Presiding over the ceremony was an aging male porn star wearing a priest’s robe. The bride rode up to the makeshift altar on a white horse that was turned into a unicorn with the help of a large pink dildo attached to its forehead. The XXXchurch wasn’t there to condemn sex-industry workers or attendees, according to Ceballos, but to provide nonjudgmental love and resources to those who were addicted to porn or who were caught “in some rough stuff.” “We’re just here to do what Jesus would do and love and care for these people we’re not here to rescue anyone,” she said.Īnd why rescue anyone when they’re marrying each other? Or at least that’s what happened on Saturday night, as adult film star Tita Cupcake DuJour opted to have her nuptials with a real fireman named Bryce during Exxxotica. “Ron Jeremy came to my wedding,” she told me. “It’s definitely not very sexy here,” noted Rachel Ceballos, a pastor from the Los Angeles area who has come to so many sex-industry conventions that she’s become close to many of the industry veterans. The group of Christian missionaries annually pay for a booth at Exxxotica, where they hand out jesus loves porn stars T-shirts and scripture-heavy booklets. There’s something old-fashioned and ultimately unsexy about the whole affair, and if you don’t believe me, ask one of the event’s sponsors- XXXchurch. That’s why it’s surprising that the city of Dallas went all Footloose on Exxxotica and spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to ban it from making its scheduled stop in May. A woman at the anime convention dressed as “slave Leia” was separated by only a few square inches of fabric from the skimpiest outfit I observed at Exxxotica. Full nudity and real sex acts aren’t allowed, and in a world where we have an encyclopedic access to depictions of every profane act imaginable in the palm of our hands, it’s possible to witness more explicit carnality in the bathroom of Exxxotica via our smartphones than on the show floor. Granted, porn stars autographing photos of their own bare breasts for eager middle-aged couples or vendors hawking bath soap in the shape of dicks and vaginas is bit more risque than, say, superheroes clad in snug spandex at Wizard World-but the difference is fewer than 50 shades of grey. (Seeing a porn star dressed as Leeloo from The Fifth Element cavorting on a pole with the Predator was still pretty damned weird.) They’re also rife with enough fantastical form-revealing leather and spandex costumes that it wasn’t all that thematically jarring when the exotic dancers competing on Friday night in the Miss Exxxotica pageant wore superhero costumes. Hipster adult-film icon Stoya wasn’t far off when she deemed Exxxotica “the comic con of porn.” Exxxotica and comic cons are both safe spaces for enthusiasts of a consumer-friendly, not-quite-mainstream subculture to come together and mingle at panels and parties, purchase swag at booths, and pay for a brief, often awkward encounter with a celebrity of debatable notoriety. Here’s the unexpected part about the pairing of sex and nerd culture: weirdly, it worked. Cosplaying anime fans were everywhere at Exxxotica on Friday-even on BDSM furniture. A woman dressed as undersea villainess Ursula tied the Little Mermaid to a bondage rack in an area marked “Dungeon Experience.” By the time my view of a dancer in Wonder Woman-themed body paint was obscured by a person in a seven-foot inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex costume, I began to wonder if I was trapped in a carnivalesque drug trip imagined by Ron Jeremy and Stan Lee. The two groups mingled all weekend, leading to a dizzying number of absurd incongruities: a scruffy man in a plastic Thor outfit riding an adult-size seesaw while holding the handle, which happened to be a big black dildo. Stephens Convention Center with the three-day anime and manga convention Anime Central Midwest. The annual event returned to suburban Rosemont with a cartoonish plot twist-it shared the cavernous Donald E. But after spending most of last weekend at the sex-industry convention Exxxotica, I’m not sure that’s true. Was she promoting a BDSM kink show or simply cosplaying as Catwoman? Did it even matter? “All anime is really softcore porn in disguise-we’re all perverts,” the woman told me. She smirked as a trio of men holding smartphones snapped a quick photo of her.
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