Being a porn actor is considered a profession?

[thesummerqueen]

I got to page five and couldn't be arsed to read the rest. I'll step in on account of being an amateur photographer, though, since that was mentioned.

As I understand it, most amateur photographers call themselves such because they either don't get paid for their photography, or it isn't their main line of income. There's an argument about "when" you get to call yourself that, but consensus seemed to be that if you were doing photography for part time or full-time gigs, you are a professional photographer. EDIT: artists fall into 'professional' too, although I've never seen one called 'professional' who wasn't featured in a museum, did actual viewings of their work, or was published, or some shit, all of which also imply income).

If you think skill is needed for this, you're wrong.

Please see http://youarenotaphotographer.com/

Whenever I feel bad about "mah skillz" my boyfriend (who was up until recently a professional photographer who managed a studio all legit-like) would point me to that place.

Anyway. Where do you get the idea that a profession has to be one where you learn special skills to do it? Pretty sure garbagemen don't necessarily learn things - they just follow rules. Same with janitors. What if I got paid to rake leaves? I didn't have to learn anything there - I'm just raking, bagging, and hauling. I could be a professional leaf raker. So what?

I'm pretty sure people have already listed it, but porn, like photography, is a sliding scale of skills and types. What I like might not be the sort of porn you like. I happen to think that porn with better acting and more discernible plot is more attractive, but that's because I prefer to read my erotica than watch it. Some people might be just fine with 'amateur' porn because it's more 'real'. If you think the amateur stuff looks worse, well, just go back to that "you are not a photographer" website - people are still paying for it. It's like people paying for Budweiser instead of craft beer - some people just don't give a shit how they consume their vice, they just want to consume it. That doesn't make photography any less professional, or the beer any less alcoholic, or the porn any less...porny.

A pornstar is someone who will commit any number of depraved acts, violate other people, sometimes in horribly disgusting ways, take it in every hole for money and act like they enjoy every minute of it.

A lawyer on the other hand...

I'm still not seeing the distinction between a porn star and a lawyer.

Is Dana De Armond a lawyer?

Holy shit, dude. As the daughter of a former Ranger who was JAG (he's now a gov't lawyer), I just fucking laughed until I had an asthmatic coughing fit.