HOW TO MAKE IT AS A MALE PORN STAR

An informative guide for the still-inquisitive reader

There are few heterosexual males in existence who have not, even for a brief moment, wanted to be a porn star. It’s a great fantasy: get paid to have sex with young, beautiful, big-breasted women. If you value that fantasy and want to hold on to it, do not read any further.

What follows is my interview with one of porn’s leading men. In order to speak candidly, he only agreed to this interview on condition of anonymity.

How does a guy get into the business?

It’s a lot harder for a guy to get in than a girl. You have to work your way in or swindle your way in. Either you have to know someone in the industry, like a cameraman or a producer, or you have to be brought in by a girl. The truth is, no one wants a new guy on the set because they hold everything up.

So if some guy has no connections, the best thing to do is to find a girl first?

He either needs to have a girl in the industry who he’s already friends with or find a girl who’s interested in being in the industry.

And what if he can’t do that?

Then you go to a cattle call at the World Modeling Agency. You stroke your weenie up and they take a Polaroid of you and your weenie, and put it into a book.

But, in general, people won’t hire you just from your picture. They need to see you perform.

Right. So another way you can do it is to shoot home videos of yourself, or of you and your girlfriend. But, honestly, no one wants new guys. The gonzo guys might try someone but it’s rare. The only way to really get hired from a video is to have the girl you are with be really hot. And, then, once you send in the tape of you guys having sex, she has to be willing to say, “I’m not willing to work with anyone but my man.” Then they are forced to use you if they want her.

Who would they send the tapes to?

The production companies.

At Wicked we used to get videotapes of people all the time. We would look at them and laugh. There was always one video a week of a really fat guy sitting on his bed jacking off. Or a sad little guy sitting on a giant dildo. So the truth is, a home video still isn’t the easiest route.

The easiest route is to go to clubs in Vegas or Miami, find a smoking-hot girl who is eighteen, put her in films, get her to only work with you, and then practice cock control. Even if you are not one hundred percent a great performer the first few times, your girlfriend will be able to pull you through it by being hot and giving them what they want. The companies will forgo how bad you are because they want her in their film.

And then how do you get to work with the other girls in the business?

Wait until you are really good at having sex with your girlfriend on camera. In the meantime, she will make friends in the industry with other girls. If your girlfriend is cool enough, she will tell the other girls, “You really should work with my guy because he’s a great performer.”

Look at Travis Knight and Gina Lynn. He got in because of Gina, and now he’s working with other girls because the other stars saw how good he was with Gina. He’s done more films than Gina now. That’s a textbook case right there.

Also, some girls are so competitive that they’ll jump at the chance to fuck another girl’s man. And if a director sees a guy that performs well, he’s going to remember also. For me, the only time I get to work with new higher-up girls is if their relationship breaks up.

The worst is when new guys come in and hit on everyone.

They generally don’t last long. None of the girls like it if you are too forward with them. You have to be a little mysterious. Don’t hit on them, and don’t try to kiss them before the scene. Girls get so turned off when guys act like it’s a date. They like it when the guys are kind of stand-offish, do their shit, and leave.

Tell me about an average day.

You come in at eight o’clock for makeup because you’re told you are in the first scene. Then you find out that you weren’t in the first scene but they just wanted to make sure you got there on time. So you are in the second scene, but the guy in the first scene couldn’t get a hard-on, so it took six hours to film. You’ve been sitting around for seven hours and your makeup is all cracked and crusty, because you are tired and you fell asleep in the green room because you were on set until 3 A.M. the night before. Then, ten minutes before it’s finally time to film your scene, they give you eight pages of dialogue that you weren’t expecting.

How do you learn to perform well on camera?

It’s tough when you get on set, and there’s a thirty-person crew sitting there waiting for you and a girl filing her nails saying, “Don’t look at me like I’m your girlfriend.” It’s a lot of pressure for a guy to get hard. You have to be horny, you have to be athletic, you have to be a good performer, you have to have good cock control, and you have to be able to get it up at will. You have to keep an erection, go a long time without coming, and then come on command.

And what’s the secret to doing that?

