Everyone knows who Ron Jeremy is. He’s the face of porn. At some time or another, we’ve all wondered, how and why are pornstars like Ron Jeremy so popular? Guys like Pierre Woodman, Jim Slip and Ron aren’t super fit, young or particularly handsome, but they are hugely popular with fans and performers.
In recent years, male pornstars such as James Deen and Tommy Pistol have been taking the spotlight and gaining large followings of female fans. This is a relatively new development for dreamy guys to be so popular in porn.
It makes sense to me, and I can’t help but ask why wasn’t this the case before?What makes someone like Ron Jeremy such a legendary figure? What does he have that no one else did?
The real testament for their popularity is that they’ve managed to stay on top in the industry for so long. Back in the 70s, Ron Jeremy was younger and fitter than he is today. He had an everyman kind of look. That is, he wasn’t especially handsome, but he wasn’t ugly either.
This made him ideal for porn, because men like to be able to imagine themselves in the role of the male performer.Ron Jeremy also had a great work ethic. He was also able to keep an erection up for filming and ultimately ejaculate on cue. The combination of these things meant that Ron Jeremy was in demand by porn producers.
The porn industry was also relatively small compared to the monster it is today. That means that percentage wise, Ron Jeremy was in a lot of porn, and the chances of him being the male performer for a porn video was very high, making him easily recognisable for anyone who watched porn regularly.
Ron Jeremy was also able to go into mainstream media, for small roles, but it helped his reputation rise in both porn and mainstream media. As he grew older, he did become fatter and start to lose his hair. He was so well known however, and such a great worker, that no one really cared. As long as people still bought porn with him in it, then they’d still make it.
This is where it gets interesting though, because to new porn watchers, Ron Jeremy comes across as rather unattractive. This makes them question, why is this man in all these porno videos? He managed to gain a sort of cult following of people simply amazed that such a normal, slightly unattractive man was able to continue having sex with the best female actresses in the industry.
Like a snowball effect, the curiosity only added to his success. He became known as much for his contrast in looks and survival in the industry, as for his work in porn before hand.
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When contacted, his agent explained, “He only got well known while he was fit and in shape in the adult industry, since he became an icon at that time, people still use him only as a funny satire type of role and more so now as mainstream videos and other films that recognise his face.”
But Ron Jeremy isn’t the only normal looking, fairly unattractive man in porn to become popular and successful. Pierre Woodman came to fame with his casting series which he started up himself. Working for himself, he has now built up his own empire with many loyal followers.
Pierre Woodman also came to success with help of timing. When he started his casting video company, Europe was hitting a terrible recession. More women were turning to the porn industry, giving him his pick of stunningly beautiful girls, especially from Eastern Europe.
This fueled the fantasy for normal. If a guy like Pierre Woodman, short, pudgy and balding, could sleep with these supermodel-esque women, then so could they. It also became fascinating to see each new video, and find out who the next beautiful woman who that he would be sleeping with.
Another thing about Pierre Woodman’s videos was that he was able to convince nearly every girl to have anal sex with him. Even if it was something they didn’t normally like, or normally want to do, Pierre Woodman was able to not only get them to do anal, but also want it so much as to beg him.
I’ve watched countless videos where women have very real, very strong orgasms from his work. I’ve often been curious, and I think if there’s any pornstar I would want to work with, it might be him, just because I want to know what magic it is he casts on these women.
Finally, whilst all these factors play a large role into why pornstars like Ron Jeremy are so popular, there’s also the basic answer of we enjoy beautiful women seduced by regular Joes. There’s something naughty, almost indecent about a large age gap. Something arousing.
Other factors include the rise of different filming types. Before POV porn was invented, or became a big thing, it was almost accepted that you had to see a man in porn. See all of him. So it was better to see a man that is the same as yourself, or inferior, otherwise porn would be too much of a fantasy.
With the rise of POV porn, that’s no longer an issue and we can all instead enjoy watching porn without too much man. There has also been a rise in women watching, which could explain why good-looking stars like James Deen are gaining so much popularity.
In the future will stars like James Deen still be making videos in their old age like Ron Jeremy, or will the next “legendary pornstar” be a more relatable, average joe type guy? The porn industry has changed a lot for my generation, and only time will if that includes which pornstar type will stay popular in the long term.