Last updated on May 5th, 2019 at 01:06 am

Besides a $3 million net worth, pornstar Asa Akira boasts 704 performer credits on the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD), as of the posting of this article. That’s almost 2 years worth of porn scenes if a person was to do one scene per day, every day. That’s a LOT of fucking on camera! Asa Akira has used a few simple shortcuts to success in porn to create an iconic pornstar brand that will stand the test of time.

Sasha Grey has 370 credits on the same database; Jenna Jameson, 213; Jesse Jane, 133; straight male pornstar Evan Stone, a whopping 2053 credits! Holy smokes!

Abella Danger recently passed Asa (on IAFD, anyway) with 708. Angela White has 421.

Rocco Siffredi has 768. Gay pornstars Brent Corrigan & Michael Lucas boast 53 & 178, respectively. Most of these pornstars have their own websites, all have won awards on stage and a few have done major mainstream Hollywood projects. Each has received hundreds of thousands & even millions of dollars, from their work in the adult film & mainstream entertainment industries because they utilized 4 shortcuts to success in porn.

“I love the fact that people… when they think of porn… they think of my name. It’s a great feeling. It’s definitely a sense of accomplishment to myself…

I’ve been so busy this past year doing so many mainstream shoots that I haven’t actually really done anything adult…

My liquor, Diosa Tequila, is doing really good. We have now launched in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix… in every market that we’re hitting, we’re killing it. We got our second feature in Cosmopolitan magazine, which is amazing,” said Jesse Jane during an interview at the 2014 AEE/AVN Show.

On the other end of the spectrum, the average new model in the porn industry has a career lifespan of about 3 months. At least they can declare that’s 3 times longer than the lifespan of your common housefly!

What separates those heavy-hitting porn industry megastars from the “one-hit-wonders” & those that only last a few months? What kind of shortcuts to success in porn do the superstars employ? What can we learn from them? What methods can you employ to shortcut your own success in the porn industry right now? Let’s dive in!

Shortcut #1: Becoming a Pornstar is a Career Choice (Decision)

Lulu says, “I’m just gonna try a few porn movies to make some quick cash.”

Susie says, “I’m committing everything I have to become a successful porn actress. I’m willing to make sacrifices to achieve my goal. Regardless of how long it takes, I’m going to make this happen!” She doesn’t just “say it”… she does it.

Lulu & Susie are both aspiring pornstars; they are both inexperienced & looking to enter the same field of work. Regardless of their geographic location, ethnicity, skin color, age, weight, height, sexual orientation, financial situation, spiritual beliefs, etc., which one do you think has a better chance of success in the porn industry, Lulu or Susie?

The first of the shortcuts to success in porn is to do what all of the superstars above did: make a commitment to the porn industry and a personal decision to become successful in it. It’s not going to happen for free or without any effort. Nothing of value in life will. All of the super successful pornstars mentioned above, from Asa Akira to Evan Stone to Michael Lucas made a decision at some point in their lives to fully commit themselves to becoming successful in the porn industry. For them, it went from a fleeting thought of “oh yeah… that would be nice” to an actual career decision.

Have you made the decision to achieve massive success in porn? Have you even genuinely chosen porn as your career choice?

Shortcut #2: Take Unreasonable Action

Just as soon-to-be billionaire wealth & success trainer Grant Cardone always explains, anyone that has ever achieved greatness has taken UNREASONABLE actions.

Unreasonable actions are those that others would classify or describe as “unreasonable”. Literally as we were putting this piece together, modern day heavy-hitter porn tycoon Greg Lansky tweeted, “Stay away from the “be realistic” people…. They either don’t want you to have it or are too scared to get it themselves. Keep hustling and be unreasonable, keep dreaming and aiming HIGH ?.”

True success, including success as a pornstar, will never come to anyone who is unwilling to take massive, unreasonable actions. There is no lottery ticket you can buy to win a successful pornstar career. The second of the shortcuts to success in porn is to take unreasonable actions on your decision. Let’s look at one of the super-successful pornstars mentioned above:

Asa Akira told the New York Post, “I was obsessed with [porn, in middle school]. The girls were just really glamorous. They were having sex for money. I thought, ‘What’s better than that?’… But it was a far-away concept. I didn’t know anyone in porn. I wouldn’t even know the first steps to take. It’s like saying, ‘I want to be an astronaut.’ I wouldn’t know the first thing about being an astronaut… I’m sure I’m going to offend a lot of astronauts with that statement.”

