How much are gay pornstars paid
The porn industry as a whole was worth £75 billion worldwide in 2014, with the US the most profitable market. When it comes to the average actor’s salary, though, the figure is harder to pin down.
In an interview last August, Mia Khalifa – one of the industry’s most legendary performers – said she made less than £9,500 over her entire career. But more recently, Italian actor Max Felicitas told radio talk show La Zanzara that he makes €15,000 (£12,850) a month. On one hand, the explosion of free porn sites has squeezed profits; on the other, social media has allowed performers to build a following, produce content and go out on their own.
To understand how much porn stars are really making, I got in touch with four Italian adult actors who’ve had very different careers – some have worked in the US, others in Europe, while one has been working since the 1990s, which was supposedly the golden age of porn.
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Here's What Female Porn Stars Get Paid For Diverse Types Of Scenes
Most people have heard the name Ari Emanuel — the WME super agent who inspired Jeremy Piven's Ari Gold traits on HBO's hit display, "Entourage."
The name Mark Spiegler, a top talent forwarder in a different billion dollar entertainment industry, may not ring as many bells.
That's because Spiegler represents porn stars.
While Emanuel, 51, represents talent such as Charlize Theron and Steven Spielberg; Spiegler, 54, represents top adult female stars with names like Skin Diamond, Chanel Preston and Asa Akira.
Spiegler's boutique sturdy, Spiegler Girls, represents a small group of elite women and is regarded as one of the industry's top agencies in the Hollywood of porn: The San Fernando Valley.
"We are the buffer — so the girl doesn't observe bad. We take the heat," Spiegler told The Hollywood Reporter in their article "Inside the Risky Business of Porn Luminary Agents."
But while many aspects of the business are changing — from the just-passed L.A. County measure requiring condom use in adult movies to shrinking profits — 40 million to 50 million people in the U.S. are reportedly still regularly watchin
supply of quality performers and demand by consumers probably dictates pay.
supply of quality performers willing to do girl on teen is probably not a problem, but the claim for such scenes isn't as high as occupied hetero intercourse, so the pay is lower because these scenes sell less.
supply of quality male performers willing to carry out gay scenes is probably really low and require is probably moderate or growing, so the remunerate is greater.
but i've also heard that porn for female performers is starting to pay less and less because there are so many girls who want to earn into porn now, unless you're one of those bombshell sex kittens. one of my friends said she wasn't interested in porn because it has gotten to the aim where the pay isn't enough to outweigh the social consequences, the workable loss of future "legitamite" job prospects if you're identified as an individual performer, and the rapid decrease in one's marketability as one ages.
Justin Matthews was 17 years old when he was first recruited to be a model for SeanCody.com, a male lover pornography website founded in the plunge of 2001. The money seemed nice enough ($2,500 for a solo video), but mostly he was excited for the opportunity to escape Alabama. He waited a scant months until his 18th birthday, and then, under the name Taylor, went on to shoot at a number of scenes for them between 2011 and 2014.
By 2014, bitten by the acting bug, so to speak, Justin (rebranded from Taylor) went on to function with a number of studios including GuysInSweatPants, CockyBoys and Men.com, becoming as close to a gay porn luminary as one can within an ecosystem that no longer pumps out giants like Jeff Stryker, Zak Spears and Erik Rhodes. And yes, that’s him starring as Mormon Missionary Boy #2 in Falcon Studios’s Room 106. There are no miniature parts, eh?
He’s gone on to act in hundreds of scenes over the last 12 years. Asked in 2020 what his favorite dessert was by a popular lgbtq+ blog, Justin Matthews responded, “Salad, hoe.” He’s racked up more gay sex scenes than most of his peers in the industry, with one key distinction from most: He’s not gay.
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Gay Porn Performers Are Sharing How Much Money They Create Per Scene
Porn celestial body Joey Mills has started a conversation about pay in the gay individual film industry, specifically when it comes to how studios treat inexperienced performers, who are often paid far less than what Mills believes to be a fair common, creating a precedent for others. He encouraged newcomers to the industry to demand a minimum of $1,000 dollars per scene with the hashtag #1KorNothing.
"As performers can we go ahead and say that no one who is performing for a studio should be getting paid any less than 1k a scene," Mills wrote on Twitter. "I hear about some of these new models scene rates and how multiple well established studios are knowingly taken advantage of young performers."
He clarified that he wasn't criticizing the models taking less cash, but rather pointing out how studios might be exploiting their naivety. "If you're a musician making less than 1k this isn’t me coming after you in any way," he said, "I just yearn everyone to recognize what your worth instead of letting your studio determine for you."
A number of models responded to the tweet, sharing just how m