Inside Adultdex, the cyberporn convention that time forgot
 

From The Verge: Inside Adultdex, the cyberporn convention that time forgot | The Verge

From the article: "Adultdex and the AVN Expo had strikingly similar origin stories. They were born a few years apart, out of warring mainstream conventions that had grown uncomfortable with their increasingly visible dirty side. Porn companies, AVN founder Paul Fishbein said in 2012, had been drawn to CES since the ?80s, when they helped boost the popularity of VCRs. But the show exiled them to the basement of the Sands Expo Center, where essayist David Foster Wallace said they were treated like "the crazy relative in the family," and by 1998, they were ready to split.

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