With an XBiz nomination for Female Performer of the Year, Sunny, now a Déjà vu contract star will be enjoying the festivities at the Highlands Thursday night, February 7th in Hollywood surrounded by industry members and many friends.

“I’m really excited about the XBiz Awards because it’s great to see everyone in one place,” stated the Florida native. “You know I had a really great year so it’s wonderful to get nominated for such a big award and I thank Xbiz for the nomination.”

For the past two years Lane was nominated for numerous awards and finally pulled off her first AVN Award win at the recent show in Las Vegas. “That was so much fun and now the monkey’s off my back,” she laughed.

With an ambitious schedule for 2008, the former professional ice-skater turned adult star will be traveling the globe meeting fans at the various Déjà vu outposts and bringing her sexy dance shows to fans that have only previously seen her in her adult videos.

“I love getting out on the road and meeting my fans. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be having all this fun,” Lane admitted.

While in San Diego one fan had tattooed her first and last names on each of his hands. “I asked him which one he uses to jerk off. Sunny or Lane?” she laughed.

The raven haired busty beauty is starting the new year off right with an April 2008 Hustler layout, that is out now, a recent AVN 2008 nomination, and returning to reprise her role in Stormy Daniels “Operation Tropical Stormy” sequel for Wicked Pictures.

“We’re bringing back Veronica Rayne for a cameo appearance, you’ll just have to wait to see what is revealed” states Daniels.

Veronica and hubby Jack Vegas recently appeared on the Sunday Morning Show on CBS, where they interviewed her on the red carpet for the AVN 2008 Awards in Vegas. “I was very happy and pleased with the interview. “It was a good interview, and we’re happy how it came out” beamed Rayne.

“I’m looking forward to bigger and better roles and opportunities in 2008” says Rayne, who’s been compared to an adult film star version of Sophia Loren. She can act, and perform, as her sizzling performances in over 100 films in her two year career can attest to.

She is also appearing in a mainstream film this year, “Spring Break 83′” with Jamie Kennedy.

The president of William and Mary will allow a controversial “Sex Workers’ Art Show” to be held on the Virginia campus.

Add Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, a slew of B-list celebrities and the phenomenon has passed the trend barrier and is now a cultural mainstay: homemade porn is sweeping the globe.

The good news for budding sexual documentarians is that the technology is cheap and accessible to everyone. The bad news is, so is the result: your spring break exploits are only a bitter ex and a Google search away from the most awkward dinner conversation you’ll ever have with your parents.

If you’re tempted by such harbingers of celebrity status as Amy Fisher and Britney Spears - oh, and Chua Soi Lek - there’s a few things you should consider before making the leap into amateur porn. Make no mistake about it, videotaping yourself having sex, even for an audience of two, is amateur porn. In this day and age, where porn stars are as mainstream as pop stars - and some, as we know, dabble in both - it may be tempting to think that getting on on the TV is cool and real, and getting it on the TV is even cooler and more glamorous.

The widespread nature of pornography has an impact on your sex life, whether you know it or not. Before I sound like a total prude, let me extol some virtues of pornography. For one, evidence across several studies has concluded that pornography reduces incidents of rape. A 10 percent increase in Web access to porn cuts down a state’s rate of sexual assault by about 7.5 percent. So, would-be date rapists and sexual predators: the university is providing you with a high-speed Internet connection - enjoy it to your heart’s content.

For the rest of us, there’s another side of porn. These days, when the ABC network can be fined $14.3 million for showing female buttocks on an episode of “NYPD Blue” that it aired five years ago, porn may be the only place left allowed to acknowledge the existence of sex. If that’s the case, it has a real impact on ideas of sexual performance and expectations for men and women.

Men might get concerned that their ejaculation isn’t adequate because it fails to travel to Europe - or even the edge of the bed. Porn-damaged boys expect women and women’s bodies to live up to unrealistically molded proportions and they forget what real girls look like.

Women getting their ideas of sexual expectations from porn are a tragic case as well, since the women of porn never experience any kind of pleasure from it. Female porn viewers, in many cases, get used to the idea that some degree of physical discomfort must be involved in pleasing a partner, which is setting women’s sexual education back to the ’50s.

If porn makes your actual sex life look dry and boring, well, that’s what it is supposed to be doing. It brings a completely new meaning to “the free hand of the market.” Competition for customers propels producers into ratcheting up their content to extremes. If you haven’t seen “Two Girls, One Cup,” consider yourself a better person, and respect the fact that you can still look your mom in the eyes - but it’s the perfect example of where porn goes to catch desensitized viewers. Remarkably, it’s gone mainstream enough to be mentioned on VH1.

Watching porn could make anyone feel overwhelmed by the idea that being real is enough to please anyone these days. People get used to seeing increasingly extreme kinds of sex acts on the Internet, and suddenly, real sex can’t compete. To compensate, partners try to imitate the stuff they’ve seen in porn. This is a problem.

If you lose yourself in bed - or wherever you choose to get it on - you’re losing a big part of your relationship. That’s the downside of even mild porn: Instead of actually enjoying sex, you’re dedicating precious naked-time to an act of performance. When two people are “performing” for each other, they’re getting rid of actual intimacy: instead of sex being about generosity and mutuality and communication - you know, healthy, normal attitudes - it becomes about trying to look and act like a porn star.
Expressing your personality and the complicated dynamics of a relationship sexually may seem messy and unthinkable, which is tragic - because that’s the whole point.

Add this recent drive for couples to document their sex lives on videotape. Some people fetishize a computer screen to the point where they just have to see their own naked torsos thrusting in full-fledged high-definition glory.

Don’t get me wrong, if it makes you happy, anything is acceptable - as long as both parties are honest, consenting and everyone is aware of the risks. The trouble with the naked amateur cinematographers of the world is that the risk isn’t always clear. Even if you trust your partner, there’s no guarantee the pictures won’t be found by a third party - a camera gets lost, a computer is repaired, who knows? Then there’s the issue of the tapes or files getting around - maybe to a close friend, who then sends it to just one more close friend, etc. Even if you trust your partner now, how can anyone predict how trustworthy they will be after a breakup?