First show was down in Miami in '98 Fucking had a blast. Full nudity on the floor, including a lot of girl/girl live sex shows happening. Coolest moment was me and Al4a walking up to the hotel bar in the middle of the day and Patrick (the hun) was sitting there all by himself. So it was just me, Al, and the hun hanging out. That was a lot of good traffic sitting there all by ourselves. At that time AL4A.com was the number 1 site and the hun was number 2 on Sextracker. It was pretty cool.
I guess the thing that kind of surprised me the most was the fact that 99.9% of the people there were very "normal". I thought most of the people in "adult" would be like me. Actually IN adult. But it turned out that they weren't. They were mostly either affiliates whose only real connection with adult was being an advertiser (basically a salesman...although none of us who are affiliates like to be told that) or they were "suits" who owned internet companies pretty much based on marketing old porn from the Porn Valley "real" companies.
There were very few people who were actually "hands on" and with "skin in the game". And that has remained true to this very day.
But before I got there I had these fantasies that it was gonna be a bunch of crazy fucks like me and we would have all the porn starlets there and it would be a giant drug filled orgy.
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Instead, at the end of every night it was me, an eight ball, and Melonee Mounds (who attended with me).
Lord knows we looked for others to join us in a big pile of naked peeps...but as I said, we were shocked at how normal and downright prudish the internet side was. I'm used to it now, and looking back I guess I was sort of naive about what an adult internet convention really was.
But somehow over the years, I've learned to adapt to the bro-ventions and I manage to get a little crazy anyway!
