The Ugly Truth
By Mariah Milano
There are many ugly truths about the porn industry and to try and cover them all would be too overwhelming even for an 11 year veteran like me. I would like to address a few of those realities though, as they need to be looked at and brought into the discussion for many reasons, sanitary and safety being the main reasons for me.
Understandably one of the things that attract porn fans to amateur videos it the reality of the sex and the lack of editing and lighting and the polished final product that is so standard with studio-produced porn. Of course there is a lot of porn where the sex is real and there is definite chemistry between the 2 performers in the video. I’ve had that chemistry before and I’ve certainly had the lack of chemistry too. Staged sex can still be hot and sometimes if all the parts are in place and its shot well it can be downright amazing to watch.
In the old days of porn it seemed like there were only a handful of guys who appeared in every video released. Familiar names like Peter North, Tom Byron, Steve Drake, TT Boy, Randy Spears, Herschel Savage to name a few. Nowadays there are still far fewer males than females but the guys are younger, better looking (for the most part!) and don’t have the wood issues that used to keep the male side of the industry so minimal. I, like many others, would imagine crediting this to the invention of Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs but we would be wrong in most instances. I have been on many sets when a guy took Viagra and couldn’t get his dick hard. It only works after the erection appears, it doesn’t create the erection!
I hate to be the one to bring this to the unknowing Porn fans attention but there is a far uglier truth to the success of many of the newer male performers in the business. It isn’t Viagra or Cialis or any of those other pills, it’s much uglier and difficult to imagine.
The guys are shooting their dicks!!!! With a fucking needle!!!!!! Some of you may think it’s no big deal and others might be disgusted with this revelation. Personally I find it horrifying that a man would be able to stick a needle in the side of his cock in the first place! You guys are so protective of your prized penises and most of the guys I’ve met are terrified of needles, much less sticking ones self in the dick with one! I had heard this rumor when I returned to shooting videos but had not seen it until one day on set I watched in sheer horror as a guy who was shooting with another girl pulled a setup out of his bag and loaded it with an unknown medicine. I was sure he was going to shoot heroine or speed or something like that. I watched the same way I would watch a horrible traffic accident as he pulled his cock out and stuck the needle right into the side of it! I asked him what the fuck he was doing and he told me he was getting it hard for the scene. The craziest part isn’t the fact that he did it. It was that no one was freaking out or even paying attention! I was blown away and everyone else was just seeing it as business as usual!
What is this injection? This often involves using a mixture of medicines that include alprostadil (Caverject), papaverine hydrochloride (Pavabid), and phentolamine mesylate (Regitine). The dose can be adjusted to create an erection that lasts the desired length of time. There is an auto-injector available if the patient is unable to give standard injections to himself. The standard erection lasts 30 minutes to an hour or longer. Up to 90% of men using this method achieve erections sufficient for sexual intercourse. – health.yahoo.com
There is also another method I’ve seen on set and that is the injection of a pellet into the end of the penis which is a medicine called MUSE (medicated urethral system for erections), which calls for inserting a tiny pellet of alprostadil into the opening at the end of the penis (the urethra). A thin tube contains the pellet of medicine. The tube is inserted into the opening in the end of the penis. By pressing a button on the applicator, the pellet is released into the penis. Call me crazy but that sounds fucking insane to me!
Now I understand needing a hard dick because these guys work 4 or 5 days a week and sometimes do more than 1 scene in a day but isn’t this a fucking scary alternative? I’m scared because not only do I have to worry about who this guy has fucked since his last screening at AIM but I now have to be concerned over needle use and infections in the injection site, which is common among users of this method of getting it up!
The men are making a lot of money these days and many make more than the girl they are fucking in the scene, which was also very new to me. During my first stint in porn from 98 to 2001 the guys were lucky to get $300 a scene. I’m told some guys these days get over $1000 per scene! It goes back to the reason that there aren’t as many guys as girls and that’s very simple, it’s a fucking extremely difficult job. You have to get your dick hard yourself to do the stills before the video is shot. Then you have to shoot the first position, then stop for more stills keeping it hard yourself most of the time until the next position is shot for video and so on and so on until it’s time to cum and then you’re expected to do it on queue when you’re told. These days they seem to just let you fuck until you’re ready and the old countdown from 10 is not as common as it once was, but it still isn’t an easy task with sometimes more than 20 people standing watching waiting for you to cum so they can go home or go have lunch or smoke or whatever. There is a lot of pressure and all of that isn’t a good recipe for a hard on.
