From LukeIsBack.com:

Adultcon BOYCOTTED Here

Adultcon has every right to pick and choose who to “allow” to rent booths at their convention. But when I hear they are deciding this based on who they think is pretty enough or mainstream enough, I don’t have to support them by putting up stories about their convention or who is appearing at it.

From what I’ve seen of their contract, transsexuals are not allowed at all, and girls must submit pictures along with your application so they can be judged height/weight appropriate.

That means that fans of T/S or Big beautiful woman or Big booty girls aren’t going to see THEIR favorite stars at the convention, because those stars weren’t ALLOWED to be there.

This makes no sense to me and smacks of discrimination. Are they not allowing effeminante gay boys who are 5′5 and weigh 110? I”m sure that is not height/weight appropriate for a man? Are they not allowing female models who are 5′10 and weight 105? That is also not height/weight appropriate.

I will say that Adultcon can run their business anyway they want. But when I feel that an important part of the adult community is being excluded based on Adultcon’s random standard, don’t expect to see anything else about their convention here, unless it’s an apology and a policy reversal.

From Terri at TheFloatingWorld.com:

Hi Cindi,

I read your article, and I didn’t quote it on my site at first because I … um … disagreed.

What a dick I am - I should have gone into the specifics, i.e., in the State of California, Renaud and Adultcon don’t have the right to discriminate against BB Women unless they have jumped through a bunch of preparatory hoops, many of which should have been included in their performer contracts and restrictions.

For one, we have different civil rights laws here than the Federal government does, and for two, the Adultcon contract never specifies that performers have to be height/weight proportionate.

If Adultcon weren’t so cheap, it would have consulted with a couple of lawyers over the past 6 years to make sure it isn’t breaking the law. And while on the subject of ‘cheap’ – Adultcon could have hired a real, “respected”, publicist years ago as well; most of the industry’s media outlets wouldn’t be boycotting Adultcon now if it had. Even the Adultcon ‘Official Media Sponsor’, XBIZ.com, isn’t running anything on its home page about the show. What does that tell you? And does that tell you something about Adultcon or about XBIZ?

I post an article and performer list for the Adultcon show out of respect to all of the performers and companies that are suffering through another Adultcon at this very moment.

Your considered points after I tuned out and became all high and mighty, are all legitimate, of course.

Terri

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