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Grooby Productions is a company founded in 1996 and based in Los Angeles, CA, producing transgender online adult entertainment. It established itself as one of the pioneer companies of online adult transgender entertainment with its website Shemale Yum, "the first transsexual pay site with original content". The company owns a number of transsexual adult websites and produces its own DVD line as well as having other interests in forums, blogs and social networking within the transsexual niche genre including the Tranny Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Executive Suites : Steven Gallon )〕 It has been called as "one of the most popular adult industry companies in the world" and according to AVN Business, the company "has established itself among the Net's foremost purveyors of transgender erotica". ==Company history== Grooby traces its roots back to websites started up in 1996 in the UK by owner Steven Gallon, a film school graduate. The most prominent of them was his transgender site (Shemale Yum ) which became an Adult Verification site and eventually a pay site. The term "shemale" is considered pejorative by the transgender community but Grooby says that at the time the site was named he didn't know any better and the site became too well branded to change the name.〔 Other websites followed including Ladyboy-Ladyboy in 1998 which was the first website to specifically go to Thailand to photograph ladyboys and number of other sites featuring Brazilian, Black, Japanese and Canadian transsexuals.〔 For a time Grooby operated the official websites for Joey Silvera〔 and Gia Darling but due to creative differences these were dissolved amicably. In 2006 the company celebrated its 10-year anniversary, which included a party thrown by Allanah Starr in New York City.〔 In 2008 Grooby opened the SheMaleJapan.com website to focus on Japanese "newhalf" (ニューハーフ) transsexual models. The concept for the website dated back to 2000 but it took eight years to find an appropriate producer in Japan. The site was formed in partnership with a Japanese producer, Hiro, and all video is shot in Japan. Models have included adult video (AV) stars Miki Mizuasa and Hime Tsukino. The site is in English but in mid-2009 almost half of the users of the site were from Japan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=shemalejapan.com Traffic Stats )〕 By late 2008 the company hosted 12 websites and employed 7 full-time employees at its Los Angeles, CA headquarters and 25 people worldwide.〔 Grooby Productions produces over 2000 photo/video sets a year for web only release and about 10 DVD releases.〔 In Late 2009, the company relocated its offices from Honolulu to Los Angeles, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grooby Productions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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