job search: porn company assistant?

[Soilwork]

Well I don't know that. All to each his own, I guess.

Jasun, I wanted to know: how often do you get to sleep with the pornstars you work with? See, I've always been curious of this about porn directors. (Especially Kristen Bjorn.) I'm guessing you've already been asked this several of times, but this is my first asking any porn directors. lol

Never. I would be fired if I did.

The performers are there to do a job and so am I. That job is not to have sex off camera.

This extends to my crew and staff.

Having sex with performers is a horrible idea. Not only would it be sexual harassment, it creates a bad environment on set for people who are there to work. I don't want performers to be creeped out becuase a crew member is making unwanted advances at them. I don't want any performers to think they HAVE to have sex with a crew member to keep their job. And mostly, it's extremely unprofessional and would end with a bad movie.

I get asked this all the time. And many people are shocked to find out that we have a very strict policy on that.

I always ask them "how often do you have sex with your employer?" And they react in horror or shock but they usually get it.

 

[rareboy]

hmmm Jasun.......

Is the fluffer position off the table completely? Even on a voluntary intern or consultant basis?

 

[Soilwork]

hmmm Jasun.......

Is the fluffer position off the table completely? Even on a voluntary intern or consultant basis?

I know you're kidding and all...

but MAN when I worked for Fratmen and had to answer the phones... we'd literally get someone calling up maybe 3-4 times per week asking if we were hiring fluffers. People would INSIST that a fluffer is a real job... they'd tell me about some movie they saw once...

And I've stopped telling people what I do for a living because it ALWAYS comes up and I can't even pretend to find it funny anymore when someone makes a crack about fluffers.

Now when people ask me what I do, I say "I'm a film maker," or "I'm a video editor" or "I make commercial video for websites."

If they pry further, I usually bore the shit out of them with "When you buy your new car and you get a DVD telling you all about the features, I'm the guy who does that."

Because if I answer truthfully that I make adult movies, someone ALWAYS finds a way to ask me "so... are you hiring fluffers!! HAHA!! OMG... how much do you PAY for fluffers?!?! HAHA!!! you make porn!!! "



it gets old.

 

[rareboy]

Have you ever just lied and told people that it was part of your job to shut them up?

 

[Level27]

Never. I would be fired if I did.

The performers are there to do a job and so am I. That job is not to have sex off camera.

This extends to my crew and staff.

Having sex with performers is a horrible idea. Not only would it be sexual harassment, it creates a bad environment on set for people who are there to work. I don't want performers to be creeped out becuase a crew member is making unwanted advances at them. I don't want any performers to think they HAVE to have sex with a crew member to keep their job. And mostly, it's extremely unprofessional and would end with a bad movie.

I get asked this all the time. And many people are shocked to find out that we have a very strict policy on that.

I always ask them "how often do you have sex with your employer?" And they react in horror or shock but they usually get it.

I can respect that. It's best to save the arousal for when you most need it. More pertinently, it makes sense that the actors (many to most of whom are actually straight) are there with no sexual intentions in mind, so it doesn't surprise me that some of them might file complaints of abuse/harassment; even if it is a porn studio!

Playing devil's advocate, on the other hand, I intuited that some porn directors (and porn actors) feel that it's part of their professional work to engage the actors in this personal intimate way: asking to sleep with eachother, to have sex with eachother, to make certain moves and come-on's, etc. Porn being the one career where displays of sexual arousal aren't considered indecent and is in fact necessary, in order to build that rapport between actor and director, which is important for a set to function, I thought this route is sometimes of a benefit. After watching and reading interviews and talk moments from Brent Corrigan, Pierre Fitch and a few others, I was lead to believe that initiating sex with porn directors is part of their enjoyable work, majorly owed to the porn actor coming to the set "feeling slutty" as he should; if not owed to the fact that a lot of these directors, as have been stated, are porn actors themselves (many of whom I'm sure are still in their "hot" stage).

I suppose it really depends on who you talk to. Pierre Fitch and Brent Corrigan, from my loose understanding, had/have their own independent site. You work for a major non-private company (which I have long forgotten which), and I'm sure there are legal processes to owning, maintaining and keeping a company; so, it's no surprise to me that your company would have policies on this.

