“Oh, 100 per cent,” she says. “I can already see it brewing but I’m not hurting anyone and it’s for my daughter’s future, so they can keep their noses out of it.” It’s just as well, because before long, lessons for the day begin – and I’m the apprehensive star of the show.

But one unassuming lot inside this depot in Hertfordshire is responsible for producing some of the internet’s most outrageous X-rated films, while training the UK’s next generation of audacious adult stars.When it comes to choosing my alter-ego, Andy weighs up the choices before handing me an extremely realistic police officer’s uniform.What’s clear is that being a porn star is nowhere near as easy as it looks and for all the benefits and wealth the industry offers, it’s only suited to the brave, bronzed… and blokes with bulging biceps.Take two goes slightly more smoothly, albeit punctuated with stifled laughter every time I’m labelled “big boy”. Next up, I’m taught how to use real metal handcuffs as part of a BDSM lesson and learning how to work safely with a partner.Georgie says she’ll tell her daughter the truth when she’s old enough to understand, but until then is she bracing for parents at the school gates finding out? Next on to the sex scene, for which we leave the full-sized cab – from the famous Fake Taxi series – and hop into one that’s been cut in half for better lighting and camera angles.“Many thought that by hiring me they could do what they wanted with me, but then I came home, took a bath and cried.”

Schooled in sex

Unsurprisingly, a lot focuses on thrusting and hip stretching.Bookending us are Essex boys Charlie, a 6ft 5in muscle mountain known as ‘BIG Stacks’, and equally chiselled ‘Big Stevo’, real name Steven Anthony. 

Like every industry, the pornography business has a darker side.“Don’t worry about it lav…” I begin to say before correcting myself. “Erm, do you have an American Express card?” Andy’s spent £220,000 so far renovating the former apprentices’ workshop into an ultimate porn studio with at least 22 sets including bizarrely, an old man’s living room. That’s why I’m spending a day training at the Porn Star University, where within hours – under my new alter-ego ‘Josh the naughty journo’ – I’ll be handcuffing a stranger, recreating a racy X-rated scene and learning the language of lust.I’m relieved the scene is over and Andy is kind with his feedback: “You need a bit more passion!”

In January this year, porn star Thania Fields was found dead after sharing that she had experienced “sexual abuse” at the start of her career in porn.Georgie Maria

“It got me fired but it was the best thing that ever happened to me,” the Dubliner says. “I’m a multi-millionaire and am set for the rest of my life now.” As the day draws to a close, I’m guided around the remaining sets including a shower room where they use baby oil and a smoke machine to replicate steamy hot water.

Bonnie Blue’s ‘shock tactics’

I’m not hurting anyone and it’s for my daughter’s future, so they can keep their noses out of itOutside Andy takes us through a warm-up, warning we could “get seriously injured” and be left out of action for months if we don’t take stretching seriously. Lecturer Andy, who claims he is a multi-millionaire, tells us: “There’s no reason why anyone shouldn’t be able to make at least £3,000 a month on OnlyFans… no matter how they look.” We take a brief break inside a council estate set, which is strewn with McDonald’s, Monster energy drink cans, empty Pot Noodles and Haribo, crisp and chocolate wrappers.

X-rated Deliveroo films

It got me fired but it was the best thing that ever happened to me, I’m a multimillionaire and am set for the rest of my life now“You can’t hide this stuff. Someone will see it and people are malicious. They’ll send it to your family members, WhatsApp groups and around your area.” Here, aspiring adult movie stars are taught how to navigate the business, market themselves and learn vital filming tricks, as well as getting ‘hands-on’ training in how to perform on camera on one of the school’s many saucy sets.“It’s hard to work in this industry and not have your morals shift because so much goes on.

