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==History== The organization was founded in 1984,<ref>{{cite magazine|url= http://business.avn.com/articles/video/XRCO-Announces-2008-Awards-Nominees-23521.html |title=XRCO Announces 2008 Awards Nominees|first=David|last=Sullivan|magazine=AVN|date=February 15, 2008}}</ref> consisting of writers from [[Los Angeles]], [[New York City]] and [[Philadelphia]].<ref name="2009 XRCO Award Winners Announced" /> [[Jim Holliday]], [[AVN Award]]-winning producer and historian, is considered the founding father of the X-Rated Critics Organization.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Jim-Holliday-Passes-Away-41305.html |title=Jim Holliday Passes Away|magazine=AVN|first=Tim|last=Connelly|date=December 16, 2004}}</ref><ref name="xrco">{{cite web|url=http://www.xrco.com/ |title=XRCO - X-Rated Critics Organization|access-date=November 8, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-19-ca-29687-story.html |title=Academy Awards of XXX Convene in 'the Valley of Lust': Uptight Undercurrent Mars Atmosphere of Kinky Abandon in Era of Challenges From Law|website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=February 19, 1988|access-date=January 12, 2014}}</ref> After Holliday's death, the position of XRCO Historian was temporarily filled by XRCO founding member [[Bill Margold]] until 2006.<ref name="xrco"/> [[James Avalon]], a former editor of ''[[Adam Film World]]''βs special editions, was also a founding member of XRCO.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adultvideonews.com/hall/hall0305_01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050318015401/http://www.adultvideonews.com/hall/hall0305_01.html |title=The 2005 AVN Hall of Fame Inductees|archive-date=March 18, 2005|work=archive.org|access-date=January 17, 2015}}</ref> XRCO's original Chairman, Jared Rutter, stepped down in 2004 and is now recognized as an "Honorary Chairman". The current co-Chairmen are "Dirty Bob" Krotts<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.avn.com/porn-stars/Dirty-Bob-275897.html |title=Dirty Bob|magazine=AVN}}</ref><ref>{{iafd name|id=dbob|gender=director|name=Bob Krotts}}</ref> and [[Dick Freeman]].<ref name="xrco" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=177848 |title=XRCO Gears Up for 30th Anniversary Show|work=XBIZ|access-date=April 15, 2015}}</ref>
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