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But Maria Riot, 25, is one of a new generation of adult performers eschewing mainstream adult films and choosing only to work in ethical projects. It’s a good reminder that in spite of the inclusivity and friendliness of this setting, the stakes are still high. I heard multiple times over the course of the weekend that performers don’t expect to make a ton of money from a trade orgy—it’s really more of an excuse for everyone to get together and have sex with their friends. The director and cameraman, whom I will call Tim because he works in mainstream entertainment, too, and wants to protect his identity, reminds everyone that this is a trade shoot. Ever wondered how you can get into the porn industry? We’ll walk you through exactly what it takes to be a pornstar, how to land your first gig, and how to launch your porn career.

Three porn stars explain why they chose the porn industry

I came to Las Vegas to find out what it’s like to be a male porn star today. A lot of the coverage of the industry concerns male viewers of pornography, especially boys—whether they’re addicted, if porn is ruining their intimate lives, teaching them the wrong things about sex, or giving them erectile dysfunction. The FTM trans male porno market is still relatively niche. (MTF trans female porn, on the other hand, is one of the biggest search categories on Pornhub.) There aren’t adult classified ads , and the guys who have made a name for themselves are still figuring out their audience. For instance, MyFreeCams.com, a major sponsor at the AVNs and which, we’re told, is paying for Cardi B to play, doesn’t host for trans performers (or male performers).

They all know that I am a sex worker who makes porn, they are ok with that and they support me. I am not interested in being in an industry or in a group where they don't accept people for working in sex, so it's not a big concern for me. There are a vast number of subjects that someone entering the adult industry needs to learn about including subjects of their physical and mental health as well as issues pertaining to the law. That’s what this website is about – it’s about education performers as they enter the adult industry so that fully understand what working in the adult industry is about. Since Ricky Johnson, 27, started doing porn, he’s had three major relationships.

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When Susan Faludi wrote about male performers 25 years ago for The New Yorker, the salient image was of the long hallway outside an audition filled with nobodies who would never make it. When Lexington Steele first got into porn back in the late ’90s, he decided to move to L.A. If he didn’t like it, he told me over the phone, he wasn’t worried about moving back to New York and returning to his job as a bond salesman on Wall Street. There was simply no way that anyone would find out—and even if they did, his bosses wouldn’t care.

• It turns out that viewers are willing to pony up extra for trans content.









• “So many people just assume, ‘Oh, everybody in porn is there because they can’t do anything else,’ ” he said.









• And I think back to something he said to me on the phone before I arrived in Nevada.









• I find him at the Chaturbate booth on the Expo floor.

Which, to him, doesn’t seem like that big a deal. One of the guys I meet is Tommy Pistol. He’s been starring in porno films for fourteen years and is known for his parodies, like Pee-Wee’s XXX Adventure. He’s 42, and his kids are still young, not quite at the age where he’s ready to tell them what he does for a living. "I like it a little that the curtain is being pulled back on Hollywood," Tommy Pistol says.

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In addition to restructuring the adult economy, these new platforms have also drawn in a whole new generation of performers. Given that he regularly shoots with the major studios and also has his own personal website (hosted by ModelCentro), Vegas is something of a bridge between the old porn industry and the new one. "The hardest thing about being a male porn star is convincing your female co-workers that you are an interesting, well-rounded, fun guy who they might consider dating in a parallel universe after a few drinks," Iron says. Sometimes adult industry work don't believe me when I tell them that I work in porn because they have a stereotype in mind about what a porn performer is.

I am really happy with all the movies I have made by now and I expect to keep on working with a lot of amazing people doing great things to offer another vision of porn and sexuality. I was always interested in work related to sexuality and when I found that there was another way to work and do porn I became obsessed with it. I discovered Amarna Miller’s blog and videos by Erika Lust, CrashPad Series and Courtney Trouble and I just said, ‘I want to be part of this’. I was a sex worker already and I was starting to feel more comfortable working with my body and my sexuality so I just started writing to the producers and companies I liked. I always knew that I didn't want a ‘regular job’. I wanted to have a job not only to earn money; I wanted to work in something that I could politicise and to do things to change how society is and I think becoming a sex worker has been the best decision of my life.

You might think being a male porn star is easy. I want people to realise that sex work is work and that people who work in adult films are only working and trying to enjoy what they do. Porn performers go to the supermarket, we have families, feelings, desires, sometimes we don't want to have sex, we just live our lives in the best way we find to do it, just like everyone else. But broadly speaking, Wood is optimistic. He’s got a day job in the back office at a porn studio. Performing doesn’t yet generate enough revenue for him to make it his primary income, but he’s working toward that goal.

Stone applies the antics of the goofy YouTube prankster—jumping on tables in crowded areas and dancing “real sexy”—to a platform that is otherwise mostly limited to performers masturbating on camera. An orgy is by definition an exercise in teamwork and cooperation; hogging the action is anathema. That said, there is one man who lasts longer than all the rest. Billy King is a British military contractor who spends half the year in Afghanistan. The other half he spends having as much sex as possible. But typically King doesn’t get paid, even if it’s a professional shoot.