“The girls could be graded like A, B, and C. The A is the chick on the boxcover…here you have a borderline A/B doing a double anal. Directors will remember that. She'll get phone calls. For a double anal you'd usually expect a B or C. They have to do the dirty stuff or they won't get a phone call. You've had a kid, you've got some stretchmarks – you're up there doing double anal. Some girls are used in nine months or a year…a hundred movies in four months. She's not a fresh face anymore. Her price slips and she stops getting phone calls. Then it's, ‘Okay, will you do anal? Will you do gang-bangs?' Then they're used up…the market forces of this industry use them up."

-Porn director quoted in Martin Amis' “A Rough Trade”

"Q: What's the average lifespan of a porn star?

A: It truly depends. Not long. There are so many factors. There are so many girls who come in, 18 and 19 year olds, and they do their thing and float out and no one even notices them....it's really easy to get shot out. Porn is all about the fresh new face ­ the young girl, the up-and-coming girl. "

-Sammie Rhodes interviewed in Play/New Haven.

"In other scenarios, she'll work for two weeks until she's only getting paid seven hundred dollars a scene and then, finally, no one wants to use her anymore. So she'll agree to do double penetration or drink the sperm of twelve guys just to stay working. "

--Jenna Jameson, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Page 325

"A number of the people who act in these films are not emotionally healthy. Some are young and troubled, and their careers are short: the typical sex-film actor works in the industry for three months to three years."

- Sharon Mitchell, writing in the New York Times, May 2004