Wanna Be Porn Stars
Opinion Editorial by Mariah Milano
Being a bona fide Porn Star myself, there is nothing that irks me more than to see some webcam girl in bum fuck calling herself a Porn Star. Ok I’ll give them “internet Porn Star” as it wouldn’t be too far off but to me a Porn Star is someone who has been in titles you can rent in video stores or on Pay per View or late night Skin-a-max movies.
I think that Amateur porn does a great job and there are a lot of amateur girls who have made far more money than porn stars and have become household names, without question. However when the cam girl names herself, oh we’ll use the name D###### as an example and calls herself “Your girl next door only hotter” I want to puke! What girl next door is named D######? Maybe the stripper next door but not the “girl” next door. Not anywhere I’ve lived anyway.
The new wave of porn is far different than when I started back in
1998 at the age of 18. Back then the porn division of the internet didn’t exist in Porn Valley and not until 2000 did I even get an offer to shoot for anything involving the internet. Everyone then was saying “Don’t shoot internet stuff!” and “it’s low end and will bring your rate down”, basically saying it wasn’t good for girls to shoot it. I did anyway because I was a greedy little bitch with a bad shopping habit and one guy with a camera was no different to me than another. I signed over the rights to everything back then anyway so what the fuck did I care where it showed up?
None of the porn girls had websites and none of the big companies were getting involved in a big way that I knew of. Back then the amateur girls were proud to be called amateur girls. They wanted to be amateur because that was the greatest marketing scheme ever!
Porn Stars weren’t making money online and DVD ripping and all the tube sites didn’t exist so it wasn’t easy to find your favorite Porn Star’s videos online so the only alternative was to find an amateur girl you liked and go that direction. They even did the webcam shows and interacted in real time with their fans making custom photos and videos while we, the real Porn Stars, wore fake eye lashes and pretended to be in outer space fucking on rocks in the Chatsworth desert. I understand the draw it had for sure. If I was a horny man looking for satisfying porn then I would have been right there with them.
These days Porn Stars are everywhere online. Doing cam shows, running their own websites, appearing at internet conventions meeting fans and selling merchandise on auction sites everywhere. The DVD industry has been replaced with the huge online sites like Bang bros and Brazzers so now the dominance has balanced out and I think that the Porn Stars have taken over as the biggest internet draw. The original amateur girls are older now, not online any more or just leaving their sites up to run out the rebills. Plus, Porn Stars are appearing in main stream films and have become cool enough to not be outcast by the mainstream media any longer, but actually embraced. People magazine did a 5 page article on Jenna Jameson for Christ’s sake!
So now that the tables have turned and the amateur girls suddenly have lost their dominance in the online industry they are now calling themselves Porn Stars.
Is anyone who has sex on camera and sells it in any format a Porn Star? I definitely think not. To me Porn Stars are an elite group of girls who call shooting a sex scene “working” and get their HIV and STD tests every 25 days and have agents and feature dance and sign autographs and get too much plastic surgery lol (I’ve only had my tits done by the way!)
Ok, so having a clip store or posting your videos on YouPorn or even having a site where you fuck your husband does NOT make you a Porn Star!
When you’ve been on set for 10 hours with a stupid script and had to fuck on rocks and concrete and the back of gross trucks while trying to scream “fuck me oh god fuck me” as loud as you can, then and only then you can think about calling yourself a Porn Star!
I have many friends with amateur solo girl sites, well not many but I have a few, and they work their asses off so this isn’t a slight against the amateur girl or the solo girl sites out there. This is about those who claim to be Porn Stars because they think it’s glamorous and means they are famous but they clearly have done nothing to qualify as an authentic Porn Star.
So to all of you “D######”s out there, who are calling yourself the girl next door, think about what you’re saying. If you want to be a Porn Star it isn’t hard. Get an agent, choose a better stage name and then go take Mandingos’ HUGE cock in your ass, suck your ass off of it while trying to look sexy and remember your dialogue. Then I’ll cut you some slack and allow you to call yourself a Porn Star. Maybe.