So the next time you’ve taken your blood pressure meds or had too many shots or beers, just think of the guy who is sticking a needle in his dick so he can keep his dick hard enough to make $1000. Takes the shine off the profession of being a hired piece of meat now doesn’t it?
Mariah Milano
what I don’t get is that for all the shit we hear about it being so hard, how come at least one third of the shit I see the dude isn’t even hard 2 minutes into a blowjob and then you get an edit into him being hard… it’s the coke or what? You feed any healthy, non drug using man under 60 a proper amount of Viagra and put him to fuck someone he finds moderately attractive I think there would be no problem, and most wouldn’t need the pills
That nice little needle prick is also an open gate for any vaginal or anal bacteria to enter. Imagine doing some porn skank up the ass with a fresh open wound on your penis. Then imagine that same guy working with two dozen more people in the next few days.
Anyone who thinks that the porn industry is ‘safe’ as far as health and safety of performers is concerned is either totally full of shit, or completely ignorant. Oh, I forgot, its safer to have sex with a porn star than with someone in the general pulic.(lol)
The most important point here, as the general points out is that needles puncture the skin and that’s makes those pricks dangerous. I can not imagine sticking a needle in my dick for anything!
This could make a great frankenstein type porn flick. I do have to ask, if the “star” is incapable of shooting themselves up, whether the production assistant would handle this duty. Obviously if Nina Hartley were not available, the injector would have no legitimate medical training. If it were an Ed Powers movie they would be also probably be sauced at the time they were jamming the needle home.
I could easily see a two puncture wound scenario, where a drunk or cocaine addled star or assistant rammed the needle totally through both sides of the offending member, ending up medicating thin air.
In porn valley, we don’t need fiction, reality will beat it every time!
Caverject, all wood I can get, oh I believe in Carverject.
Fucking great post Mariah.
BTW, do the Earl of Pimpwich and the Trannyfucker shoot stuff on their dicks?
Yawn. The Caverject injection habit has been going on for ages in porn. Plenty of the woodsmen are actually relying on it, like Ben English
And some pop Viagra, like Tom Byron.
Really, it’s so common I think only Ron Jeremy is in the clear.
Name the guys who get $1000 and up for a scene. The only guy I know is Sean Micheals and he is almost worth it.
I’m not going to put out there who makes how much money. Just like I didnt name who it was shooting their dicks. Its not about who, it’s about that it is happening.
I know of at least 5 guys who make $1000 or more per scene. I don’t know that Sean does make over $1k a scene. Maybe he does, but I don’t KNOW that he does like i KNOW the others do.
There are several guys who don’t use anything. I’d be pretty confident in saying Billy Glide doesn’t as well as Evan Stone and a few others because I’ve worked with them several times and I know them. But it’s happening and it’s fucking scary.
Thanks for the feedback. I thought this was an important topic to discuss. Glad you enjoy it.
xoxo
Mariah
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No guys get $1000 per scene in straight porn, no one.
They will SAY they do, but they all do scenes for $300, and less, too. After 11 years, I have yet to see a check issued to a guy for more than $400, and even that was back in the day. They guys are cheaper now since there are many more who can do the work (“thanks” to the newer generation of hard-on drugs like Viagra etc)
So is possible that Trannyfucker uses his needle punctured dick to bareback trannies and then porn chicks?
There needs to be REAL MEN who love VAGINA in porn. And it shouldn’t matter what kind of catty bitch is on set. He should be able to get wood in 3 to 5 minutes, because he loves sex. I’m with a man who usses X-L trojans that do not fit and he does it 2-3 times a night, every night if I want. Now that’s the type of porn star that the XXX industry needs. When a man gets bored or tired of sex and VAGINA he should take a break and find other ways of making money… Although having a man like that whoes also famouse in the music biz is hard, we went back stage to meet the band he was in, and 2 women he had slept with on the road, ran up to him and asked if they could get there pics taken with him. But I knew what was up, it wasen’t a big deal. I knew why… going to meet the other famouse band he was in tonight and will be staying at the mariot. But all I’m really trying to say, is there are real men with 13-14 inch cocks who love fucking. John holm’s was not the only one. Now getting guys like that to make porn, the xxx industry is going to have to REALLY PAY them. To get great talent they’ll have to pay them.
Zzzzzz…
Oh, I see Mariah wrote another illuminating article about herself…ummm. Penis injections, male porn star salaries, feigned outrage about the porn biz…check, check and double-check.
