An erotic actor or erotic actress or a porn star is somebody who appears in pornographic movies. Many actors/actresses may appear nude in films (usually rather briefly) or on stage but even if they depict sexual behavior they are not considered erotic actors. Most erotic actors use stage names.
... vast mass of mankind, who can not be recluses,
are called.
The charge has even been made that
the piety commended by the "Imitation" is of a
selfish monkish ...