Italy

Number of pornstars: 148
Currently active: 72 (49 %)
Population: 60.6
Ratio: 2.4
Pornography legalized in : 1987

Geography and socioeconomics

The heartland of Italian porn, unlike most other countries, doesn't lie within its largest cities, such as Rome or Milan. The highest densities of pornstars are to be found in smaller cities, such as Firenze, Genoa or Torino. The most highest concentrations of pornstars can be found in what is typically called the "Red regions" in Northern Central Italy, spanning from Eastern Liguria to Marche going through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. These regions are well-known to be less religious, more urbanised, politically more left-leaning and globally more liberal, which explains their dominant position in the production of Italian porn. In these areas, the PD and its allies (centre-left) are still dominant, leading to a relatively solid correlation between moderate left-wing electoral scores and pornstar ratios in Italy : .31 (R²=.09). Reversly, right-wing and far-right regions display a negative correlation of similar pertinence at, respectively, -.30 (R²= .09) and -.24 (R²=.06). More interesting is the negative correlation between Moviemento 5 Stelle's scores and the pornstar ratios, amounting to -.21 (R²=.04). This negative relationship, even though not very significant, already hints at other major conclusions about Italian porn.

First of all, and to finish the political side of the analysis, there is almost no significance to the divide between "mainstream" parties and "protest parties". The traditional, centrist, government parties' scores do not correlate significantly with porn star density. The electoral scores of extremist and/or protest parties don't neither. Which leads us to economics. Protest parties being mainly supported by unemployed and/or people living in poverty, the correlations between rates of unemployement, youth unemployment and poverty unsurprisingly correlated negatively with pornstar density. All economic factors taken into account display similar figures

GDP/capita : -.19 (R² = .03)
Unemployment : -.16 (R² = .03)
Youth Unemplyment : -.34 (R² = .11)
Poverty : -.20 (R² = .04)

The distribution of pornstars in Italy actually obeys massively to the two main variables we've identified around the world : urbanisation and irreligiosity. The pornstar ratios correlate with rates of urbanisation at a staggering .68 (R²= .48), due notably to the low ratios in the rural Southern parts of the country. Irreligiosity also plays a large role with a correlation at .46 (R²=.21), explaining also why the capital region, Lazio, the centre of Christianity and Catholicism, displays such a low pornstar ratio.

Here are the cities, notice the low ranking of Rome.              

CITY	PORNSTARS	POPULATION	RATIO
Firenze	7	0,4	18
Torino	7	0,9	8
Genova	5	0,8	6,8
Napoli	4	1	3,6
Roma	5	2,6	2,1

Here are some of the hottest Italian pornstars.

Valentina Nappi was born in 1990 in Pompei. She is part of a youger generation of Italian pornstars who have made it to fame in the United States. She specializes notably in anal, in releases such as Anal Debauchery (2012), Anal Buffet (2014) or Anal All Day (2015). Her main asset is her teeny looks and her big bouncy ass. She has recently centered her career more on tits-related productions, such as Big Wet Tits 14 (2015), for Evil Angel Productions.

Aluna Jenson is more representative of Italian porn today. Born in 1977 in Firenze, she's a mature MILF, with massive fake tits and a taste for gangbangs and anal releases. She's being working the mature niche ever since she started her career in 2012 with releases such as Big Titty MILFs 18 (2012) or Seduced by a Cougar (2014). She's worked for prestigious American productions such as Evil Angel and Naughty America.

Evita Pozzi was born in Rome in 1984. She specializes in MILF-related releases and has made her massive fake tits her major asset. She has mainly worked within Italy for local productions such as PigItalia and Showtime as well as Barcelona-based Private Media. An old school, Eurobabe cougar.

The Italian porn industry is quite well developped, yet declining and producing more and more amateur content. Main producers include Showtime, founded in 1996 by Silvio Bandinelli and PigItalia, founded in 2007 in San Marino. These companies employ both Italian actresses and many girls from Eastern Europe. Italian porn is mainly based on vintage releases (#7) and MILF-related releases, due notably to a rapidly aging porn star population.