Did you read this interview on raannt blog? They interviewed former Sean Cody model Rylan. It gives us some behind the scenes tidbits of SEANCODY.COM and the best part is, they asked THE question I always want to know!
Ok, so tell us…how lucrative is porn? How much did you make?
I am not really supposed to say but in the 9 videos that i made over the span of a year, I made roughly $40,000. It is very good money. You get to take trips that are totally paid for, meet new people, and have fun. Porn is a lot of work though. For a 20 min film, its takes anywhere from 4 to 8 hours of filming to get that 20 mins of film. The worst day was two 8 hour days of filming for a 24 min video.
OMFG! That’s how Sean Cody gets all those hot guys… Read an entire interview here.
I heard it all the time that money in porn is good, I just didn’t expect it to be THAT good. Obviously these Internet porn companies get good money.
Sean Cody flies his models to exotic locations every year, last year they shot the fuckfest in Hawaii.
Last year, another popular Interent porn site Corbin Fisher made porn with his popular models Dawson and Lucas in Australia, flew 5 models to fuck with Bel Ami boys in Prague and went on gay porn caravan with 21 models.
Right now, CORBINFISHER.COM is shooting gay porn in Costa Rica! They announced about this exciting “location shoot” on CF Radio Pete’s Attic.
I hope they shoot more outdoor scenes. Right now I will imagine my recent favorite muscle boy CAIN getting fucked on the beach, fingers crossed 😉
Last but not least, I want to point you to another interesting interview on Unzipped. They interview cute Randy Blue model Chip Tanner, They talk about many things include his condition, Asperger syndrome.
+ SEAN CODY | CORBIN FISHER | RANDY BLUE
Steve says
WOW that is good money. I guess the internet guys get paid way better than those old been around the block and fucked 100 times studio guys! I knew one who got peanuts for being fucked and used on screen. Because the pay is so lousy there he sells his ass on RentBoy.
MarcoManuel says
How much money Reese Rideout and Chris Rockway makes per videos?
Steve says
Oh and I forgot to add, that must be another reason why internet based sites get way better looking and hotter guys working for them.
Oat says
wow chip tanner has asperger?
MarcoManuel says
Gay for pay men makes more money than gay porn stars who are actually gay.Gay men gets beat at their own game.Are gay for pay porn directors that desperate for straight men?They seems to think that gay men doesnt likes to watch gay men having sex.But.Gay men supposedly only likes to watch so called straight men instead.Theres something wrong with gay porn.Gay men gets screwed up by straight men.In the wrong way.Big time.
Sean says
Steve you sound bitter, but you know what they say, those losers unlucky enough to be hot enough for porn – no matter what the medium is – are reduced to making snakry comments about men they will never be able to get.
Res says
40,000 a year is not enough for me to do porn. And why do I feel like he’s lying? I doubt it seriously.
Res says
Sean, you sound stupid. Who wants to be in porn? No person with morals want to be a part of that shit. I like to watch porn, but I would rather work a 9 to 5 at Mcdonalds instead. They better save up every penny because it is going to be hard for them to get a REAL job when it’s over. And I would NEVER date a porn star, honey. I don’t even find dating a pornstar desirable. call me a prude. I’d take it.
Shel says
Yes, it’s a good money.
But you know, the youth is temporary, and after that they won’t get a well paid job because lots of these guys aren’t highly educated. Just good-looking (if they do escort job they will get this money for a little time. But the competition is big, check an escort-site). And they pay lot of money for the gym, for manicure/pedicure, they have to be groomed and fit.
Nowadays (the world is changing) easy to ask a cute guy for do some porn. If you go to a disco you have a big chance to ask min. 1 guy to do solo scene. The young guys are thinking different, they go to gym, they are “metrosexual”, they have big EGO etc.
