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Our Picks for the 2021 AVN Awards
Oh, it’s been quite a year. I’m not talking about the pandemic but the actual amount of reviewing that it takes to vote for the AVN Awards. As AVN founder, Paul Fishbein, once said, “It is a very...
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Exxxotica Chicago 2021
The first convention since the pandemic started, Exxxotica Chicago was a madhouse this past weekend. Tons of pent up energy in the air, a rampant amount of people that attended combined with less...
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A Look at The 1988 Winter CES Adult Exhibitors
Photographer John A. Mozzer (who is also known around these parts as performer Alan Adrian) shared a bunch of photos he took around the 1988 Winter CES – when the adult exhibitors were tucked away on...
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Exxxotica Miami 2021
The second adult convention since the pandemic started, this year was the busiest Miami show I’ve attended. Not the crowded madhouse that Chicago was, but a steady stream of attendees kept the...
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Exxxotica New Jersey 2021
The largest adult convention this year and possibly the largest one that Exxxotica has held in New Jersey, you wouldn’t think there was a pandemic by the attendance and the behavior of the attendees....
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The 2022 AVN Award Nominations
And here we go with the granddaddy awards show – the one they call The Oscars of Porn. On January 22, 2022 the porn world will virtually gather to celebrate the work done by members of the adult film...
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Exxxotica DC 2021
Exxxotica makes its first appearance near the nation’s capital. The convention isn’t actually in the District of Columbia, but calling it Exxxotica Dulles or Exxxotica NoVa does not have quite the...
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Our Picks for the 2022 AVN Awards
Wow! We did it. We actually voted in every non-retail-pleasure category that we could vote for, and I have to thank my colleagues for pulling this off. It’s not like we did this in any organised...
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Weekend at XBIZ
I attended my first XBIZ show since their last fan event with the Summer Expo at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas in 2010. I don’t think this would have been possible if the pandemic had not happened. Over...
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XRCO Nominees
The XRCO Awards are Thursday night, so it seems the last minute to be posting the nominees list (and even more last minute for the upcoming 2021 Spank Bank Awards…) They put together a video...
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Exxxotica Chicago 2022
The second show in Chicago after the pandemic, the attendance was almost overwhelming as people ventured out in full force compared to last year’s antsy group. I didn’t see any mask wearing, and...
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Exxxotica Miami 2022
This may sound repetitive, but the second post-pandemic Exxxotica Miami show was the busiest out of my years of going to the Florida shows. Not only were there many more attendees that persisted...
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Exxxotica New Jersey 2022
I know. Sounding like a broken record for the past year, Exxxotica New Jersey was the most attended Exxxotica I have been to in the last 12 years. Organisers said that attendance was even larger than...
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AVN Nominees 2023
It’s that time of year again! Time for the Annotated list of AVN Awards nominees for 2023. (Really, the material is from 2022, but the show is in 2023, so they call it 2023.) Best Actor – Featurette...
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Exxxotica DC 2022
Last stop of the Exxxotica tour, this show at the Dulles Expo Center in Virginia was the smallest of the four this year. The energy was overall good, and I had a chance to test out a new ring flash...
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Porn Is Over Here (If You Want It), 2022 Edition
We took a break for a couple years from compiling the holiday porn list, so let’s jump back into it! Here’s a list of titles released in 2021 and 2022 that have some sort of tangential relationship to...
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A Look at The 1989 Winter CES (Adult)
Now that 2023’s AEE/X3 shows are behind us, let’s take an even further look back at the 1989 Winter CES show. Photographer John A. Mozzer (who is also known around these parts as performer Alan...
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AVN Week 2023
Adult Entertainment Expo The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo returned to Las Vegas this month after a 3-year absence due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year, it was concurrent with the return of the...
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XBIZ Week 2023
The X3 Expo and XBIZ Awards returned to the Hollywood Palladium in January directly following XBIZ LA, a conference targeting industry networking. X3 Expo There were much more attendees this year...
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Exxxotica Chicago 2023
I feel like a broken record but Exxxotica continues to break its attendance records at every location since the pandemic. This year, especially on Friday, attendees were shoulder to shoulder as they...
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