Part two of two. Wednesday: Atmosphere and Marketplace. Today: Pornstars. Note: Some photos are NSFW. As mentioned yesterday, last month, the 12th annual edition of Erotica LA, "[featuring] over 300 erotic-themed booths and [attacting] over 40,000 consumers," took place Downtown at the LA Convention Center. Pornstars in attendance included Tera Patrick, Sunny Leone, Belladonna, Sasha Grey, Teagan Presley, Jenna Haze, Jessica Drake, Stormy Daniels, Kaylani Lei, Dana DeArmond, Bobbi Starr, Kimberly Kane, Justine Joli,......

Two weeks ago, photographer/director Dave Naz (MySpace) celebrated the release of his new Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Circa '82, his second directorial effort for the imprint, with a party at the Hyperion Tavern in Silver Lake. Circa '82 revives "...the early 80's and focus[es] on the important things in life: sex, music, and doing whatever the fuck they want. No parents, no school, no rules." The movie features cameo "...appearances by punk legends Keith Morris......

Last Wednesday, Vivid-Alt (MySpace) head, director Eon McKai (MySpace), celebrated the release of his new movie The Doll Underground with a party at the Little Cave (MySpace) in Highland Park. As reviewed by Violet Blue, The Doll Underground "...is one of the best porn films I've ever seen, and it feels like anti-porn — it's almost against the system it came from by being all that it is — a deep investigation of culture......

On Friday evening, pornstar and director (as well as recent UC Irvine guest speaker and former Howard Stern Show guest) Dana DeArmond (MySpace) celebrated the release of her Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Role Modeling with a party at the 6th Street Warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles. Donations of canned food at the door benefited the Downtown Women's Center. Also in attendance, besides DeArmond's boyfriend Daniel and Vivid-Alt head Eon McKai (MySpace), were photographer Dave Naz......

Last Thursday, Book Soup in West Hollywood hosted an autograph signing for photographer Dave Naz's latest book, L.A. Bondage, featuring covergirls Ashley Blue (Naz's girlfriend) and Nadia Styles, along with Dana DeArmond (MySpace), Flower Tucci, and Gia Jordan (MySpace), and even a live bondage performance by rope artisan Damon Pierce and model Claire Adams. Also in attendance was Coop, photographers Steve Diet Goedde, Eric Kroll, and Carlos Batts (with wife April Flores), Vivid-Alt (MySpace)......

Last Thursday, pornstar and director (and Fleshbot Crush Object, link NSFW) Dana DeArmond (MySpace) and her boyfriend Daniel (MySpace), along with pornstars Justin Long (NSFW) and Jon Jon (NSFW), were featured guest speakers in Professor Kassia Wosick-Correa's Sociology of Sexuality course at UC Irvine. According to TIME, the study of pornography on a collegiate level originated in the early 1990s, as the article mentioned Professor Linda Williams' Film and Rhetoric course at UC Berkeley,......

On Friday evening, Vivid-Alt (MySpace) head Eon McKai (MySpace) threw a DVD release party for his alternative remake of of the 1978 classic Debbie Does Dallas, called Debbie Loves Dallas (or D), at Miss Kitty's Parlour in Hollywood. D is also among the first adult releases on the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format. Among those in attendence at the party were starlets Dana DeArmond (MySpace) and Charlotte Stokely (MySpace), DeArmond's boyfriend Daniel (MySpace), Alex Gonz,......

This past weekend, adult website XFanz held the Erotica Film Festival, billed as "L.A.'s Dirtiest Film Festival," at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. Besides Saturday night's Red Carpet Gala Event, the daytime activities included screenings and panels. More photos, and don't worry, they're SFW, after the jump.......

Earlier this month we asked our readers how they'd feel if we started covering the adult video world, you know since it's a huge part of the LA economy and everyone who commented were totally into it. The only thing they asked us to do was to keep the nudity after the jump. Deal. OK after the jump, enjoy a lil photo essay from last week's "Man's Ruin" dvd release party sponsored by Vivid-alt,......