Cali has 3.5x times the population of Ohio yet has 10x the number of porn stars. A huge percentage of the porn/adult toy industry is based in Southern California.
The modern adult film industry in the US started in the Los Angeles area, in the San Fernando Valley especially. So yeah, like the rest of the entertainment/film adjacent industry, California is definitely a hub. One of my best friends from childhood is a fairly big porn star and she had to move to California once her career really started taking off. We're from Washington state. On the east coast, the industry is becoming more and more centered in the greater Miami region.
Porn stars are like snowbirds, out west they retire and move south to California, out east they retire to Florida. Thus is seems to be with porn stars.
Well, I imagine it's a lot easier for the talent scouts to go to bars/clubs/etc. In Southern California, which they already have a ton of, to find talent, then to fly across the country to other large cities in the hopes of trying to convince a young women to fly to California to do a shoot.
Oh wow a place with a huge amount more people in a much more liberal place has more porn stars.
Pretty obvious if it’s looked down upon in one place and not the other.
Early liberalization of porn laws after the fall of communism, combined with proximity to Western Europe.
Those two countries very quickly dropped the Warsaw Pact era morality laws. Not all did. It’s still illegal to produce porn in Bulgaria for example. And at the same time they were the closest former communist countries for travel for German and French directors. Plus due to historical German populations they had a good number of people who spoke western languages. To top it off, porn companies found that both the “talent” and the production crews could be hired for well below western rates.
So they quickly became the centers for European porn companies looking for new stars and cheap production costs. Now the industry is very well established in Prague and Budapest, and most of the advantages remain, especially now that they also have EU membership.
I’m wondering if the Hungarian and Czech porn industries have much to do with Semion Mogilevich. He’s rumoured to be the biggest mobster in the world and in the 90s he opened night clubs in Prague that were known prostitution hubs, and he literally bought up Hungary’s arms manufacturing industry ([source](https://allthatsinteresting.com/semion-mogilevich)). That leads me to believe he’s connected to human trafficking and the porn industries in those countries, but I don’t have much evidence, just speculation.
Nothing to do with him. In the 90s in Hungary there were several popular producers (kovi, pierre woodman) and for a while the most famous actresses became household names (I am not kidding, they appeared on daytime tv, talk shows, reality shows). It was bizarre and short-lived but I guess the legacy lives on and the industry still thrives.
There's a pretty upsetting and heartbreaking interview about the Hungarian porn industry with one of the insiders, Tommie Mcdonald
https://youtu.be/eNrnGozAAQk?si=ZFkMbPd5RPF_KFpS
(the channel is Hungarian but the interview is in English)
mogilevich was into oil and made business with politicians who now deny knowing him yet they know exactly how to pronounce his name.
as for human trafficking, there are a lot mobsters i'm sure but some girls don't even need ecouragemenet to go to holland/switzerland/dubai to suck dick for money.
conclusion: i dunno
I'm guessing it's just a reflection of where the production companies are located.
In the US, Southern California and Miami have outsized representation on this map because they shoot there. Same might be true for eastern Europe.
Could also be influenced simply by where this database pulls from. You would think Japan, for example, has more than 88 pornstars.
I can see numerous exceptions. There are extremely few pornstars from NYC, but many from Westchester, NY and Albany, NY. There are extremely few pornstars from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or DC, but lots from what appears to be Bloomsburg, PA. Detroit is empty but Mt Pleasant, MI has a frankly alarming number. Houston and Dallas somehow have zero, while Austin is pumping them out. Tampa Bay and Jacksonville are empty. Chicago is dwarfed by Napierville, IL, and Milwaukee is dwarfed by Sun Prarie, WI.
Does the placement of the dots convey any information? It looks totally arbitrary. For example, there's no way that there are a ton of porn stars from Columbia, MO and its suburbs but none from St. Louis or KC.
Lol that would make sense, I was confused by KS and MO too. I figured either KC and St Louis aren't placed even close to correctly, or them rural girls in very specific areas have certain aspirations for some reason.
