Brents has been going to Las Vegas porn conventions for 15 years. The first she attended was in a basement. The last one, last week, took up 178,000 square feet of space at the Sands Expo & Convention Center—a big-league event, with sex under stadium lights.
While hardware manufacturers were given prime real estate on the Las Vegas Convention Center floor, Fishbein says, adult-video companies were tucked away in the back of the Sahara hotel, roped off from the rest of the conference.
Las Vegas is becoming an attractive shooting location for the porn industry due to a growing pool of actors, cheap rents, good weather, proximity to California and convenient flights, Stabile said. Las Vegas probably ranks among the top three locations in the U.S. for shooting porn alongside Los Angeles and southern Florida, he added.
