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Adultcon

trade fair in the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ4033418
Source-derived summary

Adultcon is a pornographic film trade fair in the United States. The event takes place three times per year, usually with two conferences in Los Angeles, California at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and one conference in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. The event was established in 2001.

Adultcon hosted an Adultcon award ceremony in 2007.

In July 2011, Adultcon canceled its two shows in Los Angeles because the Los Angeles Convention Center hosted two competing pornography conferences around the same times of year.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Adultcon” as trade fair in the United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2007, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. The account is most persuasive where Adultcon, trade and fair can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as trade fair in the United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4033418. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2007 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Adultcon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.