Originally Posted by Far-L

In my experience... and I am not accusing anyone in this thread either because I don't know how you work, but the reason most "average joes" have issues is because the producer/director/stunt-cock-in-waiting usually wants to ball the average joe's girl and is doing everything possible to undermine his confidence and psych him out of being able to perform.

When I was a performer it happened all the time. Dudes would say crap like "Well, new guys usually can't get it up so just so you know if you are having a tough time getting wood then I am going to have to come in and do it" Then they would sit there and do all sorts of annoying distracting stupid shit to try and make you fail... stopping and starting and playing "director", making annoyed little snorts if they couldn't "get the shot" which more often than not was just because they were shitty shooters and were just trying to create tension in hopes that I would fail. It was flat out ridiculous at times and I worked in the days before you could pop a boner pill to help. (all that was available was the needle in the dick with a shot of prolaxsin and I wasn't about to do that). That is why the male talent pool was even more limited back then.

I rarely had problems when I was shooting new guys because I shot couples and made them feel comfortable and didn't play those head trips. Simple remedy actually.