Greetings all my fellow ADT members. This thread is a report on the recent Sex on the Beach "expo" held last weekend at the Miami Beach Convention Center. I use the term expo loosely because as you will see in this report, calling this event an expo is like calling Pee-Wee football game the Super Bowl. Before we dive in, let me give you a little background information. I had first heard of this event several months ago when Lisa Ann posted some very angry tweets on her Twitter about how not only was she not appearing at the show, but the SOTB people were using her image to promote this event without her permission. This was blatant foreshadowing. As the months went by I didn't really hear anymore about this event other a few mentions here and there on Twitter. I was not planning to attend so I didn't bother applying for a media pass. However, as we got closer to the day of the show, more girls started announcing they would be appearing, approximately a dozen well known pornstars. Since there were several names in that group who caught my eye and I recently upgraded to a newer DSLR camera that needed to be broken in, I decided to drive down and attend as a paying customer. I would have liked to have gone on Friday but I work evenings and could not attend that day. I had seen some of the Tweets people were posting about the show saying how much it sucked, but I figured as long as the girls showed up I would be happy. I arrived a little after 5pm Saturday afternoon. I paid the usual $15 fee to park. Please note the fee for parking is charged by the City of Miami Beach, who owns the building & parking lot, not the show organizers. Th city charges for parking at all events held there, including the Exxxotica show in the Spring. However, this is still a cost to the customers attending the show. When I made my way to the ticket counter I experienced some sticker shock as general admission was $55 per person! So it was $70 just to walk through the front door (not including the cost of gas & tolls to get to South Beach.) The Exxxotica shows are usually about $35 for a ticket plus the $15 to park. So this may not have been an astronomical increase but it was significant. As walked to the door into the main convention hall, I was stopped by security so they could inspect my backpack. To their credit, it was very quick and painless. I simply unzipped the main compartment and the guy glanced inside and that was it. However, the fact that your possessions had to be inspected at all is ridiculous. With that I stepped on my wrist band and walked in side. ***SPOILER ALERT - If you are expecting a 100+ photos of gorgeous pornstars like you always see in Exxxotica reports, prepare to be SEVERELY disappointed!***
A panoramic view of the show as soon as you walk through the door. Please not that these photos were taken at around 5:30pm Saturday afternoon. Saturday afternoons are the peak attendance time for adult conventions so the place should have been buzzing with activity.
The Bag Storage / Media Check-In / VIP Upgrade booth which had one guy sitting in chair reading a magazine. I asked if they had a map of the floor plan or a directory listing of booths, which they did not. So you had no idea where anything was or how to find the booths where your favorite pornstar was signing. Luckily, I had checked the show website and previewed the floor plan. I also had check the Twitter feeds of the girls appearing so I knew where they were. Normally, the average person coming in off the street would have been up creek without a paddle but the place was empty finding the girls was no challenge at all.
The phenomenally gorgeous Nina Mercedez signing by herself at the SearchXXX booth. I've never had a girl more excited and happy to see me than she was that day. Before I had even finished setting my camera on the table and taking off my backpack she had hopped up out of her chair and was giving me a hug. I've met her a few times before at Exxxotica shows and a couple feature dance appearances. She was so grateful to finally see a real fan at the show. She confirmed just how awful the show was and said that the only reason she was still there was she was being sponsored by SearchXXX to promote them otherwise she never would have come back after Friday night. The poor girl was stuck there all night until closing at midnight. Not mention she was there Friday and would be there again on Sunday. Plus she had to make an appearance at South beach nightclub after she left the show that night! Nina certainly earned her paycheck that weekend! She's been busy as usual working as a webmaster for her XXXFastPass network of websites and she runs the FeatureElite agency booking pornstar feature dance appearances. Not to mention producing movies for her own production company, Heartbreaker Films and the occasional cam show and sex scene for her own personal website. Definitely one of the busiest ladies in the adult industry. Nina is one of my personal favorites who is always a pleasure to see at a show.