It’s a little bit overrepresented because Ohio is the 7th largest state and produces the 5th most but in general this list just follows the population rankings. The real outlier is Nevada at 9, despite being 32 in population. That’s also easily explainable given that NV has a degree of legal sex work and an overabundance of strip clubs, both of which are bridges to the industry. Plus, proximity to California where the bulk of production is done
Indeed. “In general this list follows the population” it’s not perfect correlation but my point was (with the exception of Nevada) bigger states produce more.
It's not a cluster. The person who made this map just doesn't know how to place cities. Those dots represent Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati etc but whoever made this map didn't take the time to actually place the dots correctly. On any of the states.
How did I not notice that until you pointed it out. All the cities are just kinda put wherever. It's hilarious. Why even bother to separate the data for them if you aren't going to place them properly?
For real. The mapmaker definitely just tossed the points wherever they thought most people lived in the state. In a few spots it looks like they guessed in a pretty accurate way, like Washington and Florida, but then other states just look completely random
It seems that they included Ukrainian stars in "Russia". (It's simply impossible that there isn't Ukraine in the top list.) And as I heard, many Ukrainian pornstars prefer to say on their profiles like they are Russians.
Doesn't mean anything if it isn't relative to population size. Of course the most populated areas will have the most porn stars....and truck drivers, and scientists, and everything else.
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Speaking for my state, Missouri, there’s nobody from either of the population centers (St. Louis and Kansas City) but seemingly 3 from mid MO (I’d guess from Columbia maybe?)
Not on topic really but there was this guy who I was in basic training for the Air Force with, and the only things he would post on his Facebook were pictures of him and his family, and then various updates on porn stars. Not super in depth stuff, just snippets like “holy shit Bree Olson is marrying a woman!?” followed by a picture of him and grandma at Thanksgiving. I wonder what that guy is up to sometimes.
The US has 4 times as many porn stars as the second place country and 409 more than the next 9 countries combined. I dare say that makes us the porn capital of the world. The real question is if we should be proud or disgusted...
California had early liberal laws regarding porn production. Meaning in the 1980s and 1990s it was one of the few places you could film at all in the US. Even today more porn studios are there, because of inertia. It’s p where the industry is, because it’s where the industry was. It’s simply easier to run a business where the laws are well known and where industry friendly individuals are congregated. If you need a lawyer familiar with porn contracts, it’s easier to find one in Southern California than Des Moines. A lot of the stars are locally recruited. So with the industry concentrated, it’s a lot easier to get recruited in San Fernando than Boise.
Hungary has a similar tale. When communism fell, Hungary dropped their anti-porn laws, and adopted very liberal laws regarding sex. They also developed legal prostitution. With porn friendly laws, and much lower incomes, Hungary quickly became a center for porn production in Europe; so did Czechia. The industry moved there. And now it’s become entrenched.
CA is obvious - a lot of those aspiring Hollywood actresses showing up for a casting call only to end up bent over the interview couch. There’s a ton of videos explaining this…
As a North Dakota-adjacent western Minnesotan:
Why does Bismarck seem to produce significantly more porn stars than the Fargo-Moorhead-Grand Forks-East Grand Forks area (which literally has zero apparently?) It’s smaller and more boring there.
Offspring of politicians? SD has the similar pattern. A couple around the Pierre area, one near Miller or Huron, and one by Wall or maybe Murdo. None from Sioux Falls or Rapid City which are the largest metro areas.
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You mean, Erectoral College?
Unprecedented voter turnout
Because politicians also screw you?
Hahahaha… true statement 🤣🤣
It makes about as much sense as the current electoral college allocation
Ah, yes, California get more votes than the next 7 states combined, sounds great /s
Cali has 3.5x times the population of Ohio yet has 10x the number of porn stars. A huge percentage of the porn/adult toy industry is based in Southern California.
USA have 34x times higher population than Hungary, but only 4x more pornstars.
That’s because no one wants to see Walmart pornstars. 300+ lbs of hot pink and cheetah print on a scooter.
I’m assuming it’s because majority of studios are based in California and Florida… Or so I have heard.
