LAS VEGAS – It’s the end of an era. What started as a parody of the adult entertainment industry’s never-ending quest for public recognition has gone legit.

On Monday evening, for the first time, the GFY Awards were presented during a gala ceremony conducted as part of the annual Internext Expo adult webmaster trade show. The celebration, inside Vinyl at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, adopted all the pomp and circumstance more typically associated with the oh-so-important industry awards shows the GFYs originally sought to skewer.

Even the awards categories have become more sedate and serious. That’s probably to be expected, since the forum itself is no longer the rebellious, no-holds-barred, independently owned frontier it started out to be in 2000.

AVN Media Network — corporate parent of Adult Video News, the Adult Entertainment Expo, Internext and the AVN Awards (dubbed “the Oscars of Adult”) — acquired GFY from ICS Entertainment in January 2011. Later that year, AVN re-conceived the formerly tongue-in-cheek, forum-based awards and presented what it called the GFY People’s Choice Awards during Webmaster Access in Amsterdam. Most of the snarky categories disappeared. The following year, the second-annual GFY People’s Choice Awards included even fewer nods to the sort of digital mayhem for which GFY is justifiably infamous.

This year, the awards finally dropped all pretense at sarcasm … along with the “People’s Choice” part of their moniker.

Monday’s ceremony included not only awards presentations, but also entertainment by popular cover band Ironic Maiden.

Here, without further ado, is the list of 2014 GFY Awards winners:

Best Sex Toy Affiliate Program: My Free Sex Store

Best Design Studio: Zuzana Design

Best Software Company: AdultCentro

Innovative Company of the Year: CrakMedia

Transgender Affiliate Program: Nikki99

Best Advertising Network: JuicyAds

Most Entertaining GFY Member: Achmed

Businesswoman of the Year: Ruth Blair of Paxum

Best Webcam Studio: Happy Studio

Best Billing Company: CCBill

Best Content Production: MetArt

Best Content Provider: AdultCentro

Best Dating Company: AdultFriendFinder

Best Gay Affiliate Program: Buddy Profits

Best Affiliate Manager: Jimmy “Wizzo” Foreman

Businessman of the Year: Nick C.

Best Hosting Company: MojoHost

Best Live Cam Company: Chaturbate

Best New Site of the Year: Mr. Man

Best Payment Service: Paxum

Best VOD Company: AEBN

Best Mobile Company: BitterStrawberry

Best Affiliate Program: CrakRevenue

GFY Hall of Fame Inductee: Patrick “The Hun” Terwee