@trader42 said in OF - do you find it kinda disturbing?:
The problem is the 20 year olds who only make $40,000 from their entire OF career and have to go through the next 10-15 years fielding questions about their past porn acting and potentially being limited in choice of future career (education will be a difficult field to enter, for example). For the less successful OF stars, it may end up being a bad decision to put themselves out like that.
I"ve taught from Year 8 (US 7th grade, 12 years old) through university level, and I've found that it can be very difficult to judge a lad's age by his appearance. I've known guys who were 15 that looked 20, as well as the reverse. The "age estimation by looks" factor isn't helped by film and television that generally cast guys who are five to eight years older than the character they are playing.
It's best to be quite cautious about what porn one downloads and keeps...most countries have very strict--and understandable--laws about such things. And, the laws can seem inconsistent: In several states in the US, the age of consent for sex is 15...but having a photo of that sex partner's genitalia is a US federal crime unless s/he's 18 or older.
Trader42 is spot on regarding the maturity needed to make a decision to go into porn, and how to spend money that comes from it. Very few 20-year-olds have the ability to manage newly-gained wealth of £10,000,
They also may not consider the consequences of having that on their CV: I have a (gay) neighbour who was desperate for money whilst in law school, so at age 25 did a solo photo shoot that is rather vanilla by today's standards--he was nude, had an erection, but did not masturbate or ejaculate. Now, 25 years later, he's still terrified that someone will find those photos online (they've got to be somewhere), recognise him, and damage his career. (I think he can relax now: He showed me the pictures, and he doesn't look like that anymore!)