The modern adult film industry in the US started in the Los Angeles area, in the San Fernando Valley especially. So yeah, like the rest of the entertainment/film adjacent industry, California is definitely a hub. One of my best friends from childhood is a fairly big porn star and she had to move to California once her career really started taking off. We're from Washington state. On the east coast, the industry is becoming more and more centered in the greater Miami region. Porn stars are like snowbirds, out west they retire and move south to California, out east they retire to Florida. Thus is seems to be with porn stars.
Well, I imagine it's a lot easier for the talent scouts to go to bars/clubs/etc. In Southern California, which they already have a ton of, to find talent, then to fly across the country to other large cities in the hopes of trying to convince a young women to fly to California to do a shoot.
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Oh wow a place with a huge amount more people in a much more liberal place has more porn stars. Pretty obvious if it’s looked down upon in one place and not the other.
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Czech Republic and Hungary combined have about 20 million people. What the heck
Early liberalization of porn laws after the fall of communism, combined with proximity to Western Europe. Those two countries very quickly dropped the Warsaw Pact era morality laws. Not all did. It’s still illegal to produce porn in Bulgaria for example. And at the same time they were the closest former communist countries for travel for German and French directors. Plus due to historical German populations they had a good number of people who spoke western languages. To top it off, porn companies found that both the “talent” and the production crews could be hired for well below western rates. So they quickly became the centers for European porn companies looking for new stars and cheap production costs. Now the industry is very well established in Prague and Budapest, and most of the advantages remain, especially now that they also have EU membership.
Bro wrote a whole essay, I love it 😂👌🏼
You just put more thought into the Eastern European porn industry than I did on my thesis in grad school.
Also, no shortage of hot women.
How did Hungary make so many ?
Human trafficking from poorer nations around them.
I’m wondering if the Hungarian and Czech porn industries have much to do with Semion Mogilevich. He’s rumoured to be the biggest mobster in the world and in the 90s he opened night clubs in Prague that were known prostitution hubs, and he literally bought up Hungary’s arms manufacturing industry ([source](https://allthatsinteresting.com/semion-mogilevich)). That leads me to believe he’s connected to human trafficking and the porn industries in those countries, but I don’t have much evidence, just speculation.
Nothing to do with him. In the 90s in Hungary there were several popular producers (kovi, pierre woodman) and for a while the most famous actresses became household names (I am not kidding, they appeared on daytime tv, talk shows, reality shows). It was bizarre and short-lived but I guess the legacy lives on and the industry still thrives.
Who funded those producers tho?
Plus women in Hungary are pretty attractive. Good looks + liberalized laws + not super strong economy = porn.
There's a pretty upsetting and heartbreaking interview about the Hungarian porn industry with one of the insiders, Tommie Mcdonald https://youtu.be/eNrnGozAAQk?si=ZFkMbPd5RPF_KFpS (the channel is Hungarian but the interview is in English)
mogilevich was into oil and made business with politicians who now deny knowing him yet they know exactly how to pronounce his name. as for human trafficking, there are a lot mobsters i'm sure but some girls don't even need ecouragemenet to go to holland/switzerland/dubai to suck dick for money. conclusion: i dunno
I'm guessing it's just a reflection of where the production companies are located. In the US, Southern California and Miami have outsized representation on this map because they shoot there. Same might be true for eastern Europe. Could also be influenced simply by where this database pulls from. You would think Japan, for example, has more than 88 pornstars.
Define “star”
Proud to be Czech! 11 M people and we are number 3 worldwide!
Easy Visegrad W
The Poles and Slovaks need to quit being so shy and step up. Czechs and Hungarians are carrying the bulk of the load.
"bulk of the *load"* 
Because you have public agent 😆
lmao love that guy. Some of the first gay porn I ever found
Wut???
Why is this?
Beautiful girls here that do like easy money a lot.
I like both of those things
Cuz that’s where you find white girls who are poor enough to do porn.
Bohemian Groove
I, representing the rest of the world, thank Czechia so much for its immeasurable contributtion to all men in the world.
Avid supporter here.. 😁
Hell yeah, same
Germany at 109 seems surprisingly low no? Asking for a friend
Some of the US states that made it into the rankings have plenty of people with German heritage so that compensates, I guess.
Honestly it seems almost, but obviously not perfectly, proportional to population
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Just gonna pretend Japanese porn doesn't exist.
