It was a pleasure seeing Noname Jane at Erotica L.A. this weekend. I didn’t notice at the time that she was wearing a pentagram, but that might have been the way Satan wanted it. I first met Noname Jane under a different name (I was then known as Ronnie James Dio) in 2006 at the [...]

Erotica L.A. seemed packed the two days I attended, and that is an encouraging – though qualified – sign for Porn Valley’s most precious resource. The south hall of the L.A. Convention Center had been floorscaped to smaller dimensions than in previous years, so it was hard to move around. Crowds formed around Belladonna, consumers [...]

Tomorrow begins the 340th annual Erotica LA at the L.A. Convention Center. When Gaspar de Portola (and his men) stood atop the Santa Monica Mountains in 1769 and gazed at Porn Valley to the north, they were surely thinking about Tera Patrick’s annual pilgrimage from Van Nuys to what would become Figueroa Blvd. Erotica LA [...]

By the end of the year, Sabrina Deep estimates she will have been unloaded upon by 2,000 men in 20 cities. And she doesn’t mean they will have told her their problems. Nope, those 2,000 Sabrina Deep fans will come on her face, hair, neck, chest, ears, eyebrows, eyes, forehead and, more likely than not, [...]

In the adult world, it is easy to equate “sedate” with “failure,” but the relative calm and low turnout to last week’s XBiz Summer Forum in Las Vegas was merely a reflection of doubtful times for the porn biz. In isolated doses, it might have been any adult convention in boom times; there was nudity, [...]

Today I spoke on a panel about social networking at the XBiz Summer Forum. I thought it would be fun to tweet (I hate using that word; I want to punch myself – but who am I to change the language?) while I was sitting up there. Furthermore, I thought I would not be the [...]

Moments ago Ashley Fires won the 2009 Miss XBiz Summer Forum Pageant by dancing whilst twirling flaming batons barefoot. Fires can do everything porn stars can do, but this fire twirling is something she can really fall back on. Several women competed, such as GramPonante.com favorites Joanna Angel (pole dance to AC/DC), Kagney Linn Karter [...]

I go to Las Vegas several times a year: for the AVN show in January, the pre-Christmas Ornament Sale in March, the Livestock Exhibition in August, and the Slaughtering of Magicians’ Rabbits And Pigeons in November, in which the Strip is shut down and the gutters run with blood. If I were a Hollywood douchebag, [...]

Artists from Michelangelo to El Greco have depicted the Virgin Mary, and tonight at La Luz de Jesus (not to be confused with La Madre de Jesus) gallery in Hollywood, eight artists put their stamp on the non-virginal parts of April Flores. Flores’ genitalia were the subject of Topco’s Cyberskin craftsmen earlier this year, and [...]

Exxotica Miami, which in the past three years has grown to be the East Coast’s biggest adult consumer show, next month features Amy Fisher hosting “The Search for South Florida’s Hottest MILF.” And the contest is on Mother’s Day, May 10. I know of no other way for Dade County’s moms to show their devotion [...]

Voluptuous Biker Babes screened at the New Beverly Theatre Saturday morning at 1 (why I ever get there early for midnight shows still confuses me. It must be the inexpensive snacks. What cost me $15 at Watchmen at the Arclight the next night cost $3 at the New Beverly. And I’m still talking about snacks, [...]

Kayden Kross hosts Porn Star Karaoke tonight the only way she knows how: TO THE EDGE! The extreme Kross, a volatile dynamo of fists and vengeance, will rock the mike and your immortal soul so close to the Pass Ave. exit on CA 134 that your teeth will come loose and sweat rings will appear [...]

One of the best places to see a movie in the City of Los Angeles is the New Beverly Cinema, and the perfect movie to watch on the New Beverly’s screen will get the midnight treatment on Friday, March 6. Carlos Batts’ Voluptuous Biker Babes is a tribute to the films of Russ Meyer and [...]

A few years ago, the adult video industry’s connection with upstart XBiz was tenuous; Hustler and Vivid did not play ball with AVN’s rival, and only Digital Playground seemed to see the value in advertising with the magazine. But that has changed, and now both AVN and XBiz draw from the same pool of advertisers [...]

As you well know, I am able to consume, process, and enjoy mass quantities of alcohol. With each glass, snifter, flagon, tankard, skin, or sadder-but-wiser stripper’s navel-full I become more charming and witty. In fact, I’m drunk now. But if Mary Carey’s appearance on “Sober House” has taught me anything, it is that only by [...]

Vivid’s Steve Hirsch, who co-founded the company in 1984, was inside. Hirsch is one of only a few of Porn Valley’s CEOs who has managed to keep his company afloat from the dawn of VHS through the Great Internet Dilution. The others are Larry Flynt and Adam & Eve’s Phil Harvey.

Here are Zak Sabbath, Mandy Morbid, Kimberly Kane, and Pride of Warsaw Agata at the XBiz Awards. If we look from left to right, the western way, we end up mired in Agata’s rage. But if we read from right to left, we go from Agata’s wrath to Kane’s cautionary bird-flipping to Morbid’s Canadian bemusement [...]

Of all the unsubstantiated hearsay floating around the XBiz Conference this week, perhaps the most shocking was the factoid I invented in a bathroom about the Church of Scientology purchasing AVN to start a trackside compound in Chatsworth. Imagine my surprise when Googling the location of tonight’s XBiz Awards to find that L. Ron Hubbard [...]

One of the most interesting panels at the XBiz Conference this week found porn performers discussing the evolution of the term “porn star” and the things performers needed to do to stay connected, famous, and relevant. I’ll provide a breakdown shortly, but something that happened during this particular panel demonstrated how the porn world responds [...]

Katsuni will bring her frank and leonine ways to old El Paso this weekend as she dances at that city’s Red Parrot gentlemen’s club as part of its “Asian Invasion.” I always think of Katsuni as French first, but that’s because she always greets me with a selection of fine cheeses. As you are doubtless [...]