They all want to know the same thing: How can I be a male porn star? They believe I can introduce them to an agent/producer/figurehead in the porn industry who will cast them in an adult movie to which everyone will masturbate, ostensibly. The majority of the men are straight a few are gay. Typically, their emails are not very well written. They are looking for work, they decided male porn star is the job they would like to do, they need money and believe this is the best way to get it. Of those who mention their age, most are in their 20s. Their letters arrive from all over the world: Florida, Suriname, Pakistan. Hello sir i want to be a porn star so i want to make a porn movie. Most of the traffic is organic and comes from Google searches in other words, those who find it are searching for some combination of “male,” “porn” and “star.” Every week, I get emails from men I have never met, who have read the post, who want me to tell them how they can become male porn stars, too. Every day, it gets several thousand more. Recently, the post surpassed 1,000,000 views. Only one of them couldn’t think of anything difficult about his line of work – James Deen, arguably the most famous male porn star working today, who declared his occupation “pretty easy.” Their answers varied from the mundane (“The hardest thing about being a male porn star is convincing your female co-workers that you are an interesting, well-rounded, fun guy who they might consider dating in a parallel universe after a few drinks”) to the mechanical (“The most difficult part about being a male porn star is the hard-on”). I had sent emails to several male porn stars, asking them about the most challenging aspects of their job. In August of this year, porn star Koldo Gorantweeted about three fellow performers who had recently died.On April 23, 2012, I published a post on my Forbes blog: “The Hardest Thing About Being a Male Porn Star.” I don’t remember what prompted the idea for the post, other than the fact that I have been covering the adult movie industry for more than a decade and have long been interested in how its male performers navigate a business in which they play second fiddle to its real stars: women. “I realize nobody talks about it, we are unprotected and forgotten ” Goran tweeted “We are humans, people, enough of contempt.” In one of those instances, Goran’s tweet remains the only public notice that the performer, Dani Rivera, had been murdered. Most gay news outlets choose to ignore the passing of all but the biggest names in the adult film industry. Porn companies also seem reluctant to broadcast the passing of a performer who is still on their roster, forever young and present in their website content. An obit is a real boner killer, ya know? Why jeopardize the profit margin? Additionally, performers who abandon their porn personas and return to life with their real name often pass away unnoticed by former employers and co-workers.Ĭase in point: Roman Heart was about as big a star as you will find in gay porn: 2006 Freshmen of the Year, GayVN Best Newcomer winner, Falcon cover boy with an exclusive contract and a career lasting over a decade. Yet he passed away unnoticed in September of 2019.
It was nearly a year before anyone in the business became aware of it. Here is a list of 10 gay porn stars of note that were lost in 2020. I post them here to prove Koldo Goran wrong – they are not forgotten:ġ) Although Goran mentions that Macanao Torres died of cancer in the above tweet, the 35 year old Spaniard actually passed away in an apparent suicide on 12/30/19.