[Zarcath]

Originally Posted by Millie

If you ever come out to LA, remind me to take you on a tour of the San Fernando Valley (aka, the Hollywood of the Porn Industry). It's fascinating how 90% of the world's porn is produced in unmarked, unnoticeable suburban houses in the heart of middle-class Los Angeles.

Also, as for why there are so many young women in porn -- it's the economics. If you're a young girl from a rough background, and you know you're not going to college, you'll make more money in porn or in stripping than you will at any "respectable" job you have available to you. Porn/stripping outpays waitressing, retail, secretarial work, etc by an outrageously high factor. Porn is basically the highest-paying blue collar work a girl can get. Period. (Aside from possibly shucking crabs in Alaska, or working on oil rigs, but how many girls are willing to do those things?)

There's a great HBO series on the porn industry that really gets to the heart of the matter. Porn is a high-paying, horribly unglamorous, ridiculously depressing field that's been giving off a glamorous, wholly fictitious public image in recent years. In reality, porn performers treat their jobs like 9-to-5 office work. There's no passion involved whatsoever.

Hell, I bet 3/4th of the girls were giving it away for free anyway to anonymous guys at parties, why not get paid for it?