We’re always excited to get an email from photographer John A. Mozzer (who is also known around these parts as performer Alan Adrian) because he’s almost always sharing a bunch of photos from porno days gone by – this time, the 1991 FOXE Awards held at Gazzarri’s in West Hollywood. FOXE is the Fans of X-Rated Entertainment, a fan collective headed up by Bill Margold.
I do love their tagline: “X is just another letter in the entertainment alphabet.”
We can’t recommend enough getting lost and clicking around John’s meticulously captioned galleries over on SmugMug – it’s a cornucopia of the NYC downtown scene (and elsewhere) peppered with some familiar faces and a really great eye for the candid…
So, click on the first page of the evening’s program below to visit the gallery…
This year marked the 10th annual Spank Bank Awards presented by IAFD.com, the premier resource for information about the porn community, committed to providing the most comprehensive statistics and data on the web for both adult films and performers. While the adult film industry’s most irreverent, lighthearted, and all-encompassing awards show’s ceremony was dealt a major obstacle in the form of the coronavirus this year, as has been said for ages, the show must go on!
New awards show Host Charlotte Sartre was unsurprisingly up to the task, taking a very ‘hands on’ approach in this time of social distancing by immersing herself in a full on ‘dom’ persona, then instructing her minions ….err, I mean Trophy Girls Lisey Sweet and Lydia Black to join her via Zoom video conferencing. With an eye towards social distancing, Charlotte quickly had both ladies begin fisting their own asses, rather than her originally planned ‘double barreled fisting’ of the girls as they read through the vast list of Technical category award winners.
Once the Technical portion was completed, dom/host Charlotte instructed the girls to begin alternating announcing the winners of the Major categories while subsequently giving themselves one hard spank on the ass for each winner’s name called. By the end of the night, both ladies bottoms were bright red, and a celebratory glass of piss was enjoyed by one and all.
This season’s awards saw a number of new categories, new winners, and a surprise (to some maybe) in the coveted Female Performer of the Year.
Follow @iafdcom and @Gabriel_Lan on Twitter for more details and to get the heads start on influencing next year’s nominations.
*Disclaimer: Spank Bank Awards are bestowed by taking into account a combination of input by a committee of fans, notable adult film connoisseurs, aficionados, and critics, IAFD.com listed scene credits (both quantity and quality), and a committee chairman who has final authority (Gabriel Lan). Nominees who entice or influence the panel and/or chairman with any form of ‘sweet talking’, ‘sexual innuendo’, ‘buttering up’, or outright eluding to sexual favors may greatly increase their chances of winning.
Considering recent events in America, the team at IAFD would like to state unequivocally and firmly that black lives matter. The murder of George Floyd, along with the murders of countless other black folks at the hands of police in America is cause for alarm and concern. We stand with the protesters exercising their first amendment rights – the same right we enjoy by documenting and archiving adult film data here at IAFD.
We stand up for black performers who have been made to feel fetishized, minimized, and othered in these categories. We do not condone the racist pay gaps between performers in IR scenes. We are dismayed when we hear stories that black performers in group scenes need to mind who they come in contact with because a fellow performer “doesn’t do blacks yet” since performing with a black man can command a higher rate and is usually saved for later in one’s career.
In striving to be the change we want to see in the world, we are eliminating the IR (“Interracial”) tag on our site.
Internally among the editorial staff, we have believed that interracial porn largely serves to uphold racist stereotypes and imagery – stereotypes and imagery that inform acts of racist hatred. We feel its narrow definition – black men fucking white women – only serves to further a narrative started hundreds of years ago; one with deserves to be relegated to the history books. We justified tracking this information because the industry embraces and promotes it.
No more. We won’t be a part of it.
We have also eliminated race-based categories in our annual Spank Bank Awards.
In the absence of a fund to directly help adult film performers, we have made a donation to The Black Sex Worker Collective, an organization which seeks to address the needs of current and former Black sex workers by providing education, legal assistance, healthcare resources, and affordable housing referrals in order to successfully leave & maintain a life outside of the industry. Their goal is to create a safe space where the unique experiences and needs of Black sex worker voices are validated and responded with appropriate needs based resources.
This is by no means the end of IAFD’s commitment to racial justice. As always IAFD remains committed to ensuring that all customers continue to have free and available access to the most recent and accurate information about adult films and the performers who appear in them.
We are committed to doing better. We will continue to listen and learn and improve on who we are and what we put out to the world.
