From the desk of General Stoor, JTTS Los Angeles Bureau Chief
“Everyone’s got herpes.”
That right there is my go to response to anyone who asks me about getting into porn. Every guy out there so desperately wants to believe that they “have what it takes” to be “talent” in the (un)glamorous world of adult entertainment. I get it. I really do. To those uneducated to the inner workings of the business, getting paid to fuck must seem like the greatest gig in the world. Well it’s not. For every 10,000 dudes like On & On who like to brag that they’re packing to anybody that will listen, maybe one will get a shot. Long story short (see what I just did there?), it’s not gonna happen. And if it does happen just be careful what you wish for.
After the disaster that was my first day working porn production, I was anxious to get back to work and continue my meteoric rise to the top. The schedule for the day was the same as before. Solo masturbation scene, break for lunch, boy-girl scene. I spend the first couple of hours setting up lights and sound. Then our female “talent” shows up. Woof.
I won’t call her out by name because she was such a sweet girl, but I’ll be damned if I haven’t pulled hotter girls out of the Silhouette at last call on a Tuesday night. It upsets me to call her a pizzaface but only because I hold pizza in such high regard. Additionally, she had a grill only a dentist trying to buy a vacation property could love. I will say that our make-up girl that day should win an AVN award as she was able to pull off a miracle. It was like Avatar levels of special effects uppinis piece.

Today's "talent"
We shot the masturbation scene in a jacuzzi and it went a lot faster this time around. I’m not sure how much of homegirl’s bacne was visible but I’m sure we can edit it out in post. In addition to sound, slate, and lights, I also produced the rubber ducky used in the scene and presented our “talent” with a pristine glass dildo. You want a dildo cleaned and cleaned right? Look no further than General Stoor.
Solo done. Lunch done. Time for the boy/girl scene. This is where I would get my education. Enter affable yet dim-witted male “talent”. Right off the bat he goes to shake hands and I have a Twix moment where I’m trying to figure out how to avoid this handshake. I stammer something about lube and dildos and give the ol’ elbow-based variation on the pound. I will never shake a porn dudes hand. Ever.
The boy/girl scene starts with the male and female “talent” in a pool and he’s feeding her strawberries. She must really like strawberries because she’s sucking him off in no time. This had to be the worst, seeing as how it was a cold day in the valley and the pool was far from heated. The poor “talent” was visibly freezing between takes and turning all kinds of blue. For the record, a porn blowjob isn’t like a blowjob in real life. A porn blowjob is a series of starts and stops. Cameras have to move, lights need to be adjusted, etc. What will become a few minutes of fellatio onscreen took over an hour to film. And homeboy’s job in all of this was to sit on the edge of a cold ass pool and stay hard the entire time. No thanks.
The sex scenes aren’t much different. What I found most fascinating was that at no time during the filming of the “in-and-out” did our “talent” get to establish any momentum. It’s one big, naked game of Red Light Green Light. I got no sense of any chemistry between our “actors” but as “actors” they did good enough job faking it for the camera. Bravo. But my one biggest takeaway from watching all this is that these people aren’t really having sex. There’s a reason that within the biz they’re referred to as performers. I get it now. Also, unless you’re a major star within the industry you’re not making that much money and the guys always make less than the girls. Plus, everyone has herpes. Me? I’m content to wash dildos and lug equipment knowing that I’m not gonna wind up with bumps on my dick from lugging around a 50lb HMI light.
The moral of the story? I’ve decided that I’m better off being this:

Than this:
