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MISS USA 2009
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The age-old Miss USA pageant has come under fire for posting suggestive photos and videos of 51 hopefuls on their official website.

The Miss USA contestants posed for the official photos in Las Vegas last week, with plenty of skin showing in highly provocative poses, clad mostly in lingerie. Critics are slamming the new direction as a ploy to grab ratings, while others are saying it’s a sign of the times and a way for the women to show their confidence and sexuality.

Read more: http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2010/05/miss_usa_pageant_posts_scandal_pictures.php#ixzz0ndoLDKno

Miss USA Pageant Posts Racy Images | Extra – StumbleUpon.

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The “groundbreaking sex robot” is neither groundbreaking nor a true robot.

By Veronica BelmontPosted Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at 9:32 AM ET

Usually when I write about a new tech product, I like to have a little “hands-on” time with the device. Perhaps fortunately, that’s not the case with the Roxxxy TrueCompanion, the latest in high-tech sex toys, unleashed at this year’s Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. While I was next-door at the Consumer Electronics Show, checking out the latest in 3-D televisions and e-book readers, Roxxxy was making waves with sex industry professionals and robot bloggers alike.

Creator Douglas Hines believes his “sex robot” to be the most realistic in existence, with several different personality modes built into each unit (Mature Martha, Frigid Farrah, Wild Wendy) that can be further tailored and shared with other users online. It also has software that responds to touch and offers audio feedback based on activity. While the technology inside of Roxxxy is very intriguing, I’m more curious about how artificial intelligence in the bedroom will change how we real humans view sex.

Starting at $7,000 and topping off at $9,000, depending on how customizable you’d like your doll, Roxxxy isn’t priced low enough to achieve mass-market adoption—any plans to add sophisticated electronics to your existing sex routine are probably a few years off. But as the technology advances and the prices of parts drop, we’ll begin to see more devices out there like Roxxxy. With such advanced sex toys readily available, could a real woman’s role in the bedroom become obsolete?

via The “groundbreaking sex robot” Roxxxy is neither groundbreaking nor a true robot. – By Veronica Belmont – Slate Magazine.

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The first 3D TV sets are not set to hit stores until midyear but the porn industry is already shooting and selling immersive 3D films.

Adult movie makers are known for being technology pioneers, having helped drive the adoption of previous new technologies such as VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, the internet and high-definition.

BadGirls in 3D, an exhibitor at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, is so early with its adoption of 3D that it is selling a $US3999 ($4320) kit that includes a Mitsubishi 60-inch 3DTV, two pairs of 3D glasses and a tiny PC that is used to stream the 3D films from the web.

via 3D TV | Porn studios lead the stampede.

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LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 09:  Adult film actress Gi...
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At the Adult Entertainment Expo four years ago this month, I passed through the security checkpoint at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas — and was struck by the sheer volume of people. The porn industry’s annual convention had packed more than 30,000 attendees into two exhibit halls. It was nearly impossible to move around, or have a conversation, let alone interview a company executive. But as I pushed through the crowded aisles between elaborate displays, I could feel the energy pulsing through the room.

This conference, held every year concurrently with the Consumer Electronics Show, is where the adult-entertainment industry goes to work: cutting deals, announcing new talent and products, and setting the tone for an exciting and lucrative new year — not to mention fueling their adrenaline and desires with alcohol and blackjack.

A Quick Decline

In 2006, porn was reaching new heights. DVD sales had hit nearly $4.3 billion for the year just ended, according to Adult Video News; online was good for another $1.5 billion (and hadn’t begun to cannibalize video sales yet). But two years later, AEE was almost unimaginably different. Despite the increased elbow room, the conference had both a smaller crowd and fewer exhibitors. A few major players, like Penthouse, skipped out on what had always been the industry’s biggest event of the year.

via Porn Industry Suffers in Economic Downturn – DailyFinance.