See, if I were to be an assistant director or hand of any sort, I wouldn't mind doing it if a porn actor initiated sex with me; if it's allowed. I would personally take that not as unprofessional but as a positive signal for my work. I'm sure this view might change once I start experiencing the place of a porn employee (and become less 'naive'/'oblivious'/'uninformed'), but for now, this is how I feel. I'll simply continue to think it while I can, because of the bliss that it provides me.

As far as fluffers go, I realized from when it was first introduced to me (in this thread) that a "fluffer" probably isn't real. This is how I figured: the point of fact is that the actor's fellow partner on set is already considered the role of the "fluffer"; (My incompetent stamina to take on the role aside) wouldn't an extra paid hand to suck dick defeat the purpose of putting the two together? Not to mention a waste of money to pay for an extra that really wouldn't be there for anything more than a personal jolly, whether it's the porn actor's, director's or the fluffer's himself? (As we don't need a fluffer, the actor being fluff'd might run the risk of blowing before set, which I'm sure will majorly ruin their paycheck for the day!)

See, NotHardUp? I'm not as dumb and oblivious as you think.

p.s. How come everytime I type "fluffer", JustUsBoys forum reply type box indicates it as a mispelling (with squiggle red underline)?

 

[Soilwork]

Have you ever just lied and told people that it was part of your job to shut them up?

yeah "I suck porn star for dick as part of my job" is a great way to avoid follow-up questions.

 

[Soilwork]

can respect that. It's best to save the arousal for when you most need it.

More pertinently, it makes sense that the actors (many to most of whom are actually straight) are there with no sexual intentions in mind, so it doesn't surprise me that some of them might file complaints of abuse/harassment; even if it is a porn studio!

I work for Titan and therefore, we don't work with straight men, and it's not even filing complaints as much as we want all our performers to have a good experience and want to come back to work with us so we make sure they're treated with respect and professionally.

After watching and reading interviews and talk moments from Brent Corrigan, Pierre Fitch and a few others, I was lead to believe that initiating sex with porn directors is part of their enjoyable work, majorly owed to the porn actor coming to the set "feeling slutty" as he should; if not owed to the fact that a lot of these directors, as have been stated, are porn actors themselves (many of whom I'm sure are still in their "hot" stage).

I suppose it really depends on who you talk to. Pierre Fitch and Brent Corrigan, from my loose understanding, had/have their own independent site. You work for a major non-private company (which I have long forgotten which), and I'm sure there are legal processes to owning, maintaining and keeping a company; so, it's no surprise to me that your company would have policies on this.

See, if I were to be an assistant director or hand of any sort, I wouldn't mind doing it if a porn actor initiated sex with me; if it's allowed. I would personally take that not as unprofessional but as a positive signal for my work. I'm sure this view might change once I start experiencing the place of a porn employee (and become less 'naive'/'oblivious'/'uninformed'), but for now, this is how I feel. I'll simply continue to think it while I can, because of the bliss that it provides me.

This is where I remind you that "porn is a fantasy." When I worked at Jake Cruise, we tried to create the public perception that our studio was a sexual theme park with hot men running around naked and Jake catching me jerking off at my desk. That was all just... marketing.

I can promise you that no porn star is running to a shoot thinking "oh wonderful, I get to have sex with the director once we're done shooting this porn scene for 9 hours."

 

[Level27]

I was aware that porn is, in itself, an uncomfortable job; and didn't think of it as a 'theme park', as you put it. There's lighting, "best positions", "best angles", disgusting oil on your body to emphasize the sheen of light (right?), other things that may make you want to scratch, chafe, vomit, etc. This probably why I wouldn't want to be the actor, because I know I'd likely vomit 10 times before the day is through. My (delusional?) idea was that one of the perks of porn studios was sleeping with the director. But, from what I'm learning, this doesn't seem to be the case; and for rationally good reasons.

But, again, I respect the professional policy that these companies have created. I can see how people would want to return if they weren't constantly hit on and 'running around' off-set.


