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Reader – Tyler,I heard about NA, and even worse Adult Friend Finder is going BK. I was told last year there were 1000 plus scenes a day being shot in Pornland. Now there’s 2 to 5 a day.How’s that affecting you?

Tyler – Those numbers are way off. Just a few pages back, I posted that I myself did 3 scenes in less than 24 hours, and had to beg off a 4′th. This was last week.There were never that many scenes a day being shot. I’d say it was at peak maybe 300-400 scenes shot any given day.Now, it’s maybe about 100. Still a very dramatic drop.After all is said and done, 2008 financially is one of the worst years for me, however, quality of work I have been involved in, it is by far the best.I happen to be in a unique position to be able to float between the worlds of gonzo porn, and high end features.This is especially unique considering most people consider black male talent to be fuck ups. And this is in the low budget gonzo world, let alone the high end feature market, where time is very much money.It was like climbing Mt. Everest in the beginning getting to the place where I am, because there was no shortage of stories about how so and so showed up 4 hours late, or high or whatever. Sure, there is a lot of truth in that unfortunately, but lol, like Black guys are the only ones who do that in porn. The point is, that is the perception I had to overcome.

Cost me jobs in the beginning turning down shit that would perpetuate the showing of my race in a negative light, but it is paying off now. I do not claim to have foresight to see 2008 recession, the death of DVD, and torrent/pirate issues way back in ’02. I just by nature hedge my bets, and that has paid off.Two days ago, I had a phone conversation with a very prominent director, Dianna Devoe who is one of my best friends, and I said that “I almost feel guilty that I am working, when many people are struggling.” She reminded me that it wasn’t luck, but being willing to do whatever it took to pay my dues, and she reminded me of the times I’d text her from the treadmill at 2am when everyone else was out partying.

Many talent, male/female have moved on, and are no longer in the business. Some are doing other things to supplement their earnings. Victoria Sin, a stunning German girl said recently in an interview that she couldn’t get steady enough work to make porn worth doing. For new Black girls looking to get in, my advice is, don’t. I get sad phone calls from new girls and agents all the time asking ME to hook them up with work. Simple math is, there are not enough jobs to go around to support the current talent pool. The male talent pool will thin out a lot more before all is said and done. Too many so-so performers getting by. They will be gone, as they should. Female talent I predict will have a much shorter career cycle. I used to advise new girls on how to stretch out a career to 2-3 years. Nowadays, a good year, year and a half run would be something. All said and done, I’m still doing alright, but I’m not straight ballin’ like I was before. I earned $XX,XXX less this year than the year before. Been a long time since I made $XX,XXX in a month, but don’t shed a tear for me, I am VERY fortunate to still earn a nice living in a time where people are loosing their homes.

Reader – Tyler, since your doing/did everything sexual most guys want to do but never get the opportunity to, do you have something you wish you could do but have never got the chance?

Tyler – Nope. Nothing left.Most were accomplished well before I got into Adult. My sex drive when in my teens and 20′s was INSANE! Seriously.When I left home, and moved to California, I was like a dalmatian puppy let off his leash, and escaping out of the back yard!I very briefly lived on a campus that housed girls for a fashion design school. I was one of 4 straight guys living there, and my imagination went wild. It was like a eating at a buffet until I burst.

Throughout my 20′s , I’ve “dated” women from all over the world, ranging from Swedish, Israeli, Somali, Filipina, Croatian, Bulgarian, Costa Rican, etc, etc. On my 30th birthday, a Dutch Indonesian model flew all the way from Amsterdam to fuck. Lol, she turned me out so bad that thinking with my cock, I asked her to marry me, and we were engaged for 4 whole hours!The next day, when I realized what I had gotten myself into, I lied and told her I had a wife, and family, and my apartment was just my secret fuck den. Problem solved.Amazingly, she STILL hate-fucked me once more (It was even better than the night before), and went back to Europe straight after. (Told you I was a dick when I was younger)

I’ve come to the conclusion that American women are (generally), repressed sexually when compared to their counterparts from other nations. They use sex as both a tool, a bargaining chip, a weapon. Not that non American women don’t as well, but I think more so with American chicks generally.

I even got a sociopath, blonde German girl to dress in a brown shirt, knee boots, and pretend that she was Heinrick Himmler’s daughter, and she was the evil Camp Director who caught me trying to escape. She also wanted me to put on a loin cloth, chase me in a open grassy field driving a jeep, throw a net over my head, and slap me in irons, but we never got around to that. (her fantasy, not mine).She’d go “Mien Got Schwartzie!…Fuck me!” (My God Blackie! Fuck me!)Lol, that reminds me…did you guys ever see that movie Permanent Midnight, where this German girl is banging Ben Stiller, and goes “I cant believe I’m fucking a Jew!”? Funniest shit ever!

The few remaining things have been done so many times, it’s ridiculous.The usual 2 girls BS…. check

4 girls from each race (Asian, Black, White, Latina) at the same time…check

Milfs…check

Barely legal school girl…check

Milf with barely legal school girl “daughter”…check

Eastern European girl wrapping my own belt around my neck, stepping on my face with 6 inch stilettos, and choke-fucking me until I was close to the Shadow of Death?…check

I never had a checklist per say, but there is nothing left to….WAIT…TWINS! That’s what’s left. Uncharted waters both personally, AND professionally!

Reader – Tyler “It’s a good day for me. I guarantee if you two shoot me one hundred times, I will have five off days. It’s a numbers game. I’m only human.”That’s statistically significant!p < .05

Tyler – Porn producers have very short term memories. I can absolutely kill it 20 scenes in a row, but struggle once, that is what they remember, and harp on. Victim of my own success by raising the bar so high.At this point in my career, I never flat out fail a scene even on my worst day, and I always get an editable scene done. Even if it takes a bit longer.

Reader – Whatever. If you want to be a serious actor….try out for a serious part that doesn’t actually end w/ some girl getting jizz on her face.I appreciate your posts and your dedication to your craft….but NOBODY cares about your incredible acting ability. Just get to the part where SHE’S naked and going to work. porn is what it is, but LOL @ treating it like high art.

Tyler – High end Adult sells. VIVID, NS/DS, Adam & Eve, Wicked, Digital Playground, ct. reap hundreds of millions in gross revenues annually from high end product. Even HBO/Cinemax. I have show “Zane’s Sex Chronicles” airing on Cinemax across the Nation as you read this. You do not speak for everyone.Nobody is stopping you from renting/downloading gonzo porn. I shoot well over 100 gonzo scenes a year with said girls “getting jizz on her face.” that require zero fast forwarding. Those videos are my bread and butter, and I love them.I never said I was an incredible actor. You’d only have to scroll up 10 posts on this page and, you’ll see what I said about comparing what I do to mainstream work. Again, ANY profession worth doing deserves the absolute best ability of the person choosing to do it. For me anything less in terms of work ethic, gonzo OR high end porn, as a dentist, or a garbageman not only cheats the consumer, but more importantly, it cheats the worker in said profession. I fail to see how that is an alien concept.Thank you for the career advice.

Reader – TK very nice thread. I have spread this thread to a few internet forums in Estonia (that’s a small country in northern europe… Mark Kostabi’s roots are there;)Many rave reviews to your writing. You should write a book some day. From reading this thread I admire your time management skills. I am struggling hard squeezing my hobbies into my professional life…BTW – what does your GF do if that’s not a secret?

Tyler – Ok, I get the message guys. I will write a book. My GF and I live together, and she is very aware of my profession. As soon as I step off set to go home, I leave it all behind me.