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user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm the Duke University Freshman Porn Star and for the First Time I'm Telling the Story in my Words

    You quote this as a maxim but it's simply not true. Friends of mine once posted on craigslist:

    "Wanted: girls to give a yeti a blowjob on camera. There will be pizza."

    Three chicks showed up.

    On the other hand, a server at a nice restaurant can make a thousand a night.

Oh come onnnn, that's not a rebuttal. I mean, the articles you linked earlier put hard and fast prices on porn work and it was comparable to $1000 a night (which is high for waitresses I've known). I would guess that on the whole porn probably pays better than waiting tables per hour, but not cumulatively -- but if you're a busy college student time's not what you got. We may just have to agree to disagree on the sheer numbers of it.

    If there were less stigma, there would be less money. That's why there's such a glut of amateur porn nowadays- the high end has gone away because acceptance has gone up.

I would change 'has gone away' to 'is slowly going away'. I think you're right here but the pro industry clearly still pays something, whether or not you believe the 800-1000 per shoot number.





kleinbl00  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I mean, the articles you linked earlier put hard and fast prices on porn work and it was comparable to $1000 a night

That was top-of-your-game, billing-at-porn-conventions money. Not "I was featured once for twenty minutes on Youporn" money.

    I think you're right here but the pro industry clearly still pays something, whether or not you believe the 800-1000 per shoot number.

I don't believe this girl is that level of pro. I mean, fuck. She's in NC.

user-inactivated  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Without hard numbers it's impossible to run a true cost-benefit. I would bet she makes somewhere in the 400-500 range, but I haven't a clue.