But near the end of my career, I began to focus more on doing scenes and on being a 'porn star.' I was a full-time student and just trying to pay my bills while in school.īy the time I graduated, or at least the year after, I had begun to find some personal validation from my work in the adult industry. Is it lucrative to be a male performer in porn - and did that change over time?įor the first several years of my career, I wasn't really focused on making money in porn or in treating it as a business.

'Maybe close to that, though.' (Photo credit: Ben Hoffman) 'I never earned six figures,' Wylde says.