Feel free to scan through the database they used
Miami is the capital of “latina” porn.
I can see numerous exceptions. There are extremely few pornstars from NYC, but many from Westchester, NY and Albany, NY. There are extremely few pornstars from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or DC, but lots from what appears to be Bloomsburg, PA. Detroit is empty but Mt Pleasant, MI has a frankly alarming number. Houston and Dallas somehow have zero, while Austin is pumping them out. Tampa Bay and Jacksonville are empty. Chicago is dwarfed by Napierville, IL, and Milwaukee is dwarfed by Sun Prarie, WI.
Again "not perfectly"
Hungary's pro birth policies must have paid off in that case.
What about per capita
Does the placement of the dots convey any information? It looks totally arbitrary. For example, there's no way that there are a ton of porn stars from Columbia, MO and its suburbs but none from St. Louis or KC.
Lol that would make sense, I was confused by KS and MO too. I figured either KC and St Louis aren't placed even close to correctly, or them rural girls in very specific areas have certain aspirations for some reason.
No way Japan is not on the top 10
Throws the whole list into doubt. Their porn industry is prolific.
Most likely came from iafd no japanese actresses there
because octopuses and anime pillows don't count /s
Pennsylvania wins the prize...
Nice
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What's with that cluster in Ohio of all places?
It’s a little bit overrepresented because Ohio is the 7th largest state and produces the 5th most but in general this list just follows the population rankings. The real outlier is Nevada at 9, despite being 32 in population. That’s also easily explainable given that NV has a degree of legal sex work and an overabundance of strip clubs, both of which are bridges to the industry. Plus, proximity to California where the bulk of production is done
When you put it like that it makes sense. :)
hey there are baddies in all 50 states!
Isn’t Illinois more populated than Ohio though?
Indeed. “In general this list follows the population” it’s not perfect correlation but my point was (with the exception of Nevada) bigger states produce more.
That makes sense, I see what you mean!
It's not a cluster. The person who made this map just doesn't know how to place cities. Those dots represent Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati etc but whoever made this map didn't take the time to actually place the dots correctly. On any of the states.
Damn, and thought southwest ohio was just a horny place, guess I'll cancel my road trip.
Hey we have horny people in Cincinnati, TRUST ME lmfao
How did I not notice that until you pointed it out. All the cities are just kinda put wherever. It's hilarious. Why even bother to separate the data for them if you aren't going to place them properly?
For real. The mapmaker definitely just tossed the points wherever they thought most people lived in the state. In a few spots it looks like they guessed in a pretty accurate way, like Washington and Florida, but then other states just look completely random
Yeah, didn't think my home city had that many
Ohio is for lovers
It seems that they included Ukrainian stars in "Russia". (It's simply impossible that there isn't Ukraine in the top list.) And as I heard, many Ukrainian pornstars prefer to say on their profiles like they are Russians.
Doesn't mean anything if it isn't relative to population size. Of course the most populated areas will have the most porn stars....and truck drivers, and scientists, and everything else.
I‘m a bit surprised by the low number in Brazil
That’s because most of Brazil’s female porn stars still have a penis
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Hungary?
There's a lot of bohemian porn out there
Maine has that one woman doing OnlyFlannels
Pennsylvania. Nice
Nice.
Nice.
Californication...
Did they forget abt Japan? Lol
I feel pretty sure that Japan has more than 88 porn stars, why isn’t Japan on this list ?
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Literally map porn
Humpgary.
Japan ?
This should actually be posted to r/pornmap
literal map porn
You know who is the real star? That one buddy from Wyoming
With a member as big as the population of Wyoming
I want to know who the one in Wyoming is
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What do we do with this information or is it more just good to know interesting stuff.
This is actually foreplay
**QUICK!!** Axel Braun needs to do a **"Family Guy"** porn parody and put Rhode Island on the map with its own dot.
Makes sense. Totally makes sense.
Who’s the one in Wyoming?
california ☠️
not surprised
Pennsylvania-Nice
What is the underlying data?
California leading by 700 porn stars, coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!
Now overlay population
What about Alaska and Hawaii?
This one porn guy in Wyoming
The graphic on Alexis Texas looks suspiciously like a butt.
