SEXPO was always the biggest event of the year for the adult industry and the presenters spared no expense for the Fortieth Anniversary in 2065. Ads were shown months in advance and the presenters apparently went out of their way to hire the most extreme and corny-sounding announcer for all the commercials.
Natasha Xee was kicking off SEXPO 2065 with a live concert, and the totally extreme announcer made sure everyone knew about the promotional event called "Night with Natasha" where "ONE LUCKY WINNER WILL GET AN ALL-NIGHT VIP EXPERIENCE WITH THE SEXY STARLET!" Of course, everyone knew what they meant. Unfortunately, after SEXPO, everyone agreed the concert was a colossal disappointment, and the "ONE LUCKY WINNER!" gave a mediocre review of Natasha's bedroom prowess. This was supposed to be her biggest gig in five years, maybe even her big comeback, and she blew it.
There was also buzz surrounding the actress, Britney Clark's, official porn debut with one panel offering a sexy sneak peak of her upcoming movie. Porn had finally reached mainstream Hollywood, but most of the films were shallow porn parodies which critics, and audiences for that matter, didn't take seriously. This looked like something else entirely, a serious drama film which just happened to feature one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood having sex in front of the camera. It was a Western about a woman who's forced to become a saloon prostitute when the rest of the wagon train abandons her. Critics seemed to agree that Britney's genuine acting skills helped immensely.
But the most intriguing of all was the ad campaign from none other than Aphrodyne Industries. They were much more subdued than the "TOTALLY EXTREME!" announcer for the SEXPO proper, just a couple different posters with lingerie models posing with big smiles. At the bottom of the posters was the slogan: "Am I real? Find out at SEXPO 2065."
This sparked everyone's interest because Aphrodyne had an infamous reputation. Their primary products were consumer-level sexbots that the average person could enjoy, but everybody had those, hell, even HONDA had a personal sexbot. Aphrodyne's specialty was in "sexual experiences" using a combination of VR and robotics to cater to their customers' fantasies. The one that made them infamous was called the Ocean World Experience, which allowed the customer to roleplay as a trainer for the animals while a highly accurate robotic dolphin had its way with them in front of a VR-simulated audience. Critics of the sex industry only used Aphrodyne for more ammunition, claiming that making the sex industry mainstream caused the freaks and deviants to come out of the woodwork.
When Aphrodyne famously boasted that the robot in question was so accurate that it allegedly fooled real dolphins into mating with it, their main competitor, Orgasma Inc., pointed out that dolphins will mate with literally anything. So, when people first saw the ads, everyone asked each other, "Wait, the people with the dolphin?" to which everyone else replied, "Yup, the people with the dolphin." The "Am I Real" ads were parodied mercilessly and became memes overnight with people photoshopping the models next to increasingly oddly specific choices of sealife, like a giant sunfish, marine iguanaa, and plesiosaurs.