Gotta love how she sneaks in the whole ‘vote for me for another useless internet award’ in the comments section. Mariah, if all you wanted was our vote, as I don’t think you’re going to get a lot of sympathy over this issue, why not just write the same number of words asking us to vote for you so you can get Yet Another Useless Internet Award.
Excuse me while I write letters to my City Council member, the Mayor, the Governor, California’s Senators and House Representatives to urge them to stand with Mariah against those Male Porn Talent who, despite having a hot piece of ass (well I suppose that’s in the eye of the beholder) waved under their noses, can’t get hard unless they shoot their penis with chemicals!
BTW — AVN did an article roughly two years ago about Salaries in Porn. Now, I hate to hold them up to the same standards as say the NYT or LA Times, but they mentioned a select few males who make $1000 a scene (citing producers who said, it was 110% worth it to have a guy who wasn’t going to be limp or take all day to get hard and thus force them to pay out kill fees). Likewise, according to the article, the guys at this salary level are producers/directors; in order to get them to work for essentially ‘rivals’ it had to financially worth it.
Mariah, are the guys getting the 1k a scene directing the scene too? Or providing a location? I have only heard of male talent in gay porn getting 1k a scene. Guys in straight porn don’t even get extra if they are very good looking like Manuel.
Freepornstarpix,
Wouldn’t logic dictate that if you direct AND fuck, you’d probably get two separate fees?
Likewise, it isn’t hard to figure out which guys are getting the top pay. Just think about the male talent who 1) have been around for a decent number of years 2) have consistently reliable wood in their scenes 3) see one and two.
Now square that with ALL of the clowns you’ve seen over the years who drop in and out of porn…the guys who work here and there, and yet no matter what girl they’re with, from the hottest of the hot…to the fugliest of the fugly, seem to be always 1) semi-hard 2) look bored 3) see one and two.
Ha Luciano destroyed his dick with Caverject. Guys making a dime a scene and they’re not swallowing another dudes load? Whores aren’t even getting a thousand Did you proofread this fuckin thing, Cindi? If you did, you would know this whore has no idea what the fuck she is talking about….
WOW I would probably get rid of a guy on the set for injecting himself. This is a major health issue. It’s direct contact with an open sore or wound. That is dangerous stuff. Any girl doing scenes with these guys should have their heads checked.
Several of the top guys like Tommy Gunn or Even Stone get very good money but they also can act. Big difference from your typical gonzo guy. Plus the real porn guys don’t need anything.
WOW i am still blown away by the desperate acts some guys will go through for some pussy and a few dollars. How humiliating.
Even doing two jobs, I don’t know of any male talent in straight porn making 1k a scene. I asked a veteran male talent about a certain male performer who claimed to make 1k a scene and his reply was,’Who is his boyfriend?’
@freepornstarpix, I agree 100%.
People will claim they make all kinds of money in porn. They don’t. I see the checks these guys get. Unless we are talking gay porn, it is nowhere near $1,000, not even half of that. I don’t care how “popular” the guy is or if he can “act”.
The director only cares about the dick being hard, not HOW it got hard so don’t think anyone is going to pay premium rates to a few guys just because they are able to work without pills or injections. It won’t happen.
Bottom line, the “$1,000 per scene guy” is all BS. I can’t believe Mariah would even believe this nonsense.
ok I will give you one example because I know he wouldnt care. The scene I did for Swimsuit Calendar Girls 3 Latin Edition was with Mr. Pete. I saw with my own eyes his check for $900. I saw it. he said his usual rate is $1000 but since we know each other and get along he did it for $900. That is a fact. I saw the check being written.
I know of others who get more per scene, Manuel being one of them. I’m pretty sure Johnny Sinns and Tommy Gunn are up there and I’ve seen Billy Glide get $800 from Playboy and they are the cheapest company in the business.
Also again, for a FACT I know that the Brazzers male talent get roughly $20k a month. It comes out to be around $1200 per scene. They are exclusive and they pay them because they are reliable guys who perform and can act pretty well. I know this because I have been told by 2 very reliable sources, the directors/producers at Brazzers and the talent themselves. My friend is engaged to one of those guys so I have some inside info as well.
I’ve also been told that Brandon Irons rate is over $1000.
There are very few guys still making $300 a scene and I would say that they are used for those bullshit Frank Wank scenes and the other low end stuff where they piss on girls etc.
