The Radisson Summit: An embedded report
An informational meeting of adult industry elites was held at Chatsworth’s Radisson Hotel to discuss threats to the Porno-Industrial Complex by California’s Occupational Safety And […]
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Free love Saturday night with Victoria Woodhull
Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, and Lamalani, International Ms. Leather 2009, will grace a fundraiser Saturday night for the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization that […]
FSC’s Freedomfest: A night of limited but poignant porn star interaction
Because my relationships with our nation’s finest porn performers are intense and significant, I often attend events and talk with only three or four of […]
Katsuni: Let them eat me
Exotic Dancer magazine sponsors an annual trade show in Las Vegas for the peeling industry. Everyone from stripper pole manufacturers, alcohol vendors, the people who […]
Hustler’s Inferno
I do not think they will giggle and squeal to me – T.S. Eliot
Noname Jane: The cross and the pentagram
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 […]
Erotica L.A. 2009 is the new 2002
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. […]
Erotica L.A. to focus on fellatio, prostitution, military
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 […]
The Deep end of the gangbang
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 […]
Making money at the 2009 XBiz Summer Forum
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 […]
Social networking for narcissists
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 […]
Ashley Fires does
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 […]
XBiz zeroes in on Vegas next week
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 […]
Art: Despite devotion, April Flores is not a virgin
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 […]
Amy Fisher: MILF over Miami
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 […]
April Flores: An evening at the theatre
Fans of the zaftig Flores were probably torn between her glamorous physical presence and the even bigger projection of her on the screen.
Kayden Kross puts the P in PSK
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 […]
Voluptuous Biker Babes at the New Beverly
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 […]
Benchmarking adult award shows, conferences
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 […]
Clean living with Gram
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 […]