What should I know before travelling for a nude or porn shoot?
Travelling makes every misunderstanding more expensive.
If a local shoot turns out to be wrong, leaving may mean getting on a train and going home. If you flew to another country, the same decision involves luggage, hotels, flights and the fact that you are somewhere unfamiliar. That is why I think the boring details should be sorted before the trip.
You should know the location type, where you are staying, who books the accommodation, how you get there and who is actually going to be in the room. If the person arranging the shoot is also performing in the content, that should not be a surprise after check-in. The same goes for other performers.
The job itself should also be clear enough to picture. What are you making? How explicit is it? How many hours? How many scenes? Photography too? Face visible? Stage name? Vague words become especially useless once somebody has paid for a flight.
Money belongs in the same conversation. Fee, currency, travel reimbursement, hotel, food, local transport, payment timing and cancellation. If you are paying something first and being reimbursed later, know exactly what that is.
Publication should be understood before travel as well. Where will the work appear? Who controls it? Can clips or stills be used for promotion? A performer should not need to land in another country before learning that the distribution is broader than she thought.
I also think basic practical independence matters. Have your own phone. Keep access to your travel documents. Know where you are staying and how you would leave if the project suddenly stops making sense. That is not paranoia. It is the same travel discipline I would use for any unfamiliar work trip.
The point of handling this stuff first is not to make the shoot feel bureaucratic. It is the opposite. When the big practical questions are already settled, the actual production can feel much more relaxed and spontaneous.
That is how I prefer to work. Travel, people involved, scope, payment and publication should not become new information after somebody arrives.
I would also want at least one proper call before an international booking rather than doing everything through fragmented messages. It is much easier to notice confusion when two people actually talk through the day from arrival to departure. Where do we meet? What happens first? When is the test or paperwork? When is payment made? What time do you realistically finish?
Some performers also choose to tell a trusted person where they are staying and when they expect to check in again. That is normal travel behaviour, not an accusation against the production. A professional producer should not be threatened by somebody having an outside point of contact.