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The porn industry peddles a product as old as Adam and Eve, and it’s always found the most cutting edge ways to do it.Photo: High-Tech Sex? Porn Flirts With the Cutting Edge: Adult Entertainment Expo Kicks Off as Consumer Electronics Show ContinuesAn adult entertainer dances at the 2010 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nev., Friday Dec. 8, 2010. It’s no accident that each year as the Consumer Electronics Show winds down in Las Vegas, the Adult Entertainment Expo heats up.Zuma Press/NewscomIt’s no accident that each year as the Consumer Electronics Show winds down in Las Vegas, the Adult Entertainment Expo heats up. Bespectacled techies cross paths with corseted porn stars selling high-tech sex toys and tools of all shapes and sizes.Some say technology revolutions like the VHS format, video chatting and the digital delivery of content got a boost from the tech-savvy purveyors and fans of adult fantasy, but the fruits of the tech-adult marriage take a variety of forms.Every year, scattered between the many booths showcasing porn perennials — XXX movies, traditional accessories and attire — are a few vendors that take technology to a whole new, sometimes head-scratching, level. And there’s no subject or function too taboo or outrageous. Here are a few examples:

via High-Tech Sex? Porn Flirts With the Cutting Edge – ABC News.

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Tera Patrick

Tera Patrick

( News release: LAS VEGAS, NV ) – Spring is barely in the rear view mirror, but Las Vegas is already gearing up for the hottest party of the summer. On Thursday June 4th, Tera Patrick brings Lingeriegasm to TAO. Come see what happens when the world’s most popular adult film star hosts a party in the best club on The Strip.

Tera Patrick Lingeriegasm poster

Tera Patrick Lingeriegasm poster

Lingeriegasm features great music, gorgeous women and an open vodka bar from 10-11pm for all women in lingerie. Tera will also host a spectacular lingerie party with a thousand dollar cash prize going to the sexiest lingerie clad lady. Tera and her girls will team up with the TAO girls will pick the absolute hottest babe from the field of contestants. That lucky lady will walk away with a cool grand for her efforts.

“I have been a part of some fantastic events at TAO,” Tera says. “Our alliance just keeps getting stronger with each passing event. Last time we had so many hot girls in lingerie. Suge Knight from Death Row Records stopped by. We are really building this thing up. TAO is the place to be on Thursdays. Tables are pre-sold and people are showing up in droves to see who will take home the cash as the hottest lady in lingerie.”

Don’t miss Tera Patrick hosting Lingeriegasm at TAO on June 4th in Las Vegas.

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Although the official announcement of this year’s Playmate of the Year will be done by Hugh Hefner at an official ceremony tonight at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, Miss March 2008 Ida Ljungqvist reportedly already has the title in the bag.

“Ida won! She is so excited!” a pal of the stunner tells The FABlife.

Ida, 27, was born in Tanzania to a Swedish mother and Tanzanian father. She is the first Playmate born in Africa and is fluent in English, Swedish, and Swahili.

via Playboy Playmate of the Year 2009 Ida Ljungqvist | The Fab Life – Celebrity Gossip, Fashion & Style | TFL Main.

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Lingeriegasm hosted by Tera Patrick

"Lingeriegasm" hosted by Tera Patrick

(News release: LAS VEGAS, NV ) – Tera Patrick knows a thing or to about hosting a fabulous lingerie party in Las Vegas. She has become such an expert that she is going to make a habit of it. Starting on Tuesday April 21st, the world’s most popular adult tentertainer will play mistress of ceremonies to monthly lingerie parties at LAVO and TAO in Las Vegas.

“I have hosted some amazing events at TAO,” says Tera. “So I can think of no better place to hold these monthly lingerie bashes. We are going to tear the roof off of the place with great music, drinks and gorgeous women in lingerie as far as the eye can see.”

Lavish LAVO is the pride of The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas and a picture perfect setting for lovely lingerie-clad beauties.

TAO is already the place to be when partying in Las Vegas. Celebrities and beautiful people flock there and with Tera and the luscious lingerie babes will only at to the atmosphere and crank up the heat.

“We have found the ultimate locations for our parties,” adds Tera. “LAVO and TAO are where the hottest people and the biggest celebrities hang out when they are in Vegas.”

With Tera hosting the event, things are bound to heat up rapidly. There will be a thousand dollar prize for the sexiest lady in lingerie and all lingerie-clad ladies can drink at the complimentary vodka bar.

The dates for Tera’s spectacular lingerie shows are as follows:

Tuesday April 21st
Thursday June 4th
Thursday July 2nd

ABOUT TERA PATRICK

Tera Patrick is the number one pornstar in the world today. With a classy, exotic, and more Glamour Queen than Porn Queen look, a voluptuous body, and keen sense for business, Tera has transcended hardcore to mainstream celebrity, emerging as the millennium’s first authentic global sex symbol.

