Here’s the thing about porn. You can’t help notice that the women in porn are legion; the men not so much.
It takes a special sort of man to be a straight porn star (I know nothing of gay porn). You have to be so potent that you can perform in a room full of people; only one or two people in that room are female. The rest are men who operate the cameras and the boom mike, who build the set. Could you get it up and off in front of three guys fat guys eating Mexican take-out? I couldn’t. Only a few men could. This is why you watch porn and say, That girl is hot, and oh and banging her is that guy with the gang tats and the mole on his dick. I’ve see him five times already. Five times today.
So here is a list of male pornstars of note. They’re here because they’re iconic (yes, a few male pornstars have gone beyond being a life-support system for a reliable erection), long-lasting, particularly super-human, or, like Ben Affleck, they’ve become directors.
1. John Holmes. – Yeah, had to go there. PT Andersen and Mark Wahlberg made Boogie Nights, an epic movie about this colossally endowed star of 1970’s film porn. If you watch his stuff now, you become depressed – most of it’s grainy, with ancient cheesy music, and he usually sports his trademark 70’s porn ‘stache.
His endowment was anywhere between ten and fifteen inches, but no one knows for sure: all the cocaine and rough living often made it floppy and unreliable. He was allegedly present during a gang-related mass murder, and towards the end of his career he did gay porn out of desperation. He died of AIDS in 1988 and he was the first porn star of any kind.
By porn standards, he was a brilliant actor. His most well-known character was Johnny Wadd, porn detective, who was modelled after Phillip Marlowe. You can still find his work floating around on streaming sites and in the ‘classics’ section of the few remaining adult video stores.
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2. Ron Jeremy aka ‘The Hedgehog.’ – This guy has almost single-handedly founded the old saying, ‘Why are the men in porn so gross?’
He started doing porn in the late ’70’s, and by his own admission has never had a real adult relationship.A study in contrasts found only in porn, he came from a respectable Jewish family, has a Master’s degree in Special Education, and yet has been dogged by rumours of rape and terrible body odour. He looks a lot like the older, moustachioed, and heavy guy your mom inexplicably dates after she first splits up with your dad. Additionally, he can suck his own dick. It’s been filmed.
I first saw Jeremy when my friends and I were renting porn flicks from the East Indian grocer across town, which was notorious for never checking if you were underage. Of course we noticed that all the men in porn were disgusting and who at best looked like substitute math teachers, but Jeremy took the cake. Watching him plug beautiful women as his massive, kinky-haired butt-cheeks plunged back and forth was traumatizing, but he was ever-ready and good with the one-liners. Although to be fair, if you watch his earliest films he looks reasonably fit and almost handsome. Almost.
He’s now a star in his own right: he’s done reality shows, starred in real movies, sung publicly with British Cabinet ministers, and been in countless music videos. He’s become a cultural condiment – if you need your TV show or movie to take a dive into the surreal and filthy, just add a pinch of Ron Jeremy.
3. Peter North – One summer when I was home visiting my mother in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I worked out at Gold’s Gym on Quinpool Road. One day Peter North was there. It turns out that he’s a Canuck, and he’s from my home town! He looked exactly as he does in his porn films: tanned, smooth, and sporting that familiar preppie wedge of concrete black hair. Every man in that gym was pretending they didn’t know him, but Peter North looked uncomfortable. It must be strange to be recognizable as Leonardo Dicaprio but for all the wrong reasons.
He got his start in the early eighties. He did gay porn at first (He doesn’t like to talk about this), and then went straight and has been at it ever since, although he’s more into directing now.
Although he would be well-known enough for his musculature, his hair, and his resemblance to a brunette Ken-doll, he is most famous for his… um…. fluid volume. That’s right, folks, he shoots pints of splooge for great distances, while moaning like an action hero in a cheap sci-fi TV show. His female co-stars probably have to wear water-proof makeup or he’ll blast it off. He’s sold herbal formulas that ostensibly will give you his ability but I’m guessing his gift is God-given.
4. John Stagliano aka ‘Buttman’ – Porn wouldn’t be the same without this dedicated visionary. As a porn actor, he was of strictly average ability and endowment. But as a director, he revolutionized the genre. He created a porn genre called ‘Gonzo’: shot from the camera’s POV, he made the audience into hormonal and obsessive-compulsive midgets who see women primary from a rearview upwards angle. As his nickname would indicate, he was about da butts. His viewpoint explored the female posterior like an astronaut traverses across a mysterious planet… A taut, tanned, perfectly round and fleshy planet.
