Porn Valley Dispatch: FAME Finalists Announced

Everybody loves awards—and no one loves them more so than porn stars, who are undernourished attention goblins. The problem is that adult awards often say more about the organizations hosting them than the people who buy the product. That is why the FAME (Fans of Adult Media and Entertainment) Awards were created. Supposedly. (Lately, everything seems like a Vatican plot.)

Read about the eight finalists chosen in 12 categories and find out how you, the porn consumer, can change the face of the industry simply by casting your viscous, ropy vote on it. All this and more after the gap.
- G. Ponante

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A series of checks and balances, each more diabolical than the last, was instituted by FAME's four sponsoring companies to ensure no company or individual over-voted.

"Of course you can still cheat," said Genesis Magazine's Dan Davis, "but you'd have to be pretty desperate."

Despair is what pays the bills, baby. Still, as there is no award for dogged porn journalism, only the absence of Kami Andrews, Sunny Lane, and Missy Monroe from the finalists list can hurt me.

Awards list standbys like Jenna Jameson, Jesse Jane, and Ron Jeremy are on the roster, but lesser-known talent like Taryn Thomas and Alektra Blue also made the cut.

Check out the lists and vote for a finalist as well as the chance to win an "expense-paid" trip to the awards show, to be presented late next month during the Erotica LA expo and hosted by Carmen Luvana, Tommy Gunn, and "Reverend" Bob Levy. Otherwise if any of your favorite stars lose, you'll have only yourself to blame.

(Photo: "Best Breasts" nominee Sandee Westgate, just because.)

· The FAME Awards (thefameawards.com)
· Adam & Eve (adameve.com)
· WantedList (wantedlist.com)

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