Born in Great Falls, Montana to an American Army doctor father of English and Dutch descent and a Thai mother, Tera moved around quite a bit as a child both in the U.S. and overseas, gaining a valuable, early understanding of different peoples and cultures. At the tender age of 13, she was discovered by a Japanese photographer on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco and immediately enrolled in the venerable Barbizon Modeling School. Soon after, Tera signed with Morning Sun modeling agency and became an overnight success in both print and runway, spending most of her teen years as a working model in Japan, Europe, and New York.

Upon returning to the U.S. after immense success overseas, Tera felt compelled to give something back and removed her high heels long enough to enroll in Boise State University to take undergraduate classes in biology. Finding helping others truly fulfilling, Tera pursued a career in medicine by earning a certificate as an emergency medical technician and studying until she achieved a degree to be a registered nurse. She landed jobs in nursing homes and emergency rooms in Simi Valley, California, clearly becoming the sexiest girl in white her hospital had ever seen.

Even though Tera genuinely enjoyed nursing, friends convinced her to get back into modeling. She soon found herself at an open audition for Playboy and was selected from among a thousand ambitious and gorgeous ladies for both the magazine and Playboy TV. In the blink of an eye, Tera Patrick was gracing the covers of every important men’s publications, including Hustler, Club, Swank, Velvet, High Society, and Cheri. She remains the only woman to ever grace the covers of Playboy and Penthouse simultaneously and she still holds the laudable position of publisher of Genesis magazine. And to this day, she is the only erotic performer to appear on the cover of the domestic FHM. She also appeared on the cover of FHM U.K., where she served as the magazine’s sexpert for four years.

A hopeless exhibitionist, Tera further explored her sensuous side and in late 1999 she stepped onto the big and small screens, accepting roles in various nude and soft-core features like The Seduction of Maxine and other “skin-a-max”-type soft-core flicks. While her first film, Aroused, directed by adult visionary Andrew Blake, was indeed a hardcore film, she only performed with a girl making her role in the film soft-core. Her first hardcore film (girl-boy) came later that year/next year in the Adam & Eve production Fire and Ice. Tera’s naughty notoriety spread even further through her co-hosting role on Night Calls 411 on Playboy TV from 2000-2003.

In her almost 10 years in the entertainment business, Tera has been featured in over 100 adult films and has appeared on more magazine covers than any other adult star in history. Since winning the coveted “Best New Starlet” award for her first film, Tera has gone on to win every major award in the medium and she continues to set records on the adult charts.

In 2002, she met the man of her dreams – Evan Seinfeld of the HBO prison drama Oz and founder/lead singer/bassist of the multi-platinum hardcore Brooklyn rockers Biohazard. After a whirlwind romance, the couple tied the knot in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, 2004 and currently reside in California.

In 2003, Tera and Evan formed their own production company, Teravision. Tera exploded as a contract star (a “Vivid Girl”) for porn giant Vivid Entertainment, but the dynamic duo was confident they could produce top quality adult fare on their own. Today, Teravision releases two High Definition erotic adult movies each month via U.S. distribution through Vivid and their porn empire goes beyond Teravision. They also have a licensing and marketing division (The Tera Patrick Agency), a lingerie line (Mistress Couture), a radio show (Rockstar/Pornstar on Playboy Radio on Sirius), a hardcore production company (Iron Cross), and some of the most popular porn websites on the Internet, including their official flagship site, TeraPatrick.com.

Tera’s superstar status has also been furthered by countless appearances in the mainstream media, including a cameo in the blockbuster Will Farrell comedy Blades of Glory, a storyline based on her and co-starring her on Cartoon Network’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force, an appearance in the video game Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, and her role a spokesperson and downloadable character for the video game Saints Row 2. Mainstream fans also know Tera from various specials and shows on CNBC, HBO, WE, MTV, E!, VH1, and of course, the Howard Stern Show.

Tera is booked solid on an exhaustive schedule; celebrity appearances from Conventions like AVN, and Exxxotica , to Video stores and record stores and even DJ’s at the hottest clubs in America, in NY, Miami, Chicago, Reno, Los Angeles, and many more, including several appearances each year at the top grossing nightclub-restaurant in the world, Tao Las Vegas. Tera is the top feature dancer selling out gentleman’s clubs around the world and is getting ready to heat up Las Vegas with her very own live burlesque show!

