The Erotica Lifestyles Expo, informally known as "Erotica" is an adult entertainment convention

Convention (meeting)

A convention, in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. The most common conventions are based upon industry, profession, and fandom...

 held annually in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

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 and in a number of New Zealand regional cities semi-annually.

The 2010 Erotica Auckland, held from 13 to 15 August 2010, was the 18th Erotica Lifestyles Expo to be held in New Zealand and featured pornstars such as Nina Hartley

Nina Hartley

Nina Hartley is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, feminist, and author.-Early life:...

, Buck Angel

Buck Angel

Buck Angel is a female-to-male transsexual and adult film maker and an LGBT icon of popular culture. He is also founder of Buck Angel Entertainment, as a vehicle to produce media projects...

, Tory Lane

Tory Lane

Tory Lane is an American nude model, exotic dancer, pornographic actress and adult film director.Lane was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is of Polish and Italian descent. She worked as a bartender at a club called The Elbo Room on Ft. Lauderdale Beach...

, Gina Lynn

Gina Lynn

Gina Lynn is a Puerto Rican pornographic actress.- Biography :Lynn was born to Puerto Rican and Italian parents in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Jackson Township, New Jersey; she currently resides and operates Gina Lynn Productions in Reading, Pennsylvania...

 and Dana DeArmond

Dana DeArmond

Dana DeArmond is a pornographic actress who entered the industry in 2005.-Biography:During her teen years, DeArmond was a figure skater; she was in the same skating club as Sunny Lane...

.

The conventions have been promoted by organiser and pornographer Steve Crow via a controversial Boobs on Bikes

Boobs on bikes

Boobs on Bikes is a mostly annual parade of topless men and women riding on motorcycles through large New Zealand cities ....

 parade of topless pornstars and local men and women in various New Zealand cities.

The expo was first held in 2000, with about 50 retailers and erotica-related businesses in attendance. In 2004, the attendance was about 30,000 people, with around 130 exhibitors.

Parade controversy

In 2006, substantial media coverage of attempts to ban the parade led to several weeks of political and moral debate in local political circles (with the mayor Dick Hubbard

Dick Hubbard

Richard "Dick" John Hubbard ONZM, DSc is a New Zealand businessman and politician, founder and principal of Hubbards Foods in Auckland, and Mayor of Auckland City from 2004 to 2007. His management of Hubbard Foods gained some prominence for its participation in and promotion of socially...

condemning the parade and the expo), the public and the media, resulting in the parade drawing several tens of thousands of spectators. In 2007, the parade received a Council permit, which incited another, much smaller debate, with attendance at the parade also being much smaller.