13 People In The Porn Industry Get Real About The Worst (And Weirdest) Things That Ever Happened On Set
"Later we found out what was happening was she was actually having an epileptic seizure. That was after she bit his dick off, and I mean she bit it right clean off."
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1. Someone stopped mid-shoot, bawled her eyes out, and then started filming again
A co-worker of mine went to high school with the guys who started Bang Bros. He didn’t get to act in any of the pornos but did get to watch them film a few times. He said one of the memories that stuck out the most to him was when the girl in the video asked to stop for a minute. Cameras stopped rolling, she took the dudes dick out of her mouth and started crying hysterically. My co-worker and the set members watched awkwardly as she bawled her eyes out for a couple minutes then said she was ready to go again. They edited the footage together so that the clip resumed with the dude throat fucking her. That way it would make it seem like her runny makeup and tears were from choking on his dick and not from crying. The director was doing cocaine, the actors were doing cocaine and even the sound guy was doing cocaine. He said there was a lot of cocaine and other stimulants involved the whole time. He said it was overall a sleazy, uncomfortable place to be in and never went to another shoot after that.
2. There were LOTS of drugs on set
I have a friend who worked production for a small porn company in college. He mostly just held mics, but he got to see some ridiculous shit.
- Guys using hardcore ED drugs (injections) so they could stay hard.
- Poop dick. You can probably figure it out.
- LOTS of drugs. Cocaine was very prevalent.
More than anything he said it was depressing. Yea there’s girls and guys that get into because they are kind of freaks and legit just want to get payed for fucking. But there’s also people who get into it because they ran out of options, or they were just hanging out with the wrong people. He used to tell a story about a girl he worked with all the time who hated working in the industry, but didn’t have any other marketable skills or education to make move elsewhere. She was making decent money and had debt to pay off, so she was kind of trapped. She got into it in college through a sketchy “modeling” service. Which was basically just a sketchy guy with a nice camera who payed college girls cash to take revealing pictures of them and sell them online. It didn’t take long for this to turn into “Okay, well I can pay you 2X more if you let me take nudes”. Which became, “Well how about 5X more to let me film you giving me a blowjob”. And the rest is history…
— Slowjams
3. One actress contracted HIV and she was the only one who didn’t know
I’ve answered a similar question a long time ago, but I dated a guy who was a cameraman for porn in the pre-condom days in LA. There was an actor who became infected with HIV in Brazil or something (I think the law was actually in place because of him) and managed to infect a number of female actresses.
The guy I was dating talked about one of the films he was on with her where she had just finished a scene and was sitting around smoking with some of the crew, laughing and shooting the shit not realizing at the time that she was HIV positive.
Probably not what you were looking for but pretty sobering IMHO.
4. A girl stopped mid-shoot to meet up with her dealer
Not acting but producing. I run a small fetish production company. Anyway I was in the middle of filming when a phone started going off. The model, who was at the time fully restrained (bondage shoot) starting saying it was hers and she needed to answer it. I had to answer it and hold it up for her. She had a brief conversation then said she had to be untied. No problem. Although we are in the middle of shooting I am not going to say no. I ask her if there is a problem as she is getting dressed thinking she is leaving for some kind of emergency and she says “No, no big deal, my dealer is just here.” She ran out while I was in shock and came back 2 min later with baggies asking if I wanted to share. I can not and will not film with illegal substances on set, so that killed the whole shoot. She had called her dealer for delivery before she came in figuring why the heck not and given him the address for the shoot.
— stuckers
5. One guy injected drugs into his dick and had to go to the hospital
Oh man. This one poor fucker I did a scene with thought it would be a good idea to inject something into his dick to stay hard. It was a good scene, went well and all that, but he was hard before we started and it didn’t go down after.
Well, I wished him luck and went on my way. Got a text from the director the next day saying it hadn’t gone down, he’d had to go to the hospital to get it drained. Didn’t work right for a good while after that and he had to cancel a month’s worth of shoots.
Why why why would you inject drugs into your dick?
