AVN Awards Part Three: A Category for Everything and a Nomination for Every Body

After a 15 minute warm-up of stand up by co-host Greg Fitzsimmons, Jesse Jane (pictured left) took the stage to wild applause and after a few unprintable words told us: "You all look so sexy! I can't believe this night is finally here." 

And, while it may have taken some time for this night to arrive and for the show to get started there was no rush to finish things. There were more than 100 AVN award categories that overlap or have distinctions that can seem bewildering. So, for example, there were awards for: best actress-film, best actress-video, female performer of the year and female foreign performer of the uear. Other award categories  seem trivial probably even to the nominees like "best DVD menus." One category AVN does not have is a safe sex Award. They had one in 1998 and 1999, but it was discontinued.

It also seems everyone gets nominated. For example, the category of "best threeway sex scene" had 15 finalists. So, while it may have been the hardest ticket to get in Las Vegas last night, few were paying attention to the action on stage as most people wandered and mingled and less than an hour in,  streams of people were already leaving for the after parties.