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 there’s so many new and exciting things going on in the adult industry, so many people trying to offer something fresh and different, but AVN doesn’t see them. And AVN is the public face of porn, it’s the thing that gets into the mainstream media. So “porn” comes to equal silicon-titted porn stars and the sleazy looking guys hoping to get their autograph. It’s never the whole story.
The AVN expo once again hosted a panel on marketing to women called, rather revealingly, Girls Girls Girls. The workshop included an address by Kelly Holland, who runs Chick Media, and a panel discussion featuring Joy King of Wicked Pictures, Kim Airs of Grand Opening, Diane Duke of the Free Speech Coalition, entrepreneur Nenna Joiner, Evil Angel’s Karen Stagliano, Rachel Venning of Babeland and Kristin Wynters of Pink Visual/Yappo.
I must admit, I’ve only ever heard of Kelly Holland. I’m not sure what the other women have to offer to a discussion on marketing to women, I should look them up. In any case, Tristan Taormino attended and said on Twitter: “It was frustrating, fractured, sprawling & circular. I got a headache.”
Perhaps next year I’ll be there and give them my thoughts on the issue.
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