
Porn Star. It’s a term thrown around pretty loosely these days. It seems that a girl shoots a scene on a handheld camcorder her wannabe director boyfriend picked up at Best Buy, then she sticks it on a shared content site somewhere, and like magic she’s a porn star.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think this term should be used a little more gingerly. I know I’m showing my age here a bit, but to me the title of porn star always meant a little more to me long before I worked here. When I thought/think of porn stars, Names like Tera Patrick, Jesse Jane, Stormy Daniels, Chasey Lain, Jenna Jameson, Racquel Darrian, Taylor Wane, Barbara Dare, Ginger Lynn, Marilyn Chambers (okay, so she was before my time) come to mind. You get the point.
Yes, the talent pool in Porn Valley was a helluva lot smaller. There was no real Internet to speak of. The cost to put out a video (remember those?) was a lot more than it is these days. Now there are plenty of girls who qualify as true porn stars working in the business today. You have your porn stars, your porn superstars and your porn performers. Just because you slobbered on some cock and it was captured on some sort of medium doesn’t make you a porn star. Here’s how I got here onto this little topic…
I was down in Miami at the Exxxotica show a week or so ago. An unknown girl comes up to me at our booth and asks, “When are you going to shoot me for GENESIS?” It’s not a rare request. I get lots of emails, phone calls and requests just like it all the time from girls just like her. I would like to preface all of this by saying that I’m a pretty nice guy, especially when representing the magazine, and no matter how harsh a chick might look, I’m polite — at least to her face.
My response back to unknown girly was my standard one that sounds something like this. “Well my dear girl. GENESIS features porn stars. We only shoot porn stars. Our layouts are all of porn stars. We do however have a wonderful contest you can enter for amateurs, called Sex Star Hunt, or once you get a decent number of titles from reputable and known production companies in the marketplace, we would love to discuss possibly shooting you for one of our fine layouts in our fine publication.”
So after my little polite retort, our little friend at the booth replies back to me with a bit of an attitude that made her chins shake, “Well, I’m not an amateur!”
“You’re not?” I queried ever so shocked that I had never heard of this vision of loveliness standing before me.
“No! I’ve been on such and such website, and in two movies!” she exclaimed back and then listed the companies of which she had shot for, which coincidentally enough were amateur type of productions. “I’m a porn star!”
I calmly told her that those credits do not a porn star make as nicely as I could despite her attitude which was growing by the fuckload. What I really wanted to do was to grab her by her little paw and take her around our booth and point out each and every girl signing there. “This is Jesse Jane. She’s a porn star. This is Stormy Daniels. She’s a porn star. Jenna Haze. Porn star. Joanna Angel. Porn star. Bree Olson. Kayden Kross. Nautica Thorn. Porn star. Porn star. PORN STAR!”
Porn stars have fans. People want to meet porn stars. They have websites with members. They feature dance. They (usually) look pretty good. People pay them to shoot movies or layouts using <gasp> real cameras operated by real crews. There are many more things that go into achieving porn star status. So please, unless you’re really a porn star, don’t go callin’ yourself one.
Like the sayin’ goes, “You’ve nailed a few boards, and that doesn’t make you a carpenter. Fixed a sink, but you’re not a plumber. You suck one cock and you’re a cocksucker.” Oh, and he ain’t a director, either!
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