Wendigo except they don’t have a boss, they can pick and choose what jobs they want to do or don’t want to do. So yes they can say “this isn’t fun, I’d rather not show up”.
You either have the choice of shooting some gonzo scene where you get to have wild sex and fuck the shit out of a top pornstar or you can shoot some bullshit scene with a lower tier star where you can’t touch the girl, have a huge camera rig in your face and you have to lay rigidly still without making a sound. Oh and you have to stay hard despite all the restrictions. Which scene do you choose?
Not just talking about the male performer either. It can’t be fun for the girl to have sex with some dead fish who doesn’t fuck back or even touch her. Plenty of girls already don’t shoot normal VR as it’s too technical and lacking in any intimacy.
It is a job but it’s a job where you have to portray something fun and sexy. That’s harder to do if it’s not remotely fun or sexy.