But that’s not all, as the salesman says. He chronicled his own house burning down in the Malibu fires. He took the buttman concept to Brazil, London, Prague, Rio, and Paris. He tested HIV+ and now stays behind the camera. He’s a staunch Libertarian. His entire schtick was simply being the mousy, normal everyman lusting haplessly after women who seemed to be too pneumatic to be real. Best of all, no actress needed silicone implants in his movies.
He helped introduce the average North American pervoid to a handsome Italian guy named Dario, also known as Rocco Siffredi. We’ll get to him next.
5. Rocco Siffred – Most male porn viewers, when watching porn, will think: ‘I’m just as good, if not better, than that ugly-ass roid-monkey up there on the screen.’
Rocco Siffredi is the exception. Handsome, well-built, frighteningly endowed, and seemingly blessed with an Energizer battery up his butt, he excites and then completely exhausts his fans and co-stars. He’s had sex with ten women at a time, and in one infamous scene he forced a woman’s head into a toilet and flushed it as he was sodomizing her. One of his nicknames is ‘The Italian Stallion.’ One blogger referred to him as ‘Rocco… my true father.’ He’s starred in romantic roles, but when he directs himself he’s outlandish and violent.
If you’ve thought of something sexual and cartoonish, Rocco has probably thought about it first. In his movie ’30 Men for Sandy,’ he sets the stage by directing the camera towards the eponymous female star. She writhes, looks pretty, and meanwhile, a busload of horny Italians are coming her way. Rocco gives them football scarves and actually packs them on a bus. He’s had gang-bangs on soccer fields, walked onstage during a concert as the band plays a song in his honour, and he’s been up more assholes than a Manhattan proctologist.
Most importantly, he somehow makes the audience believe that the women in his movies want to be degraded in all the insane ways he envisages. It’s probably not at all true (How can it be true? Rocco isn’t a magician), with the sole exception of Kelly Stafford, an innocent-looking British porn actress who’s even more hard-core than Rocco.
5. John Leslie – This guy started doing porn in 1973! He’s now 67 and has won a mind-blowing thirty awards for acting and directing. In the 70’s and 80’s he was a stalwart (if not particularly impressive sexually) performer, and in the nineties and the new millenium he was a director. In 1994 he wrote and directed a porn flick that was a deft and surreal mixing of Jacob’s Ladder and Thief. Dog Walker was an astounding meditation on consequence and death, and it was exceeded only when Baise-moi came out of France and shocked everyone.
EDIT - It seems that poor John Leslie died of a heart attack in 2005 at the age of 65. I’m not sure how I missed that and I sincerely regret making that error. My apologies.
6. Lexington Steele – Tall, bald, humungously endowed, and so hairless and smooth all over that he looks like a giant liquorice dick. He’s a real horn-dog, and you can hardly believe that he was originally a smart-pants financial analyst before he decided to grace us pervs with our presence. He seems like a nice, easy-going man, and it’s hard to take him seriously when he goes ‘OOOOOOGH! OOOOOOOGH!’ as he climaxes. Every time. Actually likes to dress well, with nice shoes, silk shirts and dress pants when he’s on camera, as opposes to basketball sneakers and gang-bang duds like some of the douches on-screen these days.
7. Seymore Butts – His real name’s Adam Glasser, okay? Sheesh. Anyhow, Seymore’s another great Gonzo actor and director, but here’s how he’s different from Buttman: he’s gotten personally involved with the actresses he works with, lending his films a great warmth and sensuality that are missing from… well, just about every other porn film out there. He starred in a reality show called Family Business, in which he chronicles his problems with being a single dad and working in the porn biz. He seems like a smart and level-headed guy. I’m getting more modern in my choice of actors, and pretty soon we’ll be moving into the purely internet companies with no plot, and no acting required. Not sure how I’m going to proceed, save that I might be describing porn actors I dislike from now on.
