The retrogressive dynamic affects most seriously those performers who wish to rely on work in the adult film industry as their primary source of income. Performers begin to experience the dynamic when they are offered less money to perform in a scene than they received earlier in their career or when they are hired and paid less for smaller roles, asked to perform sexual acts they had rejected previously or to be an extra in an orgy scene, which would be like when they would be neither being on ‘top’ or being on ‘bottom. Some performers may decide to leave the business at that point, while others may accept the lower paying jobs until they can diversify their sex work activities or find some other way to increase their fantasy potential. Once
