From: Condom law slapped on LA adult film stars
Actors making pornographic movies in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms while filming, under a new law signed by the city mayor.
The new regulation has been welcomed by health officials but pornography industry leaders say it could force them to abandon the city.
LA’s San Fernando Valley is considered the capital of the multibillion-dollar US adult film industry.
Correspondents say it is not yet clear how the new law will be enforced.
The LA-based Aids Healthcare Foundation welcomed the move saying it was crucial in protecting adult film actors from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The foundation, which has campaigned for the measure for six years, said it would now seek similar condom requirement elsewhere in the US.
“The city of Los Angeles has done the right thing. They’ve done the right thing for the performers,” said foundation president Michael Weinstein.
He said his group would also be vigilant in keeping track of where porn producers might move to.
Several of the industry’s biggest adult filmmakers have said they might consider moving just outside city boundaries.
Moving to avoid having to pay for condoms- cheap bastards
It’s not about not wanting to pay for condoms, it’s about not wanting any restrictions on the manufacture of violent, degrading porn.
If semen in the vagina or anus is unsafe, then so is semen on the face (too close to the eyes or the mucus membranes of the mouth), which means no more money shots.
There are probably implications for BDSM porn too, ‘work’ that leaves cuts, bruises, rope-burns or PTSD cannot be safe either.
The porn industry is holding its women performers to ransom, either the authorities put up with the status quo, accept HIV tests (with small outbreaks every few years) as all that can or should be done to regulate the industry, or they’ll go elsewhere and do worse.
I was simplistic I know. Buts it’s obvious to me that on top of all that they don’t want to pay for anything even testing it’s not only holding them to ransom but expecting them to pay
rent as well.