If one were to download the PDF version of this year’s AVN nominations in 120 categories it would result in a document 58 pages long. By contrast, the 1984 awards contained only 18 categories. The big winner that year was Scoundrels, about the consequences of adultery. Today we commit adultery over coffee. This reflects both [...]

Nominees for the 2008 AVN Awards will be announced today, sources say, with other sources confirming plans for a 45-day stretch of bitching to commence immediately thereafter. “We usually announce the Awards just before Thanksgiving, then go on vacation so we don’t have to listen to the phone calls from irate producers and performers,” said [...]

The first annual Adultcon Awards will take place on Saturday at Sunset Strip’s Key Club, to be followed by a party there. Presenting at the ceremony will be Kayden Kross, Renae Cruz, Ashlynn Brooke, Nick Manning, Evan Stone, Jack Lawrence, Tommy Gunn, Derek Hay, and Marcus London. The show is designed to last an hour. [...]

I try to get a few independent sources before I print anything I hear as a rumor. That is why I print very few adult industry rumors; it makes for a less titillating site but I comfort myself that at least I can spell “titillating” and I have a huge schlong. I am on the [...]

Unless they are used for bludgeoning enemies, most award trophies are useless. You need to set aside space for them, often building display cases that could better be used for fish tanks or a Pac Man table. People feel awkward around them. They think, “That dude built a display case for his XRCO placque.” You [...]

The X-Rated Critics’ Organization Awards will be held at Forbidden City on the corner of Hollywood and Vine on Thursday, April 5. Doors open at 7 p.m. The Awards used to be held in Century City, an area of Los Angeles reachable only by accident, and then Hollywood’s CineSpace. Why they have been moved yet [...]

Like a gang-banging St. Jude, Summer Haze for some reason will inscribe the names of “fallen stars from the family of X” into her Ladies X-Rated Wrestling Champion belt, presented recently at the Coastal Championship Wrestling smackdown in a high school gym in Cool Springs, Florida. Haze’s publicist writes: Summer has been working hard for [...]

At a small ceremony at the Valley Ball breakfast buffet this morning Gram Ponante.com’s parent company announced the winners of the Also-Rannies, awards given to movies and individuals whom we think were under-recognized by the recent AVN nominations. “While we acknowledge that we are defining ourselves in relation to a better-recognized awards show, this understanding [...]

One could also have conversations at the XRCOs without having to deal with an awful house band and, because the venue was small and the event free, the lower-echelon but just-as-interesting people who couldn’t make it to Vegas showed up to the XRCOs instead. That was nice.