Myles sat down nervously, looking at the short plump man on the other side of the desk. What was he letting himself in for? It was true he had read a lot about the porn industry, watched a lot of videos about it - watched a lot of porn videos! - but he was also dead sure that nothing he could read or see on his computer would prepare him for the real-life experience.
The middle-aged agent had introduced himself as John. He sat looking over Myles' signup form while Myles nervously chewed his lower lip. After a while John looked up and said "Relax! No-one is going to bite you! Take it easy while I just go over the rest of your details here." His expression was neither hostile nor friendly.
"Am I that obvious?" asked Myles. He was getting more apprehensive about this by the minute. "I'm not even sure I want to do this, after all. I really just answered your ad on a bit of a dare, you know -"
"It's going to be fine. Don't worry. You're actually lucky, normally I audition a few guys at a time but we happen to have a slow day today and you're the only one. Some guys have a problem with auditioning together with others but I'm often so busy I can't avoid doing several screen tests a day. Anyway," he said as he put the clipboard down on the desk, "tell me a little about yourself. So you are 23 and single, ok, but firstly what motivated you to come here today?"
"Well as I said it was really just a dare - some friends said I'd never even fill in the application - but having done it, what got me to actually get on the bus and come here today? I dunno, curiosity, I guess? Plus of course I'm almost perpetually totally horny, can't keep a girlfriend more than a few weeks because they all tell me enough is enough. I thought, what the hell, if I can't make it in porn at least I gave it a try, right?"
"OK, well that's a good enough reason to want to try out. Ever cum in front of anyone else?"
"You mean apart from the girl I was boinking... uh, no..."
"So you don't really know if you can even do it with an audience? Like it says on my website, it is best if you at least know that in advance."
"Yesss..." he hesitated again, "well, I, that is to say - umm, I have had sex when there was sort of an audience, we just never got to finish. So I have screwed in front of, uh, third parties, just not cum..."
"OK well that's better. As long as the reason you didn't cum wasn't that the audience put you off and you lost it."
"No, no - my girl at the time suddenly realised she was out past her curfew and she lost it! That was a very frustrating evening."
"All right then. So - let's see if you have a good enough reason to actually get past the first hurdle - drop your pants."
Myles' heart started thumping against his ribs. Whoa - this was even more sudden than he had expected. "Umm - " he started to stammer, "you have seen my photos I emailed, I saw them on your desk just now, uh -" He realised he was putting off the inevitable by arguing. He knew he couldn't expect to audition on paper, but the agent's instructions had caught him off guard. Slowly he stood up and started to pull his shirt off over his head.
John's smile was not unfriendly, but Myles still felt a little intimidated. "Yeah, well, you could have sent me anyone's pics," John said as he leaned back in his chair. "Come, move around to the side of my desk. I don't bite, I don't even grope."
Myles took two steps to the side and loosened his belt. "I've just never - um - had another man want to look at me naked before, you know? If you know what I mean. Well, none that were being honest about it... I guess there are some guys in the gym locker rooms who are always perving at you, they just never - uh -" He realised he was rambling a bit, shut his mouth. Opened his jeans button and unzipped. He pushed the pants and undershorts down to his knees and straightened to expose himself to the king of porn.
After a few seconds he realised he had his eyes tightly shut and was holding his breath. Carefully he allowed himself to start breathing again, and slowly opened his eyes. He was staring at the wall about 3 feet above John's head. As he lowered his eyes to the agents', he realised the man was smiling at him. "See? Still haven't bitten you," he said. "Not so bad, is it? And not that different from looking at yourself, except now you have a more honest audience".
After a couple of deep breaths Myles was starting to feel a little better. His heart had slowed to a rate closer to normal, and his hands weren't so clammy any more. He tried to picture what John saw, hard to do when you have looked at yourself in the mirror virtually every day for 20-something years. He was above average height, around 6' and bit, natural blond hair that almost always looked like it needed a cut, and clean, clear enough features that most girls told him he was good looking. His grey eyes were bright and perhaps a little wild right now, a mixture of apprehension and arousal making him twitchier than a squirrel. His slim build didn't come naturally, he worked out 5 days a week and still had to watch the carbs but the results were worth working for - he had a decently well defined body tone and a firm butt.
"OK, Myles, what I see so far is plenty good enough for the industry. You wouldn't believe the number of guys who come in here who are just too small - sure, most of them are big enough when they get a hard-on, but most porn doesn't start with a hard-on so you have to be - well, impressive enough as the pants come off. And the fatties - my God the fatties. Not much call for that. So, you are impressive enough, let's not waste any more time. Get all your kit off, you can leave it on that chair over there, and let's see some action."
Now Myles was even more hesitant. "Here in this office? I'm not sure I -"
"Sheez I keep telling you to relax, guy!" John had turned to his PC, and next to it was a small console. He pressed a button and a curtain that covered one entire wall of the office started to hum open.
The other part of the office was a smart bedroom, really a mini film set, with three large flat-screen TVs - on two walls and the ceiling - and a camera dolly. "Ok, we like to keep it realy simple for this part. I'm not going to bring in any more people, cameramen or anything, it's just you and me.
"The way this works is I am going to give you some very simple directions, you won't have to do anything involving concentration or lines or anything like that, but I'm also not going to let you know too much in advance either. I find that at this stage it's best to keep it on a need-to-know basis. What you need to know at this stage is that I need to see you get up and get off.
"So. Get on the bed and show me an erection." Myles had meanwhile stripped completely but was also still completely flaccid, his normally tight scrotum sagging even lower than on a hot day after a long gym workout. He was a long way from being able to show anyone an erection just yet.
"Um - " he began again.
"Yeah, yeah - hard to get a hardon with a hairy pot-bellied old man your only company. I know. What are your favourite type of porn scenes?"
"Right. Yeah. OK - doggy style and reverse cowgirl? Completely clean-shaven, definitely, or maybe a little brazilian design. Um. Young girls - not illegal young, teens, smallish titties, tight asses, slim hips..."