The Porn Lifecycle

Gram Ponante writes: “It is estimated that the average time a woman stays in porn is about ten months. In her honeymoon period, she might shoot as many as ten scenes in a week and can often keep up that pace—as long as her strength and sanity hold up—as she makes it around to every last porn company there is. This is usually accomplished in 45 days. Looking through a chunk of photos from 2005, I found that roughly 90 percent of the subjects were no longer in the business, including AVN’s Best New Starlet of 2005, Cytherea.”