Aspiring pornstars today know what the first step to becoming a pornstar is… they simply go online to ThePornAgency.com and apply to begin their own journey in the adult film industry. Asa Akira started her journey in a different time, however, so she left her loving parents in New York & her privileged lifestyle as the daughter of a Japanese diplomat to relocate to Florida. Once there, she worked as the “Show Whore” on “Bubba the Love Sponge’s” radio show. It was also there that she met pornstar Gina Lynn who got Asa started doing porn films with herself & her husband.

But pay close attention to what Asa Akira did… to pursue her dream of porn stardom, she literally up-and-left her privileged lifestyle in New York to move to Florida. The Universe rewarded Asa’s act of faith with some contacts that launched her pornstar career. Notice: Asa didn’t get the contacts, wait for someone to buy her a plane ticket & roll out the red carpet & pop the champagne bottles. NO! Asa Akira had to – as a grown-ass woman – proactively chase her dream with definitive, unreasonable action, and BOOM!… she took one of the most important shortcuts to success in porn. Just look where she is now, as a result… one of the most successful American pornstars in history!

Shortcut #3: Get in for the Long Haul

There’s a lot of quick money in porn. Most porn production companies pay their performers the same day as the shoot. We’re talking about young, 18, 19, 20-year-old men and women earning $1,000 or more a day!

The quick money is what attracts a lot of people – especially females – to the industry. Guys tend to get in with a motive of getting paid to have sex with hot girls (or other guys), but girls are usually more money-motivated.

Regardless, no matter who you are, or how good your agent is, you’re not going to be shooting every single day. What are you going to do on the days that you’re not shooting? Just because it’s a day that you’re not “shooting” doesn’t mean it’s a day that you don’t need to work. [Hint: that’s what the “3-month wonders” mentioned above do… when they’re not shooting, they’re at the mall blowing all their money or wasting their time posting selfies on unmonetized social media (i.e., making posts that stroke their egos with thousands of “followers” without making any contribution to their bank accounts).]

Most large porn agencies pimp out their models on their non-shooting days, keeping them busy turning tricks.

At ThePornAgency.com, we don’t do that. In fact, ThePornAgency.com is the only adult film model representation Firm that takes a strong stance against such behavior. But this doesn’t mean that our models aren’t working on their non-shooting days; they definitely are (at least those that follow our advice & counsel).

We encourage our models to work on safe, legal, monetized, profitable, brand-building activities on their non-shooting days. These activities include live-stream interacting with their fans and working (with our Company’s help) on their own pornstar websites. Of course, we also want our models to take some time off, once in a while, and to enjoy a nice vacation here and there. However, you’re only young once, and we want our models to take full advantage of their youth while they have it, so that they can retire and live off of their adult industry earnings when they’re older.

This is the third of the shortcuts to success in porn that the superstars mentioned at the beginning of this article employed. They got in this industry for the long haul. They sat down and planned, some with their talent managers, for decades of success in the porn industry, not just a few months or even a few years.

Love to Fuck: #4 of The Shortcuts to Success in Porn

In the same Jesse Jane interview that we mentioned at the beginning of this article, interviewer Chad Cooper asked her, “Why has Jesse Jane become the superstar? What is it about you & film that separates you from the rest of the field? Not that you think you’re better than everybody else, but why have you become so successful in this industry on film?”

The Queen of Porn’s response: “…I actually enjoy my job. You never catch me looking at the camera, faking it when I’m having sex. You see me, in my films, look like a mess, like I’m wrecked. I like smear my… and I don’t care, ‘cus I truly enjoy it & I think it stands out, somebody that really loves what they’re doing… you can tell… you can tell when somebody is faking it, and when somebody is not.”

And there you have it. The whole “hooker mentality” of “mmmm-hmmm… snap, snap… click, click… tell me how long this scene is gonna take so I can get in, get out, and get paid,” is not how to become a successful pornstar. Jesse Jane’s approach is how to do it; if you pay close attention, she literally tells you her shortcuts to success in porn, right here in this interview (video above)!

You can fake phone sex, but video doesn’t lie (and phone sex is basically dead, anyway). That’s why police officers had to start wearing body-worn cameras. Video does not lie.

If a porn model doesn’t truly enjoy what he or she is doing, it’s going to show. The opposite (when a pornstar actually loves to fuck, it is evident on camera) is also true and is likely to result in your videos selling like hotcakes, and more production companies wanting to book you, more often.

Michael Lucas, Asa Akira, Jesse Jane… these people are going to be living off of their adult industry success for the rest of their lives. Their wealth & prosperity may even be passed on to their kids & future generations, all because they used these four essential shortcuts to success in porn.

You can too! Apply to become a pornstar today!