I have to disagree with Monkey as well. Erik Everhard is a great performer, and how he is overlooked amazes me. Watching his scenes when I was a noob has made me a better performer.
I also have to defend my profession. Say what you want, but a good male performer can drive the scene, and make it better while the c-list and below guys think that once they get thier dick hard, their job is done. The best guys are good at showing off the girl, and her best physical attributes, without making it look obvious to the consumer.A cheap guy will miss, and often blow those opportunities. Yes, I realize that its "all about the girl", however, without a good male performer, it may as well be a solo masturbation scene with a dildo. Good scenes don't happen in a vaccuum. It takes two. That is why some cheap guys get $200, and quality guys get 6-700$, and you have to book them way in advance. If it didnt matter who was the stunt dick, nobody would pay the a-list guys their rate when they could pull some schmuck out of the bukakke line to do the scene for a fraction of the cost. As a consumer of smut, I like to see when the girl and he guy(s) have great chemistry, and its as if the camera isnt there. I like to feel like a lucky vouyer looking in as two people (or three, or more) are actually into each other, and the girls genuinely seem to like guys like Stefano, Lex, Sean, and Erik. Common sense says that for the most part, if a girl is working with a guy she finds attractive, and respectfull like those gents I just mentiond, and would fuck him anyway, money or not , she just might give a better performance. That can only make for a better scene when there is heat. We are PERFORMERS as well. Getting wood is just the beginning. Erik is very adept at showcasing the girl, and at the same time, not getting in the way. He also excels in allowing others to live vicariously through his exploits, as if he is the luckiest bastard in the world at that moment, and allows normal Joes to relate, without alienateing them. Erik's "off" days as a performer are better that the best days the vast majority of guys in this biz will ever have. As far as Erik fucking these girls hard, I wanna see a hot girl get really fucked hard, not cuddled, and "made love to".
I also respectfully dissagree with Lex on one point. While I'm not denying that its MUCH harder for black male (or female) performers to work for VCA/Vivid/Wicked, from my personal experience, once your in, and do well, your in for good. My very first scene ever was a feature for VCA. I've worked for Vivid three times, Club Jenna once, and Wicked five times over the past few months. I was on a set for Wicked, and the girl told the director she didn't want to work with me cuz I'm black. They fired her, and kept me. Mind you, I was not privy to the conversation between the girl, and the director. The director, and crew told me this after the fact. They could have easily replaced me instead, and told me anything as a reason, and I'd never be the wiser. But they didn't. Yes, I've lost jobs I was booked for for Vivid because of my race. More than once. However to say that these companies as an institution are racist is not accurate, If it was, I'd never be hired to work for them under any circumstance. Ever.
Just my 2 cents.