The 2010 Ropey Volley Awards—Pornographers to Watch Out for
Since porn is usually about naked people, Gram took the bold step of humanizing this year’s Ropey Volley awards
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The 2010 Ropey Volley Awards—Movies of the Year
Because there’s more than one way women can get ropey volleys lobbed across their faces and necks
No Sex in the Sherman Room: A six-hour porn odyssey
Every day I spend as America’s Beloved Porn Journalist is not all about irrumatio, nailed deadlines, and speedballs. There are some days that I must go home emptyhanded.
Around the world in 4077 days with Chanel Preston and Eric Swiss
Sometimes you can experience the whole world without leaving the room. It also helps if there are naked 19-year-olds in that room.
Not-so-secret porn societies: the XRCO
“I believe that only people who have been in the biz a long, long time have survived because they recognize and acknowledge the humor of it,”
Feminist Porn Awards return to Toronto
I understand “Awards,” of course, but the words “Feminists” and “Porn” are rarely seen in the same sentence unless there’s a “sure do hate” between them.
XBiz L.A. wrap-up: “The pond gets smaller so the fish get bigger”
Nina Hartley, meanwhile, gave a very-present Evan Stone his Best Actor trophy, and they groped each other for a good minute while I stood by, alone, waiting for my chance to do things to Kane that would make the Kama Sutra curl up and explode.
Call for suggestions: Presenter etiquette at the XBiz Awards
I will be presenting the Best Actress trophy at this year’s XBiz Awards, but I am unsure of how I should comport myself.
Voting open for NightMoves Awards, with autumn closing in
So close to the Porn Valley mentality is the city of Tampa that a street bearing its name runs straight through Northridge. That is why […]
O Awards honor things, not people, that fuck people
This week’s Adult Novelty Expo at the Sheraton Universal culminates with the first (annual?) O Awards Tuesday night. The awards will honor companies and products […]
XRCO Awards tonight
I was a voter for tonight’s X-Rated Critics’ Organization (XRCO) Awards, and I look forward to seeing (from afar, alas, I will be in another […]
Japanese porn awards honor Kirara Asuka, prayer
Anyone who has ever attended an adult awards show knows that there is no possible way for them to be improved. When one looks up […]
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 […]
Blasphemous rumors
Of all the unsubstantiated hearsay floating around the XBiz Conference this week, perhaps the most shocking was the factoid I invented in a bathroom about […]
AVN 2009: The only numbers you can trust
Number of times it took Stormy Daniels, equipped with oversized ceremonial scissors, to cut the ribbon opening the 2009 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo: 4Amount of […]
Gram Ponante announces Oscars of Porn
At a tearful ceremony this morning at the Lamplighter Restaurant, the grant-funded National Institutes of Pornographic And Pornotextual Arts presented their Oscars of Porn, the […]
In the company of Kayden Kross
I was informed of my first porn industry award early this morning by registered letter and one of those pajamagrams. Adult producer/fisherman Mike South said […]
Same time last year: McDLT Edition
Sometimes I look at the things I wrote yesterday, forget about three years ago, and don’t understand them. And it’s probably because each day I […]
Pirates 2 wins SWINE
Does winning an AVN Award guarantee better sales? “You bet!” says everyone who ever won one, nervously clutching his collar and offering me a great […]