sticking to escorting.  Girls are not making the big bucks in porn that they used to.  There is just too much free stuff out there, and the market is saturated with it.  If you really want to do porn, go ahead, but keep up the escorting, I think you will make more money as an escort.

Swim

Might command a higher premium depending where you are geographically and pricepointwise.

is that you could then market yourself as a 'porn star' and charge higher escort rates.  But that only works if your movies are memorable...  and frankly the porn market is saturated with product.

Another perspective about doing porn

Besides the fact that it's no big money-maker anymore, you might find that it can actually hinder your escort persona. It's odd, but true-- many hobbyists prefer to think of you as their own. Of course, they know that you're an escort... but the GFE fantasy is somewhat negated if they can download clips of you riding some guy's cock in a porn flick.

Just sayin'.

Tabu

What everyone says about market saturation in porn is absolutely true.  The reason is technology.  Inexpensive, lightweight, and easy to use cameras/recording equipment along with simple editing software make anyone a porn star/director/producer.  Combine that with the proliferation of sites that show free clips of porn videos and the content ends up being provided to the end user for free.  (And lets face it, all that's need is a clip, as 10 minutes is about the maximum time before porn goes from stimulating to boring, IMHO.)

A provider I knew well thought doing porn would be an intermediate stop on the transition from escort to retirement.  She went to L.A. and did two movies for a relatively well known porn web site/content provider.  But that was it.  Two movies and her porn career was over as she was no longer the flavor of the month (or week, or day as the case may be).  I guess there's only so many "MILF fucks 18 year old neighbor boy" movies that can be done, at least with her as the MILF.  The money she earned?  For each movie she got paid about what she would earn in a typical one hour session as an escort.

Most girls who shoot run out of work and end up escorting or stripping.  In my opinion the stigma that goes with shooting porn s not worth the money it brings in anymore.

there have been about 4 hiv positive cases in the porn industry in the past 6 months or so as well.  All the porn stars are on twitter and if you follow all the industry news there, would be a good way to make a more informed decision.