Free Speech Coalition Meeting in Vegas at the Lingerie Convention - Synopsis

[docholly]

gosh i must have been asleep when you posted about coming over the hump from Pahrump.. the Rio is like 2 blocks from me.. and I had to be there today..dammit..

glad you got good info from this and nice to see the ACLU weighing in.. i think they have a bit more clout..

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by docholly

gosh i must have been asleep when you posted about coming over the hump from Pahrump.. the Rio is like 2 blocks from me.. and I had to be there today..dammit..

glad you got good info from this and nice to see the ACLU weighing in.. i think they have a bit more clout..

I agree about the ACLU, I plan on joining them too. I was so glad to hear they represent the adult industry, go 1st amendment rights!

I really expected to see some adult webmasters there, there are quite a few companies based out of Vegas, but the only ones I saw that were not at the lingerie trade show where from sincity chamber of commerce. Another neat group I met, they are trying to start an chamber of commerce that is more open to adult businesses after being discriminated by the Vegas CC. They have everything from adult webmasters to escorts in their membership.

Once they have enough members, they also plan on getting group health insurance plans. I told them they need to post on boards and get members from the adult webmaster community.
I want to keep my eye on them, I'd LOVE to get group rates for health insurance, we pay too damn much a month.

[docholly]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

I really expected to see some adult webmasters there, there are quite a few companies based out of Vegas, but the only ones I saw that were not at the lingerie trade show where from sincity chamber of commerce. Another neat group I met, they are trying to start an chamber of commerce that is more open to adult businesses after being discriminated by the Vegas CC. They have everything from adult webmasters to escorts in their membership.

Once they have enough members, they also plan on getting group health insurance plans. I told them they need to post on boards and get members from the adult webmaster community.
I want to keep my eye on them, I'd LOVE to get group rates for health insurance, we pay too damn much a month.

That's a good thing.. the insurance.. goddess knows we pay enough.

I looked at their list of members and very few are from the adult industry and the ones that are like the Chicken Ranch and Deja Vu Girls are brothels or clubs. I didn't any representation from like the major web players here, and maybe because the chamber directors etc just don't know who they are.. but I thought at least Streamray and Vivid would be there (on the list)

Since i returned last summer i've been trying to get more participation in our little Camgirl breakfasts at the Palms.. we meet monthly, set up photo shoot exchanges, new traffic sources etc but it would be good to get a broader cross section with wm participating etc. Some of these girls would do exclusive shoots etc for either money or traffic.

I think the Sin City Chamber will get very few single providers as their minimum is 250.00 which is kind of steep for most of the indie porn girls..

I signed up to go to the event on the 20th and check it out.. then see if its worth the 400.00 to join and i can 'umbrella' them in.

Thanks for doing all this networking!!

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by docholly

I signed up to go to the event on the 20th and check it out.. then see if its worth the 400.00 to join and i can 'umbrella' them in.

Thanks for doing all this networking!!

You are welcome! Let me know what you think, Michael and his wife seemed very nice. I think their original intent was more "brick and mortar" adult entertaintment, and escorts. Hopefully he will start looking at adult webmasters / companies too to broaden his member base. The one thing about being an independant webmaster is lack of group health insurance, and I'm all for that. I used to belong to LVCC just for that benefit...until they raised the rates to over $400/mo for MadHatter and I for basic coverage...didn't seem like much of a savings to us, and that was over 3 years ago. Now I'm on Anthem, which has a high deductible (3k) but truthfully, have saved more money despite that i'm no where near having spent my deductible yet, then I ever did with the more expensive plan with LVCC. Go figure.

[RedCherry]

Someone pointed out on another thread this article yesterday on Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051012/film_nm/porn_dc re the current law that would make simulated sex and lavicious depecition of genitals, even if clothed, fall under 2257. Glad to see mainstream media FINALLY reporting on this stuff!