Just to show you how slim pickens were at this event I actually took a picture of the lollicocks display!! This show was so boring I actually took pics of candy shaped like penises to pass the time!! P.S. - One interesting note is that the small round ones in the middle were molded like the female vulva, kind of like an eatable Fleshlight.
The main stage. there was not a single stage show or performance for the first few hours I was there. Why they had those barriers around it, I have no idea since there wasn't any one there to go near it.
The lovely miss Lexi Love signing at the Exotic interludes booth. It's a company that makes a board game that is like a XXX version of Monoply. It had been a almost a year & a half since I'd seen her at the 2011 Exxxotica Miami show. At that time she said she was slowly transitioning out of the business. Very slowly apparently as she is still going to school and making sex industry related appearances like conventions, lectures, seminars, etc. While she is wearing extensions, she did actually dye her hair blond a few months back. Always a pleasure to see Lexi love.
As I was walking by this booth, the guy on the right flagged me down. When he saw the big DSLR camera hanging from neck and the backpack I had on, he assumed I was a media photojournalist, despite the fact I didn't have a media pass. He was so desperate for customers and/or media attention, I didn't have the heart to tell him I wasn't with any publication. Instead I just took a couple photos of his booth and one of his business cards before continuing on my way.
Over at The Booth That Shall Not Be Named, I found Lisa Daniels and Nikki Phoenix, both of whom were new to me. In fact I had never even heard of Nikki and didn't even know she was a pornstar. Lisa is primarily know as a G/G only performer, but she does do B/G exclusively for her personal website. I didn't really chat with them as I didn't know Nikki and Lisa seemed a bit preoccupied with her phone. She was nice enough to sign the XXXFastPass Calendar I had with me and they posed for this photo at my request.
Also The Booth That Shall Not Be Named, Nikki Delano was doing her best Shakira impersonation with her platinum blond hair. Which is funny since she actually played Shakira in a XXX movie called El Gordo y la Flaca XXX. Personally, I thought she looked like a mermaid. I had seen her six months earlier at the Exxxotica show in Miami. She featured danced Friday & Saturday in New York, then flew in to Miami Sunday morning to appear at the show. She was supposed to do the same thing again for the Exxxotica Chicago show in July but ended up missing the show as she was just too exhausted to do it a second time. Nikki said she would be a the NJ show in November all three days with no feature dance conflict. She too was kind enough to sign my XXXFastPass Calendar and I picked up a copy of JJV's Beyond the Call of Booty 4. Overall, a very nice girl who looks like a sex doll come to life.
If you thought the show was depressing, let me tell there was no sadder sight than the food court. Why are the food vendors setup up 20+ yards away from the tables?
So after seeing only five pornstars, I had seen them all. That's right five total (one of which I had never even heard of before!!) I decided to walk around to kill some time and hope more girls would show, which a few did but most did not. In the mean time here is what I saw:
What's this you ask? Yep, MORE BONGS!!! There were so many people selling bongs you have filled a Olympic sized swimming pool with them. What they lacked in pornstars and entertainment, the SOTB organizers more than made up for in bongs and water pipes.
The only vendors who weren't selling bongs were the ones selling electronic cigarettes and vaporizers. These are only a couple but there had to be a least a dozen total. I never realized so many companies made these products. In all honesty, the show should have been called "Smoke on the Beach" as at least 70% of the booths were tobacco/marijuana related products.
and the best non-porn vendor at SOTB is.... The Cum Cloth!!! That's right folks, step right up to grandma & grandpa's table get yourself a Cum Cloth, with it's super strong sperm absorbing microfibers that suck up semen better than your girl ever could!!! The Cum Cloth, from Todco! Coming soon: The Cum Towel!! Perfect for large messes like threesomes, orgies and girls who squirt!! I asked the guy for his story and he said that a few years ago, before he started selling the cloths, he all ready owned the cumcloth.com web domain (why he just happened to own that particular web address, he didn't say) and he was approached by a company that wanted to buy it from him. He decided that instead of selling it to them, he would start his own business and sell his own cloths. The rest is history. I really hope this guy makes it to Exxxotica NJ as he was a huge hit with the attendees. Everyone who walked by his booth was smiling or giggling and many of them stopped to check out his product. The phone number on his banner has an area code located in Wisconsin, so if he came all they to Miami to do a show, his sales must be fairly good.