The time for the 10th Annual Spank Bank Awards nominations ceremony is now upon us. Upon her retirement from the industry, show host for life Missy Martinez has had her title changed to Host Emeritus and has passed along the torch along to her former long-time ASSistant and co-host / trophy girl for life Charlotte Sartre, who was on hand to announce the vast array of nominations, only this time from a very different, much more secluded and/or private location.
After Missy’s announcement, the ‘ceremony’ cut away to Charlotte being interrupted making either an OnlyFans video of her fisting her own ass OR practicing her taxidermy methods on herself…..or both. She quickly composed herself and got the ball rolling by announcing the top 15 performers in nominations for this year via video chat. Charlotte then introduced her good friend and fellow ‘Toilet Baby’ Lydia Black along with PAWG extraordinaire and fellow butt slut Lisey Sweet as the new trophy girls. Charlotte pulled Lydia on screen, slapped her face, spit in her mouth, and told her to “get on with itâ€, at which time Lydia and Lisey then alternated in reading the list of categories and nominees while toasting one and all with glasses of all three ladies piss.
The Spank Bank Awards were founded on the idea of giving recognition to the performers in the adult industry who may (or may not) receive the accolades they so richly deserve from some of the other awards shows through the utilization of a plethora of irreverent, all inclusive, good-natured fun categories. Once again, this year’s list includes a record number of major categories for female performers, as well as those for the directors and male talent within the industry. And, as usual, there are plenty of ‘technical’ awards as well (to be given out on the red carpet before the awards ceremony) giving kudos on a wide variety of subjects.
Winners will be announced as soon as we wring every last piece of social media traffic out of this… so in about a week or so. :-)
Follow @iafdcom and @Gabriel_Lan on Twitter for details and to get the heads up on the big reveal. Use the hashtag #spankbankawards20
Two weeks along with a bout of the AVN flu have passed and I still feel fatigue from thinking about the show. Must be because of all the “lived experiences” that happened in the frenzy of that week.
In reviewing my photos, I can see the mortality of continuing to cover the show. I took much less photos this year, not because the show was smaller (it was only slightly smaller than last year). I had broken my foot in September, and it started swelling again during the show. I was content to have longer conversations with my friends and then allowed random people to stop me from doing what I did best which is take more photos. I even had an assistant for the first time which unintentionally slowed things since everyone tried to flirt with him. This, in turn, led me to see less of my industry friends overall.
The most popular people signing were Angela White, Riley Reid, Abella Danger, and Adriana Chechik. I don’t like cutting in line, but I did for the first three because they agreed to it beforehand while the logistics of doing so with Adriana due to the placement of the Evil Angel booth was impossible. If I were to line up to see all of them in a day, it would take a combined 2-4 hours of waiting to see them. They are popular not just for what they do on the screen, but how they interact with the fans. Riley absolutely crushed it by signing for her own booth from opening to closing every day despite a bout of food poisoning on the second day.
Riley Reid
Angela White
Jules Jordan had the best booth overall in terms of talent and access. Angela had her lines there. The Evil Angel – Manyvids corridor was the most frustrating since it wasn’t navigable whenever Adriana was signing. Having the Manyvids women elevated inside their booths made them inaccessible in general.
AVN Awards
I attended the AVN Awards for the first time in four years. It felt weird going this time as a guest without my camera, but it was fun to catch up with friends that I didn’t talk as much to on the convention floor. There weren’t too many surprises with the winners since I knew many of the voters. Even though we didn’t practice groupthink, there seemed to be a consensus around specific winners in polling the voters.
Charlotte Stokely
Gianna Dior
Congratulations to Angela for winning Female Performer of the Year for the third straight time and to Charlotte Stokely for repeating as G/G Performer of the Year. Congrats also go to Gianna Dior for winning Best New Starlet.
About Ginger Banks
I used to spend a lot of time on camsites. So when I first met Ginger Banks nearly five years ago in Dallas, I knew her as the girl who cammed from her university library. I’m not sure exactly how we hit it off, but I found her to be more mature and adept at engaging people than the typical camgirl I meet at cons. The years go by, and Ginger became more prominent advocating on issues pertaining to the adult industry. If you have read an article about performer rights or mental health in the past three years, Ginger is likely to be quoted. Why do I bring this up?
Because I photographed her before the con! She was a riot. If you would like to see more of the photoset including the naughty, it’s probably on her onlyfans.
Acknowledgements
I would like to give a shoutout to my boys at IAFD, ADT, and XCritic. I’d also like to thank Mark Spiegler, Miles Long, and Evil Angel for their hospitality that week.