He has only been in one long-term relationship during his 10-year career, and he admits that fear of STIs keeps him from pursuing casual sex. “And if you test positive for anything, you’re not able to shoot at all.”ĭeAngelo Jackson, a gay porn performer who appears in Noir Male films, says that he rarely has sex outside of filming. “ a really, really elaborate system that’s meant to keep performers safe,” DelRay says. DelRay mentions that the fear of testing positive for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is one factor that may deter people from having sex outside of filming, as positive results can jeopardize a person's income. But being a single porn star can come with its own set of complications too, especially when it comes to having an independent sex life. Problems like these can cause many to avoid dating within the industry altogether. “There’s just a lot of little jealousies and a lot of bickering inside the industry.” “When you’re dating within the industry, yes, there’s a lot more understanding, but there are a lot of idiosyncrasies that are real pains in the ass, like, ‘Oh, you got to fuck my boyfriend,’ and ‘I’m a bigger star than you, I have a bigger following here,’” he says. Michael DelRay is a gay porn performer who works for companies like Next Door Studios and CockyBoys, and he feels that dating within and outside of the adult film industry are equally difficult. “Besides making me uncomfortable, if I am with someone who I am interested in, this can be a little embarrassing.”Īt first glance, the most obvious option to many would be to date within the industry, but dating another porn actor can be a struggle of its own. Just two days before, gay porn star Armond Rizzo called out a studio for paying its sexually submissive performers less than their dominant scene partners, essentially creating a wage gap between tops and bottoms.“I’ve been out to the bars before and people will say things to me that, because I am a sex worker, they think it is acceptable to say to a total stranger - complimenting my… size, or my body, making sexual remarks to me, etc.,” he writes in the video’s description. It was the second time in the same week that the gay porn industry was criticized by its actors for unfair practices. "Now that I am more experienced, I feel like a model should make no less than 1k." "When I started out I was making $500 per scene," said Nic Sahara.
"Back when I worked for Boycrush we were only paid 400-500 per scene," one guy replied while another said that as recently as last year, he only received $300 for his first scene.
"If you're a performer making less than 1k this isn’t me coming after you in any way," he said, "I just want everyone to realize what your worth instead of letting your studio decide for you."Ī number of models responded to the tweet, sharing just how much (or little) they were paid when they started out in the industry, citing specific studios who underpaid their performers. He clarified that he wasn't criticizing the models taking less money, but rather pointing out how studios might be exploiting their naivety. As performers can we go ahead and say that no one who is preforming for a studio should be getting paid any less than 1k a scene I hear about some of these new models scene rates and how multiple well known studios are knowingly taken advantage of young performers #1Kornothing- Joey Mills January 27, 2020