After Porn Ends 3

This was a great episode of this series. Who knew how cool and down to earth Bonnie Rotten was? And Herschel too, I would love to have a beer with him. Tera is beautiful. Jenteal seems like your typical girl nextdoor. And Christy Canyon is a stitch. For some it was a way out of a difficult youth and for others it was and is a way of life. This film did a great job of humanizing everyone they interviewed. I could totally see where these people had come from and where they had ended up and felt like I understood some of the choices they made.

Again, this series focuses on talent who probably signs up to shoot again after completing this doc about how they got out. Brittany Andrews is one of the features women in this production. She talks about leaving the industry because of how prevalent the anal genre is and how she isn't interested in doing that. Well, look at her IAFD page and sort her work by year. Guess who has been busy getting her booty busted. She's a dominatrix, DJ and Real Estate agent just to name a few hustles. Sorry, you are telling on yourself that you aren't good at something when you have to hold down 5 jobs just to give the impression your successful.

In a previous film, Lisa Ann reveals that the industry is secretly racist. This claim couldn't be further from the truth. The industry is open about their racism. They used George Floyd death to remove all references of IR scenes from the IAFD because somehow that honors his death. No, it only helps to protect racist producers, agents and talent. IR is a porn genre, and you tell me one other true genre that is not represented on IAFD. Some tried to call IR a fetish, but when people have dies over IR relationships and beliefs, it's not a fetish, it's a lifestyle, so stop trying to pretend like love doesn't transcends race.

I learned something about Tera Patrick and I think her education was the key to her success, she made her money work for her, so she didn't have to grind so hard for her money. Bonnie Rotten also had an interesting story, but it doesn't explain why she was one of the most racist females to ever perform.

This series reveals who is broken, who is smoking and who is choking. I think it's one thing to be smoking hot in your 20's and a Vivid girl and 20 years later be at a legal brothel wondering why no one is interested in your broke down body. The fact that you entered into a contract that pays the house far more than you earn again reveals how your road led to desperation. Lisa Ann said it best, when you avoid black male talent, you are avoiding a large portion of the consumer base. So do you want 100% of a niche market, or 100% potential of the entire market.

Porn doesn't end, you just die, turn your 15 seconds of fame into and additional second, then someone steals your name and the cycle repeats.

With a title like that you can expect that people will be interested in it. And it may be good to make people realize that there are also human beings doing this stuff. Jenna Jameson may be the one name almost everyone knows (if you don't count in celebrities like Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and others - who you could argue got a career out of "porn" - not that some of them needed that but ... here they go.

Herschell Savage - now that is a name you probably don't know. But he makes a compelling case and is a cute weirdo - sort of. And also a romantic as it seems. If that is even possible. But in his example some may think, I'd have loved to hear more from him. But there are so many other ex-stars(?) that there is just no time for that ... plus all the currently working ones who throw in their two cents from segment to segment.

Since there are so many, I'm pretty certain more sequels are about to ... come (yes I had to do at least one pun didn't I?)

I liked the original After Porn Ends, and the 2nd one was OK, and this one..was about the same as the 2nd, or maybe even a little worse, as it was a bit slow at times, but still somewhat interesting, if you like to hear about the history of porn performers during their careers and such.

Mainly, the film isn't even talking about post-porn as much as the film is just talking about each performer talking about their careers and the "good old days" mostly. Probably 60% of the film, a majority..is just talking about their past times during their careers. Which is definitely interesting if you are a fan of porn history, or of learning about performers lives. But it never actually spends much time looking at performers lives present day. Just a sit down interview with each, where they mostly talk about the good times they had. Only 1 of the 6 or so performers even really had a negative experience overall, and still ends their story in a positive. There are undoubtedly many girls who had negative experiences from porn, who are now broke, or regret it, or worse (dead/overdose etc.) and the film never explores a full scope of peoples lives after porn, pretty much just putting a too-positive spin on it.

Beyond that, as it doesn't delve into anything that deep, or troubling, it gets somewhat boring as people are just reminiscing again, on good times they had. As I enjoy this genre and subject, I found it watchable and somewhat interesting, but..is not a good film per se, as it is directed by a former/current performer themselves, so the director is likely too close to the subjects, and does not take a critical unbiased look at the industry really. If you enjoyed the first two films in the serious though, it is worth seeing, if you specifically like learning about the state of porn and performers in the 80's/90's/2000's.

Interesting but not as impactful as APE 1 & 2 - Which had BIG names from the golden age 80s and 90s that are still famous - Seka, Janine, Asia Carrara et al One big name that APE 3 has is Christy Canyon (and maybe Tera Patrick but she definitely not in that same league) Now that adult industry and stars have been a regular hohum commodity and mindgeek (owner of Pornhub and zillion other tube sites) has almost killed the classic Adult Industry this is more of a look at the final crop of the old industry stars post their industry careers. Given 100s of tube sites playing millions and millions of clips of performers from 60s to now - not to mention the 10s of thousands of cam models - most of the names unknowns- the golden era of the industry with big-name stars is gone for ever. This serves as a a goodbye note and final hurrah to the closing actors from that age which btw was not so long ago - the early 2000s

For adult industry aficionados only giving them a fond look back to an age of dvd and vhs now gone for ever.