I like to arrive in Las Vegas early, stock up on water and Emergen-C, and stroll down the empty concourse to Hall A at the Sands, where the Adult Entertainment Expo is held. There I always get a sense of who had the cash to greet attendees with their advertising.
What used to be the province of Wicked and the Wicked girls now belongs to lingerie designer Haci and the electronic cigarette BluCigs (I don’t get it). Haci’s banners join those of Fleshlight and RealTouch on the way to the security checkpoint. Watch for the elderly African-American security guard with a wig, and tell her Gram said Hi.
What can we learn from these banners? Maybe that the companies that make pornography are losing ground to products consumers will use while downloading free pornography? Too early to tell.
Among the dozens of exhibitors at this year’s AEE will be a female sex robot called the TrueCompanion, The “artificial intelligence robots are specially engineered to completely gratify the owner and fully equipped to carry a conversation or have an intimate encounter.” I wonder if the True Companion will fall in love with Randy Sears like Alektra Blue did in Wicked’s “2040“?
Attend the TrueCompanion Press Conference on Saturday, January 9 at 11:00 AM on the AEE stage.
Not only that, but “attendees will also be called to test their riding prowess on a 7-foot bucking mechanical penis. The ride will be located in the Bucking Penis booth, #1030.”
I will be standing slightly to the left of booth 1030 exhibiting my smaller but more versatile model. I plan to be escorted out by security. Maybe even the chick with the wig.
Reports are filtering in from people who will not be attending AEE. Stoya will not be going, and that makes me sad.
But an especially cynical older gentleman I know writes this:
“I think the whole idea of a convention/expo is outdated, especially in our case since most companies are barely operational and most fans are fucking the talent in privates. Do we really need to get together in Vegas — in the shadow of one of the largest, if not the largest, convention Vegas hosts, forcing everyone who goes to pay two or three times the regular rate for a room on the Strip — for a
self-congratulatory circle jerk? Is there even anything to be self-congratulatory about?”
Well, yes. Me and the security guard are getting married.
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: RealTouch-Best of 2009; Precogs, anabots, and why dumb girls are hot
See also: Adult Entertainment Expo, RealTouch
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