Las Vegas- [lasvegasmagazine.com]- While 150,000 straight-laced conventioneers stalk the halls of the Consumer Electronics Show, another trade group exhibits its latest hi-fly products.
But this is the Adult Entertainment Expo, where x-rated DVD’s play on the latest of technologies and Vegas really does become Sin City!
This former “plain manila envelope” affair has become a full-blown mainstream media event that kicks off tonight and runs through late Saturday at the Sands Expo center in the Venetian. This year sees the Expo larger than ever—with a record registration number of exhibitors and attendees!! Even Saturday night’s 25th Annual Awards Show at Mandalay Bay—hosted by Tera Patrick with Dave Navarro and Artie Lange—is open to the public!
The days are all the same suit and tie business as any other convention—but here it’s with X-rated video companies parading pornstars to sell more tapes, and barely-clad lascivious lassies demonstrating adult toys and decadent devices, plus leather and lace manufacturers showcasing outfits far too risqué to wear outside of the bedroom. But if it’s all business by day, then it’s definitely all pleasure by night—and the parties of porn with their erotic, edgy excesses move into top-gear! Here’s the racy, randy, ribald rundown of the five-day festival of flesh:
TONIGHT: At the new Penthouse Club the pets host their official Adult Video Awards party as a kickoff of the venue’s opening week ceremonies.
THURSDAY: Pornstar princess Tera Patrick hosts the 3rd annual Diva Adult Video party at the TAO nightclub in the Venetian. XXX-rated actress Sunset Thomas parties at Olympic Garden and also concludes her search for a lucky fan who will perform with her in her final flick before retiring from the business, “Into the Sunset.”
Marie Luv will host the VOD awards of the adult industry at Tabu Ultra Lounge in MGM Grand.
FRIDAY: Rocker Dave Navarro hosts his official “Broken” porno movie premiere party at PURE nightclub in Caesars Palace. Temptress Tera Patrick will reprise her burlesque dance routine with the femmes fatales at Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce club in Mandalay Bay.
Awards nominee Nikki Benz and Sweden’s no.1 adult entertainment actress, Puma Swede co-host the sizzle of the night with Angie and Devon Savage and Lisa Daniels at Studio 54 in MGM Grand. Blonde bombshell Brittany Andrews will celebrate her 15th year as an adult-world superstar with a Hall of Fame induction party at the Tabu Ultra Lounge in MGM Grand.
Brianna Banks joins the lingerie models from Hustler for a provocative party at TAO nightclub in The Venetian.
Petite pouting Jesse Jane will host the Digital Playground party at JET nightclub in the Mirage.
The Girls Gone Wild official AVN party is at RAIN nightclub in the Palms.
SATURDAY: All eyes will be bulging on the red carpet as the scantily-clad models and actresses sashay, sizzle and strut their dangerous decadence. The 25th Adult Video Awards, with its 100-mind-numbing categories of best multiple sex-scenes (who knew there were that many camera angles?)—Did you know that last year one young actress actually thanked her mom for being her biggest supporter and making it possible for her to “entertain” all the men in one award winning orgy scene! What has happened to showbiz?
Afterwards, hostess Tera Patrick does double duty with the official after-party at JET in the Mirage, while blonde beauty knockout Stormy Daniels hosts a rival “Awards After Party” at TAO in the Venetian.
SUNDAY: Vegas’ own porn-multi-millionaire mogul Jenna Jameson wraps up the provocative parade of powerful pulchritude at the After Dark Playboy Club party in the Palms when she introduces the curvy glamour girls of her Club Jenna.
You just know that UFC fighter boyfriend Tito Ortiz will be locked on her arm for those sexy shenanigans.
If you can’t get into the Adult World Expo, which will be under heavy security-guard scrutiny at the Venetian, Strip Las Vegas magazine is launching its own live internet TV coverage.
It starts today and runs daily from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. featuring the outrageously sexy STRIPLV Girls and in-depth interviews with top performers. Glamour photographer Scott Philip Santos, creator and CEO of the upscale sophisticate magazine, says its television division, aptly called STRIPLV-TV will broadcast live from the Expo at striplvtv.com with such adult guests as Jesse Jane, Playboy’s Andrea Lowell, Kirsten Price, Jessica Drake, and a slew of other sex-stars. Wild and zany comedian Carrot Top will also appear during the broadcasts.
The magazine is celebrating its two-year anniversary with an AVN party at JET nightclub in the Mirage on Friday with Jesse Jane, and the following night hosts the most outlandish outrageous party Vegas has ever seen—“The Exclusive AVN Awards After-Party,” also at JET.