A lot of guys are very lucky if they make $400 a scene. That's why some of them try to work almost every day, are gay for pay or just gay, and escort (again with other men as their most abundant clients). Continuously working without stop is the only way a man can even approach what most women make. There is even more of a discrepancy if you count feature dancing, photoshoots, personal Internet sites, and escorting. Plus they have virtually no control over a lot of what happens because most of them can be easily replaced. Despite what many of them think, nobody gives a damn about the guy. The smart and more realistic ones realize that. Besides a small percentage of hardcore rain coater fans nobody really cares about their performance either. The best that can be said of all but a few in the history of the industry is that they don't screw up a scene. A lot of them have an inflated sense of ego. They're not the reason people watch porn. It would be sort of like wondering why a referee at a football games makes less money then the star players of the teams involved even though technically he needs to be there to make it happen.