It’s all about focus. You have to be able to leave your surroundings. Most guys the first time can’t get a hard-on at all. Or if they get a hard-on, they cum in two seconds. And it’s difficult because people think when you get on set, you are actually having sex, but you aren’t. You are performing for the camera. So you lean back so you can show the girl’s whole body, when normally you’d fuck pressed real close to her. So you have to lean back with your arm holding onto a rail with another guy breathing down your neck, and you’re all twisted up. And you have to pretend like you’re having the time of your life.

So do guys train themselves?

Yes, because nobody performs well at first. They don’t know camera angles or how to position themselves or all the necessary dick tricks. And no one looks pretty having sex, especially guys.

One thing that girls are good at is making ourselves look beautiful during sex, which is hard. For guys, they have to concentrate on keeping their dick hard, not holding their stomach in, flexing their arms. We are able to relax and think, “Okay, I need to arch my back right now” or “Oops, I’m making a really funky face right now.”

For a guy half the time you have to move your face out of the way, because the director doesn’t want your face in the shot. So you are leaning way back and you can’t put your arm down for support, so you have your hand on your hip like a sailor. You look like a fruitcake.

Is it easier for good-looking guys to get in movies?

If you are too good-looking they think you are gay.

What about if you’re hideous, but you have amazing cock control?

That’s fine. You don’t even need acting skills. It’s ninety-nine percent about your sexual ability. But you should be really well-groomed. You should be bathed, shaved, and super-clean, though body hair is okay. You want to make sure you clip your nails, especially so you don’t scratch a girl while your fingers are inside her. Brush your teeth and use Altoids, but at the same time, don’t be an egomaniac. Vanity in guys is not good.

Is there any way to practice?

That’s the thing. There is no real way you can practice. And it’s hard to get aroused if there’s no chemistry or you’re under pressure. Maybe you can do live sex shows on stage at a club. Or you can try masturbating in front of your dad. “Hey, Mom, start cooking dinner and I’ll whack.”

Seriously.

What I’ll do is sit at home, distract myself mentally, and try to get a hard-on. I’ll be on the phone with the gas company, trying to get a hard-on.

Any other tips?

Stretch out. Keep yourself loose. Focus on one thing that turns you on. Eventually you’ll learn dick tricks where, if you’re about to come, you hold off by making it look like you’re doing something else. For example, you’ll pull out and make the girl suck your dick, which will give you enough time to stop yourself from coming. Or you’ll pull out, beat your dick on her pussy, go down on her real quick, spit on her pussy, and then start fucking her again. Every single performer has a trick. I know guys who will take it out and smack the head to decrease their sensitivity.

I’ve seen guys smack themselves in the face, pinch themselves, hit their balls, and do all kinds of really weird stuff. When you are having sex with a guy and he does that, you are like, “Huh? Are you all right, you freak?”

The hardest part is just getting in the zone where you can get a hard-on. And the thing is, you have to know when you are going to come and be able to control it. You have to be able to stay on that edge. But after you control it for so long, it’s really hard to have an orgasm. With a true performer, if the director says, “Give me a pop shot,” he’ll do it within thirty seconds.

How can you do that?

I just concentrate. I focus on the sensitivity of my dick. You have to be really in tune with your body.

What about coming? Is there a way to make it shoot farther?

The trick is just to have a lot of build up. It’s like when you jack off, if you jack off and come in a minute, you don’t come very much. But jack off for an hour and a half without letting yourself come and, by the time you do, you’ll shoot the next wall.

That’s really what happens. You get it right there and pull back, get it right there and pull back, get it right there and squeeze off, squeeze off, then let it go. An extra trick is to push with your PC muscle after each contraction, and then the jizz really goes flying.

What about reloading?

Some guys can do that right away, like T.T. Boy. On the other hand, some guys have no self-control. Once there was a new guy on this huge production that was so much money. The minute before the director lowered the camera on him, he came. He could not get another hard-on at all. It ruined the whole scene.

When a good director is shooting a new guy, he will say, “Don’t get embarrassed if you are going to come right away. Just let me know, so I can get it. Don’t sit there and come in the girl. If you are close, I don’t care if you are stroking your dick and waiting to get it up for the scene, squeeze that thing off as tight as you can and tell me. We will position the scene and get you all set up, so you can come.” This way, the director can go back later and get the hard-core.

