CBS At AVN: They Silenced Our Sasha!

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: More »

Congrats to Tera Wray, who got caught up in the whole Vegas spirit and got hitched to her rockstar boyfriend at the AVN Expo. (It must have been something in the air conditioning.) And we didn't even get them a gift! (xbiz.com)

Jenna Jameson seems to have created a little drama with her unfortunately timed AVN Awards speech. Oh, you didn't know she was retired? Sorry to ruin the surprise. (pornstarbabylon.wordpress.com)

Welcome Back, Lorelei Lee

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. More »

Girls And Their Gadgets: Because Porn Stars Like Shiny Things Too

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?
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Meet Jean Laconia: A Star Is Born

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. More »

Getting SaSi At The 2008 AVN Expo

It's pronounced like "sassy" and we know this because this gadget was one of the most talked about on the inanimate object side of the AVN Expo—the SaSi is the sex toy that learns. If you're as scared about a planetary robot takeover as we are, then the thought of a vibrator that understands your pleasure so well it can teach itself to get you off, might make you want to break out the tinfoil hats and start digging those underground dwellings. To assuage our fears, our fine friends at sex toy wonder emporium Babeland arranged a demonstration for us, courtesy of pornstar/vulva puppet instructor Daisy Lane. Keep in mind, this is only a prototype—they won't be available for purchase until spring—so you still have several good months left before SaSi become self-aware and enslaves you in orgasmic bliss. More »

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. More »

Everyone seemed to agree that the AVN Expo felt smaller this year, but no one could really agree why. (Are the studios broke or just cheap?) When you're talking about a room full of half naked pornstars can it ever truly be big enough? (aetoday.com)

2008 AVN Awards Red Carpet: And the Line Goes On Forever

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. More »

Porn Vegas Dispatch: Jenna Jameson Makes It Absolutely Clear

While her surgeries and weight loss have altered her appearance, Jenna Jameson is still porn's most recognized name, even if non-porn media on the red carpet at the AVN Awards on Saturday night were overheard gasping "That's Jenna Jameson?" More »

2008 AVN Expo: Someone Else Was There Too?

Though some of us stayed home and ogled the occasionally dee-licious porn parade , many allegiant operatives were (as they say) hard at work covering AEE all for their very own blogs, pleasures, and these things we've heard of called "jobs". Peruse the indy plus porn MSM coverage and decide who got off working at it, or who were workin' it. The more interesting coverage is (ahem) cherry-picked for your perusal below... And we'll call it as we see it, kiss our pranky CES siblings from across the Strip, and even yawn at the predictable outcomes, even if we shall remain the blog whose name cannot be spoken. More »

Driven by Boredom Becomes Non-Sequitur At AEE

We roll up our sleeves and get our hands filthy when we need to (read:AEE), and manage to keep the home fires of babes burning while boobs are bursting like Alien pod creatures and Abby Winters honeys make Vegas actually look fun for about two minutes. But if there were anyone's shoes we'd love to step in and slip into the lubed-up, behind-the-scenes antics, it would be Sir Driven By Boredom himself, Sir Nate Smith, aka dbb. See why we'd trade Converse with him in a porny minute in his gritty, totally wacked galleries... More »

Postcards From Las Vegas: Saying Goodbye To All That

As Saturday afternoon fades into Saturday night pre-Awards show madness, the AVN Expo takes on a certain lugubrious quality. Booths are starting to come down, pornstars and fans (and press) are worn down, and things are winding down for our 2008 coverage. Don't be too sad—there's still lots more to come, both from the Awards show itself and our grab bag of leftover goodies, but for now we'll leave you with these parting shots from the convention hall. We've lost some of our good health, probably a bit of our sanity, and all sense of time and space (it is still January, right?) from spending the last four days in this climate-controlled fleshy wonderland ... but we wouldn't have passed up this weekend for all the melon spray in the world. We hope the big winner was you. More »

AVN Tips & Tricks: What Does Your Expo Booth Say About You?

The AVN Expo is the stage upon which porn studios show their faces to the world, and those faces are represented by convention booths. Thousands of fans will walk by dozens of exhibits and displays on the show floor, so the booth is each company's main opportunity to distinguish itself from its competitors and convey to the public what your company is all about. So how did this year's attendees choose to send that all-important message? We've put together a handy gallery of the biggest and best booths on the floor of the Sands Expo Center, along with some notes on what we think each booth is trying to say. You may want to bookmark it or something—who knows you may find it useful when making plans for your next porn trade show! More »

Adrianna Lynn Is Ready For Her Closeup

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Porn Vegas Dispatch: Suited To A Tee

Even though they do most of the goddamn work, male porn performers aren't the ones being swamped by autograph seekers and camera phone wielders in Las Vegas this week. The natty and affable Tee Reel understands this and takes it in stride, slowly building his own business and name recognition as well as a well-deserved reputation of solid performances. We asked him how he prepares for the AVN Expo. More »

