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Collaboration
How to work with other performers — vetting, set protocol, splits, written agreements, and what makes a collaboration land vs. fall apart.
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Collaboration
The hidden cost of the “free” collab
A collab where no money moves is not a collab with no costs. The costs are all still there — they just stop showing up anywhere you'd see them. Here's what a “free” shoot actually spends, and the return-on-investment test I run before I say yes to one.
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Paperwork
The content trade agreement: what a no-money collab needs on paper
A content trade — you shoot together, no money moves, and both of you walk away with footage for your own pages — feels like the one collab that doesn't need paperwork. It's actually two licensing deals stacked on top of each other, plus federal recordkeeping in both directions. Here's what to put in writing before the cameras roll, in plain language.
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Creator business
What being a professional actually means in the adult industry
The fun is real — I enjoy the work as much as anyone — but this is a business first, and the people who last treat it like one. Here's what professionalism actually looks like: how you approach collabs, how you take a no, and the unglamorous work nobody posts about.
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Paperwork
Hiring someone to shoot your adult content? How to vet them, what to ask, and who owns the footage
Paying someone to shoot your content is one of the easiest places to get burned — by a fake 'videographer,' by a handshake deal, or by finding out the photographer owns the footage you paid for. Here's the buyer's-side guide nobody writes, from someone who's on the other side of that camera.
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Male performers
How to become a male performer in the adult industry
Becoming a male performer in adult is mostly business: marketing, paperwork, professional conduct. The on-camera sex is the smallest part of the job.
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Male performers
The male performer's playbook for AVN, Exxxotica, and expos
How to work AVN, Exxxotica, and adult industry expos as a male performer: booking discipline, test protocol, performance reliability, event-week rules.
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Scene production
What actually goes into a scene (the SFW version)
Most of what makes a good scene happens before anyone takes their clothes off. Here's the unglamorous, business-side look at how it all gets built.
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Collaboration
How I pick collaborators (and what I look for in a co-star)
I get a lot of collab requests. Here's the actual checklist I run before saying yes — and the green and red flags I've learned to read fast.
The site is SFW. The scenes aren't.
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