Unless you are a big name male porn star you're not going to make that much money. The people that get paid the most are usually the women. It's already been mentioned that male actors that act in gay porn make more, but your average straight man isn't going to be willing to blow another dude no matter how much they are offered.
In a way, the industry has the opinion that you're already getting to screw some hot woman with big boobs, so why should we pay you when out of the millions of guys that jerk off to the girl you're screwing at least a few of them aren't total slobs that would look good on camera and they would do her for less than what they are paying you.
Then you can consider the fact that the porn industry is competing with amateur porn and the fact that a lot of their stuff is being pirated. Most people aren't going to pay for a Vivid or BangBros subscription when most of what they sell gets uploaded to the free streaming sites or make their way onto torrent sites.
Not to mention that pesky little thing called reputation to worry about. There are former porn stars that can't hold a job because their past catches up to them. On at least one occasion that I know of a former porn star that became a teacher was fired because one of the parents recognized her.
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