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Looks and performance

condor

Part-time porn addict
How many women have the physical looks and how many have the sexual ability to be pornstars? How pretty do you have to be to stay a top pornstar?

Any theories..
 

STDiva

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
There's lots of good looking women. There's very few great performers.
 

Ace Bandage

The one and only.
I'm pretty sure that just having a vagina gives a woman the sexual ability to be a porn star. Just sayin'...
 

LukeEl

I am a failure to the Korean side of my family
There's lots of good looking women. There's very few great performers.

I'll tell you what you can get a good look at a butcher's ass if you stick your head up...er...no wait...you can look at a T-Bone...wait it's got to be your bull.
 

grower_boy

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some people prefer blondes; some prefer brunettes or redheads. Some people prefer white chicks; some prefer black chicks. Some have no preference at all. Things like tattoos and piercings can be an automatic turn on for a lot of guys (especially rockers), but for other guys they can be an automatic turn OFF. What I'm trying to say is that it's very hard for the porn industry to find women that are going to be hott to every single guy. I'd say Tori Black is the best example right now of universal beauty within the porn industry. She's not too skinny, but also not so curvy as to turn guys off. She's got a pretty face, but nothing overbearing and her tattoos and piercings are rather subtle.

All that being said, I think they can back off on the looks a bit because let's face it; us guys aren't picky. :1orglaugh In real life, I try not to be too picky when it comes to looks. Most guys nowadays have no racial hangups or anything like that (except Revamp :1orglaugh ). Also, fewer and fewer guys seem to have weight-related hangups.

As far as performance goes, they can chill back on that one too. Most guys are happy seeing a girl give a blowjob; they're not porn critics that are overanalyzing the shit. Of course, every now and then the industry comes across an actress that is a truly great performer. Take Jenna Haze and Alexis Texas for key examples.
 

Connor Macleod

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
How many women have the physical looks and how many have the sexual ability to be pornstars? How pretty do you have to be to stay a top pornstar?

As grower_boy stated, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so you could say any woman has the physical looks.

As for sexual ability, I would assume that at least 99.9% of all women have the ability.

Staying a top performer is a completely different matter. A number of factors are involved. Why are they doing porn? Is it just for the money? Do they enjoy the sex? Have they let themselves get involved in drugs? If they fell in love, would they give up their career? Do family and/or friends influence their decisions? Is their age a consideration? And these are just a few of the factors that may be involved in whether they decide to stay in porn.

One of the things that influences my viewing habits is age. Some pornstars age better than others, and therefore can maintain a longer career if they so choose. IMO, Brianna Banks is one who has not aged well, so if I watch her stuff, it's usually her early work. On the other hand, Vicky Vette has definitely aged well and I like watching her stuff, but I personally don't care for the lesbian material, or multiple partner vids.
 

Johan

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
The thing is, you can cheat with your look (surgery, photoshop, etc...) and lure most of the people. But when, it comes to performances, cheating is almost impossible. People can if he girl is in porn only for the money and doesn't realy likes what she does or if she's in,porn because she has fun in there.

A stunning hot girl who just lay on and waits for the guy to do his thing in her pussy will be nice to see but after a few minutes you realise she's boring.
A girl who's not particculary good looking but nasty very enthusiastic in her performances, you forget she's not as good looking as many girls because she's so horny.
 

D-rock

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Considering how many of the top porn women in today's porn world don't actually look that attractive, it would appear that appearance isn't that important anymore sadly. Performance has fallen off over the years also, and, sadly also, performance when it does matter is now judged more on nastiness than eroticness now or setting the mood and sensualness.

It's more a matter of blind ass luck and shameless marketing anymore than it is either of those two attributes of looks and performance that makes one successful.
 
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