Sasha Grey will keynote the 2010 Adult Entertainment Expo, according to an announcement delivered the same week that Barack Obama was chosen as the winner of 2009’s Nobel Peace Prize.
“Sasha Grey is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and original voices in adult entertainment today,” said AEE spokesperson Sean Devlin of the convention’s first-ever keynote speech, to be delivered in Las Vegas one month after Obama accepts the Nobel Prize in Oslo.
Both Grey and Obama were humbled by the recognition, and attributed their success to their many international advocates.
“In this tough economy it is of even greater importance to show appreciation for the fans and supporters who make it possible for us to continue to do what we love,” Grey said.
Echoed Obama, “I do not view it a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.”
A porn actress for just three years, Grey is a winner of AVN’s Best Female Performer award. Still, longtime industry icons such as Jenna Jameson, Tera Patrick, Ron Jeremy, and William Margold were passed over for the inaugural keynote speech, which Devlin says will cover Grey’s “thoughts about the adult entertainment industry, her artistic and sexual aesthetic, and women and the industry.”
Sources close to the president say that Obama’s December Nobel acceptance speech will address many of the same issues, as well as the hunting of milves and cougars in Afghanistan.
Critical reaction to the Nobel Committee’s announcement noted Obama’s lack of tangible results in his short time on the world stage. Nobel laureate Lech Walesa, who won the prize in 1983 for his work with Poland’s Solidarity movement, said “Too soon!”
Similarly, some adult industry commentators felt that AEE was not worthy of a keynote speech, even by someone as accomplished as Grey.
“Having a keynote at the AVN Expo is like bringing (Sasha) Grey Poupon to a pie-eating contest,” said Gram Ponante, “or orchestra seats at a cockfight.”
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: God, grant me Sasha Grey; What the Obama presidency means to the porn industry
See also: Adult Entertainment Expo, Nobel Foundation
I love Sasha and I i think its great she is the keynote speaker. I think it may be too soon for the prez but maybe its wishful thinking. Plus, sex is more fun than politics.
Wow, can't wait to hear her drone out all those ill-informed malapropisms and teenage self-serving inaccuracies that her press releases are filled with! On the other hand, she'll probably be standing on a flimsy "stage" in the back in front of ten rows of folding chairs half-full with guys in sweatpants trying to rub one out without being noticed, speaking through a cheap, distorted sound system that won't carry further than the last row of masturbators.
Seeing as how Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be giving the keynote at CES, does that make Sasha our Steve Ballmer?
And will she lead the mouth-breathers in a chant of "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!"?
Sasha Grey as keynote of 2010 AEE???
Better is:
— Steven Hirsch
— Jesse Jane
— Larry Flynt
— Tera Patrick