AEE WON'T SUFFER FROM CES WITHDRAWAL
Recession tolls Consumer Electronics Show's use of Sands Expo Center
By Mark Kernes
08/11/2009
LAS VEGAS?The adult industry and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) have a long history together, with adult companies exhibiting at the CES from the late '70s through 1999, when AVN formed the industry's own convention, the Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), after CES made it clear that it considered adult industry members to be second-class citizens. (For example, a sign was posted at restrooms in 1998 in the CES's adult section reading, "Warning: Porn Stars Use These Facilities.")
But CES and AEE have had a mutually beneficial relationship since the split, with CES attendees forming a significant part of the fan base attending the AEE. That relationship became even closer when CES, in an effort to accommodate the more than 150,000 attendees in 2006, again rented convention hall space in the Sands Expo Center, where AEE has historically made its home. CES had not used Sands exhibition space since the early 1990s.
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