My day job is video production and post-production. And I wasn't the type of person who could perform in mainstream porn without pharmacological assistance. The job wasn't worth putting my health at risk. During the last trip to the ER, a doctor told me that if I kept abusing erectile dysfunction drugs, I could end up with serious long-term damage. It's very common.Īs a result of taking those types of medications, I ended up in the hospital for priapism. In porn, we take Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, injections.
In professional sports, men take steroids.
Like many male performers, I had become reliant on erectile dysfunction drugs as performance enhancers.
I quit performing in porn basically overnight. When and why did you stop performing in adult movies? Perhaps the pseudo-monopolization of MindGeek - which owns PornHub, RedTube, YouPorn - has prevented the rest of the industry from being able to compete on any equal footing. The business model completely changed and aside from one company - MindGeek - porn has yet to really catch up. It had plenty to do with the rise of piracy and with free tube sites like PornHub. But I saw the crews shrink, the number of shoots drop, and work dry up for a lot of people. Men were able to work consistently if they had a good reputation. My income wasn't drastically effected - I think because there were always so few male performers compared to female performers. I did witness a deterioration of the industry-at-large over that same period of time. But near the end of my career, I began to focus more on doing scenes and on being a "porn star." I was a full-time student and just trying to pay my bills while in school.īy the time I graduated, or at least the year after, I had begun to find some personal validation from my work in the adult industry. Is it lucrative to be a male performer in porn - and did that change over time?įor the first several years of my career, I wasn't really focused on making money in porn or in treating it as a business. "Maybe close to that, though." (Photo credit: Ben Hoffman) When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online."I never earned six figures," Wylde says. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater.
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