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 […]
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Cui Boner or: AVN is like a Rolling Stone
Ain’t it hard to discover that/He ain’t really where it’s at/After he took from you everything he could steal?/How does it feel? – Bob Dylan […]
Artists become ambitious as porn parody implosion nears
Like mosquitoes buzzing around a particularly jolly and jowly Bavarian tourist, the porn industry views parodies as a dependable but fleeting income source that needs […]
Naked Ambition: Porn stars photographed, interviewed
Photographer Michael Grecco brought a movie camera along when he was shooting the stills for the coffeetable book “Naked Ambition: An R-Rated Look at an […]
AVN sends employees, lawsuit to XBiz
AVN yesterday filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against rival XBiz, claiming the upstart adult trade publication misappropriated trade secrets and generated unfair competition […]
BBW alarmists: lighten up
Something about this week made me long for the rich taste of a Wendy’s Baconator, and I have been passed out atop a pile of […]
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 […]
It’s more hopeful if you read Hebrew
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 […]
Same time last year: Incest and Peppermints edition
Notable events this week: XBiz commissioned a firm to create the glossy State of the Industry: Researched And Revealed! pamphlet which also makes projections of […]
Everyone to be the same at 2009 Adult Entertainment Expo
Used to be you’d know a porn performer by his tiny head or by the way she’d reflexively cringe when you approached her, but no […]
Apple to leave MacWorld for Adult Entertainment Expo
Tech watchers are up in arms about Apple’s announcement that this January’s MacWorld Expo will be its last and that founder Steve Jobs will not […]
The Price of The Price of Pleasure
Somewhere on the campus of the University of Southern California tomorrow (only the elect know), perhaps between 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. at the Montgomery […]
Bone death and porn
Did you know that “Gram Ponante,” like “Mark Twain,” is a term common to riverboat navigators? Strange but true. That is why it was not […]
Microsoft unveils "My First Porn Article" software
Redmond, WA (GP:PVO) — Software giant Microsoft today launched the Porn Article template for its Microsoft Word application. The template contains all the elements standard […]
Belladonna and Jenna Haze to usher in Year of The Ass at 2009 AVN Awards
It seems like only a week has passed since I finally finished running stories about the 2008 AVN Awards (at which another Jenna daintily crossed […]
Black and grey Friday in the porn world, Gawker Media
The porn industry is contracting somewhat, and familiar faces at some companies are either leaving porn altogether or are moving to other companies to be […]
David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
Ms Jasmin St Claire allows butane gas to be pumped via PVC into her colon and set afire on expulsion, resulting in a 3.5-foot anal blowtorch for Cream Productions’ 1998 Blow it Out Your Ass.’
AVN Awards 2008: Reliving the dream
The AVN Awards show gets bigger every year, and this January the event was covered by Showtime, which is getting chummier and chummier with the […]
When Black Friday comes to AVN
AVN laid off 16 employees today, including senior editor Mike Albo, long a fixture on the adult reportage scene, having previously edited Hustler’s Erotic Video […]
AVN sold to Dunkin’ Donuts
The AVN acquisition will be reflected in Dunkin’ Donuts’ branding by means of a new motto (“Good Fuckin’ Doughnuts”) and the renaming of the company’s Large Regular coffee to BBW.