“We all know that very little in porn is award worthy, For the most part there is no creativity in it, no hard work, no art, no special skills its all about patting ourselves on the back for what really isnt even mediocrity.”

Working at WalMart doesn’t involve a ton of super important skills, but we don’t take time to call out how silly “Employee of the Month” is. This is because it isn’t really negative. At the best it’s a nice pat on the back and at worst it is unnecessary. They give out awards in tons of industries, it’s not worth being negative over. Also, if they are screwing people over then people shouldn’t go. If that is the case, you should be arguing about the execution. Instead you say how “worthless” the awards are. It sounds grumpy and complaining for complaints sake. Almost no industry deserves awards in some sort of big picture, save the world sorta way. I think as a commenter who has been to the awards said, it’s just having some “fun”.

As for Billy you will note I said most. If you want to believe that you are one of the very few go for it, Im not calling anyone out specifically.
But ask yourself when was the last time we did something along the lines of The Opening of Misty Beethoven or Dixie Ray Hollywood star or even Cafe Flesh

“We all know that very little in porn is award worthy, For the most part there is no creativity in it, no hard work, no art, no special skills its all about patting ourselves on the back for what really isnt even mediocrity.”

I do not agree one bit with that from my perspective. I totally understand that we are not Hollywood but hard work is exactly what enabled my little company X-Play to kick ass for years on some of the biggest companies in the business and lead a trend for the past 8 years. As a matter of fact, I’m still here working in my office at 12:30AM because I need to do everything I can to outdo the competition and complete Grease XXX tomorrow. I have had my best year yet as far as quality movie productions are concerned and I look forward to these award shows and if I win something big and have a little more bounce in my step when I hit the after parties so be it. Why would anybody have an issue with that?

I think you have an angst brewing and that is fine and applauded when you tackle the real issues but to have a beef with porn award shows to me is silly. I look forward to each award show because to me they are a fun night and who gives a rat’s ass if the industry is patting itself on the back? Of course it is. Isn’t that what the Academy Awards do each year? Sure they use better cameras and are more elegant in their speeches but the point is the same. Some producer risks a lot of money to make a shit load of money and bestow some recognition onto some people that still put in the effort to be as good as they possibly can. If people attend and have a good time I see nothing wrong with any of these shows and I support them all.

Heres the thing Jeff and I didnt mention it in the article, maybe I should have. These Shows produce a LOT of revenue and I understand that capitalism is a good thing and all of that but what I am suggesting is that the talent in particular should be treated better at these shows….Do you know how many first hand accounts I have of girls who spent a LOT of money on make up and dresses and what not, all excited about the AVN Awards and then were told they couldnt walk the red carpet? Many of these girls were even NOMINATED.

We all know that very little in porn is award worthy, For the most part there is no creativity in it, no hard work, no art, no special skills its all about patting ourselves on the back for what really isnt even mediocrity.

I remember when the AVN Awards were fun and I like to think that when I won them the industry had higher standards but in reality we both know that they are meaningless but at least back then it didn’t cost me a big pile of money just to go and then get turned away from the red carpet.

We CAN do better and we really need to start addressing that, or at least that is what i would like to think but then I look at the fact that Diane Duke is still employed and then I think….well …maybe not.

I keep a few trophies like my director of the year
and best parody awards nearby and I have some of the others on permanent display in my closet. Once in a while I do bring out all 50 of them for special occasions such as when the Pope comes to visit me or just in case Charlize Theron might drop into my office unexpected.