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dream up laws
that will require permits or conditions that you
cannot meet. Don’t be surprised if you get pulled
over by the local cop over suspicious circumstances.
You might as well paint that target on your ass now.
This could be painful.

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12 Reason Number Three:
If you’re doing it just to get laid there
are much better and less problematic ways then porn
directing. Go to Las Vegas and pay a couple hundred
for a licensed and disease-free hooker. You’ll have
saved yourself a couple thousand dollars and gotten
a nice vacation to boot. The casinos will help you get
rid of what’s left.
Don’t sell your local working girls
short either. Look up massage parlors, escort
services and strippers in your local yellow pages. We
have heard of some “bachelor” parties that have
gotten pretty pornographic. If easy sex is what
you’re looking for, make it easy, don’t try directing.
The easiest, cheapest, disease-free sex
comes from some lotion and your hand. Don’t sell it
short, it’s the most reliable method known to
humankind. Add some alcohol and a well directed
porn flick and you got yourself a party.
Reason Number Four:
Do you really have the time and
preservation to follow through with your directing
inclinations? Most of us have crowed lives as it is.

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13 Between family, work, and other daily requirements
just to get by, adding one more may not be an
option.
Pardon the pun but don’t get into it if you’re
going to do it half-assed. It’s not fair to the actors
you have put in a potentially life ruining position.
It’s not fair to the viewing audience to see badly
filmed sex. Don’t ever give sex a bad viewing.
You will need time to scout out the location,
gather the actors, check the equipment, do some trial
shots, do the editing, choose the music score, fill out
the necessary paperwork, check your local laws etc.
etc. etc. This is a little different than videotaping you
and your main squeeze on a Saturday night. Not
much different, but still different.
Reason Number Five:
Is there someone special in your life that you
are either going to hide your career goals from or
share it with them. Either one is a potential land
mine and given the opportunity it will blow up in
your face.
If you are currently seeing someone special
but don’t think they could handle the career switch,
you will be caught and it won’t be pretty. Chances

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14 are you will lose them when they find out and it will
be very hard to get them back.
Directing porn films on the side ranks up
there with sleeping with their best friend, family
member or pet. When they tell their friends or family
why they broke up with you, the public relations war
is over. You are an outed pornographer, you are
slime.
The second pitfall is collaboration with your
current main squeeze. What if they want to be a star?
Could you direct someone banging your bedmate?
What if they really, really like it and don’t want to
stop when you do? What if the sex partner their
filming with is better at it then you? Sexual disease
anyone, pregnancy, suppressed gay tendencies? If
you’re not willing to loose them then don’t start
something that is bound to get in the way.
Reason Number Six:
If you go into porn directing to get rich ask
yourself this: name one famous porn director that
you can recall. How much money do they have, how
long did it take? Don’t know, neither do I. They are
out there, but for every rich porn director there are
100 times as many broke losers.

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15 Distributors pay squat to porn directors,
actors and actresses don’t come cheap. Dubbing
studios have expensive equipment to pay for, camera
crew’s want more than a cold sandwich.
Legal fees alone probably add up to more
than you will ever make. It’s not the money that
brings most directors in. It’s not even easy money.
Unlike those spammed e-mails you get
promising overnight riches, this book will not
perpetuate a myth. You have a better chance of
winning the lottery than making any money on porn
directing. The world can sometimes be a cold-
hearted bitch. Live with it.
Reason Number Seven:
What do you bring to the proverbially porn
table that makes you think you can direct a good
skin flick? Gone to acting school, on-again off-again
writer? Ever write a screenplay, ever gone to your
local dramatic arts theater and witness a director in
action?
Good porn directors have something to say
about sex and want that to come out on film
(videotape, digital streaming, whatever). Poorly shot
porn makes sex look like what every religious

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16 zealots thinks it is: dirty, sick unions of those with
depraved minds. Don’t hurt the cause by making bad
porn. Sex is beautiful; don’t put an ugly mask on it
by your own ineptitude.
Think of the couple that rent out their first
adult video to liven up their sex lives. If it’s bad you
could cause irreparable damage, or