Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers by Jon Millward.

From the post:

For the first time, a massive data set of 10,000 porn stars has been extracted from the world’s largest database of adult films and performers. I’ve spent the last six months analyzing it to discover the truth about what the average performer looks like, what they do on film, and how their role has evolved over the last forty years.

I can now name the day when I became aware of the Internet Adult Film Database, today!

When you get through grinning, go take a look at the post. This is serious data analysis.

Complete with an idealized porn star face composite from the most popular porn stars.

Improve your trivia skills: What two states in the United States have one porn star each in the Internet Adult Film Database? (Jon has a map of the U.S. with distribution of porn stars.)

A full report with more details about the analysis is forthcoming.

I first saw this at Porn star demographics by Nathan Yau.