Must-Read: What A Porn Star Can Teach Us

If you have seen porn — and, really, at this point it would take a tremendous amount of luck and willpower in order to not run into any of that — then no doubt you’ve thought to yourself, “Well, that doesn’t look too hard. I bet I can do that.” But, really, there’s a reason that you see the same four guys in porn over and over and over again. It’s not because they have some kind of monopoly on porn acting. It’s because it’s a demanding job. And, like any demanding job, there is much to learn from people at the top of their field.

Which is why today we’re going to check out this interview with adult film star James Deen over at Men’s Health, which has a bunch of interesting insights into just what goes on behind the scenes of his life as a man who gets paid to bang as many women as possible. For example:

MH: We?ll need a bit more detail than that. What?s your average day look like?

Deen: I wake up around 6:30 in the morning, and typically get straight to work on answering emails, writing blog posts, and responding to comments on my site. After a few hours of that, I usually run around the kitchen like a mad man because, thanks to sitting in front of my computer all morning, I forgot to eat food. After that, I jump in the shower and then go to the set.

Once I?m there, I do some paperwork, meet my partner?and usually the partners already know each other because it?s a small industry. I discuss the scene with the director, and then head to the studio. The girls get done up to shoot their promo photos, I get my wardrobe on, and once we?re done with all that, we start doing the scene.

Go ahead and check out the rest of the interview and try to understand what it’s like to be him. It is well worth the read.