Male P*rn Actor interview-Teddy Tarantino

Quick Overview

Male porn actor Teddy Tarantino details his journey from severe childhood drug addiction and success in the recovery community to entering the adult entertainment industry as a side hustle, which eventually became his primary focus after selling his multi-million dollar motorcycle parts company and exiting his successful drug and alcohol rehab business.

Key Points: Teddy Tarantino began his journey into the adult industry after being clean for a long time, initially experimenting with swinger clubs and then working as a male escort for a few years part-time starting around age 21 or 22. His first male escort job involved a sugar daddy client who paid him $3,000 for 15 minutes of service with a blindfolded woman, which surprisingly did not feel 'unspiritual' or wrong to him. Tarantino was already financially successful before porn, growing a motorcycle parts company into the largest on eBay with a friend, selling it for a couple of million dollars, and later starting a drug and alcohol rehab center he ran as CEO for five years. He started posting on Pornhub and X-videos around age 27 (10 years clean) after his friend, Alex Adams (the number one male adult performer), showed him how the business worked, initially uploading non-face-revealing POV content. His breakthrough video, featuring a scenario where he paid a professional actress (Alexa Vega) to clean his house, garnered 27 million views in December 2018, earning him $27,000 from one video, as Pornhub paid about $1,000 per million views at the time. Tarantino stopped posting content for about a year after falling in love with a woman who preferred monogamy, which conflicted with his established open relationship lifestyle, but the relationship ultimately ended. A sexologist convinced Tarantino that his desire to do porn was a 'guilty pleasure' and that he was not lying to his employees by keeping it private, leading him to leave his treatment center business around age 33 to pursue adult entertainment full-time.