This is the reason of the lot of websites. In the 1970-1980 it was hard to find 1 great looking, sporty guy.
the boys of raannt says
Obviously, a lot of people like to be in porn, and maybe 9-5 wasn’t showing which is why you’re on Queer Me Now reading about Sean Cody videos. The boys are cute and we know him personally…he’s not a liar. Some people don’t have to lie. Honestly, what does he have to lose. Our numbers have been off of the charts because of our porn interviews…so someone is reading about them…Let’s grant them this…maybe they hold more interest than some give them credit…And Res…I don’t remember him asking you on a date!
Mel says
I am sure that Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher have the pay system in check. They have pressure to find the best looking, younger the better, and newest guys on the web. Depending on the willing ness of the actors to perform, there is probably some negotiating room between the actor and the studio, I am sure a very hot guy that agrees to shoot exclusivly or just many scenes will be compensated well. I am sure Dawson and Cain at CF are taken care off. I have heard from ex porn stars that they made between $5k -10k per scene. Usually the younger and newer you are the more money you will make.
I dont really agree with the G4P guys getting more money, it really boils down to the hotness of the guy and the willingness of the studio to pay. I think you should we should judge guys for engage in porn, especially if we are the ones who watch. and for Res there is a life and career after porn I know several ex pornstars that have gotten “real” jobs after porn.
Res says
The boys of raants, just because I look at porn that doesn’t mean I’ll be on it or date a pornstar. Just because I look at a pair of shoes, doesn’t mean I want them, so?? Sean was very rude with his comment to one of the commentators for no reason at all, so I thought he should know how I felt about the situation. I don’t give a fuck how much they make, like I said, I would rather work a 9 to 5 at McDonald’s than to be a pornstarRe. Are you mad because you’re doing porn and can’t get a regular job, making so much money -supposedly- and still living in the projects? STAY MAD.
Ricky B. says
Show me the check stubs because this sounds like a huge exaggeration. I think he means $4,000, if that. Look at all the scenes Harley were in, and didn’t he request that his fans send him money to get his shitty car fixed? Hmmm. Some fag is probably trying to save face.
As far as gay-for- pay and being a pornstar. I wouldn’t put it past a white man. After all, they are known to do anything for money. And I’m not being racist either. They don’t have the same values as some minorities.
You rarely see black people in porn, and it may have something to do with us being less desirable, but I’m sure it has a lot to do with morals. Plus, a real straight black ain’t doing it regardless of the price.
Ricky B. says
the boys of raannt, just because people are glancing your blog doesn’t mean that guy made $40,000, so how is that relevant? Was that a plug? LOL I just do not believe it. I’m sorry, I just don’t.
manu says
Ricky B. please take a look at sites like Dawgpound , Taggaz ( both awesome by the way , I wish the webmaster started reporting about these too…) , Universblack , EbonyD,Cocodorm , Chocolate Cream , PIttbul productions…and tell me this stuff about morals again 🙂 Seriously…Racism isn’t better when it’s reversed.
scott says
Funny you should mention Harley, Ricky B. Just a few weeks ago, he was on Craigslist LA selling his ass for only $250. He wanted a lot more at first, but settled for 250. He may have been paid a lot of money for the porn work but whatever happened to it he needs more now and is willing to take very little to whore himself out.
Shoco says
You know, he did say 40,000 for NINE scenes. And call me naive, but I think Sean Cody can pay that much, and why shouldn’t they (plus, as he states, it’s for more than nine days of work and sometimes it takes more than 250 to get a guy to do all that work and have sex for the whole world to see forever).
Besides, all the gay for pay bullshit, is just that, since in everyone of his Sean Cody videos he mentions he is GAY (a rare treat, i know).
As far as Harley goes, I know Sean Cody asked not to be associated with him on an old Queer Click post about his “escorting”, so maybe they just don’t want him back.
Ricky B. – Let’s say you’re right (you’re so not right, black guys are just more dominant in not so mainstream porn), in that case i would have to think the choise whether or not to make porn isn’t much about values as it is about the close community and the fear of being “found out”. @manu is right – Raciscm isn’t better when it’s reversed.
ginooo says
so i personally know “rylan” for many years and this is bullshit. he would brag to us how much he made, but then had to go back and do more b/c he was in so much debt from the irs and wasting it on shit. he is also very sensitive about the subject and cannot even take a joke about it. also, he does fit the porn star stereotype of being slutty 😉
Estelle says
A few months back, when Mason Wyler had a falling out with his latest fling Chaos Men model Zane, the producer of Chaos Men came to Mason’s defense and stated Zane was booked for two scenes and didn’t show up and the studio was out $9k. The $9K included setup costs, four airline tickets, and compensation for the models that actually did show up.
