Even politics. Mary Carey, who has performed in more than 60 adult movies, attended the United to Victory dinner in Washington in March, a fundraising event for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
As celebrities increasingly welcome adult actors into their worlds, even more everyday folk are identifying not with a favorite singer or movie star but with an adult entertainer.
Lee Anne Borger, 40, traveled from Lorraine, Ohio, to the Adult Entertainment Expo this year, just as she has done for the past 11 years with her husband. She's a veteran pornography fan.
But porn has gone too mainstream for Borger. At this year's show, "it's bigger, there's more product, there's more vendors, there's a lot more fans," she says. "This is ridiculous. You're shoulder-to-shoulder."
Porn stars strolled down a long red carpet through the casino to a banquet hall, flanked by walls of people, mostly men, on either side, beckoning them to stop for pictures. Then — just like the Oscars — they stopped in a press corral and chatted up reporters.
The event's grandeur, if that's what it was, didn't rub off on the Sex and So Much More Show, a traveling sex circus that rolled into the Colorado Convention Center in February. If the Adult Entertainment Expo felt like Hollywood writ small, the Sex and So Much More Show had the air of a middle-school theater production about it.
Still, more than 15,000 people packed the convention center for the weekend, to commune with sex toys and strippers, to get their books signed by Jameson and take a tour of the "dungeon," with its dominatrixes and whips.
Event coordinator Kari Calder says the Sex and So Much More show will definitely return to Denver next year.
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