Law Will Require Porn Stars To Wear Condoms

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The six-member California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted unanimously to assign an advisory committee to study the proposal from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The advocacy group filed a petition in December seeking to require the use of condoms in the porn industry.
"We feel like this is the game-changer. The sentiment expressed by the board members indicates that the majority if not all of them are willing to vote for regulations," said Michael Weinstein, president of the Los Angeles-based advocacy group.
The group wants the same sort of protections in place for nurses and doctors who work with bodily fluids to be extended to porn to prevent the transmission of diseases.
By law, U.S. adult film actors must prove they have tested negative for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases within 30 days of going to work on a film.
Pornographers, including Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Vivid Entertainment head Steven Hirsch, have said mandatory testing for adult film actors has been an effective way to prevent the spread of disease. Flynt added that adult film viewers don't want to see people using condoms.
Hirsch said the adult film industry would likely leave California if the use of condoms became mandatory.
In a statement, an adult entertainment trade group praised the state's decision to form a committee to study the matter.
"I hope that they choose someone responsible from the adult community to participate and I'm hopeful that, eventually, some workable regulations will be put in place," said Paul Cambria, a lawyer for the Free Speech Coalition.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's other efforts to mandate condom use have been unsuccessful.
A lawsuit the foundation filed over the issue use was dismissed in December.
Last month, Los Angeles County public health director Dr. Jonathan Fielding said regulating condom use on porn sets is nearly impossible, citing typically clandestine porn shoots that require little more than a bed and a camera.
The foundation also has written three pieces of legislation to require condoms in porn but can't find a legislator willing to sponsor their bill.
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It was long time needed! The only comment - wrong condom picture. It is a well known fact, that porn industry is using Crown skinless skin Okamoto condoms (when it does use it).....
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condomelite1
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dreaddaze
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what i say is
film u self or better yet
but a mirror when u making love and u can see all.
and save it in your memory.save u money.
porn degrades
the performers and the viewerspeace-in
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dreaddaze
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Elligirl
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dreaddaze:
Then if you're filming yourself ... are you degrading yourself twice over? :)
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Elligirl
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ryan8566
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Elligirl:
"degrading"? there is nothing degrading about this industry.
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ryan8566
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randallr01
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On a serious note, I think that this law is unnecessary. Many porn stars that go condom-less are tested regularly for HIV.
HOW ABOUT A LAW THAT REQUIRES REGULAR TESTING OF PORN STARS? Is that too much to ask? WTF. I want condom-less pron!
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randallr01
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ryan8566
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randallr01:
we will take what the market will "bare"....and currently porn w/o condoms is the best seller.
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ryan8566
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ryan8566
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randallr01:
how would they propose to enforce this, if it became law? they can't. as stated above, the industry enforces itself with mandatory hiv testing, but so called 'pre-condom' dvds, vhs, etc, are always advertised as such, and have a much bigger market, and therefore more money.
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ryan8566
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randallr01
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But what if I like barebacking????????
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randallr01
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ScottSummers:
To what? And how dare you hijack the name of Cyclops? I imagine that any X-Man would be a progressive.
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randallr01
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ryan8566
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randallr01:
i think while 'barebacking' between partners is their personal, private decision, in porn, whether you are strait, gay, or gay-for pay...you signed a contract, made an informed decision, end of story. the market, dealers will tell us that 'barebacking' porn sales
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ryan8566
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MirrorLake
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This can only encourage more people to use condoms. Which is a very, very good thing.
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MirrorLake
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ryan8566
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MirrorLake:
'encourage', i agree. but let's not dupe people into thinking that this can be legislated and enforced.
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ryan8566
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maurajriordan
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I just feel like its sort of comical that people are all worried about how we're going to lose jobs in the porn industry to other countries... But then again it's really not I guess if that's not only your lively hood but how you pay the bills.
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maurajriordan
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maurajriordan:
http://current.com/items/91434188_porn-2-0.htm
the porn industry is not doing so well because piracy and the economy.
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Elligirl
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ScottSummers:
Because California is the only state in the US where it's in the law books that it is legal to produce porn.
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ScottSummers:
Yes, people produce in other places. But California actually recognizes porn production as a valid industry and has laws in place for it.
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Elligirl
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ScottSummers:
california doesn't need to lose any more sources of income at this time
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ryan8566
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Elligirl:
your statement is so inaccurate as to be harmful. it is produced not only nationwide, but internationally.