I’m with the others that I’m skeptical that he actually made $40k. So Sean are you saying that people who don’t do porn are losers? Wow I guess those doctors, lawyers, corporate executives, and business owners who didn’t have sex on camera are losers! BTW Judging by what I have seen lately in porn, being hot is no longer a consideration for having a career in the adult industry.
Res makes a interesting point. For most people gay/straight, hot/ugly, etc…, $40k or any amount of $$$ wouldn’t be enough to go into porn. That includes big time porn fans. The short term financial benefits are nice but for most the long term affects and issues that can arise aren’t worth it. I think a lot of performers only think in the present term and don’t realize that porn will follow you indefinitely.
Gay men are a lot like straight men in their thinking and mentality. A straight guy will have fun with and fuck the bad girls that are considered slutty or easy, but when they settle down they go for the good, stable, “clean” girl. When I was in LA, it was the same mentality with gay guys and gay porn dudes. They would have fun with them, fuck them, and even go out with them for a bit, but ultimately it didn’t work because the non porn guy would go for someone that was similar to him in education, interests, and social standing. It’s a sexist and double standard way of thinking, but the fuck the whore marry the virgin mentality is alive and well.
Sam says
I am sure that for every guy who makes $40k there are a dozen who make $400. if you do the math, it would take approximately 300 new members at an average $29.95 monthly fee to fund a movie ($9,000, based on the Estelle’s comment above) Tha really isn’t too many people signing up and if the guy is hot enough and drives membership, why not pay him. I think we are assuming that all porn stars make $40k + per year, which, you’re right, isn’t really that much $$, or at least not enough to go bragging about. 🙂
brian says
First… Sean Cody, Corbin Fisher and Randy Blue are the most important gay porn sites on net. It’s natural they pay well their moldes. BUT… is that the rule? Everyone who does porn gets a lot of money? Many people think they will get much money in porn, then engage with bad faith people. As every porn star says, think much about…and choose professional people.
Second… I don’t live in USA. But, from what I see and read about american life, it’s not sooo hard to earn $ 40,000 a year. It’s easy to make money in USA. Maybe that’s why many Mexicans try to cross the border.
Living in USA and working for the largest gay site on net…Rylan made a few bucks!! LOL LOL LOL
TCC says
I know a Sean Cody model (one of the early ones), that got paid $10,000 for the 4-5 scenes he did on the site. That averaged about $2,000 a scene..though he was one of the models that ‘progressed’ in terms of what he did on screen.
Rylan did 9. The $40,000 actually sounds about right.
Allicide says
Maybe it is just me but when I read this I took this to mean he made $40,000 total income for the year including porn and other work. That seems more likely. I beg to differ a about gay4pay men making the same amount of money since every thing is negotiable they get paid a little for jerking another guy, a little more for kissing, a little more to blow a guy, a little more fuck a guy, and then a big bonus to bottom. Gay performers generally are expected to do everything but bottom for standard pay and they don’t get to negotate UNLESS they are in serious demand because the gay performers are considered supplemental and replaceable.
ricky says
i have severe aspergers. i am autistic. aspergers is autism for smart people. as with all things they are varying degrees. i think this kid was misdiagnosed. being freaky and being a few bricks short of a full load does not an autistic aspergers make. everything about him is so atypical that this is the only conclusion i can come to. nothing about what he says about himself or his actions and interests ring true for a person in the autism spectrum. there is something wrong with him but it ain’t aspergers. i would say it has more to do with being home schooled with religious nut job parents. they warped his poor little mind. although i might want to do that nicole kidman scene where she tells tom about the dream she had getting fucked by hundreds of men while he watched and laughing at him with my parents, i, and all people like me in their various degrees, would be incapable of doing it.
