This year’s XRCO Awards were a great fun time; a perfect encapsulation of the misplaced resentment, earnest good will, limited attention span, dark humor, poor planning, and uncalibrated sense of history that Porn Valley’s 4-decades-old adult industry is known for.

No book has done more to complicate the legacy of the late John Holmes—to his favor—than “Porn King,” his fascinating work of semi-autobiography re-released by his widow, Laurie Holmes.

Ridiculously mismanaged award shows are the comfort food of the porn industry.

“It was a different time,” says Jamie Gillis.

Sometimes people make choices in porn more for what they can avoid than for what they can get

I don’t need to tell you how comfortable and life-affirming it is to sit with scantily-clad women as they giggle, tweet, text, take photos of each other, and shove candy in their mouths.

Nearly a quarter century after his death, interest in John C. Holmes isn’t “Exhausted,” and you get the feeling Holmes wouldn’t have had it any other way.

The Wonderland Murders became the Porn Industry’s first big scandal, and AHF and AIM had nothing to do with it

Has Rodney Moore found his Feminine Ideal?

Maybe Vivid’s presence in that bone orchard was proof that when you die, that’s all there is.

“Rocki Whore Picture Show” is one of the handful of porn parodies that pays its own way; it has a good shot of pleasing porn fans who like the original camp film as well as those who’ve never seen it.

Sasha Grey’s “Neu Sex” doesn’t actually have sex in it. How refreshing!

“Why do Russian hookers like Prague?”

“It reminds them of home, but without the breadlines and shootings, I suppose.”

Porn Star Karaoke is an ancient and venerable tradition that must be preserved

Gazzman and I speak about the notion of fidelity on porn sets

It would be easy to dismiss Manning as an egomaniac, or even to say that the puffed up ego is a show in itself, but what comes across in interviews is that Manning knows who he is, but sometimes it’s difficult to live in his own body.

“The Facts of Life” was the first porn movie I wrote and directed. Yet it wasn’t even the first porn parody of the 80′s sitcom that made Mindy Cohn a household name.

“You’re more exciting than his hands, I hope,” says Bobbi Starr

Gram speaks with Bob Chinn on his book-based reboot of Johnny Wadd

Contrary to public belief, the European porn industry grew independently of the American one, and the Marshall Plan had nothing to do with it.