8. Manuel Ferrara – Nope, saved! This guy is a real dynamo, and the closest thing to Rocco’s heir apparent. Believe it or not, but he looks like a beefier Jeff Buckley. Super-energetic, with a massive cumshot that comes out in white death-rays, he also takes his time with foreplay and it pays off. Unfortunately, he’s gone the way of Rocco in other areas – he likes to choke and slap his co-stars, and abuse the nether regions so much that the poor girls probably can’t sit down for a week. But he’s one of the few actors on screen in the past thirty or so years that actually lives up to the myth of the super-human sex machine. Do some women fantasize about being taken to their limit with men like Rocco Siffredi and Manual Ferrara? I’m not sure.
9. Preston Parker – The lead guy for the Florida-based Bangbros.com. He looks like the guy you’d see sitting in the corner at your university residence party. He’s got strange, high voice, and most of the time he’s behind the camera as he’s getting serviced. Posed for a lot of gay sites before he made a name for himself with Bangbros. But the equipment is truly impressive and the women he works with are sunny Miami hotties who could set everything north of the Mason-Dixon on fire. He’s part of a new breed of porn performer who stars in digitally shot sexual episodes, with no plot or acting. Just: ‘Here’s Maria. Whazzup? Could you bend over?’
Edit: Incidentally, he shares a name with a NFL player with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
10. James Deen – A lot of people asked me why this young fellow wasn’t on the list. I didn’t think he was legendary yet, and he doesn’t possess unusual sexual intensity, endowment, or ability. So I wanted to wait and see if he could become legendary. Lo and behold, that’s exactly what happened.
Born Bryan Matthew Sevilla on February 7, 1986, James Deen started out in porn at the age of eighteen.To my memory, the only past porn star to go the route of looking boyish, cute, and non-threatening has been Tom Byron. Byron, in his day, looked nothing like the fat and hairy moustached men of the eighties, and now Deen looks nothing like tattooed gangster wannabe frat-boys and steroid cases that clutter the porn landscape today. Why don’t more people think of this? Why don’t more make porn stars look like college boys, varsity rowers, or genuine male models? Porn would explode into popular culture! James Deen doesn’t necessarily have to be such an outlier.
What really put him over the top and into this list for me was his ability to model in serious photography, his movie role alongside Lindsay Lohan, and the cultural significance of only one of his scenes: the infamous “Lemon-stealing Whore” skit. Google it. The boy has comedic chops. Deen’s second strongest feature is his flexibility: he can play the young man seduced by a milf, or he can work it in a threesome. I’ve seen gifs (created by women) that encapsulate his foreplay, his oral, and his stroke technique. He is one of the few male pornstars to have a female following, and once more, much of that following is made up of young women. If anyone, anyone at all, is meant to play Christian Grey, it’s probably James Deen. Think about it for a moment. Deen as Christian Grey.
Can’t believe you left out James Deen, dude.
Point taken. Maybe I’ll add an extra entry. But to be fair, he doesn’t have any unusual physical features (size, cumshaw), and he’s not a perverted sexual athlete. I think he needs a few more years to develop some unusual habits.
Perverted sexual athlete… wtf?! Haha not completely sure what you mean but the dude gets lots of work… a *lot* of work. Check out a clip called “Punished” with him & Angelina Valentine, it’s a standalone mini-movie 30 or so min long. He’s quite versatile. A lot of guys don’t realize choice of male lead can actually be more important than the starlet… that’s why your
Sorry but I love James Deen. I know what you mean when saying he is not a total weirdo but he is amazing and last and last and last and all women love him. About the others, I totally agree but my favorite for sure Manuel Ferrara. I know he is kind of a sadist but the girls seem to enjoy every bit of it due to his skills and intensity…I for sure would kill anyone to be with him…lol
and what about Steve holmes,
I *do* like him. And I’m impressed with his ability, especially at his age. He’s over fifty now, which means that he would have been in his late forties when he was in a a lot of the scenes I’ve seen him in.
I don’t like James Deen. He looks like a frog most of the time, and probably thinks he looks sooo fvckin hot.
i agree james deen had to be the 1st one on this list he is so hot every women that watch porn loves him !!!! and omg! ron jeremy shouldnt be on this list he is just just funny cause is the ugliest men in porn industry.
