Adult Film Database (AFD) is an English-language adult website database that attempts to keep records of all

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and adult film stars. This includes filmographies, partial biographies, reviews, labeled and categorized adult film stills, as well as a regularly updated adult industry blog which features the latest news about adult performers, movies, directors,

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, web site updates and sundry adult news from around the world.

Founding and synopsis

It was created in 1991 under the name Sodomite by a college student. This was an attempt to fill the void of the temporary absence of the

Internet Adult Film Database The Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) is an online database of information pertaining to, in United States, the pornography industry: actors, actresses, directors, studios, distributors and pornographic films. History The predecessor to IAFD ...

(IAFD) and as a project in web development. In 1999 its name was changed to the AdultFilmDatabase.com. Today, the AdultFilmDatabase.com is a major competitor to the Internet Adult Film Database. Taking inspiration from both the Internet Adult Film Database and

IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...

and forging ties with industry mainstays like

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and

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the AdultFilmDatabase.com features information on over 100,000 adult movies and 60,000 performers (updated March 2019). Run by a husband and wife team, the Adult Film Database was the first online adult database to include both straight and gay videos and performers. On October 1, 2007, the Adult Film Database was mentioned in an article from the online equivalent of Brazilian newspaper ''

Folha de S.Paulo ''Folha de S.Paulo'' (sometimes spelled ''Folha de São Paulo''), also known as simply ''Folha'' (, ''Sheet''), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name ''Folha da Noite'' and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã c ...

''. In October 2007, the Adult Film Database debunked rumors adult film performer Tamara Lee (born 30 July 1969) had died from

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. The news was covered by ''

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'' (''AVN'') in an article on October 23, 2007.

References

External links

* * http://www.adultfilmdatabase.com {{Movie databases Erotica and pornography websites Internet properties established in 1991 Internet properties established in 1999 Online film databases Works about pornography