Everything is legitimised with models all being signed to agencies who usually pay them on a per scene basis. Since the 1980s porn has come a long way. So, it’s about time we clear up all the mystery behind male pornstar's earnings to get a little more appreciation for the craft. Try not to feel too disappointed in humanity as sex is universal while your favourite Netflix show likely isn’t. Worldwide the porn industry is estimated to be worth around $97 billion dollars! To put this into perspective popular streaming sites like Netflix are clocking in at around $11 billion a year. Yet, we have very little understanding of what they actually earn and what it takes to make a living off of porn. For so many of us, it’s media that we consume on a regular basis with pornstars having similar notoriety to Hollywood celebrities. At any given second there is estimated to be at least 28,000 people in the world watching porn.