Masturbation habits of the clergy
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This is Gram Ponante with Your Porner's Almanac, Number Nine.
The big news this week after Thanksgiving was the announcement of the AVN nominations. Since the early 1980's, Adult Video News has been the main trade publication for the adult industry and people interested in it, and its awards have been getting more comprehensive every year, as new niches become popular and more and more companies and performers enter the market.
AVN has long dominated the adult industry, but of late it has received stiff competition from other companies horning in on its piece of the adult publishing and trade show markets. And while people do complain about AVN, its January trade show and awards in Las Vegas have been an annual reunion of adult video and Internet workers for more than two decades.
AVN announced a whopping 120 categories with as many as 15 nominees per category. To the casual observer many of these categories overlap, and to the jaded veteran many of these categories seem to be an attempt to please every last advertiser with a reward or nomination.
It is actually somewhere in the middle. It has been pointed out that the AVN Awards, often called The Oscars of Porn, are the only popular awards show hosted by a trade magazine; the Oscars aren't given out by Variety and the Grammys aren't presented by Rolling Stone, so you can see the conflict of interest.
Really, the AVNs are the Vibe Awards of Porn with less gunfire but similar clothes. The 25th annual AVN Awards will be held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on January 12.
The most nominated movie for the 2008 awards is Upload. You can see a review on Gram Ponante.com. Made for $375,000 by the producing team of Eli Cross, Kylie Ireland, and someone calling himself Belial, the Other Dark Prince, Upload is a very dirty, very involved movie with a lot of thought behind it. While there are some parts where the special effects are a little cheesy or where the acting is wooden, Upload is above everything a great porn movie that, aside from well, you know, the sex, would fit right in on the Sci-Fi channel.
Here's a blind item. Sort of. Christopher Jack Reid, aka Jack Venice, is free on bail after turning himself in to police in Pullman, Washington for a September incident in which the porn actor was allegedly involved in three burglaries in the first degree and one rape in the second. The incidents occurred on the campus of Washington State University.
A little more information: According to a spokesman for the Pullman police when I asked him what items were burgled, the charge of "residential burglary" in Washington can be any incident in which someone enters a residence without permission and with the intent to commit a crime. In this case, that crime was rape, and the burglary charge was attached afterward. Venice's case has been continued to early Spring.
Venice appears in a movie I just watched in which he was dressed as a priest and was jerking off to porn displayed on, of all things, a 17' MacBook Pro. The film was shot long before the events of this September, but I pointed out in my review how fraught with information it was that this man was in a priest's garb, jerking off to porn, using Apple products, and out on bail for rape. Someone involved with the film called me and said, "Why'd you have to mention the rape?"
The Porner's Almanac is brought to you with help from the Internet Adult Film Database at IAFD.com. For all of your pornographic and pornotextual needs, visit Porn Valley Observed at http://www.gramponante.com. Until next time, find out what computer platform your member of clergy uses to jerk off.
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