{"id":54191,"date":"2013-03-10T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=54191"},"modified":"2013-03-04T02:53:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T07:53:01","slug":"secrets-of-the-internet-adult-film-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/03\/10\/secrets-of-the-internet-adult-film-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of the Internet Adult Film Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Millward, a self-described &#8220;ideas detective,&#8221; has done something intriguing. \u00a0He cracked the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) and used a sample of 10,000 porn stars to tell <a href=\"http:\/\/jonmillward.com\/blog\/studies\/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\">a story about porn<\/a>. \u00a0Here are some of his findings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Demographics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The average female porn star, he discovered, was\u00a05\u20195\u2033 and weighed 117 pounds. \u00a0She doesn&#8217;t have a double-D bra size; she&#8217;s a 34B. \u00a0And she&#8217;s not blonde:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/15.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54199\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/15.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/15.jpg 556w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/15-500x185.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also not disproportionately white. \u00a0Millward found that the racial breakdown among porn actresses somewhat matched U.S. population demographics:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 Race \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 % of actresses \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 % of the population<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a070.5 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 78.1<\/li>\n<li>Black \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a014.0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 13.1<\/li>\n<li>Latina \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09.3 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 16.7<\/li>\n<li>Asian \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5.2 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5.0<\/li>\n<li>American Indian \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0no data \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The average woman begins her career at 22. \u00a0This has been unchanged for the last 40 years. \u00a0The average age for men was 29 in the &#8217;70s, but it&#8217;s dropped to 24. \u00a0Careers were longer in the &#8217;70s. \u00a0Men quite after 12 years, women after nine. \u00a0Today men quit, on average, after four years and women after three.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/41.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-54202\" alt=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/41.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/41.jpg 944w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/41-500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, success for male porn stars is much more concentrated than for female. \u00a0There are fewer of them (70% of all porn stars are women) and they&#8217;re less interchanged. \u00a0Millward reports that 96 of the most prolific porn stars of all time &#8212; measured by number of films &#8212; are men. \u00a0Women, on average, do fewer films each. \u00a0Just over half (53%) do three or more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Content<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IAFD records all of the sex acts that actors do on film. \u00a0Accordingly to Millward&#8217;s analysis, this is what actresses do:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/22.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-54200\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/22.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/22.jpg 848w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/22-500x153.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here are the roles they play:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/31.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-54201\" alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/31.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/31.jpg 849w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/03\/31-500x145.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wives in porn, by the way, are not typically having sex with their husbands.<\/p>\n<p>For more data porn, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/jonmillward.com\/blog\/studies\/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Millward&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Millward, a self-described &#8220;ideas detective,&#8221; has done something intriguing. \u00a0He cracked the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) and used a sample of 10,000 porn stars to tell a story about porn. \u00a0Here are some of his findings. Demographics The average female porn star, he discovered, was\u00a05\u20195\u2033 and weighed 117 pounds. \u00a0She doesn&#8217;t have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,251,2103,2100,253,1047,285,120,291,76],"class_list":["post-54191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-hair","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-work","tag-history","tag-pornography","tag-raceethnicity","tag-sex","tag-sex-work","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54191"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54210,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54191\/revisions\/54210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}