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The full list of winners is as follows:
BEST IPSP—CCBill
HALL OF FAME—AaronM
BEST WEBMASTER TOOL—Quantox
BEST CONTENT PRODUCER
—MaDalton of Amazing Content
BEST CONTENT PROVIDER—AdultCentro
BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR—Andy Wullmer
BEST COMPANY OF THE YEAR—CrakMedia
BEST AFFILIATE PROGRAM—Flirt4Free
BEST ADVERTISING NETWORK—JuicyAds
BEST MOBILE COMPANY—Affil4You
BEST HOSTING COMPANY—MojoHost
BEST ADULT CPA NETWORK—Mobsuite
BEST COMPANY REP ON GFY
—CourtneyR_FFN of FriendFinderNetworks
BEST LIVE CAM COMPANY—Chaturbate
BEST MERCHANT SERVICES—Netbilling
BEST PAYMENT SERVICE—Paxum
BEST CAM STUDIO—AJ Studios, AJEStudios.com
NEWBIE OF THE YEAR—Adnium_Ivana
WEBMASTER OF THE YEAR—The Hun
BEST DATING COMPANY—Datetronix
BEST MOBILE AD NETWORK—BitterStrawberry
BEST AFFILIATE MANAGER
—Ruben Rodriguez of FriendFinderNetworks
TROLL OF THE YEAR—brassmonkey
BEST CONTENT PARTNERSHIP
—YourPaysitePartner.com
BEST DESIGNER—ZuzanaDesigns.com
BEST NEW PAYSITE—GoGoBarAuditions.com
MOST POPULAR MEMBER—JFK
BUSINESS THREAD OF THE YEAR
—PaySites Have To Change Before It’s Too Late.
Here Are Some Ideas... (by Shap)
WINNING TEAMS Picking up GFY Awards at the January 16 ceremony, sponsored by PussyCash and Bitter Strawberry, were (opposite page,
clockwise from top left) BitterStrawberry’s Ricky Ganière and Yannick Ferreri, Quantox’s Vladimir Jelic, CCBill’s Gary Jackson, the CrakRevenue
crew, and Stan D’Aman of AdultCentro. This page, clockwise from top left: Joey Gabra of Affil4You, Juicy Jay of JuicyAds, Chris Youngs of Paxum,
Business Person of the Year Andy Wullmer and Shirley Lara of Chaturbate. Photos by JFK/FUBARWebmasters.com.
FEATURE
Kelly Holland on Empowerment
KELLY HOLLAND, CEO OF PENTHOUSE, addressed an intimate crowd
at the Internext Expo’s Female Empowerment Lounge, sponsored
by Chaturbate, telling stories about her rise to prominence in the
industry and discussing the role of women in the adult industry.
During her talk, Holland touched on comparisons between
mainstream Hollywood and adult entertainment. An article
recently published, she said, included statistics about female
directors in Hollywood: in 1989, women represented 9 percent of
all directors; by 2016, that number had dropped to 7 percent.
“I did an anecdotal study, by looking at the AVN Awards lists
of directors nominated this year,” she said. “In those categories,
women represented 40 percent.
“Why are there so many women in power positions here?” she
said. “My theory is that the only rule we have in this industry is
that there are no rules. We are the outlaws, the ones who blow it
all up, the agent provocateurs.”
“I met Nina Hartley at the AVN Show, and I asked her, ‘Why do
you think people believe women in this industry are exploited?’”
Holland said. “And she told me, ‘It’s not a feminist issue, it’s a
class issue. … It’s the East Coast upper class elite who drive the
narrative of feminism … they think women in this industry are the
ones from the wrong side of the tracks, the ones who are broken
toys.”
But, Holland said, it was almost immediately that she started
meeting the women of adult, who defied those preconceived
notions. These were strong, educated women, who were
opinionated and willing to work on the front lines of feminism,
fighting for the rights to control their bodies and sexualities any
way they saw fit.
The adult entertainment community, she added, is “one of the
most political spaces you can be in.”
But today, Holland said, the industry is under attack, specifically
from Republicans and President-elect Trump.
“We are on the front lines of the fight for free speech,” she said.
“If you don’t believe that, then check your lives in six months.”
Holland noted that the fight against the industry is no longer
through the First Amendment—“They lost that fight long ago,”
she said of the industry’s opposition—and noted that now
opponents will come at pornography as a public health crisis.
Already, she noted, six states have introduced legislation
declaring pornography a public health hazard, arguing that it is
addictive and can damage minors.
“Anything is addictive, though,” she noted. “Puppies can be,
chocolate … if that’s in your genetic makeup, anything can be
addictive.”
—Sherri L. Shaulis
INTERNEXT 2017
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