Six years in the wake of the AVN-financed web series The Money Shot, about the inner workings of a Porn Valley trade magazine, AVN financier Vivid is releasing Layout, about the inner workings of a Porn Valley trade magazine. The Money Shot, about the day to day operations of the Blue Movie Guide (BMG), drew [...]
Rotten, "Too Close for Comfort" star rift worsens
Director Rob Rotten today lashed out at JMJ Bullock, who played the flamboyant Monroe on the Ted Knight sitcom “Too Close for Comfort”, adult industry Bible AVN reported. With an article titled “Nevermind the Bullocks”, AVN delighted aging porn consumers with a reference to a favorite 20-year-old television show. “You think you can go to [...]
Inside joke of the week: Former AVN Editor Turns Up in Israel
Read the review of Assraelis here.
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Nikki and Dana find Jesus
Since I cannot let go of the 2007 AVN convention, we must let God. Turn your cheek, then, to this video of (some of) Our Lord visiting Sin City to chat up the likes of Dana DeArmond, Jewess Joanna Angel, Taylor Wane, Summer Haze, and Nikki Nievez, a personal favorite who I never even saw [...]
Last words on AVN 2007
I have always felt that January was about AVN and February was about Black History, so let’s tie up some worthwhile loose ends from this site and around the web. I met (for the first time) O: The Power of Submission director Ernest Greene and Nina Hartley at, of all places, the Corruption party after [...]
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Whither Shane’s World?
Shane’s World is like a prairie dog: it pops up for an elaborate party, disappears, unveils a new contract performer, you hardly ever see her again, brings Devon back from exile, she disappears, has no presence at the AVN Expo, wins an award, watches you while you pump gas. I feel the company is toying [...]
Rob Rotten’s Lap Mystery
Because I am focused like a laser, I didn’t ask who the woman was on Pride of Novato Rob Rotten’s lap at the AVN Expo. Rotten, who is not Zak Sabbath, is the director of Anal Swine, Porn of the Dead, and Fuck the System and is, like most actual punks, a nice guy. (You [...]
Team Hardcore on the move!
If you are aware of any group of booth girls who worked harder than the Max Hardcore Unit at this year’s AVN Expo, let me know. Ange Venus spread her legs so far open for so many cameraphone-wielding fans that she was no longer ambulatory at the end of the convention. “May I take your [...]
Today in Porn Valley
Buck Angel runs unopposed
Man-with-a-Pussy Buck (no relation to Joanna) Angel, or M-WAP as he is known to the US Army, won Transsexual Performer of the Year at this year’s AVN Awards. Like Bryn Pryor winning Best Non-Sex Performance for his role in Corruption (these awards are usually given for comic cameos, but Pryor actually acted), Angel re-defined his [...]
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Alexis Skye and conditioned thinking
I have met some very attractive transsexuals but, like renting the last several seasons of “24″ just so I can catch up on it, I have no real time to get familiar with a new landscape. At the AVN Expo, which is now a distant memory from which I have moved on and grown, I [...]
2007 AVN wrap-up: "A fine spray of legitimacy"
The best movie didn’t win; it often doesn’t. But what made this AVN Awards better than in previous years was that the best movie didn’t win for reasons different from the other times the best movie didn’t win. We’ll get to that later. Prior to the Adult Entertainment Expo, many were worried that the companies [...]
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Sophia Santi’s golden arches
I interviewed Sophia Santi at last year’s convention and yesterday and, to my horror, saw that her eyebrows had not changed. In fact, I had absently left my room key on her right eyebrow last year and it was still there when I came back. The image on the left was taken in 2006. Here [...]
Why CES and AVN broke up
When the AVN Expo was a tiny little division of the Consumer Electronics Show, the adult area, as it should have been, was a curtained-off ghetto. I never went to the AVN Expo when it was part of CES, but since I attended both shows this year, I got versions of the breakup story from [...]
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From Kelly to Alana
Alana Evans told me the story about her Mustang today, in which Kelly Clarkson (or her manager) didn’t like the idea of a porn star driving the same kind of car she had. “It really worked out better for me,” Evans said, “because now people are giving me free things for my car just so [...]
Virtual Hole lands boxcover contract
Maybe AVN Expo booths aren’t expensive compared with his and her luxury vehicles, but Asian sex toy manufacturer Virtual Hole should have shelled out a few extra bucks for a copy editor – maybe one of the recent deportees from AVN? – for their banner, which seems to hedge its bets between being the ultmate [...]
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Nautica Thorn is neither Mika Tan nor Mya Luanna
Signing at the Hustler booth under a Mya Luanna poster, Nautica Thorn, a woman in front of me said, seemed awfully animated for Mya Luanna. When I told her that the articulate woman signing posters was not Mya Luanna she nodded, reached the counter and asked, “Mika, could you sign this to Wendy?”
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"Now I’ve seen everything"
…said the mountainous loaf of a security guard at Eroticist Films’ party last night at Hidden Secrets. He was watching Velocity Chyaldd smear herself with a bloody knife in important places. “I didn’t see that coming.” I’d been to three parties before this one last night, each a grudging appearance with a long line and [...]
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Bryn Pryor and Kylie Ireland: dressing for success
I asked Corruption director Bryn Pryor (whom I feel should win a Best Director award this Saturday despite my unease with the movie he directed) if those were prescription sunglasses. “I wear sunglasses indoors because I decided a while back that the only way I was going to be taken seriously at the AVN show [...]
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Sophie Dee likes her hair like she likes her men
Sophie used to be blonde, and I didn’t recognize her at first because her eyes were closed, then she opened them, and someone behind me said, “I’d do her just for her eyes.” Considering the setting, I thought that was very sweet.
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Justine Joli: Multitasker
Stuck downstairs in the Business-2-Business Ghetto at the AVN Expo, I found Justine Joli. “Come with me,” she said. “I need to smoke.” “You’re smoking now,” I pointed out. We went to a forgotten stairwell and she did a little advertising while she lit up. That is my knee in the corner (I am not [...]
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