These photos are from Wednesday, day one of AVN’s 15th Annual Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE); held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Day one is a B2B event with members of the adult industry from the Internet, video and hard goods being the primary attendees. It was a good time for the media to come in and interview porn stars such as Jesse Jayne and Jessica Drake before the doors open for the fan show which begins Thursday.

AVN’s Adult Novelty Expo (ANE) also started today and included seminars and booths of various toys, oils, pills and other pleasure devices as well as various services such as credit card processing and insurance available for those that own toy stores. ANE will continue through Friday; with AEE culminating Saturday evening with the 30th Annual AVN Awards.

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Wednesday evening, Cybersocket held their 13th Annual Cybersocket Web Awards at The Factory Nightclub in West Hollywood, CA. The Cybersocket Web Awards is the only event of its kind honoring the best gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transsexual (GLBT) websites. There are categories for both industry recognition as well as the surfer’s (aka people’s) choices. Industry categories would include Best Web Host and Best Webmaster Resource; while the surfer’s categories included Best Ethnic-Themed Site and Best Novelties Site.

The Factory was packed and it seemed it was primarily surfers, eager to catch a glimpse of their favorite gay porn star. There was plenty to keep them entertained throughout the evening. These photos are sponsored by the only search engine that only searches .XXX websites; search.xxx. (more…)

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These photos are from the first ever FSC Summit, put on by the Free Speech Coalition and held at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills. As this adult industry summit was held just two days after LA County Measure B was passed, the timing was ideal and probably contributed to the high attendance even though there did not seem to be a lot of pre-show advertising. Topics discussed included emerging world markets, the story behind Measure B and what will happen now as well as diversification of marketing of adult products. I had a prior engagement scheduled so I could not stay until the end, but there will be an awards presentation later.

I only heard about this event two or three days ago so I was pleasantly surprised at the attendance which seemed to be between 200-300 people. The panelists included the lobbyists that presented their ideas on what is on the horizon for the adult industry. One might be surprised to learn that the sky is not falling . . . yet. The fight against Measure B proved that the adult industry has friends in the mainstream, but they need to discontinue the policy of trying to stay under the radar. Adult is an industry, and it is our job to make sure other businesses know it. (more…)

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