Steve Nelson

Steve Nelson is CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Adult Industry News (AINews.com), an online publication covering the Adult Entertainment Industry. Nelson created AINews in 1998.

Prior to 1998, Nelson was a Design and Development Specialist at Fiberset Inc. (aerospace engineering), Pattern Shop Supervisor at Flightways Manufacturing (composite tooling design), a Tooling Pattern Maker at Weber Aircraft, Mail and File Department Supervisor for Coastal Insurance, and Computer Report Distribution Supervisor for City National Bank.

With an extensive background in writing procedural manuals and proposals for other industries, Nelson has continued writing, adding reporting, journalism, and photography, with adult columns such as The News Rack which features busty girls, and appears on Adult Industry News (AINews.com), in Gent Magazine, and occasionally in other publications.

Because of Nelson's personable nature, and the fact he knows nearly everyone in the Adult Entertainment Industry, he is called upon by the XRCO to screen entrance for their awards show which is an Industry-only event.

Nelson was honored with the Adult Industry's Carnal Medal of Honor at the Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame on January 11, 2008, a rare honor reserved for those who have had a significant positive impact on the adult industry.

On a personal note, Nelson enjoys backpacking in the High Sierras, was a musician for 18 years, likes reading tech manuals and Sci-Fi, and has been clean and sober since 1985.