I would ask you what you plan to do when you are definitely too old for porn; most women leave porn at a fairly young age, so it’s not something that you can realistically expect to do for many years. Working as a dancer tends to be very hard on your body; I’ve known a few dancers that are in their 40s now, and they all have chronic injuries (and I’m married to one; her back and hips are wrecked).
Moreover, porn is one of those things that tends to stick around. If you become popular enough as an actress, it’s likely that people will recognize your face in real life, or connect your real life identity to your acting career. Weebs are incredibly good at ferreting out details about people that work in porn, and picking up identifying characteristics (esp. tattoos!) in porn actresses that they can connect to real people. That, in turn, tends to cause significant impact on your career choices, and HR departments are often not going to be on your side. Employers tend to fire people that they discover have worked in porn in the past, because they don’t want the attention that comes with it, even when you’re an exemplary employee. Cops, firefighters, teachers, nurses/doctors, et al. have all lost careers because of doing porn in their youth.
Beyond that, a not insignificant number of mid- and high-level porn actresses end up also working as escorts, because the industry overall doesn’t pay very well. Entry level pay might be a couple hundred bucks for a scene, which sounds great, except that you’re not working every single day, or even every week. Or month. A very small number of people that have OnlyFans accounts make an enormous amount of money; most make little to none, while still having their images and videos disseminated all over the internet via piracy.
All of this can play hell on your personal life too, since–broadly speaking–most people are not interested in having a serious, long-term romantic relationship with someone that has worked in the adult entertainment industry.
None of this is fair or right, but the west tends to be fairly sex-negative, and that’s the reality that we have to deal with.
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I would ask you what you plan to do when you are definitely too old for porn; most women leave porn at a fairly young age, so it’s not something that you can realistically expect to do for many years. Working as a dancer tends to be very hard on your body; I’ve known a few dancers that are in their 40s now, and they all have chronic injuries (and I’m married to one; her back and hips are wrecked).
Moreover, porn is one of those things that tends to stick around. If you become popular enough as an actress, it’s likely that people will recognize your face in real life, or connect your real life identity to your acting career. Weebs are incredibly good at ferreting out details about people that work in porn, and picking up identifying characteristics (esp. tattoos!) in porn actresses that they can connect to real people. That, in turn, tends to cause significant impact on your career choices, and HR departments are often not going to be on your side. Employers tend to fire people that they discover have worked in porn in the past, because they don’t want the attention that comes with it, even when you’re an exemplary employee. Cops, firefighters, teachers, nurses/doctors, et al. have all lost careers because of doing porn in their youth.
Beyond that, a not insignificant number of mid- and high-level porn actresses end up also working as escorts, because the industry overall doesn’t pay very well. Entry level pay might be a couple hundred bucks for a scene, which sounds great, except that you’re not working every single day, or even every week. Or month. A very small number of people that have OnlyFans accounts make an enormous amount of money; most make little to none, while still having their images and videos disseminated all over the internet via piracy.
All of this can play hell on your personal life too, since–broadly speaking–most people are not interested in having a serious, long-term romantic relationship with someone that has worked in the adult entertainment industry.
None of this is fair or right, but the west tends to be fairly sex-negative, and that’s the reality that we have to deal with.