For the past year, I've been working on more long-form projects. On top of that, I write - sometimes for websites and print publications.
But I'd say that more than half of my clients are from porn. My day job is video production and post-production. And I wasn't the type of person who could perform in mainstream porn without pharmacological assistance. The job wasn't worth putting my health at risk. During the last trip to the ER, a doctor told me that if I kept abusing erectile dysfunction drugs, I could end up with serious long-term damage. It's very common.Īs a result of taking those types of medications, I ended up in the hospital for priapism. In porn, we take Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, injections.
In professional sports, men take steroids. Like many male performers, I had become reliant on erectile dysfunction drugs as performance enhancers. I quit performing in porn basically overnight. When and why did you stop performing in adult movies? Perhaps the pseudo-monopolization of MindGeek - which owns PornHub, RedTube, YouPorn - has prevented the rest of the industry from being able to compete on any equal footing. The business model completely changed and aside from one company - MindGeek - porn has yet to really catch up.
It had plenty to do with the rise of piracy and with free tube sites like PornHub. But I saw the crews shrink, the number of shoots drop, and work dry up for a lot of people.
Men were able to work consistently if they had a good reputation. My income wasn't drastically effected - I think because there were always so few male performers compared to female performers. I did witness a deterioration of the industry-at-large over that same period of time. 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) Porn stars keep dying youngĬhrisan is not the first porn star to die at a young age this year."I never earned six figures," Wylde says. This is the school his younger, autistic brother attends with ‘whom he had a very close relationship’. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking mourners to donate to The Pinnacle Academy in his name. ‘ won fourth place in an Adult Physique Competition at the age of 17. He played football for the East Manatee Bulldogs Pop Warner team for four years and played for the Braden River Freshman football team. His obituary reads: ‘He loved to play football and physically train his body.
Police also previously charged the adult performer with possession of Xanax and marijuana. Online, Chrisan would plea for financial assistance for anything from Uber rides and had a dedicated Amazon wishlist. He was also jailed for stealing cars when he was 17 years old.įollowing this, the performer was arrested on 21 February 2017 on contempt of court and violation of probation charges. Porn star dies at only 21 years oldĬhrisan was arrested on drug and burglary charges multiple times. His obituary has now revealed the Austin, Texas born performer died 28 September. Kyle Dean, real name Brandon Chrisan, performed in over a dozen porn scenes for Corbin Fisher and GayHoopla.Īuthorities have not yet confirmed his cause of death. A gay porn star has died at 21 years old.