Sherman says
Word out on the street is the studio’s are suffering and the internet sites are cleaning up. HotHouse had to release and did not renew a lot of contracts because they couldn’t afford to pay them, thats’s why Paul Wagoner is on so many sites atm, the others will appear elsewhere no doubt to make a few bucks…sad if you have to virtually give your ass away to make a living. I like the fresh faced Sean Cody guys even if they are G4P, not because of the so called str8 thing but because they look clean and fresh!
ricky says
this kid is doing just that. he is giving a big old fuck you to his parents. he claims to be mostly straight. yeah sure.
there is no way a true aspergers could make it through a porn shoot. there would be a MAJOR incident. i can imagine the tantrum and freak out. then there is the touching, the not being able to read body language, lights, sounds, smells. he might be a dim witted sociopath but he ain’t no aspergers. wonder if his parents blame vaccinations.
ricky says
@estelle, it’s like drew carey said, you date the stripper, you don’t marry them.
ricky says
@shocco, you can rent harley?????? i am shocked, shocked i tells ya.
manonman says
wow, ye old testament and then some.
why do we come to this site, hot guys. Some of us like to see hot men….date some of them, probably not unless you want the drama, and testing.
first person I ‘dated’ wanted to take pictures of me….glad I said no
still looking for that guy and enjoying the route best not traveled lightly
Troy says
$40K…..HAHAHAHA…that’s a good one; well if you figure in the supplemental cash from rentboy clients…it’s possible.
Say, Sean, who are “they,” who say “those losers unlucky enough to be hot enough for porn?” Truth is like iodine, it hurts but it heals. I’m happy for porn and the guys who make it. I don’t look to porn to find life’s answers or mental giants, I’m looking to get off.
Scott says
I don’t believe that income, which comes out to $4,400 per scene, either. They probably pay more for the fresh talent, but nothing like that. I think that it was on his MySpace page one time that Chris Rockway had that he made $150k a year (why anyone would put their income on MySpace in the first place, I don’t know. It begs for dishonesty).
And, ah, yes, the wondrous Harley. Who asked fans to send him $ to buy a new Mercedes b/c his old Mercedes was too expensive to fix. Who has a PayPal button, just b/c, darn it, it’s so worthwhile to send an able-bodied 26-yr-old money for nothing, as well as an Amazon Wish List where you can select all manner of nice things for him. And, yes, I think it was QueerClick that called him out his escorting and named about four websites (plus David Forest) he was hustling through. To hear him tell it, though, he’s Donald Fuckin’ Trump.
Jeremy says
I had to admit, Sean Cody has the best recruiting team among all online porn studios. Or maybe they bid the highest prices. So even $40k for 9 scenes sounds a little bit unreal, it actually makes sense: lots of SC’s models are “straight” (they claimed so, and so far no gossip about that truth). But they fucked as good as gays do. Money must have a magical touch even on sexuality. I guess from now on we had to accept the fact that the majority of online porn actors are really straight, no matter how many dicks they take up their ass.
Now back to this guy. He got $40k and yet not able to fix those teeth? I haven’t seen my dentist for 10 years and mine still look better than his.
Hugh Merme says
I hate topics like this, it’s just like the sexuality/g4p issue: you know it’s going to be discussed ad nauseam and you know you shouldn’t comment b/c once you do you get sucked in to the mess.
It’d be great if there was some kind of “be all, end all” documentary about gay porn.
cmmm says
Rylan says he is GAY, gayer than anything. So why you’re talking about G4Ps here? lol
btw, would love to see more of “Rylan” “performances” 😉
Jeremy says
@cmmm: I know, but if Rylan got paid $40k for 9 shots only, G-d knows how much those “straight” guys got paid. Heck, with $40 grands, I’ll fuck some girl too.
But I want to ask you this question: why is it that viewers of online porn like Jake Cruise, Next Door, Cody Cumming, Dean Coxx keep subscribing to such websites even though they have been the most rubbish productions. What is so appealing about G4P who can’t even get his dick hard that makes you crawling back for more?
