Perhaps the pseudo-monopolization of MindGeek - which owns PornHub, RedTube, YouPorn - has prevented the rest of the industry from being able to compete on any equal footing. The business model completely changed and aside from one company - MindGeek - porn has yet to really catch up. It had plenty to do with the rise of piracy and with free tube sites like PornHub. But I saw the crews shrink, the number of shoots drop, and work dry up for a lot of people. Men were able to work consistently if they had a good reputation. My income wasn't drastically effected - I think because there were always so few male performers compared to female performers. I did witness a deterioration of the industry-at-large over that same period of time. But near the end of my career, I began to focus more on doing scenes and on being a 'porn star.'
I was a full-time student and just trying to pay my bills while in school.īy the time I graduated, or at least the year after, I had begun to find some personal validation from my work in the adult industry. Is it lucrative to be a male performer in porn - and did that change over time?įor the first several years of my career, I wasn't really focused on making money in porn or in treating it as a business. 'Maybe close to that, though.' (Photo credit: Ben Hoffman) 'I never earned six figures,' Wylde says.
