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Christian Mann

Christian Mann

Biography

A 30-year veteran of the adult business, Christian Mann has worked in various capacitie,  including magazines, mail order, production, sales and marketing. As owner of Video Team, he pioneered niche marketing with the popular all-girl series No Man’s Land and the urban series My Baby Got Back. In 2006, Christian sold Video Team to Metro Interactive and two years later took a position as general manager of John Stagliano’s Evil Angel Video. Christian is no stranger to the challenges inherent in marketing adult products for adult consumers. He was indicted in 1989, withstood a federal obscenity trial in Texas and was eventually acquitted of all charges. Over 20 years later, as Evil Angel’s founder John Stagliano was facing on obscenity charges in Washington, D.C. (charges that were ultimately dismissed in July 2010), Christian was elected to the Free Speech Coalition Board of Directors, where he is actively involved with FSC’s anti-piracy efforts. Christian was the recipient of AVN’s First Amendment Defense Award in 1991, the Free Speech Coalition’s Good Guy Award in 2000 and most recently was inducted in the “AVN Hall of Fame – Founder’s Branch” in January 2010.