When people generally think of female porn stars, they tend to think of blonde hair like Kayden Kross up there, or they think of gigantic, cartoonish fake breasts and loads of makeup and plastic surgery. And while that may be true for some of the older actresses from your creepy uncle’s generation, today’s porn actresses have built an all new mold of their own. So much, in fact, that one man’s study of porn star demographics has revealed something quite shocking about the average adult film starlet.

The average adult film actress is a brunette with a B-cup named Nikki, at least according to blogger Jon Millward, who spent six months analyzing the demographics of 10,000 porn stars drawn from the Internet Adult Film Database. But what’s known about porn stars beyond their breast size? Remarkably little, thanks to practically zero research funding and a community wary of researchers.

“The average span of a performer’s career is usually only about six to 18 months, so the benefit of participating in these things isn’t usually apparent to the people who are in it at the time,” Kayden Kross, an adult film actress and writer, told LiveScience. (Via Mother Nature Network)

That’s an incredible revelation. Porn actresses are basically the running backs of adult films. So what else goes into this kind of “porn demographics” analysis? The results may blow you… … … r mind. Had you fooled there for a second.

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The stereotype of the troubled porn star is as well-entrenched as the sad clown, or the insufferable Will Smith offspring, augmented by the long list of infamous porn star suicides, like Savannah, who killed herself after she cut her face in a car accident, or Alex Jordan, who famously addressed her suicide note to her pet parrot. But Laurence Fishburne can sleep a little easier tonight (a little) thinking about his daughter, because, according to a new study, porn actresses are actually psychologically healthier than the rest of these prude chicks who won’t even pretend to love the taste of semen. So next time you see a shaved blonde with big naturals, maybe don’t be so quick to judge.

The latest edition of the Journal of Sex Research has challenged the stereotype that porn actresses have poor self-images and a history of sexual abuse. A report suggests that porn stars have higher self-esteem, a better quality of life and body image, and are more spiritual than their non-adult entertainment counterparts.

“More spiritual?” Hmmm, how do you test for that one, by counting religious quote tattoos?

Researchers at Pennsylvania’s Shippensburg University, Texas Woman’s University and the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation compared 177 porn actresses to a sample of women matched on age, ethnicity, and marital status. Comparisons were based on sexual behaviors and attitudes, self-esteem, quality of life and drug use. Sun News reports that the actresses in the study had all been paid to work on at least one X-rated movie and ranged in age from 18 to 50. Their average career in the industry was 3.5 years.

Shippensburg? Texas Woman’s University? Come on, those aren’t real colleges, are they? Those are fake porn schools where all the students are petite 30-year-old chicks in pigtails calling themselves “barely legal.”

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While men everywhere are undoubtedly on the edge of their seats for the release of Valentine’s Day on DVD and Blu-Ray, a survey taken in Australia has been conducted to coincide with the hilarious Ashton Kutcher film, and the results are quite shocking – romantic comedies may not be good for real-life relationships. Nearly half of the 1,000 people questioned in the survey said that they feel like rom-coms create expectations that are difficult to live up to for the common couple. For instance, bathing. I said I’d get around to it, you nagging b*tch!

One out of every four people surveyed said that rom-coms have caused their partners to expect them to know what they are thinking at all times, while one out of five said their significant others expect gifts like flowers on random occasions just because we should feel the urge. Meanwhile, I’m ready for lunch and no sandwiches have magically appeared in front of me, so it appears the flowers will wait another day.

Drive a wedge between me and your parents, NY Daily News:

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