XBiz zeroes in on Vegas next week

I go to Las Vegas several times a year: for the AVN show in January, the pre-Christmas Ornament Sale in March, the Livestock Exhibition in August, and the Slaughtering of Magicians’ Rabbits And Pigeons in November, in which the Strip is shut down and the gutters run with blood. If I were a Hollywood douchebag, I would tap my bluetooth headset at you and say: “Good times.”

But I’ve also started looking forward to XBiz’ annual Summer Forum, which takes up residence at the Hard Rock Casino from Tuesday through Friday next week. One highlight is the Miss XBiz Summer Forum Pageant, in which ten finalists (Illeana, Kiara Diane, Ashley Fires, Kagney Linn Karter, Persia Pele, Renee Perez, Teagan Presley, Taryn Thomas, Brynn Tyler, and Trisha Uptown) will compete in a bikini, Q & A, and talent contest.

The winner will star in an exclusive photo shoot, scheduled in Los Angeles following the Summer Forum, for the official XSF 2010 promotional campaign. Photos will be featured in print ads, web banners and on future covers of XBIZ World and XBIZ Premiere magazines.

This is good, because if the shoot was scheduled before the Summer Forum then people would think the competition was rigged.

I know 50 percent of the finalists, so I’m hoping to console the losers.

And, while I am not a judge and have no say in the contest, I just happen to have taken a lot of naked pictures of Kagney Linn Karter, so I present them here.

Another big draw of the Forum will doubtless be my appearance on the Social Networking panel, in which I discuss the merits of Twitter (none), Facebook, and MySpace with the likes of Joanna Angel and various luminaries from the adult web, including Kim Kysar of Pink Visual, Pete Housely of Naughty Tweet, and Michael Terpin of marketing firm Social Radi.

I have no doubt that several of the panelists will be tweeting throughout the seminar to show how neat Twitter is, the same way I often get blowjobs while standing in line at Starbucks: no reason, really, but I can.

A summer trip to Vegas used to seem like a tremendously bad idea, but I have learned to like it.

Whereas AVN’s Vegas charms lie in threading one’s way through endless inner hallways to bars, hookers, seminars, trade shows, and eventually one’s own hotel room, never seeing the light of day, attendees at the XBiz Forum tend to step out of a conference room and into the Hard Rock’s amazing pool, lightly frothed with my Jagermeister spit takes when I see another 50-year-old adult affiliate program manager with a web starlet young enough to be his granddaughter’s babysitter.

The Internet side of the adult business has always struck me as a little more serious-minded than its video counterpart, and adult web personnel tend to mean business, even as they launch flame wars, hold grudges, and bury the hatchet in order to do more business. On the other hand, these guys tend to behave more like porn performers themselves when they let their goatees down, whereas video company owners would never be caught doing jello shots off a stripper in public.

So, as a sociologist, I am compelled to go.

Previously on Porn Valley Observed: XBiz Summer Forum 07 in review; Porn stars stay connected – but at what cost?
See also: XBiz Summer Forum

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