A Reddit thread has asked people in the porn industry, "What is something the viewers really don't know?" and the answers are … enlightening.
We can't vouch for the experience of the writers, but all claim to have
worked in the porn industry or to have been closely involved in it at
some point or another.
We probably don't need to tell you that parts of this get very graphic,
so proceed with caution if you're of a delicate disposition. Or eating
right now.
1. Porn sets smell bad."Sex stinks when it's not your own." —DongLaiCha
2. It's not all work, work, work."There is a lot of pausing, a lot of laughing, a lot of texting, etc, in between shots." —pantyraid7036
3. The "performers" are usually in control."Anyone being penetrated can call cut." —CalvinDehaze
4. Bondage scenes are fiddly."I've
rigged and shot for bondage porn before. The bulk of the effort is the
tying. I love it, but damn, does it take forever. God forbid you have a
wiggly model." —DaveTheRoper
5. Guys aren't just walking around with massive erections for hours."It's actually pretty hard to get and maintain an erection on set. Making porn is pretty unsexy." —pornishard
6. Porn takes ages."I've
been in over 40 pornos, they're usually half an hour or so long for
each scene. But I'm on set for anywhere from five to 12 hours." —mrsinsomnia
7. The "money shot" is often fake."If
a guy can't produce, there's a million ways to fake it, and they are
used much more readily than you'd think. No director wants to stand
around while a guy who's been hard for three hours tried to jerk out a
tiny little spit of cum. They'll move right to the tricks [like] running
a tube up the back of the guys dick, giving the guy a handful of milky
lube, directly shooting lotion onto it." —pantyraid7036
"Cumshots in still pictures are icing sugar. It's fairly common to use fake cum as coffee sweetener on set."—HannibalDolomite
8. Safety is key."We
undergo a rigorous testing protocol called the PASS system in which we
are tested every two weeks for a whole panel of the best STD tests on
the market." —eladarling
9. Everyone gets hangry. "I
remember being hungry a lot because I'd worry about being bloated on
camera, etc. … there was one time I was filming and the director kept
telling me off for staring at a plate of sandwiches for the crew. That's
when I realised porn wasn't my vocation in life and that I preferred a
nice ham and cheese triangle-cut sandwich over money and dick." —hotporridge
10. Orgasms are a mixed bag."Sometimes the actresses do orgasm for real. Sometimes it's 100 percent performance." —pornishard 1078
"The women are faking it most of the time. We would try to cast couples or friends who are already intimate with each other." —CalvinDehaze
11. It is not shot chronologically as one long scene."There's
usually time between the guy pulling out and the money shot where he's
standing there furiously masturbating for a few minutes in front of
everyone watching and waiting for him to come. Really fucking awkward." —papasmurf826
"Men have to keep hard between setups, so a lot of the time they're just
standing there jacking themselves off or feeling up their co-star." —CalvinDehaze
12. In fact, things are often shot back-to-front."A lot of the time the cumshot is filmed first, then the sex. Means the guys last longer for the actual penetration." —MissCarrieNation
13. Anal sex scenes can involve a lot of prep."Seriously.
Major enema action, waxing and bleaching, sometimes even fasting the
day before so that very little poop is in your tubes. The
enemas/fasting/bleaching/waxing are done mostly by porn actresses — for
various reasons ... but mostly because their butt needs to conform to
porn standards on camera." —gasolinerainbow
14. The angles are all fake."When
you see that close-up of the dick going in and out of her, it's
because they positioned to the side, and only like an inch or two is
going in and out." —pantyraid7036
15. That "we've just used this random girl off the street" porn is all fake."All
performers have to sign papers and do contracts, so the girls they
randomly pick up off the street was planted there from the start." —pornishard
16. Size really doesn't matter."There
is no indicator for dick size. Feet, hands, height, Asian, it's all
B.S. The only stereotype that held true were black men's dicks being
huge.
"Same thing for the size of vaginas." —CalvinDehaze
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