AVN… Again

So the 2009 AVN Awards and Expo have come and gone and, as before, there’s nothing new to report. The industry has successfully patted itself on the back for producing more of the same. The only award worth mentioning was the one given to Tristan Taormino for her Expert Guide to Oral Sex: Fellatio. Innocent Pictures’ All About Anna didn’t win anything despite several nominations. It’s kind of depressing that Read More …

AVN Roundtable On Marketing To Women

I missed this when it happened – perhaps because AVN isn’t such a great site for discovering useful stuff like this. Still, better late than never. The AVN expo in January held a special seminar called “What Women Want”, aiming to discuss the needs of female consumers when it comes to porn and sex toys. Given the title of the forum and the fact that it was AVN I was Read More …

Bah Humbug: AVN Awards Announced

The AVN awards for 2008 have been announced and, disappointingly, Candida Royalle’s Afrodite Superstar only received one award, for Best Music, despite receiving a large number of nominations. It’s a real shame that so few other female-friendly films got up, especially considering the huge number of movies that were nominated this year – I made a full list here. Instead, awards went to such quality productions as Face Full of Read More …

Female Friendly AVN Nominations – Titles To Root For

In Australia, “rooting” is a euphemism for having sex. So we’ve long giggled whenever an American says “I’m rooting for ___ to win.” Now I can use it in a title… and I’m giggling. Anyway, the AVN award nominations have been announced and it’s another year of the same ol’ same ol’. Even the “alternative” category is laced with productions by big name companies like Penthouse and Playboy and is Read More …