By the way, Jasun, I looked up "Jasun and Adam Russo" and "gay". I didn't know you were one of the lucky bastards who got to be that close to a stud reputed with one of the biggest, most round muscular male tits. (Something which he let me caressed and sensually grabbed at a porn dance once; after tipping him $15. I have great regards for him (and any porn workers) letting me do that, since I'm sure 5,000 people touching him in one night can get exhausting and obnoxious; even if I was probably amoung the first ones to touch him that night.)

 

[Soilwork]

My (delusional?) idea was that one of the perks of porn studios was sleeping with the director. But, from what I'm learning, this doesn't seem to be the case; and for rationally good reasons.

But, again, I respect the professional policy that these companies have created. I can see how people would want to return if they weren't constantly hit on and 'running around' off-set.

Well and after you've been making a porn scene for 9 hours or more... the last thing you want to do is have sex with the sweaty, nasty director.

By the way, Jasun, I looked up "Jasun and Adam Russo" and "gay". I didn't know you were one of the lucky bastards who got to be that close to a stud reputed with one of the biggest, most round muscular male tits.

Funny thing is that Adam and I are friends so it wasn't like " a great chance to touch Adam" as much as it was "having a friend help you with your one and only scene ever". I just did that so I could understand what it's like to be a porn performer.

 

[Level27]

While delighting over the scene, I sync blasted when you brought your cute papi face to land your own onto Adam's face and tongue.

Thoughts?

 

[xbuzzerx]

My (delusional?) idea was that one of the perks of porn studios was sleeping with the director. But, from what I'm learning, this doesn't seem to be the case; and for rationally good reasons.

Have you seen most porn directors?

 

[Level27]

Yup.
Like every human being, not every porn director interests me visually; as much as they maybe awesome peeps of whom I want to hang out and sip mu-guay-fa-cha with. (Coffee's not my thing, so I have an alternative.)
I just happen to run across an extreme cute-faced one from JUB whose vid showed him having the pleasure of fucking a muscle friend with the record of the largest gay male tits in the world.

 

[swerve]

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[Level27]

Eh?

 

[Soilwork]

Have you seen most porn directors?

I was gonna say that.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

y no sound effacts assitant

tinku

 

[Level27]

This

Sorry, looks like NotHardUp1 "lost" from the beginning.

Meh, Benvolio had since been banned (for a reason unrelated and irrelevant to this, I'm sure); so, I guess it matters little.

I didn't revive this thread to prove [STRIKE]an[/STRIKE] a 6-year bicker "opponent" wrong, anyway. I thought it might be a good little source, for those who were curious and wondering like I did. (I was going through my very old threads tonight and came across this.)

 

[Level27]

And this

And, how about these lovelies that pop'd up from google-search terms, "'adult entertainment' associate jobs 'Los Angeles'": job posting 1, job posting 2.

(I'll bet that the next response my established 'critic' is going to give would be something along the lines of either or both of the following -
1 - Those listings aren't so relevant to my original inquiry; and that my alleged "dishonesty" shows just how childish I am; or, that the irrelevance of these position goes to further support how "confused" I really am. (My rebuttal: they in fact are relevant. If you were actually going to say this, the problem with you is that "porn assistant", which loose and broad phrase I used due to a lack of better fitting terms at the time, encompasses an umbrella of adult entertainment positions that don't occur in front of the camera.)
2 - I shouldn't be all 'everything is okay in my wittle bitty naive dream world of porn' just because the advertisement listing sounds all positive, happy and lucky. There's so much I don't know about what goes on behind those positions which I listed; not everything in the position is all fine and dandy about my little sexual whims just because it's porn.
I know, I know. )

 

[Level27]

...these lovelies that pop'd up from google-search terms, "'adult entertainment' associate jobs 'Los Angeles'": job posting 1, job posting 2.

I just learned that, for some reason, I included a job posting, #1, that is a position for selling sex toys and adult novelty content. That one is actually irrelevant, and I'm not completely sure how I came about including it. Perhaps it happened during my haste and delight in finding all these "writers", production and media-assistant positions for these porn companies.
All the other links I post still stands, as they contain position that are not in front of the camera.

 

[rareboy]

I would love to just work in porn at this stage in my life.