Jake says
Jeez some of you queens are bitter. (a) if you’re on a porn site slagging dudes who do porn, or porn itself, you’re honestly just stupidly deluded if you find that logical; (b) I ‘ve known gay & straight MDs, shrinks, and lawyers who were meth heads, “sluts” “sleezy” scummy, n did immoral shit like stealing for money. I’ve also known guys who did porn who were also not good folks — but I’ve known many gay guys in porn who were decent, whom I’ve had over for dinner and dated (and would again). People are people – some are assholes who post on blogs and some are perfectly decent and nice even if they fucked on tape.
Kurt says
@Jake
Nice to see someone on here who’s not being judgemental and a hypocrite.
cmmm says
Jeremy, I don’t know. Probably some people still live in the stone age and think that “straight” guys are more attractive.
Clint says
Come on Jake and Kurt, this is porn! Let’s face it, if you are willing to have you ass slammed all over the net for the entire world to see then you have to expect people to judge and have a view. I hardly see that as being hypocritical or slagging of guys for doing porn.
Luca says
What kind of gay man refers to other gay men as “queens?” May I assume you also refer to yourself as a queen? What does this sort of self-loathing homophobia say about the guys that need to write this crap? I have said it before, the point of blogs is for people to freely express their own opnions. Some of you guys really can’t seem to understand that someone’s opnion may differ from your own. Oh, and where exactly do you live that 40K before taxes is decent money. Of course it is taxed and if you haven’t declared this income I probably wouldn’t mention it on the net so the IRS can see it.
Cee says
$40,000 is not a lot of money in terms of an annual salary. I guess he is looking at it from the view point that he only had to do 9 videos to make that figure VS. working a 9 – 5. I live in California and $40,000 is just enough for a single adult to live comfortably, not lavish. I’m sure the trips are fun, the shows, etc. But it’s all short lived. Porn is always looking for new faces and you have to be a hustler just to stay in the business for any substantial period of time. That’s why you see all these models hopping from studio to studio. Is it worth it?
Nat0 says
I think the vast majority of guys who do g4p or porn in general only do it as a one time thing, and don’t look to it as some sort of long term career, but rather a supplement to what they’re already doing. For all the stars who hop around studios and try to make a “career” out of it, there are a hundred who chose to move on to other things in life. You don’t really hear from them, so they don’t make a splash.
I also think the issues about morality and success for porn stars in their private lives are way off base. As a doctor and former lawyer, it never ceases to amaze me how others automatically give you credit where none is due. You are automatically imbued with an aura of success and respect. The truth however, is that despite the schooling you’ve done, the degrees you’ve attained, the positions you’ve risen to, from my own personal experiences, none of these seem to have any bearing on your moral character. In both professions I’ve met some of the most corrupt, disgusting, vile and morally bankrupt people … and they hide behind a veil of success and respect.
I’ve also met and befriended a g4p porn star. He’s kind, quite moral, hardworking, open minded and above all, someone I’m glad to call a friend. While going to school, he does porn as a side thing, for extra money and to save up. Unfortunately he does come from a bad background, with pretty much non-existent family, so perhaps that had a role in what he does.
When it comes down to it, what matters is how people treat each other in real life. I see porn as a fantasy, you see/read/feel into it what you want. And that’s its purpose. However outside that fantasy, the people who do it can’t be viewed in the same light, or else you end up with flat dimensionless stereotypes, easy to categorize, but hardly a reflection of reality.
raannt says
Read our follow up interview with Sean Cody and now Brent Everett model Rylan…
raanntledeux.com
Kevin says
Hey im a college student in the san fernando valley and i managed porn shoots and the pay was great but of course the actual stars got paid more… the thought has crossed my mind a few times to actually star in a film… i worked in straight porn and they got paid 2k a shoot… i would rather do the gay scene because they make way more. but there is always that self conscious voice in your head telling you not to do it… but if i could pay off college… why not?? i think im going to do it! hahaha