Andy knows this all too well. In 2020, he was forced to quit his £38,000-a-year council job after a boss was sent a link to one of his X-rated antics, which was recorded a decade earlier.Andy Lee

After more coaching, I’m fed an array of lines like, “Maybe, I’ll pull over and jump in the back with you for some fun?”“There was a HIV outbreak in Europe about five years ago, which thankfully changed the way testing was done.”Despite the nature of the ‘university’, head honcho Andy Lee, 36, who started out in the industry in 2010, insists surrounding businesses and residential neighbours are “fine” with it, surprisingly.He said: “Over the years working in the industry, suicides were sadly fairly common.

Kinky BDSM handcuffs

“Often Eastern European women are brought into the industry at the hands of traffickers and forced into filming porn under threats of violence.While most of us might be horrified by the attention-seeking stunts of Bonnie Blue, Andy – who has filmed with the Nottinghamshire-born star twice – holds her up as an example to the class.

“I’ve also heard of rape allegations against top producers and suggestions that people have been drugged on set before filming.Here Georgie tells me she started OnlyFans four months ago to escape the long hours and poor pay of her horse riding instructor job so she can give her daughter, four, a better life.What follows is an exhausting-sounding list of yet even more acts that are too graphic to recount in a family publication.With shocking viral stars like Bonnie – known for sleeping with 1,057 men in 12 hours – dominating social media debates in recent months, the adult industry has never felt more in the spotlight.While nothing physical will happen today, Andy recounts the acts in a blasé manner: “Her on top then facing away, against the door boobs hanging through the window, then on the bonnet…”“People relate to it, everyone’s ordered a pizza or food delivery and thought, ‘Woah, they’re really hot.’”

My taxi ‘sex scene’

WITH building supplies strewn around the entrance and a few blokes having a fag outside a car garage, it looks like any other industrial estate.Despite her professionalism, sex appeal is rapidly draining from the room.Welcome to Andy Lee’s Porn Star University – famed for shooting saucy scenes with the likes of Bonnie Blue and producing more than 400 OnlyFans creators in just over two years.

“Phew!” I think, as I compare myself to the competition.She said at the time: “I have suffered sexual harassment and abuse after starting to create adult content. It’s very strong.He continues: “Instead of saying she’s sleeping with 20-year-olds, she says ‘barely-legal teens’ and that she’s ‘here to f*** your husbands’. She knows what she’s doing.”But considering these stunts are helping her rake in a reported £800,000 a month, it’s no surprise scores of Brits are escaping nine-to-five jobs to film explicit content in the hopes of cashing in too.

Boobs ‘hanging in window’

Recently deaths in the US include star Angelina Please, Dahila Sky and Olivia Lua.Roleplay is a big part of the game and the Porn University is packed with hundreds of costumes – ranging from Royal Mail posties to Army uniforms, airport security, firemen, builders and teachers.Leaning over a taxi bonnet, Georgie cringes as I clumsily drop the cuffs and fasten them the wrong way, before temporarily losing the key. Back in class, it’s time for an ‘ad-lib and improvisation’ lesson. My role is a mean-talking Cockney taxi driver and Georgie can’t afford her £6.40 fare.  He has also bought countless costumes and props like a paddling pool for oil wrestling, tools for a mechanics’ garage, workman supplies for a building yard and BDSM gear.“I can’t find my purse anywhere, can I pay you another way?” she seductively states with a wink. 

Before we get to the practical lessons, he has a clear warning: “Remember, once you put a video out there, it’s out there permanently. Are you OK with the world seeing this?Andy insists “the sky’s the limit” if we put in more effort, are clever with marketing, perform stunts and improve our cinematography skills with better lighting, clever camera angles and using a tripod.Andy tells us the common pitfalls, like stars blocking cameras with their hands and elbows and remembering it’s “not about your own pleasure, but the performance of pleasure for the audience”.Andy speaks from experience. He once drove a taxi close to the Eiffel Tower to film a porn scene and regularly posts provocative videos online, including telling women “it’s OK to cheat” on your partner if they aren’t satisfied sexually.Former director Tommie McDonald tells us he left the business after being confronted with some horrifying situations.In a brightly-lit classroom, I’m sat beside glamorous Georgie Maria, 26, a single mum, from Kent, whose OnlyFans page is “completely dead” and “desperately” needs guidance.