Sammy, what the fuck is your problem? I didn’t write this about me and if you actually read it without some predetermined animosity towards me you’d see that. I wrote this about awareness to an issue that is very serious in this business.
Mortician I can’t imagine what sets you’re working on. Its a known fact that the standard male rate these days is around $700. Evan Stone was making that in 2001. I’d like to hear some of the titles of the stuff you’re shooting so i can checkout what talent you’re hiring.
This was a really insightful post Mariah. You should keep on blogging here regularly.
i’m guessing trannyfucker xxx caverjects for straight scenes. i doubt he has much trouble barring it up for trannys and gay privates.
I believe Mariah abour Pete being well paid by Elegant Angel, his girlfriend is the current Buttwoman over there, and naturally Mr Collins is going to treat him well.
I’m sure there are situations where male talent might get extra, but it is not normal. The guys on the gay side are much more fit and attractive because the pay is better.
“I’ve also been told that Brandon Irons rate is over $1000.”
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Great post Mariah, I heard long time ago this happens so often, I see that now is totally true. What about the secondary effects of that medical??
Probably when those guys had 10 years more their dicks will be like poor carrot only available for a salad
Keep on posting more 😉
guys, tell me as a civilian, when a performer is paid are taxes taken out then or do they have to claim them later. and even if male talent got paid $300.00 a scene i could work five six times a week and i’d be cool.
something tells me they don’t work 5-6 times a week
at least on a consistent basis
Someone has to get over to Sophia’s and start videotaping her ramblings, while they are a pain to read I’m thinking it could be a goldmine as a documentary or reality show.
sometimes taxes are taken out depending on the company. Wicked,Vivid, Naughty America, Penthouse they all are payroll with taxes taken out. BangBros, Realitykings, brazzers, elegant angel (some shoots) are same day pay and no taxes removed but you get a 1099.
Hey AL…I know some guys who work twice a day. Many of the top male performers work everyday or at least 6 days a week.
Very well done article Mariah. I think it’s important for people to know not just about the female talent’s issues, but the males as well.
I actually wasn’t aware that certain male talents were making so much money. Now I understand some of the attitudes of I’ve encountered. I also understand why some females may be pressured to except less than their normal rate on certain occasions.
I wonder what the long term effects of the injections are.
“I wonder what the long term effects of the injections are.”
This is the question Monica 😉
Very good article!!! that is getting really bad if a guy’s got to shoot that cock up and still in the industry working with these girls and spreading all that crap around!!! No wonder there trying to shut the biz down in california!!! Crazy!
Mariah Milano “Sammy, what the fuck is your problem? I didn’t write this about me and if you actually read it without some predetermined animosity towards me you’d see that. I wrote this about awareness to an issue that is very serious in this business.”
Maybe if your first comment didn’t ask for people to vote for you as the “Booble Girl” of the month I’d taken you a little more seriously.
Secondly, if it’s such an ‘issue’ for you, why not take it up with OSHA and the California Legislature.
Thirdly, if it’s such a big deal, as you’ve claimed on other posts, just quit performing in porn all together. You can sit back and relax on all of the money you’re raking in from websites you own and produce content for, real estate holdings, other investments et cetera…instead of constantly worrying about getting a horrible life-changing STD from some assclown who can’t get hard from any of the hotties in Porn Valley unless he shoots his penis with chemicals.
Lastly, I don’t know why there are so many who don’t believe guys like Mr. Pete or Manuel Ferrara get a grand to fuck on film. Hello Doubters…these guys don’t have problems getting wood and are large enough, they don’t look like a smuck fucking on camera (as some guys you wonder who they’re blowing to appear in porn, as they have such ‘average’ cocks it makes the entire scene quite absurd in regards to a ‘Porn Aesthetic’).
If I was shooting a porn flick tomorrow, I’d hire guys like Evan Stone or Tommy Gunn (even thought I think they’re uber-tools), Lexington Steele, Mr. Pete, Manuel, Randy Spears, John Strong, Tony T., et cetera — because guys in this category of male porn talent are not going to fuck up my shoot and cost me a kill fee because they can’t get it up. Ergo, they are WORTH the $1000 pricetag for their services…
I just don’t get why that’s so difficult for people on this board (many of whom are actually IN THE PORN BIZ) to fully grasp!?
As much of an ass as Sammy tries to be he did agree with me. I know he secretly is in love with me and wishes he were sitting next to me right now in Melbourne waiting for the boat I’m about to go on to see the barrier reef. I’ll be appearing at the Erotic Expo this weekend in Auckland New Zealand so if you’re in the area Sammy make sure you stop by and say hello ok? And after the show is over on Sunday night you can come with me for the 4 days in Fiji on the island of Taveuni.
