Let's take a look at being a porn star in a little more graphic detail, with Pornstistics. May we have the first slide, please?

In my commercial sex career I figure I had sex with about 3,000 men. According to Masters and Johnson, the average penis size when erect is six-inches. If you line up all those penises back to back, that makes 1,500 feet of penile. Coincidentally that's the exact same height as the Empire State Building, without the antennae.

The average American woman makes approximately $243 per week at her job. As a porn star in burlesque for example, I could make about $4,000 per week.

That same average American woman works about 40 hours per week at her job. That's her job outside the home. I only had to work about 17 hours per week. That gave me plenty of time to do other things I really enjoyed, such as travel, take classes and workshops, and spend all that money.

Not all the sex I had was as a career necessity. I had sex with perhaps another 500 people for various other reasons. For example, kicks, thrills and fun was a big reason for me. Physical needs. I was a very sexual young woman. Barter. You can trade sex for just about anything -- jewelry, camera supplies, theatre tickets, even dentistry. And being that I'm a very generous, kind-hearted person, there were a lot of mercy fucks.

Amount of cum swallowed. Of course, this was before we knew about AIDS. With the average ejaculation being approximately one teaspoon, and figuring I swallowed the cum of one out of every three of my clients, that would add up to 5.1 quarts of cum swallowed, or 4.8 liters.

Why I did it. As you can see, money was a large piece of the pie. But if you add up all the other reasons why I did it, then money is no longer the largest piece of the pie. I didn't know what else I wanted to do. It did help me to overcome my shyness. It was a great creative outlet, and I'm basically a very creative person. And there was the love and attention.

I wasn't a fool. I realize there were disadvantages. I met some horrible people. There were times when I became sexually jaded and confused. There may have been just a bit of irreversible psychological damage. And the worst was that in the beginning, it really did hurt my parents.

However, the pros did seem to outweigh the cons, so I did it.