Gecko wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I?m posting this from a television production company called
> Gecko Productions. We?re working on a documentary about young
> men and women starting out in the porn industry and would love
> to talk to anyone who is interested in taking part.
>
> We are looking for ambitious individuals who can give us a
> positive look at the porn industry and give us some insight
> into their own personal experience. As many of you probably
> know documentaries of the past have tended to make the main
> focus of their programme about the dark side of porn. We aim to
> show a lighter side, the side that involves adults who love
> what they do!
>
> We?d also like to talk to any producers or directors who have
> been in the industry for a while and can provide tips on
> becoming a success in the industry.
>
> If you?re interested please email
>
info@geckoproductions.tv and someone from the
> team will be in touch!
No offence, Mr. Gecko, but if you're aiming to show the lighter side of porn, involving adults who enjoy what they do, I suggest you interview older and more experienced porn stars, instead of young kids who are just starting out, don't have a clue, and will no doubt at some point fall on their arses in front of your cameras.
Most experienced performers will have a justified mistrust of mainstream documentarists venturing into the porn industry, simply because the majority of these people do it either because they're sleaze-merchants producing soft-porn for commercial television, or they're deluded journalists who think they're going to dig up some kind of massive ugly story.
The minute I started doing porn I had researchers from Trisha on the phone trying to get me to do a programme where my parents tell me how much they disapprove of what I do (they don't), then some guy tried for three months about a year ago to rope me into some documentary that turned out to be about the link between porn and prostitution. I finally decided that I would never get involved with these people when I saw a documentary where Natalie Heck gets set up on a shoot with some total sleazebag producer/performer who gives her rug burns, rips her off and sends her home in tears.
The trouble with porn documentaries is that they're produced for the mainstream public, who enjoy two things: Seeing tits, and watching people fail. I personally have no desire to be fodder for that.