For some unknown reason, the floor plan included this giant walkway that spilt the show in two parts. On the right was the main stage and 2/3rds of the booths. On the left were the remaining 1/3rd of booths and that area was a virtual ghost town.
GirlsGoneGyno.com - probably the weirdest, freakiest, creepiest start-up porn company I've ever seen. The theme is that the girls have been kidnapped and are sexually molested during a forcibly given a gynecological exam before they are sold as sex slaves on the black market. All the girls in the video were no names with the exception of Carmen Valentina. I give them credit for going all out with their booth. Not only did they dress in costume but there was a real gyno exam table with stirrups behind them. You can see the medical supply closet, weight scale, hospital gown hanging on the wall, and the cabinet for storing medical instruments. The table in front had boxes of latex gloves, surgical masks, tongue depressors, heck they even had the Cum Cloth!! They really went the whole nine yards! Bonus Points - The guy told me that if I bought one of those Hitachi Magic Wands, his nurse assistant would use it to masturbate with before I left!! Tempting as that sounded I politely declined.
As I was walking around I saw the girl who had interviewed <bTory Lane</b at the Exxxotica show here back in May. Who that girl was or what she was promoting, I have no idea.
Here we have buxom, busty beauty Eva Notty working her own booth. Not only does she have an awesome rack and curvy figure but I never realized how tall she is! She has to be around 5'9" or so because I'm 6'0" and with those heels on she eye-to-eye level with me. Believe it or not, she's been around for a few years but she started out shooting for SCORE, whom she said pays for one scene but keeps you on set all day shooting you for hours. She finally wised up and started branching out in to shooting for other companies. I picked up a copy of Porn Fidelity's Big Titty Milfs 2 and asked if she would be attending the NJ show next month, to which she said she would be. I haven't seen very many of her scenes but I'm all ready hooked on Eva Notty. Meeting her has only cemented those feelings. It's so rare to get a very tall girl with such a voluptuous figure. They are the white elephants of porn. Overall, a very nice girl who's just as gorgeous in person. I hope she has a long, successful career.
Well, that's all for tonight's folks. I'll polish this thing off tomorrow. Please stay tuned as there are two more pornstars and a very hot booth babe still to come!
Funny you should ask as I heard on Twitter today that the cops had to be called to the convention center on Sunday. Rap artist DMX was advertised as performing at the show Sunday as the closer and he didn't perform. A very pissed off fan demanded a refund and was denied. Apparently, he threw enough of a fit that someone called the cops. Whether they arrested him or if he got a refund I don't know. Just another example of the lunacy of this event.
@Jman: Your choice of pics and your comments make the whole thing a lot more interesting and funnier than it probably was... Kudos and Thank you for that Love the CumCloth and iPee as well *lol*
Apart from bad marketing and stuff from that show,I have to say that might just be the future for porn.So for most "pornstars" out there,they should consider escorting or getting a real job.
Just another bare bum in the shiower 1739 Posts 12/04
Posted - Oct 1 2012 : 10:34AM
The porn expos where porn chicks actually turn up continue to get good crowds. Maybe the girls however do not see it as worthwhile anymore when they could be spending that time webcamming.
^ & ^^ Adult expos and conventions are still worthwhile. AEE and Exxxotica are proof of this. The problem is you can't just rent an auditorium and expect the show to magically put itself together like SOTB did. You have promote, both to vendors to buy floor space and to fans so they know about the show. You have to create a buzz to get people excited about the show. And most importantly, you MUST book lots of hot pornstars to appear at your show!! The pornstars are what bring in the fans. No pornstars = no fans. And if you can't convince a bunch of pornstars to appear at a show held in SOUTH BEACH, you shouldn't be in the porn expo business. No one is going to drive all the way to South beach, pay $70 for admission & parking so they can buy an e-cigarette, a vaporizer, a sex toy or a lollicock. However, they will drive all that way and pay that expensive admission ticket if it means they get to meet their favorite pornstar in person and take a photo with her & get her autograph. It appears that the SOTB people just didn't understand what it takes to put on one of these shows or they just didn't bother to put in the effort to make this event work.
