[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Marketing. For all but a handful of them, a porn career is incredibly short lived. Using different names allows them to prolong it by obscuring the fact they are whores in their twenties and not innocent teens on their first time.
[–] mitoriomyt 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
It has to do with copyright laws and to protect the legal use of their names. Their names become a brand. I've read about cases in the fashion industry where designers who have created a brand/label using their real name within a larger distributing corporation can lose the use of it in the future if they didn't take measures to protect it when they first started out.
The same goes with the porn actors. They usually start out working with a production company that deals with hundreds of actors to churn out content. They have to first sign a contract. If they have any business savvy, they don't sign away the rights of the name they're using to that distributing company. The distributing company may/may not retain legal rights to keep using that name or selling content with that actor's name on it depending on the contract. That's the jist of it.
[–] binrobinro 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Next time you see Prince, ask him about losing the right to use your own name.
[–] SparklingWiggle ago
It may have to do with copyrights. Similar to professional (WWE) wrestlers. A stage name is created by WWE to make a wrestler more appealing (or a particular character) and WWE retains the rights. The wrestler gets popular and wants to go elsewhere but can't take the name. They have a harder time using that popularity. Same could be true for pornography actresses.
[–] ComradeUseless 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
so its like a character/role that the wrestler just acts as. never really thought of it like that. makes sense
If you google their real name how often does their porn name pop up?
[–] xenoPsychologist ago
they think itll make the spirit of shame pass over them and kill some other woman.