To pay a video whore to be a regular whore would be a disadvantage if the fake moaning and shit-talking isn't optional. And without it, the dead fish attitude will come through much stronger. The faked three orgasms a minute're seen everywhere in porn, but at home or wherever that shit is messed up. And the ridiculous "star" premium's just too much.

PipeDream, if you're getting a whore, why do you care about their orgasms? Who cares if they have one. Isn't the point of paying for sex more about your pleasure? Not saying you have to be mean to the girl, but shouldn't it be more about you?

Well, Gia, I'd say you're headed in the right direction. Money talks or fucks or whatever it is you do with it.
There's still the emotional and therefore potentially faggy side when it's about genital business. Let's say the average John doesn't want to go out and pick something up in a bar. He'd rather skip the shitty flirting and word-fucking altogether, directly pay to fuck something hot and go on with his life. He'd want something nice and maybe usually out of reach. But what would he think if the paid whore began moaning and talking shit like, say, Kagney Linn Karter, a nice-enough-looking whore with the need to make herself heard? What could be a real turn-on for John visually could also let him lose wood in the end because of the whore who doesn't get that there's no camera around. John should get his shit together and fuck it like it's free. But maybe he could just ask gentlemen like Burg, who more than once declared the upper class callgirl superior whore material where it matters, where to book the easy fucking instead of endless lines of boredom.

Of course, there's still an emotional side to it. I'm not saying the girl should get away with being on auto pilot or asleep as long as you get your nut on, but still...

It can get really twisted here. I guess some guys won't be able to get and maintain wood when they get the impression that the whore's just doing it for the money alone and need to believe that there's something else going on. They need the layer of lies to let their fantasy continue. Con to nut or so. It's weird.

I say it's possible for the girl to emotionally connect with the guy without going into pw on film mode even though he paid money to fuck a porn star.

The whore should be able to pull it off, if she can actually act it out to be believed while the audience is in and out of her holes. This, of coourse, requires a whore with some sense of her own presence. Judging from some video whores around and even popular for whichever reason, this isn't a requirement to fuck on video and get paid for it.

Presence is key. It's one of the things I feel from Ava Devine when I watch her scenes.

I don't know about Ava Devine. She's not overly attractice. Kelly Wells looks alright to me and gives or gave a strange performance with intensity. Other good video whores with the potential to deliver with an audience of one escape me right now, but there should be some left in porno land.