The ‘pickles’ Lana Rhoades used to receive payment for each session in the adult film industry have been made public.
Eight months after entering the adult film industry, the 27-year-old departed, and she has since utilised her platform and notoriety to talk about her experiences.
Rhoades spoke candidly about her lack of mentorship and support in the adult film industry in an interview with Curious Mike, especially considering that she entered the field at the age of 19.
She stated to the reporter: “There’s not anything set up to protect girls that are young and vulnerable that don’t know how to say no or don’t have self-respect for themselves yet or care for themselves or love themselves because they’ve been through so much and are like taught not to.”
Rhoades continued, saying that she was surrounded by several forty-year-old men who ‘know exactly how to get you to do what […] they want to earn them money’.
Rhoades, in contrast, would produce “pickles”—but how much exactly is that? Rhoades discloses that even though she was dubbed “the number one Adult star,” her fee for the scene was $1,200.
According to her explanation, a lot of the girls are from small towns, and their families ‘probably don’t have money,’ so they could initially think the sum is substantial. She goes on, “At the time, I thought $100 was like so much money.” “So getting $1,200 was like a big deal.”
But after meeting a well-known YouTuber and Instagrammer, she understood there were other, more profitable ways to make money without having to act in explicit video sequences. When contrasted with Rhoades’ scene cost, the YouTuber was receiving an astounding sum of $15,000 for each Instagram snap that they posted.
She concludes, saying, “The guys don’t know what goes on behind the scenes, and when you talk about it, people say, ‘Oh you knew what you got into,’ and you get criticism.
“I think it’s because men like consuming prn and they don’t want to feel guilty for consuming it and so they don’t want to hear that I felt the way that I felt.”
In the past, Rhoades has aimed at the industry, not only denouncing it but also stating that she thinks it ought to be outlawed.