I know you think I’m full of shit Sammy but my life ain’t so bad. I am my own boss and do what the fuck I want when the fuck I want to. You’re a hater because you can only wish you had it this good. I’ll send you a postcard from any place you’d like (I swear I will) you just let me know the address babe. 🙂
Cheers mate! 😉
oh forgot to mention Sammy that I don’t work with the guys that shoot their dicks and I have sent numerous letters to OSHA and also to AIM in regards to this problem. I have also addressed it with 2 males that I know do this and they basically shrugged me off.
LOL — silly porn girls!
I neither agree or disagree just for the sake of argument, so ‘love, like or lust’ has nothing to do with it. You pointed out the cold hard fact that a select few guys in Porn Valley make major dollars — destroying the reality for many an armchair stud who thinks, “…yea I could do that — but fuck, the money is so low I’m just going to sit here on my fat ass and keep jerking my tiny dick off to these porno sluts…”
My life is just fine thank you very much, no need for me to embellish, hype, or promote what it is compared to others. I’m sure there are many envious porn chicks whose animosity toward you Ms. Milano, far outshines my more mischievous posts about your oh-so glamorous life.
Hey, why don’t you post an article with a few pics of your vacation/junket abroad…as I don’t have any other 2nd rate globe-trotting hotties, 1st rate MILF porn talent to tease, cajole and otherwise infuriate with my self-amusing comments.
Note to self — figure out a way to get Mariah Milano to pay all my expenses for her next porno-junket so I can file a report for LIB…
I was told for other performers that some guys used to shoot their cocks with medicals, Why don’t believe Mariah says? She is just telling a real true in the porn business and how many guys can’t get hard in a set. We can think is obvious if a guy has to shoot everyday 2-3 scenes at day and he is not a like la Manuel Ferrara is.
Mariah go ahead with your info is the real true
P.S.
I hope you win bobble.com 😉
yeah it’s true. there are guys who shoot their dicks as I said in the article and there are many guys who make $1000 a scene. The days of guys like Steve Hatcher and Dave Hardman are pretty much gone and now the guys are younger and hotter with good bodies and big dicks. I found it funny that so many guys have male fans, who aren’t gay! They’re just fans. 🙂 I think that’s awesome for the guys who do a great job to get acknowledged for the hard job they do (no pun intended)
And Sammy, you’re not a bad guy. You just enjoy being a dick. It’s like an actor who always plays the asshole in movies. It’s just a role he fills. 🙂
By the way, The other porn girls with animosity towards me are either jealous or don’t like someone who says it like it really is. they don’t like another porn chick calling them out on their high risk behavior or drugs use or escorting or showing up on set with dirty hair and smelly feet. I have stopped more than one shoot because a girls pussy is rotten like a dead body and told her she needs to stop smoking the meth pipe if she wants her pussy to not stink. I’ve done it and they hate me for it. They don’t like me because I get to pick who I work with and they don’t. I have a successful site and they don’t. I don’t do anal and they have to do it to get a decent rate. I don’t do more than one guy at a time and again, they have to. I don’t have an agent because I don’t need one, and their agent requires them to do bachelor parties and escort and lower their rates even if they object.
if they don’t like me then they don’t know me. I treat everyone with respect until they don’t deserve it. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll say the same. I’m crazy but I’m professional. My toes and nails are done and my hair is clean for every shoot. My pussy is clean and not covered in bumps and smells like it is supposed to.
Thanks Rock, I hope so too but I wont. I have been gone for 10 days and am up against unbeatable technology. 🙁 Oh well.
I have stopped more than one shoot because a girls pussy is rotten like a dead body and told her she needs to stop smoking the meth pipe if she wants her pussy to not stink. I’ve done it and they hate me for it.
Mariah, don’t be sad if they hate you if their pussies smell like a dead duck, sadly you were not the only one that suffered this….I was dinning with my friend Rebeca Linares the last time she was in Spain and told me the same…She told me this: “Six pussies of 10 in the business use to smell like a dead body” What’s going on with the professionals in this business? Are they dirty?? OMG!
P.S.
Fuck the unbeatable technology, I want you win!
there is no excuse for a male or female to smell before a shoot. this should be a given in porn. especially the female, shower,fds whatever. some foods a woman eats can affect how a woman smells, but thats no excuse.