Let Jamye Waxman Teach You About Vulvas

Despite some questionable "advertising", and an even more questionable location (buried in the Sands Expo Center basement's "Fan Theater," which is neither a theater or filled with fans), Fleshbot crush object and sexpert extraordinaire Jamye Waxman continued her AVN Expo quest to deliver orgasms to the female population of the world. (From what we understand, she's also in favor of orgasms for guys.) To be frank, attendance was a bit low at her Good Sex Workshops at the AVN Expo this afternoon, but that's mostly because no one who wanted to be there could actually find the room where they were being held. Still, that didn't stop Jamye from imploring those about to enter the fray to take a few moments and learn the proper way to service a partner. Would the promise of free demonstrations by an actual porn star couple be enough to sway them? Only their sex toy distributor knows for sure. More »

Fleshbot Reads Your Thoughts: Kayden Kross

If we were Kayden Kross (and we are!), we would be thinking, "I really do look fantastic. Screw this humility. I am hot like fire. I mean, look at my breasts. LOOK AT THEM! Sometimes I like to just smile at them and say 'I appreciate you (plural); thanks for being there." More »

OhMiBod: Phone Sex Gets Some Good Buzz

Apple pervs nerds have probably been salivating all week since we learned that OhMiBod would be unveiling their newest iPhone and iPod-friendly upgrades this week at the AVN Expo. So naturally, when we got to Vegas their display booth was one of the first places we hit up in order to get a hands-on demonstration of their latest breakthrough. If the thought of your lover physically getting your rocks off using the vibrations of their own voice sounds a little too "Blade Runner" for your tastes, just remember that the future is what you make of it. So why not make it tickle a bit? More »

Shay Jordan: You Never Forget Your Second Time Either

Our own naivete as a first time Expo attendee has already been well established, but Shay Jordan is practically a veteran. We asked her how things change after you get one under your hat and she promises that things do get easier with practice. After seeing all she's pulled off in just one year, who knows what we might accomplish once we add a few more notches to our belts? More »

Porn Vegas Dispatch: The Thighs of Bobbi Starr

Something occurred to me across 25,000 feet of convention floor space: Is Bobbi Starr wearing underpants? Alas she was, and probably still is, for the northern California native is very proper. Still, for a few moments until it was scientifically determined she was wearing a white thong, the world seemed like a parfait glass of possibilities. More »

The Single Best Thing To Happen At The AVN Expo This Year (Maybe Ever): Three Minutes And Nine Seconds Of Hot Girls Kissing Each Other

As we mentioned yesterday, it's pretty hard to miss the Abby Winters booth at the AVN Expo this year: occupying some prime real estate in the middle of the show floor, it was designed and built in the company's native Australia and shipped to Las Vegas for the show this week. More »

Katsuni Plays To Win

Do you like accents? Because it's hard not to fall in love with Katsuni's French lilt once you hear it. We had a little trouble reconciling her quiet, soft demeanor with the orgasmic anal queen we've seen on film, but we've since resolved to never challenge her in anything more serious than a game of checkers. We sense there's a competitive streak lying beneath that polite smile that we don't want to mess around with. More »

We'd thought our siblings over at Gizmodo were done with their work in Las Vegas this week once the Consumer Electronics Show ended yesterday, but they evidently decided to stick around to ... uh, check out some of the other kinds of technology being unveiled at the Sands Expo Center. (And good thing, too — we totally would have missed the streaming video porn-on-demand box thingie in that forest of dildos we've been having to fight our way through every morning.) (Gizmodo)

Porn Vegas Dispatch: AVN Founder Remembers His First Time

Paul Fishbein co-founded AVN in 1983 while a clerk in a Philadelphia video store. Then a newsletter for video stores about the emerging (and lucrative) adult video market, AVN has grown into a series of publications and websites as well as the sponsor of several trade shows, including this week's Adult Entertainment Expo. We spoke with Fishbein about the first porn movie he saw, the unpredictability of the adult market, and the emerging generational divide in porn. More »

AVN Awards '08 Countdown: Who Was That Mystery Blowjob Woman

When "Swallow My Children"'s Rob Rotten showed up last year dandling this lady, the Internet was atwitter. "Who is that girl?" the Internet squealed. Rotten was coy, as was the girl. Neither was ready to reveal her One True Porn Name. That changed when Rotten's white trash blowjob epic surfaced in the summer, and the mystery woman was revealed to be Daisy Tanks. So now you know, too. More »

AVN Tips & Tricks: Keep Your Pants Wet

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Postcards From Las Vegas: Requiem For Debbie

We received a rather prescient warning this afternoon from none other than Jesse Jane herself: By the end of this weekend, she prophesied, we'll be so overwhelmed by the crush of fans and flashbulbs and the popping of oversized balloons that we'll just want nothing more than to hide out in our hotel room and drink. Perhaps at that moment we'll know the thoughts of this model, sitting on a mechanical bull for the majority of the day shift in order to promote a 30-year-old movie. Such is Las Vegas, and we've only just begun. More »