The biggest crowd of the night over at the Clips4Sale booth. They were three girls working the booth and two of them held done the third and gave her a forcible orgasm with a Hitachi Magic Wand. By the time I got to the front of the crowd, the show was all ready over.
The busty, bootyful Sara Jay rocking a tube top and cosmo pants once the universe is the only thing large enough to contain her massive ass.She was having a very busy weekend. Even though she lives in Miami, she was out of town and had to fly back in on Thursday to attend the show. In addition to being at the show all three days, she was feature dancing at Club Madonna both Friday and Saturday night. Plus she was even advertising on Twitter to do content/cam shoots with any girls who were in town that weekend. While there may not have been enough fans at the show to form a line, there was always someone at her table to see her. A lot people don't realize just how popular she is with porn fans. She name not have a "big name" like other girls or a bunch of AVN Awards but she works constantly. When she's not shooting for production companies, she's doing content trade and cam shows for her site. If you follow her on Twitter, you know that she is constantly traveling around the country for various appearances and bookings. Not to mention she has her own T.I.T.S. t-shirt and recently got her own Fleshlight. Definitely an underrated girl in the adult industry
A girl getting her black tape bodysuit applied. This the same guy from the Exxxotica Miami Show who did Rachel Starr's tape bodysuit. His name is Joel Alvarez and his company is called The Black Tape Project. Click the link for a gallery of several hot girls wearing nothing but electrical tape.
The beautiful miss Mone Divine working her both. Another new to me girl. i asked what her shooting status was and she said she is on a long break at the moment. She's currently working on revamping and relaunching her personal website MoneDivineXXX.com. She mentioned that when her site is ready to launch she may come back a do a few scenes for some production companies in order to get her name back out there and draw people to her site. Another nice girl, who was as sweet as could be and was very appreciative to see a real fan at this show. She said she should be appearing at the NJ show next month so hopefully I'll see her there.
Farther down the aisle I found the mega-busty MaseratiXXX working her table at Eva Notty's booth. I had seen her briefly at the Exxxotica show here last May but didn't get a chance to talk with her. She too has been busy shooting scenes, working on her website. She mentioned on Twitter a couple weeks back that she would like to shoot more but a lot companies still won't shoot black girls, claiming they don't sell as well as their white counterparts. Which is such a shame since there are a lot of very talented black female performers going to waste. She too should be appearing at the NJ show in November and i look forward to seeing her again.
Across the aisle I found this very cute import model named Sara Brinsfield. She's about 5'3", 110lb. with a 34D cup and is a mix of Laotian/Caucasian. She does the typical car magazines, lingerie, swimsuit modeling type work. She did have topless 8X10s for sale and more on her website AsianDime.com. She only looked to be 18-19 years-old, so I was SHOCKED to find out she's 33 years-old!! According to her website she was born in 1979 and did her first car show modeling gig in 2003!! Other than the topless only shoots for her own site, she's hasn't any other nude modeling or adult work of any kind and has no plans to unfortunately.
By now it was a little after 9pm and i had decided to call it quits. I had stuck around hoping some of the other girls would show up but they never did. In all honesty I can't blame them and hold no hard feeling towards them for not coming back. In fact I decided to document just how many girls decided it just wasn't worth it.
This is the aisle which at an Exxxotica show would be called "Star Valley." It's the aisle for all the pornstars who aren't signing for a company can rent their own individual booths. Sara Jay's & Mone Divine's booths are just out of frame to the left. Eva Notty &MaseratiXXX's shared booth is far down this aisle to the right.