Daniel Terry Martin, better known as Danny D, is an English pornographic actor, director and producer, known primarily for his work for Brazzers. After beginning his career in gay pornography, he transitioned into straight pornography and has gone on to appear in over 1,500 adult films. He is one of the highest-paid pornographic actors in the United Kingdom and has received a number of awards for his work, including at the AVN and XBIZ Awards.
Daniel Terry Martin, better known as Danny D, is an English pornographic actor, director and producer, known primarily for his work for Brazzers. After beginning his career in gay pornography, he transitioned into straight pornography and has gone on to appear in over 1,500 adult films. He is one of the highest-paid pornographic actors in the United Kingdom and has received a number of awards for his work, including at the AVN and XBIZ Awards.
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Daniel Terry Martin (born 11 August 1987), better known as Danny D, is an English pornographic actor, director and producer, known primarily for his work for Brazzers. After beginning his career in gay pornography, he transitioned into straight pornography and has gone on to appear in over 1,500 adult films. He is one of the highest-paid pornographic actors in the United Kingdom and has received a number of awards for his work, including at the AVN and XBIZ Awards.
2006–2010: Career beginnings and gay pornography
Martin subsequently embarked on a career in pornography. He remarked that it was quite difficult to get started within the adult industry. When he started, there was one forum for ‘Adult Producers’, compared to a stark contrast to the present day, where information about the industry is readily available on social media sites, such as Reddit and X. From this forum, he messaged other performers and producers and Martin was able to network, posting the work he had done with other companies to show that he was able to do the job, despite being new.
Danny D was born Daniel Terry Martin in Maidstone, Kent on 11 August 1987. Prior to beginning his career in pornography, Martin previously worked as a builder. Whilst on holiday with friends to Germany for the World Cup in 2006, as the queue to the portaloos was too long and Martin needed to urinate, he decided to go in a nearby field. It was here that one of his friends saw his penis after he was urinating in the field. The friend was surprised at the size of his penis, asking him what was wrong with it. After this, the friend went to the rest of Martin's friends and talked about the size of his penis. Danny D said he previously hadn’t realised that he had a larger penis than usual until he compared it with other friends. During the holiday, Danny D and friends discussed what careers he could follow with his larger-than-average penis. An initial idea was for him to model for Calvin Klein, with the idea being that the size of his bulge when wearing the boxers would make people want to buy the boxers. Another career suggestion was being a male gigolo, and the idea of becoming a pornstar was discussed. He admitted that, being only 18, he had ‘no idea what he was doing’ in terms of sex, having been with a couple of women previously. Martin stated that despite previous partners commenting on the size of his penis, he assumed that it was ‘just sex talk’. He subsequently attended to a swinging club and went dogging, to see if he could perform in front of others. After attending a swinging party, D had sex with another man’s wife, to which the man remarked that he would pay him to be filmed having sex with his wife again. The couple lived in France and he took time off work, being flown out there to film. He spoke about the experience on the Ladbible TV podcast, Extraordinary Lives:“It was more confusing, the fact that he [the woman’s husband], wasn’t going to punch me in the face, you know, cause [sic], I wasn’t from that world of, you know, wife sharing and stuff like that.” He recounted how he was ‘really nervous’, and whilst staying with the couple, they drove out to a wooded area to film a scene in the back of their car. He stated that he was ‘blown away’, as he counted the money, remarking that being paid to be filmed having sex was ‘a thing’. There and then, the man asked if him wanted to shoot another scene and be paid again, to which he agreed and ten minutes later, he shot another scene. Martin was paid €150 and the man told him that every time he returned and was filmed, he would pay him again. After this, Martin told his mother about his new-found career, but stated that he didn’t want to tell his extended family in case the career didn’t work out. He stated that he had always had an open discourse with his mother, who had been friendly about it, describing her as being ‘super supportive’, with him telling her ‘right from the get-go’ about the offer he’d been given of going to France to shoot a scene with a man’s wife. Martin initially told a girlfriend at the time that he was a poker player, to account for him going away for the day and returning with a lot of money (she later found out about his actual career).
Martin stated that he thought the size of his penis helped him get ‘through the door’, but remarked on the saying ‘you’re only as good as your last scene’, which was more important when starting out, a consideration he had in order to be invited back for further work. He stated that he felt he was just ‘having fun’ when he first started and didn’t consider what was on the line for the scene he was in to be good. He initially became involved in amateur porn films and other productions. Some of his initial work included solo scenes and ‘gay for pay’. This included initially starting with masturbating next to another man and Martin's logic was that if he could have anal sex with a woman, then ‘an arsehole’s an arsehole’, meaning he could have sex with men. One of his first notable scenes was the 2006 englishlads.com film 'Str8 Biker Boy Matt’s 1 Footer’, and he went on to appear in several more gay porn scenes under the alias Matt Hughes.
Martin stated there were times early within his career where he ‘wasn’t doing great’ and was trying to get work. He stated that when he needed money early on in his career, he did work at sex parties, recounting that for one event, he got naked into a wooden box, with holes in the box with marigold gloves attached, where guests could put their hands into the gloves and touch him, with Martin recounting that him and other performers would do three one-hour shifts, within the boxes, at ‘some rich dude’s party’. He recounted that one month, a couple of years into his career, he wasn’t getting work and had to call his mother, asking her to borrow money for rent. Visiting her son, Martin's mother talked with him as to whether he should consider getting a different career, thinking that porn wasn’t a long-term career. He remembered being ‘confuse