How does a porn set work?
Porn is sexy; whatever your version of sexy is. After years of people scrolling and searching through the internet, porn stars and studios have figured out what viewers and consumers want.
How porn gets made is still a bit of mystery. If you don’t want to see how a sausage gets made, do you really want to know how a 45-minute fuckfest gets put together?
Well, you’re here because you do, so we’ve asked the questions, done the research, chatted with the right people. Now, we’ve got the 10 things you’ll learn on a porn shoot – if you ever make it to one.
1. Porn stars are normal
We can confirm, pornstars are human. Well, except for hentai and work by artists like AgentRedGirl. In general, though, the people you see banging on your screen are down-to-earth people who have bad days, like to have a chat, and exist in the real world.
Making porn can be boring – lots of work goes into production besides pussies getting banged and dicks getting sucked. You’ll find the models hanging around with their co-stars, eating the catering, and hitting their social media just to keep occupied.
2. Male porn stars’ dicks aren’t so normal
There is huge pressure for male porn actors to perform. They’re expected to get hard pretty much on command, no cum until requested, and keep going while the cameras roll.
Techniques have been honed over the years to help them keep a nice stiff dick for as long as necessary. We all know about the little blue pill that keeps an erection going, but now the trend in porn is injecting erectile dysfunction medicine right into their boner.
We’re definitely not condoning this – talk to a medical professional, obviously – but it’s a fact of the pressure that the guys are under to keep performing for the cameras and your pleasure.
3. A porn shoot is full production
If you’re a consumer of free porn on tube sites, you might be forgiven for thinking all porn is between three and 20 minutes long and it’s pretty much all edited action.
Connoisseurs of high-quality porn will know that a porn film will have acting, panning shots, scenes getting set, and a whole bunch of action. The sex is still the main show, but porn movies can take days to shoot with b-roll and panning shots of the living room, pool, or other sexy sets.
4. Shooting porn isn’t all that sexy
There’s going to be a couple of pretty hot people on set – the main models are by definition classically attractive. The set of a porn film isn’t exactly the most romantic or evocative of places, though.
First, you’ve got a whole crew around you. Crews on porn sets tend to be young but they’re not going to be giggling – more likely working hard and keeping quiet in the hope of landing the next gig.
Imagine getting it, things are getting hot, and both you and your partner are ready to cum. The director calls “Pause!”. You have to stay still no matter where dicks and hands and mouths are while cameras and lighting are reset.
All in the name of a good pussy shot, though.
5. The set isn’t teeming with crew
Although porn can be a full production and there’s always someone floating around on set, the crew is smaller than you’d think.
The point of porn is to make money and budgets don’t tend to be huge. This is because of internet piracy and thinking all porn should be free – not cool folks.
Anyways, the financial squeeze on porn means the performers and director will get decent money, they have to pay for the set, and there’s precious little money left to go around. Crews are minimal and can be spread pretty thin. The person passing the lube could also be the person lighting your balls just so.
6. Periods stop no woman
Not quite true, but it sounds good. There are some performers who bleed and choose to take those days away from the shooting.
A fair number of people with pussies will power on through shark week, though. How do they not produce a murder scene? The trick is makeup sponges.
A sponge goes up the vagina and absorbs the blood before it ever sees the light of day and the sex can proceed. They can be pesky to get out and it’s not unheard of for co-stars to go fishing for sponges that they rammed in tight.
7. Fluffers are so 1970s
If you’ve not heard of fluffers, they were women and men brought on to sets to help “fluff up” the male performers before their scenes. Basically, they were there to give blowjobs to help the man get stiff.
This was back in the day of $50 videotapes when there was a lot of money concentrated on a few studios. Now, with more studios that you can count and free porn a-plenty online, there isn’t the cash to be paying for on-set dick suckers.
Blue pills and dick injections are the 21st Century’s fluffers – not quite as fun though.
8. It’s gig work
With the financial landscape of porn changing – and more money going directly to creators through platforms like SinParty – so does the employment deal. The top creators can work with studios and get bookings through good agencies. Good directors are in high demand.
Most other people on set are there as casual labor. Production assistants and runners are hoping to make it in the industry and keep their noses down and even a lot of the models aren’t making megabucks until they’re established.
9. Anal sex takes effort
Anyone who’s ever done anal will know it doesn’t quite happen how it does in porn. How does it happen before the porn is shot?
First, the person taking dick will avoid eating from the night before. They’ll also do an enema before shooting and will likely do more throughout the day.
They also need to keep the hole stretched and relaxed so the scene is comfortable and looks good on screen. This means inserting butt plugs to keep them open and often increasing the size between shots. Lucky performers will get co-star help at this point.
10. The set is silent
A mix of the crew wanting to return to work the next day and the need for good audio capture means sets are pretty quiet places.
To use music in porn, it needs to be licensed and paid for or made for the occasion. Lots of studios won’t bother so there’s no beats or rhythms to get into the groove when you’re filming on a porn set.
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