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2022 XRCO Awards Show Promises a Load of Redemption

April 6, 2022 Gram the Man 0

The XRCO Awards show is a mighty cable connecting us to our hairier porn forebears.

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AltPorn Awards Nominations Open for June Ceremony

March 24, 2022 Gram the Man 0

Tattoo or not tattoo?

Emma Rose Wins Big at Trans Erotica Awards

March 23, 2022 Gram the Man 0

This was Emma Rose’s first in-person TEA Show

AVN Show Plans Return to Vegas in 2023

March 23, 2022 Gram the Man 0

I don’t want porn conventions to have an entirely new look and feel.

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News from the Terrifying World of Bondage And Discipline

February 26, 2021 Gram the Man 0

Even in the age of Insta-dommes, giants still walk the earth.

AVN Awards To Go Online Rather than Onstage in Vegas

August 4, 2020 Gram the Man 0

For the first time in the ceremony’s 38-year history, the AVN Awards will be held online, rather than in Las Vegas, for the 2021 show.

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2020 Altporn Awards: “These People Don’t Leave the House Anyway.”

July 23, 2020 Gram the Man 0

Balloting closes July 25 to weigh in on “Tattooed Anal Sluts 2”

Sabrina’s Deep-Thinking Big Top Gang Bang

July 20, 2020 Gram the Man 4

“If it were up to me,” Deep told me, “I’d just have them come one after the other. But this is a big production, and these people are very organized.”

Last Call at the Hard Rock: An AVN 2020 Gallery

January 31, 2020 Gram the Man 0

“It’s ironic that a bunch of porn girls are going to be hanging out at the Virgin Hotel next year.”

Sabrina Deep and her husband Fabio

I Have Never Attended A Comfortable Gangbang

July 26, 2019 Gram the Man 0

Gangbangs should be scheduled for cold days; on days like this, you can actually see the bacteria thinking.

Ange Venus photo by Gram Ponante, everybody

Sometimes People Cry: An AVN Awards Wrap-up

February 10, 2016 Gram the Man 1

In the end, many of them cried.

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New Adult Awards Show Promises Showbiz, Sparkle, Panche

July 29, 2015 Gram the Man 0

A new adult awards show threatens to return sparkle and panche to the porn industry.

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Greene And Hartley Tag-Team Consenting Audience in “Master of O” Reading

November 8, 2014 Gram the Man 0

Submissives are father to the master

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Meat Curtain Call: “The Vagina Talk Show”

September 19, 2014 Gram the Man 0

“Our vaginas are not a proving ground for men to make us squirt,” says Vagina #1

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“Lady Valor”: Kristin Beck’s Just War at Home

September 16, 2014 Gram the Man 0

“This is made for people from Oklahoma and Kansas,” the earnest and affable Beck says after the screening. “That’s why there’s a dog in every scene.”

“Tampa Teasers” And “Naked Came the Pornstar”: Porn from a Different Time And Place

February 26, 2014 Gram the Man 1

Two books tell a story about porn in a (better?) time and place

Performer Dick Tracy Dies during Arrest

November 23, 2013 Gram the Man 3

Dick Tracy was the third performer since 2010 who has died after altercations with police.

Carlos Batts Remembered by Hundreds in a Weekend of L.A. Memorials

November 10, 2013 Gram the Man 0

“Live life to the fullest, without fear or regret.”

“Coming Out Kinky” When You’ve Had Some Time To Think About It

October 29, 2013 Gram the Man 0

“A friend I met on Craigslist [took me to a BDSM dungeon]” says actor Jean Franzblau. “I had no idea the rabbit hole would go so deep.”

Carlos Batts: A Memorial And Gallery

October 28, 2013 Gram the Man 0

Carlos Batts and April Flores were like an interracial porno-fabulous Andrew Wyeth and Helga.

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