” It’s not uncommon to hear about schools refusing to let former porn performers teach there , or banks denying people in the industry as clients.
Even if you don’t encounter any outright discrimination, people are likely to treat you differently. “You’ll notice that most people won’t take you as seriously in conversation after they know your profession and then they hypersexualize everything,” says Driller. “You’re really only supposed to be able to discuss sex or have sex, and you’re not expected to have any other opinions.”
Like any career, being a male porn performer comes with pluses and minuses: low pay, health risks, long hours. But in the end, both Driller and Thompson say they have no regrets, because they’re being paid to do something they love. So what if that happens to be sex?!
For those well-endowed dudes who are ready to head out to Hollywood, keep in mind that it’s not a constant party, and that the road to stardom will be arduous. Still, Thompson says that all things considered, if there are any real drawbacks, “I haven't come across them yet!”
You might not be feeling gung-ho on becoming a porn star after reading about the work (and dumb luck) it takes, but know there’s now another option: sites like Onlyfans. They’re definitely easier to break into, as anyone can make an account. You don’t need to perform in front of a whole film crew, which takes some of the pressure off—but you do, however, need to be in charge of shooting and editing your own videos.
Nick Alverez , a Just For Fans Exclusive Model, started his JFF two years ago after another sexy Instagrammer friend told him that he could be making serious money. “I was surprised how easy it was to create an account with them, and after posting a couple of videos I was already making some money,” he says.
That said, it’s still hard work to grow a following, especially with the oversaturation of models on these platforms due to COVID-19-related layoffs. You have to continuously put out content and engage with your fans.
“The key is posting good quality videos while also being real,” says Nick. “People are looking for more realistic sex scenes with OF/JFF—ones where they feel like they’re in your room and have a personal connection with you.”
Nick, who currently has 37k followers on Instagram and 23k followers on Twitter , says connecting with potential subscribers on social media is key to success on these platforms. “The number of followers you have is going to influence the number of subscribers you get, so my advice for anyone that wants to start earning money with OF/JFF is to get a bigger audience on social media.”
He's making good money these days, though he didn’t specify how much. “I can tell you I make a lot more money than I do being a graphic designer, which is my 9-5,” he says.
Nick believes that these platforms have revolutionized the porn industry. “If being a porn star was your dream, now you don't have to wait for a porn producer to call you back after a casting call, and you don't have to have a specific body type,” he says. “Anyone can do it.”
Jeremy Glass is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer dabbling in copywriting, branded content, creative strategy, advertising, and so much more. Follow him on Twitter @candyandpizza or die trying.
Zachary Zane is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and activist whose work focuses on lifestyle, sexuality, and culture. He was formerly the digital associate editor at OUT Magazine and currently has a queer cannabis column, Puff Puff YASS , at Civilized .
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