Showtime – burlesque and adult cabaret. If you have stage skills and imagination this can be very
lucrative, or good PR / Marketing (e.g. doing shows at high end swingers parties). But really, you
have to be very good because it overlaps with mainstream (those sexy dance school types love
getting into this).
Parties and Gang Bangs – if you're a woman who likes a lot of men at the same time you can do a
lot of work and make it a solid source of income.
Escorting – can be very lucrative, but avoid. At least until you know (because you've done other
adult stuff first) that you can deal with the obvious physical risks and less obvious psychological
dangers, (basically, loving the money, hating the work, goes to self disgust and all the troubles that
can bring).
Skills and Attitude for Success in the Adult Industry
Sex . You need to like having sex. It's more important that you love fucking than anything else.
Most producers will always pick the woman who loves fucking over the one who looks good, but
bored.
DO NOT make the mistake of thinking you can fake it. That way lies “doing a few shoots, having the
work dry up, and quitting bitter”.
And when I say, “like having sex”, that's what I mean. Not “with cute girls / hung guys / my type”
but simply enjoy the interaction of fingers, tongues, cocks and pussies pretty much irrespective of
the age/sex/looks of who they are attached to.
Sexuality, the idea of total strangers getting off watching you fuck, that has to be a turn on. If the
biz doesn't tickle a kink of yours, it's not right for you.
Sales and Marketing . You can't make a decent living by relying on porn bookings, or waiting for
people to enter your cam room, or random people to discover and buy your clips for sale. You need
to work at self promotion – making sure that producers know you love performing and are
available for bookings, build a fan base on Twitter (other social media are available) so that fans
will book your shows, buy your knickers and clips.
Looks . Actually not as important as many people think. Yes the 18-late twenties hottie with lovely
eyes, great smile, perfect tits and legs up to here has an advantage, esp for mainstream
commercial porn, but plenty of bigger/older women do very well, though they do need to be more
proactive re building the fan base.
In terms of looks, a “come and fuck me smile” is the best possible asset.