For porn stars, all roads eventually lead to the legal brothels of Nevada, or at least they should.

In recent years, more and more adult performers have been moonlighting as prostitutes. EJ Dickson, in a recent article about porn star escorts for Salon.com, confirms that adult video entertainers offering prostitution services are on the rise. She reasons that this escalation in porn star prostitution is due to plummeting performer salaries resulting from the adult industry’s ongoing financial struggles.

Of course, the vast majority of porn stars currently hooking do it illegally, as high-end “escorts” offering their “companionship” via thinly veiled advertisements on sites like Eros.com or Backpage.com.

A few performers, like adult starlet Jayla Diamond, feel that the unsafe sex that some of these illegal porn star prostitutes practice, such as full-service bareback intercourse, sully the adult video industry’s reputation as an entity that ensures a disease-free environment for performers through the enforcement of rigorous testing.

Diamond wrote in a blog post, “I became furious when I heard of a girl having sex with a stranger to pay her rent, and then showing up on set the next day ‘tested and ready’.”

“Every girl who does a porn scene has to be tested at least 28 days prior to the scene. If they have illegal sex for money outside of their legal scenes, they are putting everyone in jeopardy.”

STD’s are indisputably a real danger for adult stars who engage in unsafe sexual activity. In 2013, the porn industry shut down three times after five performers reportedly tested positive for HIV.

The Benefit of Legality

Despite the many entertainers who work as illegal prostitutes to earn extra cash, there are some who have opted for the legal alternative, Nevada’s bordellos being the only legal option in the United States.

Here are some of the ladies from this week’s lineup at Sheri’s Ranch.

The threat of disease, assault, and simply getting arrested are good reasons to avoid illegal prostitution, but for the increasing number of porn actresses touring the legal brothels of Nevada, the justification for “going legal” might have more to do with marketing.

Adult actresses who have discovered Nevada bordellos, like Sunny Lane (Moonlite Bunny Ranch), Simone (Chicken Ranch), and Jayla Diamond (Sheri’s Ranch), are able to extend their personal brand through the promotion of the ultimate service offering: the opportunity for their fans to actually have sex with them.

Escorting and other forms of illegal prostitution are trades that exist beneath the radar, in an underground world of secrecy, where “hobbyists” and “providers” equip themselves with prepaid cell phones and indecipherable code words (“How many ‘roses’ should I bring to receive BBBJTCCIMNQNS followed by BBFS? That is, if you allow MSOG.”)

Because Nevada prostitution is legal, adult entertainers can forgo the double talk and downright say “Come on over and fuck me!” Heck, the hookers of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch even had their own reality TV show on HBO.

This opportunity for conspicuous promotion makes legal prostitution the final, and often most lucrative, stage in the progression of a branded adult entertainer.

1. Watch my videos and become captivated by me!
2. Participate in my cam show and interact with me!
3. Visit me at the brothel and have real life sex with me!

As porn stars continue to consider Nevada brothels as a brand enhancing alternative to illegal prostitution, the synergy of adult video performers and legal prostitution just might reinvigorate the adult industry in a groundbreaking way, establishing a new standard for sexual entertainment.