Jesse Jane Tells The Best Stories

We've been saving this clip for a rainy day, because frankly, it doesn't really have much to do with anything. It's not newsy, it's not topical, and there isn't even any actual porn in it. Yet, it's still pretty much the hottest thing you'll see (or hear) today. We simply sat pornstar supreme Jesse Jane in front of a camera and asked her to tell us a sexy story. Spoiler Alert! She delivered.

· DigitalPlayground (digitalplayground.com)
· Video by Nick McGlynn

Genial "CBS This Morning" host Bill Geist was one of the less bitter media types covering the (yes, we're still talking about it) AVN Awards, but even he could not see clear to airing his short interview with Sasha Grey, which went like this:

Geist: What is it like to win an "Oscar of Porn"?
Grey: It's just so fucking good to be finally fucking appreciated.

CBS' coverage of the awards was bemused rather than mocking, which is a step up from the attention porn usually receives from the mainstream world.


· On the Red Carpet at the "Oscars of Porn" (cbsnews.com)
· See also: Gram's Index (gramponante.com)

Because I am married to the church, it is permissible to have innocent crushes. That is why it was ensaddening when Lorelei Lee announced a hiatus from porn last year that I was certain would be permanent. I admit that I am dubious of some people who call themselves "sex positive", thinking that a more accurate term might be "fraudulent" or at the very least "intolerant", but for me Lee is the real deal, writing about her work as a porn performer with insight, vulnerability, and a sadder-but-wiser tone that still remains hopeful.

Join us after the gap to find out what she's been up to.

There were a few surprises at the 2008 AVN Awards last Saturday night: Bree Olson winning Nest New Starlet! Jenna getting booed by the crowd! All those empty seats! But as far as we can tell, pretty much everyone agreed that no one deserved to win the Performer of the Year award as much as Sasha Grey ... and fortunately, she did. Intelligent, poised, and downright nasty when she wants to be, Sasha is truly a new breed of porn star, one who has just as much genuine star quality while defending the adult industry on a daytime talk show as she does while choking on an outsized set of genitalia in a movie like "Babysitters", for which she also picked up a trophy this weekend. (Oh, and did we mention she's left-handed too?) Follow along as we take another look at some of Sasha's career highlights over the past year and a half, and join us in congratulating her on an award well won. (Not like we didn't see it coming or anything.)

Tech geeks that we are at heart, we have to admit that it was a little frustrating being in Las Vegas last week and not being able to get into the Consumer Electronics Show with our AVN Expo passes to check out all those shiny new toys. (Yes, we know there were even more folks in the completely opposite position than we were; we believe this is what's called irony or something.) But that doesn't mean there wasn't plenty of technolust happening on the porn side of things: aside from all those buzzing devices we saw ourselves, the folks at AOL's Switched.com managed to get up close and personal with almost two dozen of the adult industry's shiniest lights to find out which gizmos turned them on the most. Predictably, sex toys like Silver Bullets and Magic Wands are the most frequently mentioned, but it's making us all tingly knowing that Jenna Haze loves her PSP as much as we do. Maybe we can challenge her to some ad hoc network play sometime?

Jean Laconia was both of the AVN Expo and not of the AVN Expo this year, as the 18-year-old Connecticut native was visiting Las Vegas for the first time and shot what she said was her first professional porn scene ever in a cramped room at Treasure Island. Jean is a stripper in Massachusetts, but is going to be making the move to Los Anghles shortly. In fact, she's shooting for Vivid this very day.

See more of the prime of Miss Jean Laconia after the gap.

If you're starting to get a little sick of our continued 2008 AVN Expo and Awards coverage, especially now that the event is over ... well, stop and take a moment to consider how we must feel: we've been back from Vegas for two days already and we still can't get the lingering scent of melon body spray and crowd sweat out of our nostrils, which are still encrusted with various substances from endless hours spent in all that climate-controlled recirculated desert air. (Yeah, that's it.) And just like we keep on finding business cards in our pockets from people we have no recollection of ever meeting, we still have a bunch of photos on our hard drives that we really ought to post before things get too stale around here; what they may lack in up-to-the-moment freshness they more than make up for in their value as part of the historical record And isn't being, um, historical what going to a porn expo and taking pictures is all about?

Lest we forget ... check out the last batch of photos from this year's AVN Expo by Jeff Koga after the jump.

The delightfully sunny Bree Olson has been a fixture of the masturbatory fantasies of so many for so long that it came as a surprise for some folks last Saturday to learn that she had been awarded the Best New Starlet trophy at this year's AVN Awards, not so much because of that "best" aspect as for the "new" part: as one commenter noted in our awards show liveblogging coverage, "Is (she) that new? It seems like I have been rubbing 'em out to her forever." Such confusion is understandable: while an exhaustive ten second search of the Fleshbot archives shows that we did indeed introduce you to her almost exactly a year ago to the week, she'd been appearing on various hardcore paysites and in films like Smash Pictures' "Whale Tale #3" for several months prior to that, and well in advance of her signing as a contract girl for Adam and Eve—which we suppose is really what qualified her for her Best New Starlet nomination, at least on the dotted line.

As for her other qualifications for winning? Well, all you have to do is take another look at some of the Bree Olson sightings we've posted about over the last twelve months to see for yourself why she deserved the honor. We have a feeling you won't question her eligibility after that.

Getting SaSi At The 2008 AVN Expo

Jesse Jane: And A Blonde Shall Lead Us

After being told that we would receive an audience with none other than the great Miss Jesse Jane at the AVn Expo last week, we confessed that we were a little intimidated by the thought of meeting her for the first time. But others who had gone before us reassured us with tales of her welcoming Texas charm, which thankfully turned out to be true: she immediately put us at ease with a friendly smile, and then offered us plenty of advice on surviving Las Vegas. It might be too late for any other aspiring expo newbies to put her words of wisdom to good use, but you might want to bookmark this clip in case you're thinking about making the pilgrimage to the Sands Expo Center next year. For there will always be a next year.

· Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)
· Video by Nick McGlynn

We could use this space to further expound upon the general clusterfuckiness of this year's red carpet at the 2008 AVN Awards last Saturday evening at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas; or how poorly organized and cramped the press area was if you didn't happen to be part of a large television network or glossy mainstream magazine; or how the phenomenon of some of the younger porn starlets repurposing what were evidently their prom dresses to wear to their first big adult industry event really needs to be looked at more closely. But we know you didn't come here for that ... you came here to see glamour, high fashion, not-so-high fashion, they-must-have-been-high-when-they-picked-out-that-outfit fashion, plastic surgery nightmares, and lots and lots of barely contained boobs. (Also? We're too hung over to write any more complete sentences today than we already have!)

After jump ... more photos ... boobs ... Jenna Jameson Dana DeArmond Hillary Scott Sasha Grey ... kthxbi.

200 people (and one Lorax) walked the AVN Awards red carpet last Saturday night, and the line of porn stars and their co-walkers lengthened down the hallways of Mandalay Bay for more than three hours. Altogether it was an orderly group, and we can tell you from personal experience that it was the press photographers who were the least well-behaved. Here we see a load of starlets (that is their official collective term) getting ready for the carpet media gauntlet, which ran from Dave Navarro at one end to Robin Leach at the other, mercifully passing through Playboy interviewer Casey Parker in the middle. See more snaps after the gap.