6. He would pop a bunch of Viagra-type pills and still couldn’t get hard
I’ve been in three small production porns. Nothing too weird has happened but it’s really embarrassing when you pop a bunch of Viagra-type pills and you can’t get hard. People staring at you diddling yourself watching porn on your phone so they can start filming again. There was so much anxiety involved. In a perfect world you could get erect and stay that way, but it’s not realistic. Being turned on is easy. Forcing yourself to be turned on is a whole different challenge.
— ballslaw
7. She acted in gun porn, but didn’t realize the guns were loaded
I have not acted in porn, but I met a woman who had. She had been a friend 20+ years ago but isn’t really now.
She and her husband had a number of people who paid big money, like $100 per month for accounts.
She was involved in gun porn. She would let her husband insert different kinds of guns inside her.
I’m obviously disgusted. So my response was, that’s unsafe.
She calls me a wimp and says that of course the guns were unloaded.
Everyone pauses and the husband basically says, that no, no one’s going to pay $100 per month if they’re unloaded.
I forget the exact phrasing and I posted this on Reddit last year, so if I get the phrasing wrong, uhhh… don’t shoot me.
But a totally real conversation.
8. He showed up to a shoot and it ended up being a biker rape flick
Told this story a couple of years ago under a different username. I went to NYU in the late ’80’s. Freaky gay scene in NYC back then and I was the consummate twink! A bartender I liked because he gave me free drinks hooked me up with a guy named Arnie who I’d seen at a few clubs. I just figured Arnie was a troll who lured young guys with cash and coke but he also was tied into the porn business as a recruiter/producer. After a few weeks the money got good enough for me to relent and agree to do a scene. I showed up and it turned out to be a biker rape flick with two big rough looking bear types. I wound up getting plowed by these guys in the roughest way possible and I was too scared to quit once it got out of hand. Spent two weeks recovering.
9. He accidentally dropped her on her head after he came
This happened when i was new and i had to do this complicated position where i am standing and holding her upside down. She was giving me a bj and i at same time eating and kissing her pussy. After few minutes i start to cum and i drop her . Luckily she was ok
10. Every weekend shoot would end in an all-female orgy
I do have something that used to happen after almost every shoot, which was not a bad thing. I worked for a small fetish company. The owners were a married lesbian couple.
If we did a shoot over the weekend, they would invite their female friends for a sleepover. It would turn into an all female orgy. The most women we had there at one time was 11, including myself.
The best part was that all of the women that attended were gorgeous. Great personalities as well as physically stunning.
I moved back to Massachusetts 5 years ago, this took place in South Florida. I have been flown down twice to shoot since I moved. To this day they get requests from customers to have new clips shot with me.
11. Another actress peed on her face.
Female porn star here. The only awful thing that has happened on set during one of my shoots was a face full of urine. I was doing a girl on girl scene with an actress that shall remain nameless. During filming, she suddenly declared “I’m a squirter!” and aggressively pissed in my face/mouth. I know the difference between female ejaculate and piss. It didn’t help that she was dehydrated and her wee smelled like something you’d buy to repel deer from your garden.
12. A woman had a seizure during a blowjob scene and bit a guy’s dick off
I started in porn back in the mid 1980’s as a cameraman in Los Angeles. I moved to LA to take a course in film and of course I needed some money. I knew some other students enrolled and pretty much everyone knew someone who made money filming porn. It was a boom industry, video production was pretty cheap compared to film, and studios were cropping up all over.
This one guy I knew worked in sound, he asks me if I want to make some money that day. He worked with a director who needed to do a shoot in a big hurry and they desperately needed a cameraman. In one afternoon I could make over $200, which doesn’t seem like much now, but back in those days that was considerable money. So I go, yeah, what the hell. It was going to be my first real professional job, and I get to look at naked chicks doing it. Sounded awesome.
The whole thing was shot in a rented house somewhere up in Outpost Estates, which at the time, was not actually a very good neighborhood. The house was nice enough, very clean, modern looking. I think it was the only thing they could get their hands on that didn’t look like a fuckin dive. The sound guy said to me he thought the people who owned the place were on vacation and their teenage kid was renting it out for porn shoots for kicks and easy money.
