Prom And Porn Collide, Angering Parents: Miami Beach High Parties Alongside Exxxotica Expo At Convention Center (VIDEO)

High School's Prom Held Alongside VERY Adult Expo

They're just one letter apart, but most parents hope for a little more separation between "prom" and "porn."

Unfortunately for shocked moms and dads dropping off their sharply-dressed teens at Miami Beach Senior High's big dance, the only separation was a wall: not only was the Miami Beach Convention Center the site of the school's prom Saturday night, but the very adult, very explicit 3-day Exxxotica Expo was underway in the same building.

"Oh no, I don’t like that,” mom Loise Carter told CBS Miami after dropping off her daughter. “That is terrible. I don’t like it.”

School officials said extra staff and even police officers were on hand at the convention center to ensure that students and porn stars didn't meet, and entrances to the separate exhibition halls were accessed on opposite sides of the building.

But the move still raised eyebrows. Porn star Joanna Angel told WSVN that the school had plenty of notice the self-proclaimed "largest event in the USA dedicated to love and sex" would be going down the same weekend.

"The date of this [expo] is announced and it was online -- I think it's been almost a year. It's been around for a while," Angel said. "We're just here to do a job and hang out with our fans. We have no idea what's going on across the street."

School officials, who insisted prom wasn't impacted by any x-rated shenanigans, argued their options for prom were limited by safety concerns.

“We do not hold our proms in venues such as hotels for the safety of our children and to discourage drinking,” said MBSH's activities director, Gwen Zaldivar. “Therefore this was the only available location and its easy to control the students are safe.”

Prom-goers -- perhaps used to seeing all sorts of stages of undress on Miami Beach -- seemed to take the unusual pairing in stride.

"It's Miami," said one nonplussed student, as his date giggled. "Things happen everywhere, you know?"

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