Today
EDGE Interview: Going from Behind the Camera to in Front of it, Jasun Mark Gets his Close-Up on JustFor.Fans
Timothy Rawles READ TIME: 5 MIN.
One of the great things about the independent adult content market is that literally anyone can start doing it and, depending on how dedicated one is, the money can start coming in almost immediately. Sex work has become one of the internet's proliferating distractions, and what's more, it's fully customizable. It can be as tame or as extreme as you want it to be. Welcome to the modern age.
But JustFor.Fans model Jasun Mark already knows this. For him, online sex content is just the natural progression from studio to search bar. He is a professional in the industry, and like a lot of talent, he got into making his own content on impulse.
"My path was weird," Mark tells EDGE. "I started in the industry as a production assistant and video editor. On shoots with Fratmen and Jake Cruise and even TitanMen I'd shoot a lot of 'making of' and 'BTS' content. Lots of fun off-camera, and I had a blog where I'd post it. My fan site started out more like that."
"I was the guy with the camera shooting the guys off-set. Interviews and funny stuff that happened between takes," he continued. "And then someone asked if I'd wanna perform with him and I just figured 'Why not?' And turns out people wanted to see it. Go figure."
But let's back up a few years. Mark is the son of two college professors who got him a full scholarship to a university where they were both teaching. That wasn't where he wanted to be, and being under the watchful eyes of both of his parents didn't seem compelling.
"I'd have rather deep-fried my face than stay in that remote Atlantic Canadian town and have my parents for teachers, so I turned that down and went to Humber College, studying music, and then to York University to study film," he says.
That degree would help him... maybe not in the mainstream as much as adult movies. He would eventually become director of production and contractually bound to TitanMen, but that ended and now he does freelance work for many different studios. "I'm just a freelance guy. I like the freedom of it," he says.
