It’s impossible to watch adult videos for a long time without wondering at least once what is it that drives these female performers to get into the industry in the first place? It’s obvious for guys. If you can have sex and get paid for it, why not take the gig? But for girls it’s a bit more compromising so it’s no surprise that there’s a really big difference in how much these pornstars get paid. Male pornstars get paid far less than their female counterparts, and for a good reason too. This incentivizes women to perform in the industry because of the huge potential in earnings.
However, the reality of the situation might not be as optimistic as you might have expected. Namely, Insider Monkey did their research and came to some stunning numbers. While the top performing and top net worth pornstars get paid millions of dollars, the average only comes up to around $40k-$50k annually. There are many reasons as to why the average is this low even though we’d expect pornstars to get paid huge amounts of money for even participating in the industry itself. After all, the porn business is huge and is worth more than 95 billion dollars.
The reason for this is the fact that these days there are just so many pornstars. So many girls get into the industry to make a quick buck when they need it the most, and so the salaries aren’t exactly a perfect representation of what they earn. If they need to make a quick buck then they’ll star in a scene and get paid on the spot. Pornstars get paid a lot to star in a single scene, but the technicality of the scene as well as other variables affect the pay. That’s why some girls prefer to go for softer scenes while others are looking at the big bucks and like to go hardcore.
According to Insider Monkey, here’s the amount a pornstar can get paid for certain types of scenes:
- Solo scenes: 150 to 350 dollars
- Lesbian scenes: 500 to 800 dollars
- Vaginal penetration scenes: 600 to 1000 dollars
- Anal penetration scenes: 600 to 2000 dollars
- Group sex scenes: 1200 to 2000 dollars
- Double penetration scenes: 1100 to 1400
As you can see, the further you go up on the hardcore scale, the better the salary. Also, scenes don’t have a fixed price to them because there are other parameters which might affect the performance of the pornstar. For example, if a female pornstar is doing an anal scene, then it depends on how big the penis is when it comes to how much she gets paid. The bigger the penis, the harder the scene is to perform (literally) and that’s why the girls in those scenes get paid more.
However, the porn business has been evolving a lot recently and regular adult videos aren’t the only way people can earn money through the industry. For example, one popular way for people (especially females) to earn money in the porn business is to perform on live cams. On these live cams, they usually get tipped directly by their viewers, so depending on their viewer base they could be earning millions. A lesser known live cam girl can also rake in a lot of dough if she knows how to handle a niche genre or has something specific about her which few people will appreciate a lot and pay a lot to see.
It doesn’t end there though. There are new mediums popping up all over the porn industry and they’re aiming to completely change the game. And when we say “change the game” we mean it metaphorically and also literally when it comes to Cross-Platform XXX Porn Games. Imagine being able to play a sex game with some of the hottest graphics on both your PC, phone, smart TV, console, portable console and so on. Heck, things are evolving so fast that you might even start playing porn games on your calculator at some point.
And don’t forget that there are plenty of people who aren’t that visual. For those people, the porn industry has started introducing an entirely different concept to regular porn. We’re talking about Erotic and Sex Stories which are for the imaginative type who can create their own fantasy just by reading someone else’s work. These are getting insanely popular these days too, believe it or not.