I’m working on a James Deen entry right now. As for Ron Jeremy… well, the man is famous and definitely unusual. And my guess is that you’d probably love him from the waist down . Well not now; he’s an old guy. But when he was younger – well, have a look at this pic from another blog post of mine: http://devilintheflesh.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/porn-stars-1-4-detail3.jpg
Glad Winston got a mention, although not all good ha.
He has declined in performance a bit since starting though imo…maybe the buzz is fading.
In that biz, there’s always someone new coming down the pike to take your place…
Yep but as your list also shows, some guys can keep it up for years and years. I hope Winston does, only Pete can match him at his best imo.
Will there be a female list btw? of your personal faves.
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… I was interested in your article, which I thought was generally on the money.
You’re welcome to use my email address if you like.
‘perverted sexual athlete’ means someone like rocco, manuel, or that nacho guy. Deen makes loads of cash doing the ‘boy next door’ thing and more power to him! But in his day, Rocco staged gangbangs on soccer fields, appeared in serious movies, did ads for cologne and italian food, and single-handedly exhausted his female co-workers even when there was more than one of them.
Although Deen will soon be appearing in a movie with Lindsay Lohan, so I may have to lengthen my list….
Yeah, point taken… although guys like Rocco are few and far between… he’s more in the “legend” category, along with Ron and Peter and Johnny, each for a different train. Hey, that’s a good way to identify male legends of porn: when first name suffices to ID them in most everyone’s mind
Btw who’s the ‘nacho’ guy exactly?
@xxx Michealking – ‘Nacho’ is a Spanish guy named Nacho Vidale, and for a while Rocco was putting him in movies and grooming him to be the heir apparent. Dude is massive and similar in intensity to Rocco and Manuel.
@MilkBottle – a female list? That’s a good question, as there are about twenty female porn legends for every one male legend. Maybe a top twenty? or one post of modern and one of old? For modern – Gianna, Sasha, Tori, Jenna, and I would include Kellie Idol although she didn’t do it very long.
That’s the problem – some of my faves did it for a bit, and then got out, like Sasha and Kellie Idol. Ever heard of a girl named Texas Presley?
Ya heard of Texas Presley but didn’t get into her I guess.
I think separating modern and old would be best.
and how about Ryan Madison? This guys intense and cums 3 to 4 times in almost every scene!
I think I know who he is… there isn’t a lot about him online, though. I just watched a vid with him right now, and he was pretty good, even if he didn’t send his partner flying out a window like some of the guys on my list can. My list is getting a little outdated and maybe I should make a new one.
I’m a girl and I would just like to answer your question: some girls do actually ennjoy being degraded like that. I enjoy porn but it’s really hard to find a male pornstar who is in to choking/slapping/spanking etc. Sex is boring without a bit of pain vs. pleasure!
My kind of woman, Danni
In fact I’ve found that most women will respond to a man who takes control sexually, especially one who knows how to blend being dominant with a girl and telling her she’s a fucking whore, with making her feel safe and communicating to her how so fucking hot she is. Expletives included to better illustrate the point.
Heartbeat actually started quickening a bit there… damn, Danni, why the hell didn’t you leave your contact info?!
Thing is though, not all the ones who go along can necessarily talk about it,even afterward, they’d rather not admit it… even to themselves. That’s ok though, I’ll gladly play along with the Jekyll and Ms. Hyde bit, lol.
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Yeah it is just all about a good mix of what you said. It’s also good to swap roles sometimes too. I find that I like a good mix of one time being submissive in bed, the next dominant; makes it far more interesting!
Sorry about that, I was genuinely searching for male pornstars who are in to a bit of sexual sadism when I stumbled across this site and thought I might as well give my input. Didn’t leave contact details as I didn’t think I’d be coming back to this site
Yeah that’s the real shame, how people are embarrassed to say they like it. It actually makes it kinda hard to find people who share the same sexual fantasies. I mean you can hardly go on a date and ask, ‘Before this goes any further, how do you feel about fucking me hard, slapping me and choking me as I cum?’
But I suppose the Jekyll/Hyde bit can be fun to play along with too =)
Thanks for your input, Dannie, and it’s lovely to know there are women out there like yourself! Rocco and Manuel are a good combo of looks and intensity, even if both are now a little older. Rocco in particular has a series of videos not marketed to North American audiences.
