Condom law coming to Florida, too?

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http://tbo.com/news/florida/complain...doms-20130904/

Complaint: Porn filmed in Florida lacks condoms
The Associated Press

Published: September 4, 2013
MIAMI ? A health organization that successfully pushed for a Los Angeles County law mandating condom use in the adult film industry has filed a complaint about a pornographic movie made in Miami-Dade County after it says filmmakers started shifting production to other states to avoid the law.

The California-based organization, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, formally requested an investigation in an Aug. 16 letter to the Florida Department of Health. The complaint claims that the Florida production took health risks by making pornography without condoms.

Foundation president Michael Weinstein said Wednesday that California-based porn producers are trying to get around the new Los Angeles County law, known as Measure B, by having actors perform outside the state.

?We are not going to allow the industry to play a shell game in order to evade the laws we have. It?s not going to work,? Weinstein told reporters in a conference call. ?Our concern is the health and safety of the per formers.?

The filming was done by North Miami Beach-based D&E Productions on a contract with San Diego Boy Productions, according to D&E co-owner David Adamson.

Producers in the porn industry have said condom use makes their films less attractive to audiences and drives down revenue. Adamson said California porn makers are outsourcing work in which actors don?t wear condoms to filmmakers in other states, like him.

Florida, especially the areas around Miami and Fort Lauderdale, has long had a robust pornography industry.

?The state of Florida, they don?t care. There?s nothing on the books regarding condom use,? Adamson said, adding that all his actors are older than 18 and do the work voluntarily.

?Anybody who does condom-less porn, we get them tested and we make sure they are clean,? he added.

The foundation?s complaint asks state health officials to investigate the D&E production as a ?sanitary nuisance,? which involves actions by individuals or companies that might cause spread of disease. The foundation wants universal condom use to protect porn performers from AIDS, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases ? and they say testing of actors isn?t enough.

A Department of Health spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. In 2010, the foundation filed similar complaints in Florida but was told there was no way to prove the productions were made in the state.

This time, Weinstein said, the proof comes from the pornographers themselves.

The foundation initially filed a complaint in February against San Diego Boy with the California Department of Industrial Relations, which regulates workplace safety issues for that state. In its response, San Diego Boy said the material in question was done on contract by D&E in Florida. The company even provided invoices detailing the work done by actors with names like ?Vince & Marcus? and ?Clark & Texas.?

?We hope to get a better response from the state of Florida as a result,? Weinstein said.

The Los Angeles County condom law was approved by voters there last November and survived a legal challenge by porn producers when a federal judge last month upheld its constitutionality and said supporters provided sufficient evidence that it would alleviate health risks.

[L-Pink]

Except as a way to smuggle drugs I don't think anyone in Florida knows what a condom is.


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[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

Except as a way to smuggle drugs I don't think anyone in Florida knows what a condom is.


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How are things on the Redneck Riviera?



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[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

How are things on the Redneck Riviera?



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Visiting in Kentucky right now, the redneck Alps.


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[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

Visiting in Kentucky right now, the redneck Alps.


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Be well.



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[RevSand]

Its already on the books via OSHA that condoms need to be in place. It also bring up an added point that it is still actually illegal to shoot porn at all in Florida..

[JockoHomo]

Florida is the limp dick of the USA!

[Major (Tom)]

Wouldn't porn have to be made legal first in the state of fl rather than just tolerated?
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[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by DukeSkywalker

Wouldn't porn have to be made legal first in the state of fl rather than just tolerated?
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What do you mean? Porn kingpin Fabian Thylmann and Manwin have already set-up shop in Florida and are invested heavily there, so it must already be legal.

Remember this from a previous HIV incident in Miami about 2 years ago involving Manwin? (it was reported to be a false positive after follow-up testing):

The American porn industry has voluntarily shut itself down after a male performer working in Florida tested positive for HIV.

Yesterday, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which fights for the use of condoms in adult movies, issued a press release claiming the performer worked for Brazzers.com, a popular online porn network. Today, Brazzers' parent company has responded and claims the performer didn't work for Brazzers but rather another porn site with the same owner.

Brazzers is owned by Manwin, a Luxembourg-based pornography company that also has offices in Los Angeles and Montreal. Many of the movies featured on its various sites have been filmed in Miami-Dade County.

"Manwin and some of its online properties have recently been falsely accused by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) as well as by other organizations in relation to possible HIV exposure of an adult industry performer," reads the company's press release. "The AHF statement is an unacceptable attempt to undermine the reputation of our producers through the publication of false information."

The company says it takes "industry performers' health and safety very seriously" and claims that at no time did the infected model "perform or provide any services for any of our producers after any test results were disclosed reflecting even the possibility of HIV exposure or infection."

Of course, HIV tests often are unable to detect the virus until it's been present in the body for some time.

The press release also claims the model did not perform for the Brazzers.com network of sites but rather the Mofos.com network. Those sites are both owned by Manwin.

Now Fabian may have to explain to the American authorities how they are all wrong, like he is having to do with the German tax authorities.



BTW, I noted that Manwin's gay tubes feature gay bareback scenes. Not sure if their own gay sites do (sounds like a job for Mike South, lol). Just like piracy, Manwin may say they are against it, but they are profiting from it nonetheless.



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