Being a porn actor is considered a profession?

[Zidneya]

Those smilies are fucking annoying.

…..Okay I won't use them in this thread any more.

A real job is just something people do to help provide. You may not agree with it, but it's a profession.

Then
Could you answer my question

Then if I do it only once and I get paid does that makes me a professional porn actor?

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Bonobos have sex for fun.

I don't blame them
But now I'm confused If they have sex for fun why do you assume that bug-picking-out-of-hair service its a form of prostitution and not a courtship behavior? Because if it would be a form of prostitution shouldn't mean that if the female lets herself bug-picked by a random male isn't she obligated to have sex with him? And you said it yourself.

The females have many males competing for them, so bug-picking helps males with their standing. There are other ways that they compete.

So if I read correctly even if a male bug-picks a female that won't assure him it would get him laid.

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I'm going to side with those that think there is a continuum.

There might be the occasional personality type that enjoys the work, but just does it for a lark a few times. Either having a trust fund or a 'regular' job to live on.

There would be others that view adult acting as a profession and achieve varying degrees of success. For some, that would be living as a homeless person and the filming gigs providing the infrequent jolt of money to some that can afford a modest apartment existence on their earnings and then there would be the upper echelon, great looks/skill combined with some business acumen and they start a filming and/or distribution business of their own.

I've noticed a few gay adult movie performers advertising as themselves as escorts, even years after their filming careers have dissipated. There have been a few adult actors to pen books about their careers, some accurate, some wildly improbable.

Extremely infrequently, a Stallone comes along, and makes it into the mainstream acting/producing business, but that would be very rare.

That surely takes the whole concept of profession open up for debate. But….well at leas you could say that you were a porn actor. You aren't anymore but sometime in the past you were one. But that would make one ask: were you a professional or you didn't? Because I could dedicate all my time to one activity but that won't assure me that I would become a professional in that activity. I'm asking from the professional point of view either if I get paid well enough to continue doing it or not that it's another issue.