This year’s XRCO Awards were a great fun time; a perfect encapsulation of the misplaced resentment, earnest good will, limited attention span, dark humor, poor planning, and uncalibrated sense of history that Porn Valley’s 4-decades-old adult industry is known for.

Prior to visiting my first porn set (2002′s Whoriental Sex Academy 4) I was very nervous that (1) My body, or parts of it, would betray me, and (2) Someone would ask – and they’d have had the right to – what I thought I was doing there without an understanding of how pornography is [...]