A very good idea for you would be for you to go to spankwire or YouJizz and start searching. You’ll find stuff, believe me!
Haha, you’re welcome, we do exist
I’ve been a fan of Manuel Ferrara for a while, but thanks to your post I am now a new fan of Nacho & Rocco =)
Ace, I shall get on my search ASAP! Thanks x
> …you can hardly go on a date and ask, ‘Before this
> goes any further, how do you feel about fucking me
> hard, slapping me and choking me as I cum?’
HAHAHAHA, it’s ironic, isn’t it?! Our first thought if someone we just recently met said that to us would be “damn, this dude/bitch is kuh-rayyyyzee!” yet it would be so much simpler.
So let’s you and I start a movement by saying just that… maybe it’ll pick up. Also, you should add “Oh, it’s cool, I’m Danni from Devil In the Flesh comment section”… if the guy says “Yeah, baby!… nice to finally meet you!” it’s me.
All the best to you sweetie, and maybe we’ll talk again. Good thing devilintheflesh stepped in… this was starting to feel like one of those infamous Craig’s List encounters. That’s probably why everyone else cleared the room for a few hours.
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Where is Shane Diesel AKA Blackzilla?
Eh… he’s alright, I guess. But is he legendary? The thickest around, yes. But is legendary?
“Do some women fantasize about being taken to their limit with men like Rocco Siffredi and Manual Ferrara?”–You doggone right, we do. I’m a hardcore Manuel fan.
Teehee! I recently read a reddit Ask-me-Anything post by porn star Kayden Kross. She said that Manuel is a favourite for pretty much all the female talent. So you’re in good company, diceyblog!
This is what does it for me: he’s HOT, talks dirty, has a thick cock, shows passion, shows creativity, can be rough, is dominant, loves women, has an accent…I could go on. I’ve spent waaaay too much time watching his videos. My husband used to be happy that I watched porn. I don’t think he’s too pleased with my Manuel obsession though.
No honorable mention for Jaime Gillis? or Tommy Gunn?
Now, Tommy gunn I can’t see up there. But I completely forgot about jamie gillis. You know, I might have to expand this into a top twenty. Porn is perpetually evolving.
Where is Mark Ashley in this list?
He should get a mention too.
You know, this one post gets well over 1000 hits per day, and it keeps increasing. So without changing the title, I’m going to expand the list to keep up with everyone’s suggestions.
Where is Mike Ashley in this list?
Mike Ashley is a sporting goods magnate and the owner of Newcastle united. Did you mean Mark Ashley, by any chance?
I am sorry! I mean Mark Ashley, he is my favourite
Mark Ashley… not even close. This is not your local “post your favorite porn star here!” thread, though it keeps wanting to devolve into that. I’m guilty of it myself: I mentioned James Deen at the beginning, but upon further reflection realized he doesn’t belong on this list either. Not yet, anyway.
The only one that comes to mind that might fit the general “legend” flavor of this list is Brandon Iron (speaking of Canadians, heheh), but then only if our friend expanded it to a “top twenty”.
If James Deen is not on this list, then this list is crap!
LOL, it’s funny because I googled “top 10 male pornstars” just so I can find out James Deen’s name.
I’m from Vegas, and talked to John Leslie quite a few times during the CES.
Nice guy.
December 5th will the second anniversary of his death.
I was assuming in my previous comment that you didn’t know about John Leslie, since you wrote that he was “now 67″ when he actually died less than two months before his 66th birthday.
I just looked at his wiki entry, and I’m astonished that I missed that. What the hell? I’ll get on that right away.
PS. I’m pretty set in my ways now, but I really wish I went down and caught the CES back in the day when I was single and didn’t have a disapproving wife to worry about. I could have met all the heroes who kept me sane in my teenage years.
Dude and the bald white guy from brazzers?
The really fit guy? Yeah, I’m going to have to expand that list. Starting with James Deen, I supposed, who was in a movie with Lindsey Lohan.
Yeah… you missed Johnny Sins, James Deen and Keiran Lee. And don’t forget Nacho Vidal!
Hey Your Almighty, I’m going to expand this list to include at least Deen. I’m on the fence about Sins and Keiran Lee, though.
Keiran is like the King of Brazzers, maybe the most popular internet porn site?
Counts for something but he doesn’t really work for anyone else