A leading industry person and former porn star has revealed how much people who act pornography are paid for their services.
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To those outside the adult industry, it can often seem like a mystery completely alien to most people’s day to day lives.
While consumers of porn enjoy watching it, they rarely consider the
actresses and actors at the heart of the films. But why do people
become porn performers? How much do they get paid and does this depend
on what they do?
The Independent spoke to Derek Hay - the founder of LA Direct
Models which represents many of the top adult performers - via Skype
from his offices in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hay, who is British-born,
co-founded the company in 2000 after performing as an adult actor
himself.
Overseeing and managing the pay of his clients is part of his job.
The pay for adult performers is not set in stone, and usually vastly
depends on what they are willing to do. As standard, a female performer
in a scene with an male performer could expect to earn around $1,000
(£800), a scene with another woman would see them earn around $700-800
(£550). The rates could go up or down by 10 to 20 per cent depending on
who the performer is, their agent and other factors.
However, for some scenes this pay cheque can increase
significantly, more so if it involves a sexual act the performer has not
done before as the studio will raise their pay in order to incentivise
the actress.
"For the right girl, for whatever reason which could vary, to
do acts like their first anal scene, first interracial scene, first
scene with three, four or five guys, those scenes could pay premium
rates. A company’s studios would offer a particular girl a much higher
rate to induce her to accept the offer to shoot that kind of scene.
That’s always been the case, but in the past few years a number of
different studios have put a lot of prominence on those kind of scenes
and the rates offered to models to do that have increased markedly."
And what is premium rate? According to Hay, a model could be
offered anywhere from $2,000 to $6,000 for a first anal sex scene, for
example. "I have seen figures higher than that but they are not common," he says.
The fact that an adult actress could be paid more to do her first
scene with a black performer is something that stands out and seems
remarkably offensive to someone not in the business. When pressed about
this, Hay insisted there is "no race element" to the higher pay being
offered.
"Interracial is no big deal… it is another one of those things.
A girl might say 'I’m not comfortable to do that' and later in her
career may say she is. Later along the way a company may offer her money
to incentivise her to do it … it is an open market, the same as
anything else."
However, in a 2013 article for the Daily Beast entitled 'Interracial Sex Still Taboo for Many Porn Stars", former adult actress Aurora Snow wrote: "On-camera race relations are a complicated topic—particularly the way they have been translated in porn’s fantasyland."
There have been suggestions that pay rates for performers have
dropped in recent years, however Hay says this is not necessarily the
case and that instead they have just stagnated. "For some special
acts [rates] have actually gone higher, but rates in general have not
risen in last five years or so. There has been no increase in relation
to inflation, they haven’t really fallen they have just plateaud."
In a world where the gender pay gap is pervasive in a plethora of industries, porn is an exception. Hay says it is "universally known that women get paid a lot more"
but said successful male actors are paid "what most people would think
is a lot" and suggested they have an advantage in being able to work
more than women.
The average salaries for female performers vary massively, and Hay
explains the disparity in pay in the industry by comparing it to what
Zlatan Ibrahimovic makes to a below-conference league footballer.
“In our business there are some fairly standardised rates but
what any one girl makes over the course of a year hugely depends on her,
her characteristics and what agency she is with.
"I don’t think that adult stars make as much money as the
general public perceives them to make. I don’t think there’s anybody,
even the biggest stars, who are making more than half a million a year,
but if some of the top stars are making $300,000-400,000 per year, by
most people’s perception that would still be a lot of money I think."
While porn performers are still making a lot of money, one way in
which the industry has hugely transformed in recent years is due to the
increase in streaming sites which Hay says has "hugely" damaged the industry.
“Most of the tube sites have stolen content on them which they
make available for people to view for free. Most people that want to
watch adult content are aware they can watch it for free and do so.
Obviously that has damaged the studios who produce scenes and movies and
some of them have gone out of business and many of them shoot less than
they otherwise would, because they cannot maintain their sales that
they formerly could before people were stealing their content.”
In an industry which is very much judged on appearance, one could
presume that the average career length of a female performer might be
more short-lived than most. However, Hay says due to the rising
popularity of porn featuring older women, many adult actresses can now
expect to work until their mid to late thirties.
"The two most searched terms in porn are teen and milf. There
are fashions and trends in porn just like in everything else, like music
and clothing ... about eight years ago, this phenomenon came along and
it has never gone away. It is phenomenally successful. Pretty much any
girl who is in the business and gets to her late twenties is going to
get offered work that typecast her as ‘milf'. More specifically, if you
are a performer who comes in the business in your twenties you could
potentially stay in until you are generally mid thirties, with some
exceptions girls like Julia Ann and Jessica Drake who are real standout
stars."
So how does he decide what actors and models LA Direct will represent?
"Obviously their appearance, age, attitude and demeanour but I am also interested in their motivation and ambition.
"This business now is extremely competitive. In certain states
like California, Nevada, Florida and others there is little-to-no taboo
left for a girl working in this industry. Girls come out of their teens
and have decided 'this is what I want to do with my life'. Any of those
old antiquated ideas that girls come into business because they are from
downtrodden or abused childhoods, there is no truth to it whatsoever
nowadays."
"I am really interested in taking on a model with a long term
goal, I’m not really interested in taking on a girl who has a loan to
pay off or doesn’t really know if she wants to do this or not but maybe
wants to for a few months to earn some money. Depending on the girl, I
may or may not take her but it is far less interesting to me."
And when they successfully land a casting agent and representative,
how do adult actors and actresses land films? Hay says it is pretty
straightforward: studios call up after seeing one of the models on their
website. There is no sleazy audition system that some might expect,
clarifying that "casting couches" (where actresses are asked for favours
in order to get roles) are not the norm.
“I couldn’t say that it has never happened in our business but it is extremely rare,” he says claiming it is just as likely to happen in Hollywood.
“Most commonly there is no audition or casting ... some studios
do like to see the models and they would ask for a ‘go-see’ which is as
simple as that going to see someone. It might last 10 minutes: a girl
shows up, sees the person, they chat, they understand a little bit about
their personality. They will probably ask them to get naked just to see
their body in person and ask do they look like the pictures on the
agency website? Have they gained or lost any weight, got any tattoos not
displayed, any scars or piercings, and contact the agent back and tell
us whether they wish to hire the model or not.
"They don’t have to do anything except be fit and healthy, look like their pictures and be ready to work."
-Culled from The Independent
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