Briefly explaining, amateur porn it's any erotic or sexually explicit material in which the actors or participants perform without being paid. In general, those people do amateur porn for their own and private entertainment, and many of them end up posting movies on the internet, whether looking for some kind of profit or just exhibiotism. Today, with the diversity of digital cameras and devices to make and edit movies, it's common to see amateur porn in which the people involved are not even aware of being film. It generates many ethical, moral and even legal issues. Many celebrities have to face their private lives being invaded as videos of their performances end up on the internet as it happened with Paris Hilton or Pamela Anderson, for instance.

Also there are movies that involve amateur actors but professionals behind the camera. Such sex-flicks are also very popular as well as classified as amateur porn.

There is a third type of the so-called amateur porn, which are movies that aren't truly amateur in the literal meaning of the term, but a simulation, with real actors. Producers use some techniques such as poor lightning and filming, bad edition or using non-average body type actors to perform the scenes.

Many of today's amateur porn websites are run by the "actors" themselves, who use the internet as the fastest way to expose their work to the public. The large public that such kind of erotic material gained over the recent years guaranteed a permanent market for amateur porn.