Tera is also extremely active in the adult film community, raising money for CAUSES SUCH AS the Free Speech Coalition and A.I.M Healthcare and the cancer-battling organization, B.A.B.E. (Breast Awareness Benefits Everyone).

Currently, Tera has three mainstream instructional fitness videos BEING released, titled Fit for Sex, with the company that brought us Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease. And, she begins hosting her new show, School of Sex on Playboy TV, this fall in which Tera gives sex advice while her teachers’ helpers act-out the advice. She will also star in her new burlesque show, Sex, which debuts in January 2009. Tera and Evan are currently writing their joint autobiography Rockstar/Pornstar: An American Love Story with entertainment journalist Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna, author of Cherry Bomb: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Better Flirt, a Tougher Chick, and a Hotter Girlfriend, and to Living Life Like a Rock Star and Eyewitness Nirvana: The Day-by-Day Chronicle.

Tera’s awards and honors:

2000 Hot D’Or – Best New Starlet
2001 Adult Stars Magazine – Consumer Choice Awards – Best New Starlet
2001 AVN Award – Best New Starlet
2001 AVN Award – Best Interactive DVD” for Virtual Sex With Tera Patrick
2001 Genesis Magazine – Best New Cummer
2001 XRCO Awards – Best New Starlet
2002 Runner-up Penthouse Pet Of The Year
2002 Hustler Honey
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Genesis Magazine Pornstar of The Year
2004, 2005, and 2006 FOXE Fan Favorite
2006 FHM 100 Sexiest Women
2006 Temptation Awards – Best Actress
2006 Temptation Awards-Teravision: Best New Studio
2007 F.A.M.E. Award for Favorite Female Starlet
2007 Adulcon – Mainstream Crossover Star of the Year
2007 Venus Berlin – Best American Actress
2007 AVN Award – Best Interactive Movie – InTERActive
2007 E-Line Awards, Venus Berlin – Best Performer, Best Businesswoman
2008 AVN Award- Best Cinematography: Tera’s Fashion Underground
2008 AVN Award – Best High End All Sex Release: Broken
2008 AVN Award – Best Interactive Movie: InTERActive
2008 F.A.M.E. Awards – Favorite Female Starlet

ABOUT TERAVISION


From the mind of adult megastar Tera Patrick comes Teravision – a top adult studio where glamour meets hardcore.  Teravision produces high-end glossy vignettes and features in high-definition.   Content is available in every conceivable medium from DVD, Blu-ray, Television Broadcast, Pay Per View, Internet, mobile phone downloads, video on-demand, and remains on the cutting edge of emerging formats.

Tera Patrick is the number one active star in adult and has received every important award in the adult industry.  Teravision employs and retains the top directors in the industry, and is best known for constantly blurring the lines between the adult and mainstream worlds.  For more information please contact Teravision, the next level in star-powered erotica.

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CARSON CITY, Nevada (Reuters) – Nevada lawmakers on Thursday defeated a proposed prostitution tax that had won support from brothel owners and working ladies willing to do their part to ease the state’s $3 billion budget crisis.

Nevada, one of only two U.S. states that allow some prostitution, is reeling from a deep economic recession that has led to high numbers of foreclosures, dwindling tourism revenues and a gaping budget shortfall.

State Senator Bob Coffin, a Democrat, proposed levying a $5-per-customer service tax on patrons of some 20 legal brothels operating in rural Nevada, all of them outside Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, where prostitution remains outlawed.

via Lawmakers rebuff prostitution tax.

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APRIL 9–A Las Vegas party promoter has dropped a libel lawsuit over his portrayal as a “douchebag” in the book “Hot Chicks with Douchebags.” Michael Minelli’s decision last month to voluntarily dismiss his lawsuit came weeks after a New Jersey judge threw out a similar lawsuit filed by three women whose pictures appeared in author Jay Louis’s 2008 examination of allegedly odious men and their comely female companions.

In his Clark County District Court complaint, Minelli, 27, charged that the inclusion of his photo in the Simon & Schuster title had resulted in “friends, acquaintances, coworkers, employees, and strangers alike” calling him a “douchebag.” The book, he claimed, subjected him to “hatred, contempt, and humiliation.”
via Another “Douchebag” Lawsuit Dies – April 9 2009.

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