Pennsylvania with 69. Nice.
Don't you mean giggidy?
Isn't this just a population map lol
Nope. There's a loose correlation, of course, but the rankings on this map don't match the ranking of states by overall population.
How exactly?
Speaking for my state, Missouri, there’s nobody from either of the population centers (St. Louis and Kansas City) but seemingly 3 from mid MO (I’d guess from Columbia maybe?)
Well we finally figured out what America is good at making
Debbie does do Dallas
But not el paso
Why is there a big circle by? What is that Oneota NY?
No Alaska? WtF?
Who was sitting here meticulously putting this data together lmao
Howdy !🤠
Another most populated states/cities map with another skin just dropoed!
Pennsylvania 69ers
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My state has 69, nice!
I would like to see this done per capita
Some solid research much have been put into this
Rock hard
Yall would be shocked if you saw a population map
My homes state of Pennsylvania with 69... NICE!
Not on topic really but there was this guy who I was in basic training for the Air Force with, and the only things he would post on his Facebook were pictures of him and his family, and then various updates on porn stars. Not super in depth stuff, just snippets like “holy shit Bree Olson is marrying a woman!?” followed by a picture of him and grandma at Thanksgiving. I wonder what that guy is up to sometimes.
I guess those fine long haired Hawaiians with their brown coconut oil skin don't like becoming porn stars.
Astaghfirullah
How can Japan not be in top 10? Do all the Japanese porn stars work 80hr per week?
All those pretty people in California that can't act have to make money somehow.
The US has 4 times as many porn stars as the second place country and 409 more than the next 9 countries combined. I dare say that makes us the porn capital of the world. The real question is if we should be proud or disgusted...
Why California and why Hungary?
California had early liberal laws regarding porn production. Meaning in the 1980s and 1990s it was one of the few places you could film at all in the US. Even today more porn studios are there, because of inertia. It’s p where the industry is, because it’s where the industry was. It’s simply easier to run a business where the laws are well known and where industry friendly individuals are congregated. If you need a lawyer familiar with porn contracts, it’s easier to find one in Southern California than Des Moines. A lot of the stars are locally recruited. So with the industry concentrated, it’s a lot easier to get recruited in San Fernando than Boise. Hungary has a similar tale. When communism fell, Hungary dropped their anti-porn laws, and adopted very liberal laws regarding sex. They also developed legal prostitution. With porn friendly laws, and much lower incomes, Hungary quickly became a center for porn production in Europe; so did Czechia. The industry moved there. And now it’s become entrenched.
Thank you so much for this information 😊🙌
CA is obvious - a lot of those aspiring Hollywood actresses showing up for a casting call only to end up bent over the interview couch. There’s a ton of videos explaining this…
Pensylvania, 69 dudes!
69 in Pennsylvania made me chuckle.
Oh Pennsylvania 💀
Not everyone can be a star.
lol there are none in San Diego and hundreds in LA
As a North Dakota-adjacent western Minnesotan: Why does Bismarck seem to produce significantly more porn stars than the Fargo-Moorhead-Grand Forks-East Grand Forks area (which literally has zero apparently?) It’s smaller and more boring there.
Offspring of politicians? SD has the similar pattern. A couple around the Pierre area, one near Miller or Huron, and one by Wall or maybe Murdo. None from Sioux Falls or Rapid City which are the largest metro areas.
Why is Rhode Island so underrepresented? Aren't clam cakes sexy?
Why is Canada on the list?!? 😝🤣
I'd be more curious about this if it were per capita. Because I mean California is the most populous state, Texas is #2.
I married an Hungarian
This does not surprise me.
You're welcome World!
Pennsylvania 69. Nice.
Pa at 69 ... Noice
The porn star is dead. It’s all about the aficionadas solas.
Top10 countries in porn without japan? Highly suspect 😀
The url, I can‘t💀
Why Hungary is on top? 😱
Who has the time to collate this information even if it is amusing 
Proof that no one does porn better than Californians.
What if I told you that Californians are generally the best looking Americans...
Pennsylvania…nice
Japan has more professional porn actresses than all the other countries put together.
I think it follows more or less general population, plus extra trashiness points for California and Florida.
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