Being a porn star is a controversial profession. While it’s clearly not the dream of parents to see their kids having sex for a living as a porn star, many young boys and girls find an actual career in such business. There is a lot of prejudice of the society in general against the profession of porn star. Due to that reason, since the popularization of pornographic movies, almost every porn star acts under a stage name. A porn star by definition (and as everyone would know) is an actor who appears in whether pornographic movies, peep shows or live explicit sex shows.

The first porn star to gain world recognition was undoubtedly the American actress Linda Lovelace, who starred in the porn classic Deep Throat, from 1972. From then on, porn stars started to receive attention and admiration from pornography fans around the world. Today, there are several porn stars that made real fortunes and fame thanks to their sexual performances in front of the camera. Such names like Jenna Jameson, Sylvia Saint, Peter North, Ron Jeremy or Tera Patrick are synonym of quality porn, well known by everyone who entered a porn video store even once.

There is an essential difference between a male porn star and a female porn star. While women are picked by their looks, the primary characteristic for a male porn star is his sexual performance, or his actually length or girth. Some extra talents such as being able to maintain an erection for hour or ejaculating loads of sperm are also very important.

Fortunately, the profession of porn star is today viewed with less prejudice than in the past decades. Although there is still some prejudice by a great part of the society, a porn star today may be respected and admired and not confounded with a prostitute as it happened in the past.