2022 XRCO Awards Show Promises a Load of Redemption
The XRCO Awards show is a mighty cable connecting us to our hairier porn forebears.
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Anatomy of an Oil Orgy
Sometimes you need to turn turmoil into a big butt oil orgy.
Bill Margold’s Cold, Dead Fingers on My Relationship
One’s porn CV can be a terrible weapon of mercy.
Deep Inside the XRCO, with Links for Further Reading
This year’s XRCO nominations, with links for further reading!
29th XRCO Awards Shows Its Dirtypillows
I’ve always felt that naming a Mainstream Favorite is like those movies where the protagonist forsakes his true friends—the misfits!—for the cool kids who have always been mean to him, and will be again.
XRCO 2012: An Awards Show for the Ages
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.
Intrigue at the XRCO measures who still cares about adult awards
Ridiculously mismanaged award shows are the comfort food of the porn industry.
[PR] Kayden Kross, Dylan Ryder to Co-Host XRCO Awards: Let the Wild Cat-Herding Begin!
Kayden Kross and Dylan Ryder will host the 2012 XRCO Awards, a porn industry-only event, on April 9
Alternate universe XRCO Awards deemed “elegant”
Gram wonders what the plane fare might be to the type of place in which the XRCO Awards were actually “elegant”
New on Lifetime: “Superslut ‘n’ Sophie”
I give the porn industry maybe three more weeks until it becomes completely mainstream. That is why I am pursuing basic cable deals, because that’s where the real money is.
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,”
XRCO insta-gallery: 2005-2008
Here is a gallery of four years of XRCO shows I attended. They demonstrate how it is often possible – even preferable – to not watch the actual show.
Beating the June Gloom with XBiz in Las Vegas
Will fans, performers, and exhibitors who haven’t been going to Erotica L.A. show up in Vegas for the XFanz Expo instead?
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.
The Ropey Volley Awards: Gram’s Dirty Dozen of 2009
In a very real way, all porn is good. But the following titles were better.
Spector of porn haunts “I’m Good At Freaky”
At no point in the movie “I’m Good At Freaky,” which premieres Thursday night at the Los Feliz 3, is the title character identified as […]
Sophie Dee is not going back to Llanelli or: A Tale of two chippies
I’ve always thought Sophie Dee was a little witchy, probably because of her entrancing eyes and the fact that I feel like I’m erecting a henge whenever I talk with her.
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 […]
Digital Playground preps Pirates 3
When Digital Playground adapted Disney’s theme park ride-turned-movie series Pirates of the Caribbean into the Pirates pornos, few thought the adult versions would be so […]
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 […]