Originally Posted by Paul Markham

When we came here the Krown was around 25 CZK to the $. The average monthly wage was in then was 10,000 ($400). The cost of HC was anything from 5,000 CZK ($200) a day to 10,000 CZK ($400) a scene for good girls.

Then the Internet shooters arrived and started to act like the big boys on the block and were paying $1000 (25000 CZK) a HC scene some paid even more. Some solo girl sites were paying $900 a day. The plus side was it got rid of a lot of the cowboys and cheap skates. The agents were suddenly making very big money and telling the girls these rates were normal. The big studios like Private had always paid well,bt he girls looked on that as a bonus.

Now the CZK is 18 to the $ and those rates are beyond companies budgets and they switched to paying in Euros and some stuck to the $.

Today girls will negotiate if the work is there and especially people based here and key to give more than 1 day or 1 scene's work. But the work is not there unless its idiots filling there sites with cheap Russian/Ukraine or similar places $500 a scene. The work is often bad and sometimes awful. Documents can be questionable. They claim to only able to afford this price. I suspect probably because their sites don't convert or retain and don't keep affiliates long.

So back to models.

I have worked in porn since 1977 and endured 3 major recessions, not that porn was ever effected before by recessions. Through all these recessions the number of phone calls from new girls trebled or even quadrupled. The girls were willing to do nearly anything to earn money and would work for less, I still paid the same. I was mostly finding girls direct as agents were not very good and only advertised where I did. The phone never stopped ringing.

Today we are seeing less girls than we have ever seen, it's gone from 2-3 a day to 2-3 a week. They are also very careful what they will do. Most who come to castings will do solo and lesbian, very few new girls will do boy-girl unless its with their boyfriend. Totally different from previous recessions. The reason is AIDS, STDs, and the odds on their friends seeing them having sex on the Internet.

Now think of it, would you risk the above for AIDS, STDs, and friends finding out for cheap rates?.