A lot of guys will pound the girl so hard to make themselves come. Most girls I know like it more if he just jacks off and comes on her.

The hardest thing for guys is, if you’re doing a scene with a girl and another guy and the other guy gets it up right away while you are still jacking off. It hurts your confidence. It’s better to be quick on the draw.

Are there are any other mistakes that beginners make?

The worst thing a male performer can do is grudge-fuck a girl or try to prove something. A lot of guys think that having rough sex is a way to show that he is a good performer. But he will fuck the girl up. Every girl will complain and no one will work with him. You have to make sure you are aggressive to a certain point, but not so passionate that she thinks you’re a stalker. There are a lot of little mind games a guy has to play in order to make the chemistry work with the girl. It’s super-important to do everything right, because once you get higher-end girls on your side, they will consistently use you.

That was true for me. I would not work unless it was with one of three or four guys. And then, once the other girls saw that those guys were being picked, they all wanted to work with them, too. When I wanted to change things up and try a new performer, it was a nightmare every single time. The interesting thing is that unlike the girls, the guys never age out of the business.

They are in it until they want out. There are guys in their forties, fifties, and sixties fucking eighteen-year-old girls.

However, they do have an amazing talent. All a girl needs is lube and she’s ready to go. Guys have to be turned on right from the beginning. I find them much more interesting than the girls.

The best is watching guys perform with their wives or girlfriends. If a girl is with a normal guy, she will work through any problem to get a good scene. But if it’s her husband or boyfriend, she’ll start saying things like, “Don’t go that deep; you know that doesn’t feel good” or, “You know I don’t like that” or, “Don’t treat me like that; I’m your wife.” You never see guys and girls who are just performers arguing on the set, but I’ve seen couples in knock-down drag-out fights. The problem with couples is that they are overly sensitive to each other’s behavior.

What about Viagra?

Almost every guy uses it, except for the original hardcore guys. But even most of them use it, though they claim they don’t. It keeps it hard for a long time. But with Viagra, you want to practice at home to see how you react to it. There are tricks of the trade to make it work its best. Here’s one: Do not eat. Sometimes I think that the sex is worse when you take Viagra, because there’s something different about it. It’s better to just relax and go with the flow. Besides, no matter what you’re on, if you are mentally done, you are mentally done.

And what about Caverject?

That’s when guys inject their dick with a medicine that keeps it hard all day on the set. No matter what you do, you have a hard-on. Imagine being filled with blood for that amount of time. I don’t think it’s good for you.

Any other tips?

Practice your orgasm face.

A lot of guys want to get into porn to get laid. What are your thoughts on that?

Getting into porn is a death sentence. As a male performer you are doomed to be single for the rest of your life. A contract girl does eight to ten scenes per year. A guy performs seven to ten scenes per week at least. The number one performers do fifteen scenes per week. So what girl is going to go out with a guy who’s pounding fifteen other girls every week? No one. The guys don’t have any social life, because they are on set so much. And when they do go out, they are like lepers. Girls won’t touch them. Even girls in the industry avoid them, because it’s bad for their career to get stuck having sex with just one guy on camera.

So do guys in the business become freaks?

That’s actually true in a way. Every guy in the industry has one fetish or passion that keeps him going. You have to realize these guys are working with a girl who’s beautiful one day, and then the next day they’re with a girl that they wouldn’t normally want to touch, let alone fuck. So they have to go somewhere in their head to keep themselves interested and aroused.

What is the top of the game for a male star?

Guys don’t get a lot of money: maybe three hundred to five hundred dollars a scene, though some are getting eight hundred dollars. So the top is graduating into directing and owning your own line of videos. There are also certain guys who have gotten contracts with companies. I think Steven St. Croix was the first, but it doesn’t happen often. Basically, you are at the top of your game when you are working every day, you’re doing scenes with the top chicks instead of beasts, and you’re getting starring roles where you are acting. When you do a signing with a girl, then you know you’ve really arrived.

So the real message here is: Don’t be a porn star if you want to get laid.

Exactly, because that’s not what it’s all about.

So why would anyone want to do it then?

It’s a good steady job, you make decent money, and, despite everything we’ve talked about, it’s fun.