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"I was an English professor at a community college, and I had some friends who started working in the online adult biz while it was still in its infancy. '96, '97. They started as \"affiliates\" (promoting the few sites that were then operating) and then they launched their own sites, but with licensed content. I couldn't believe I actually had friends who were pornographers, because at that time I held the same opinion about that as most of society does: Pornographers are slimeballs who have connections (or are directly involved with) organized crime. A tenure-track position came available where I was teaching, I didn't get it, and that same night, as I was crying over a beer and thinking I was heading back to my old middle school gig, one of my pornographer buddies ran into me at that bar. He said something like \"Hey, we're gonna start shooting our own content and quit licensing it. Got any interest in being a porno director?\" Basically, it was porno or teaching 13-year-olds how to write paragraphs. At that point in my life, the choice was fairly simple. I was 38 then. Now I'm 50.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nI've been doing this for 11 years now. I never shot softcore or solo girl stuff. The first time I walked on to a set, there were three black dudes banging a little white chick, so I guess that could be defined as \"really dirty.\" I have since shot some softcore stuff, but my work is primarily the really dirty stuff. \n\nAs for drawing the line about shooting violent scenes, I don't shoot anything that isn't 100% consensual (from both parties), and I don't shoot anything that a girl is even uncertain about performing. I won't shoot illegal content, either. None of the sites I shoot contain \"violent porn\", but I do shoot rough sex scenes. Which, by the way, is how almost every single female performer prefers to have sex, even when a camera isn't rolling. Which really surprised me. Before I got into porn, I've never had a girl ask me to choke her out or be rough with her in bed or call her filthy names or spit on her. This was a real eye-opener.Here's a typical day for me at work: After a couple cups of coffee and a toasted croissant, I walk down into my studio. First call time is 10 a.m. Girl is in make-up. While that's going on, I have my P.A.  set up lights, create legal docs, help model(s) fill out legal docs, and do some marketing stuff (Twitter, green screen videos for site trailers, YouTube interviews, publicity style photos). While that's going on, I'll dream up some sort of cheesy porno storyline, discuss it with the actors to make sure they're all good with it, and then we check STD tests and shoot our scene.Girls get into porn when they're around 18 to 20, generally. They do it for money and attention, and most of them don't last more than three to six months. I wish I knew what separates porn actresses from porn stars. The only things we look for in male actors is the size of their ween and if they can keep it hard while we shoot. With girls, it's based solely on looks. \"Casting couch\" culture \u2014 having would-be actresses perform sexual favors on the director as the audition for the part \u2014 only really exists with the sleazy companies and directors. It used to be way more prevalent than it is now. Now it's pretty straightforward: If my boss doesn't like her look, she doesn't make the cut. In Porn Valley  we refer to \"normal\" people as Civilians. Trying to date a Civilian \u2014 whether you're directing dirty movies or starring in them \u2014 is very difficult. I was really naive getting into the biz when it came to this. I really didn't think women I may have an interest in would care if I'm holding a camera while a couple has sex, but they do. I recently joined  Plenty of Fish, and I put \"director\" as my occupation. The second any women asked what I directed (I always tell the truth about this), I'm no longer on their list of dudes they wanna date. Some walk away from me immediately and are 100 percent done, others ask me all sorts of questions \u2014 starting with \"Have you ever gotten involved with a porn actress?\" \u2014 and I feel they go from being interested in dating me to be interested in me like they'd be interested in looking at a car crash.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n I'm dating an adult actress now. Dating a porn girl really tests your self-esteem. The guys they work with on set are professional fuckers, most with big weens, and that can be intimidating for anyone \u2014 especially the male ego. And after they're done getting banged out on set, a lot of times they don't want to have sex when they get home. Plus, most are really damaged people, so you've got that to deal with, too. I was gonna leave that out, because I might come off as thinking I'm \"better\" than the girls I've dated,  we are all damaged in all sorts of different ways.A lot of the folks in Porn Valley wanted to make \"real movies,\" but for whatever reason (mostly lack of talent) they wound up here. Remember the part in Boogie Nights, when Jack's editor (Jack being the Burt Reynolds character) turns to him after they made one of those silly Brock Landers movies and says, \"You've done it, Jack... you've made a real movie.\" That's what a lot of people here like to think \u2014 they made a real movie \u2014 when what they really make is masturbation fodder. I understand that the kinds of movies I make are nothing more that masturbation fodder. They're not \"art,\" and I'm not looking to make movies other than what I make now. I enjoy doing what I do \u2014 most of the time, anyway.*William Watson is not his real name.Follow Anna on Twitter.  Photo Credit: Universal/Everett"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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