What Happens On A Gay Porn Set
Part 5
In this series, we’ve explored what happens on a gay porn set with a special emphasis on what we can learn from it in our own sex lives.
Gang Bang Roulette
The hottest action in a lot of gang bang scenes is often not caught on camera. There’s usually a lot of fluffing going on among the tops in a gang bang scene, mainly to get each other hard enough and long enough to plow their on-screen partners.
What Do Gay Porn Stars Earn?
Remarkably little. While some name-brand stars can earn up to $5,000 a scene, the vast majority make about $500 to $1,000 per scene. No matter how you do the math, that doesn’t come to a whole lot of money. Very few performers make a living off of porn. Most use it as a way to supplement the income they make from their day jobs or as a way to jack up their prostitution rates. They can charge a lot more money if customers perceive them as “stars.”
Do tops make more money than bottoms? The industry folks we spoke to said top and bottom don’t matter nearly as much as celebrity status. The more well-known you are the more money you’re going to command, no matter what position you take during filming.
Some folks told us tops tend to make more because the penis is always the star of the show and that they’ve got to stay hard for hours on end. But some said bottoms make more because they’re at a much higher risk for HIV and as one performer charmingly put it, “We have to keep our holes gaping open all day.”
Post-Production Rituals
Besides heading to the bank as soon as possible to make sure the check clears from the porn studio, the first priority of many porn bottoms is to soak in a hot bath of Epsom salts. Stretching your butt open for hours can cause some serious rectal inflammation, and post-bottoming care is essential to make sure the next time a director yells, “Action!” it doesn’t happen in the Emergency Room.
It’s A Wrap!
I originally intended to write a book about porn’s approach to bottoming because I was certain they were drinking from the fountain of knowledge. Turns out they were only gargling.
The porn industry’s secret to painless bottoming—drugs— ruined my book. When I first got the results of the research it reminded me of a French quote: Le petit quelque chose qui fout tout par terre—the little thing that fucks everything up.
I had to rethink my fucked up book. How could I possibly recommend illegal drugs as the path to painless bottoming? It’d be like recommending you light a match to see if your gas tank is empty.
Left without a hook to my book, I scrambled. Figuring I could come up with my own “secret,” I assembled an all-star cast of ass specialists— proctologists, colo-rectal specialists, and physicians with a truly alarming knowledge of anatomy. We had one goal: Create a game-changing “ass hack” that lets you bottom like a porn star without becoming an ER victim.
You can check out the book here.