Measure requiring porn actors to wear condoms
 

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Measure requiring porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots tentatively approved by L.A. City Council

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LOS ANGELES - An ordinance that would require porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots was tentatively approved by the City Council on Tuesday.

The council voted 11-1 for the proposal. The ordinance still requires a second vote next week for final approval.

Under the ordinance, porn producers would have to provide and require the use of condoms on set in order to obtain permits to film in the nation's second-largest city.

Approval of the ordinance would supersede a proposed ballot initiative by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The group has long advocated for mandatory condom use in adult films and urged council members to approve the ordinance.

"This long struggle to move us to a place of making Los Angeles a safe place to make adult films has taken a huge leap forward today," said foundation President Michael Weinstein, referring to advocacy work and legal attempts to create a mandate for condoms in porn and to enforce it.

The Free Speech Coalition, the porn industry's trade association, issued a statement criticizing the vote and the incursion of government into sex films.

"Government regulation of filmmaking would likely undermine existing health and safety efforts and industry standards that are effective as well as take the government into dangerous new territory," said Diane Duke, coalition executive director.

Duke said the porn industry has a low rate of sexually transmitted disease and there has been no transmission of HIV in the industry in five years.

The most recent HIV scare in the industry came when a male performer initially tested HIV positive, but retesting revealed he was free of the disease in September 2011, according to Duke.

Prior to that, porn actor Derrick Burts was diagnosed HIV-positive in December 2010 after working in gay and straight porn for a few months. Burts said he contracted the disease through those performances.

Duke and others don't count Burts' case as an industry-caused illness, alleging he contracted HIV outside the workplace.

Burts denies those allegations and called the council vote Tuesday "a huge, huge step in the right direction."

The council also agreed to form a group comprised of law enforcement, state occupational safety regulators, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and other stakeholders to hammer out how to enforce the new rules.

The council also voted unanimously to drop a lawsuit filed by the city attorney against the foundation aimed at stopping its proposed ballot measure.

The group last month said it gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the June ballot.

The Free Speech Coalition opposes mandatory condom regulations but favors consistently testing adult film performers for sexually transmitted diseases.



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Grr.. kinda blows. I def like my porn latex free.

I agree with the regular testing, wish more reg people did it, would def curb the epidemic, but if you think about the percentage of porn being produced to whos been infected, its extremely low.

i agree
you can have sex with a girl from a bar or a hooker with no condom but i have to watch someone fucking with a condom on what a load of shit.

Most porn viewers do. I'd guestimate that over 90% prefer to watch bareback scenes over condom porn. Maybe over 95%. Condom-free porn always outsells condom porn, thus one would think the only thing such a regulation in LA would accomplish is causing a bunch of porn production companies to end up pulling up stakes and moving their operations elsewhere. I don't see many of them willing to just sit there taking a 40%-or-more hit to their sales for very long.

True. And they don't have to go too far. This is a city Ordinance, it only applies within the boundaries of the city of LA. Does not apply yo all the suburbs and areas around the city of LA and that fall within the jurisdiction of a different city

Larry Flint at the Xbiz awards last night said if they pass it Hustler will move to shooting in the Desert because condom porn sucks basically.

while i understand that the consumer prefers porn without condoms, i would like to understand this better:

Who said that if condoms are used there will be no testing anymore? I always considered condoms an addition, not a replacement.

just means more porn will be shot outside the usa

Read it carefully.


Now to all shooters how many of you actually go out and get permits?????

































Yea, thats what I thought. No changes no moving away to shoot porn...


Carry on...

it's ok, La doesn't want the taxes from porn. move everything to Florida!

Testing, although useful, does not mean anything in regards to HIV.

Porn is not more important than a persons life.

It is of no importance to me if a performer is wearing a condom, it it the performance that provides the erotic charge to a scene.

We make our performers wear condoms as well as being tested, because I don't want someones death on our consciences.

Also we hire couples who are able to perform without - simples.

OK if you think porn companies will move to (take your pick) FL, NV, NH, AL, AZ or bum fuck Egypt, congratulations yer an idiot.

If you think Diane Duke statement makes any sense, yer as big of an idiot as she is, and thats big.

If you think the courts will strike this down, yer an idiot

I can see the sluglines now FSC sues for porn actors right to contract STDs

We could fight this, but not with the morons that are doing it now.

What do you suggest that we do as an industry to tackle this problem?

I'd like to hear your ideas.

How many porn stars are killed in car accidents while driving to porn sets? Bet you the statistics to that are way higher than hiv cases. Shall we make an ordinance making you shoot porn only if you don't have to drive to do it?

We all have to live with risk. We try and keep risk to a minimum.

If you think it is too dangerous to drive to work you are free to take the bus or train.

Here the employer is making you take a risk which health professionals advise against.

<--- can't fap to condom porn

No one is forcing them. If they don't like the job description, they are free to find another job.

been in the industry since late 90s and talked about this with the owners of VCA in the early days, (over 14 years ago) no one likes condoms in porn.

NO ONE.

i think there are more important things that need govenros attention :o

but maybe its good for making some extra money.. there can be an extra fee for bareback movies :)

Exactly, there are risks with all jobs.

Pornstars get tested way more than the average human, if we wanted to "save lives" here, we'd have ordinances demanding everyone wear a condom and get tested... that would solve it all.