The director is a walking human wreck. Hollywood was swimming in cocaine back in those days and this guy looked like he was snorting and dealing in most of it. He was a psychological mess. The sound guy told me he liked to bore people about his time when he was (allegedly) in Vietnam, trying to impress people with tails of blood and brains being blown all over him in the trenches of Kow Ping or whatever the fuck it was. Not to mention he constantly complained his whole life was a wreck, several divorces, being investigated for fraud and tax evasion, and on top of everything else he was on hook to the mob. That’s why he was so desperate to finish this film right away.
We got paid right away just for showing up, so I’m thinking ‘whatever’, it’s not so bad. The film was supposed to be a four way that included anal, and there were two girls in the bathroom preparing by doing an anal cleansing, and the director was complaining they were taking forever. He decided to shoot the warm up scene without them. Just one girl and one guy on the bed, we had decent light so we got started doing a blowjob scene.
This is when everything goes to hell.
Smack in the middle of deep-throating this guy, this girl who was supposed to be new at this is really going at it like a pro. Then she starts making gagging sounds, the director is loving it, and her eyes roll into the back of her head, her arms go limp and her whole body is trembling, and for a moment I’m thinking, “Is she just a bad actress or what?”
Later we found out what was happening was she was actually having an epileptic seizure. That was after she bit his dick off, and I mean she bit it right clean off. The guy hits the floor screaming, bleeding profusely from his groin. Immediately the sound guy throws up, the director throws up, and I drop the camera and I throw up. The makeup women and other staff are just screaming and panicking. And the girl having the seizure was choking to death with a severed dick in her mouth.
So the director is trying to pry the girl’s mouth open and pull the dick out but she’s still in the middle of a bad seizure. The male star is grabbing blankets off the bed trying to stop the bleeding, and there’s a LOT of fuckin blood. Like a murder scene. I’m thinking, Jesus, is this guy is going to die right in front of me? So I look for a phone to dial 911. I’m trying to get my head together enough to talk to emergency serves and the front door gets kicked in.
It seizure girl’s angry boyfriend. He sees what’s going on and he freaks the fuck out. He turns into CAPTAIN PUNCH EVERYTHING, and he’s throwing haymakers at everybody. He knocks out the director’s assistant, he knocks out the makeup girl, he knocks out the sound guy, he comes after me and the director and we try to talk him down saying he’s got to get his girlfriend and the guy with his dick bitten off to the hospital. Capt. Punch Everything doesn’t want to get blood all over his IROC Z28 so we grab all the bed sheets we can find, try to cram this dying guy in the backseat of a car that doesn’t really have a backseat. When everyone is in Capt. Punch Everything practically peels out on top of our feet. We literally had to jump backwards to avoid being run over.
The director is freaking the fuck out saying we really have to finish the shoot that day. I’m like, are fucking kidding me? After what we have been thorough? LOOK AT ALL THE BLOOD. And he’s like, you don’t understand, the mob is going fucking kill him if he doesn’t come through with some goods before the end day. He was just on the phone with them that morning and they were sending two muscle guys over to check him out to make sure he was producing the goods. The director is mad desperate, he needs anyone to have anal sex with those two remaining chicks who were still in the bathroom, like anyone, like a hobo off the street.
I’m obviously not going to do it, I’m holding the camera. The director goes to wake up the sound guy, and I noticed this whole time we haven’t heard a peep coming from the bathroom. Are those two girls still in there? I knock on the door, there’s no answer, and it’s locked. The director tells me to kick it in, we got work to do, he doesn’t give a shit if the girls are ready. I kick the door in and find both girls lying unconscious on the floor lying in a pool of shit. They were both doing anal cleansing while taking a heap of drugs, so they both OD and after they passed out their bowels evacuated all over the bathroom floor.
I’m thinking if the director is telling the truth about the mob, he’s definitely going to be dead by the end of the day. So I’m planning an exit strategy, grab the sound guy and get the fuck out of there ASAP before someone shows up and goes all Vincent and Jules on our asses.
That’s when I heard the sirens.
An hour later I’m in a police station explaining this whole story to a police Lieutenant who has probably heard so much crazy shit in his life it’s damn near impossible to impress the man, but I managed to impress him.
He said, “That’s a helluva story. What was the title of the movie going to be?”
I just shrugged and went, “The Aristocrats.”
— pornchez 
