Postcards From Las Vegas: The Things We Do For Schwag

The crowds grew thick and lustrous on the third day of the AVN Expo today ... and so did the goody bags. Fans gorged themselves on autographed posters and 8 x10 glossies, DVD samplers, pens, keychains, candy, condoms, lube packets, moist towelettes, lip balms, and other assorted schwag bearing the likeness of their favorite pornstar or studio logo, all the while waiting in lines to snap as many awkwardly posed photos of themselves with the women of their dreams as possible. And when girls get up on stages and start throwing free objects at the crowd, things can get potentially ugly. (Or potentially sexy. That whole ugly/sexy divide becomes ever narrower the longer we stay here.) More »