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ryan8566
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ryan8566
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Elligirl:
and by such recognization, i.e. big money for the state, leads to standards imposed by the industry....but you keep confusing these standards with non-existent 'laws'...
totally confusing the debate. - 1 year ago
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ryan8566
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For some reason, condoms tend to be the first thing I look for when I watch porn. I'm usually a lot more comfortable when they are wearing them, don't know why.
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donkeyfly69
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isn't porn mostly amateurs and celebrity sex tapes? it seems like it would be hard to regulate this since there are professional porn actors losing jobs and random naked people with cameras making money.
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donkeyfly69
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Most people watch porn for the cumshots, They like to see that semen from that big member, fill up her mouth, cover her face, or drip out of her anus after she stands up from deep anal. Nobody wants to see that precious white gold caught in a condom.
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PornographyIsArt:
"Most people watch porn for the cumshots"
how do you know that? cumshots are my least favorite parts of porn.
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donkeyfly69:
Well, donkeyfly, that's because you're a prude.
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randallr01:
hey i'm no prude.
i like to watch anal, double team, straight, gay, lesbian, dom, femmedom, gaydom, whips, chains, the whole 9 yardsi just don't like the money shot, it grosses me out. makes me think of popping a huge pimple on some porn star's face.
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donkeyfly69:
You're not a guy...it is a guy thing. The money shot is a sort of proof that the deed is done and the territory is marked.
Some things only testosterone can explain.
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donkeyfly69:
i love the 'money shot', knowing what is coming, after all the foreplay....and if that is what i want to pay for, so be it.
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ryan8566
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ryan8566:
geez i'm not saying that no one should see it. i'm against this rule. i just don't like to look at it myself
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hmmm. so the porn industry will be moving to Nevada.
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no more cum shots for you!
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Porn Stars??? they know what they're doing....what about rednecks, 15 year olds, prostitutes, and idiots?
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Cicada_Song:
i honestly don't know, but i have heard that the difference between a 'redneck' and gay sex is a six-pack of beer, that prostitution is in the 'eye of the beholder', that all players in the porn industry are checked strictly for legal age (never heard of an company that would want to employ underage models,) and as for 'idiots', that is a personal decision.
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ryan8566
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What a foolish idea. Nobody wants to see a shealthed member in an adult movie there is no demand for it. . The adult film industry will packs its bags and move elsewhere or do these films under less than legal conditions.
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zHellas
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This should have been optional...Or give them invisible condoms.
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zHellas:
Genius! Spray on condoms! You just peel it off when you're done!
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zHellas:
"invisible condoms"? any leads here, would appreciate. thanks!
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ryan8566:
yes it would make it so much easier to lie and said i put on an "invisible" condom
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Sw3rv
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Reality TV
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JosephJinx
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Mixy-mixed feelings. I'm all for the stopping of spreading diseases and STDs, especially HIV and AIDS, but forcing people to wear condoms in pornography may be going a bit too far. It seems like if one is concerned enough with not getting those things, they would be part of a pornography company that does good, regular testing and requires their stars to wear condoms. However, requiring companies, by law, to have people wear condoms, may have a backlash effect. "Bareback" porn may become more risque, thus become a more highly prized and sought after style of porn than previously, which may end up tempting more people into doing it because it's more lucrative (porno "black market", so to speak).
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JosephJinx:
All porn companies require frequent tests, and upon showing up to work you need to provide brand new results to prove you're *still* clean. It's not optional. If you don't have a test, people will simply refuse to work with you.
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ScottSummers:
Fact. I work in adult and have talked to pornstars about this very topic. They say they're suspicious of their non-pornstar mates because they have no history of testing, whereas the stars do as a matter of course.
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Elligirl
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JosephJinx:
there is nothing 'black-market' about it....any catalog, list of porn sales, states clearly whether it is 'pre-condom', 'use of condoms', etc, and price accordingly.
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ryan8566
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Elligirl:
while i guess i have to accept your statement that you work in 'adult', your statements are totally way off. it is not the actors who have to show proof, as you say, but the companies that mandate, and pay, for testing....otherwise they won't use you. further, to mix 'porn' with 'non-porn actors' is so far off topic, that it is dangerous.
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ryan8566
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UrbanGypsy
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Well, say goodbye to the "Raw-dog" genre lol... Luckily this is only in California.
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UrbanGypsy
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Elligirl
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Ree-fucking-diculous. They're movies. Are cop movies required to use fake looking guns so the audience knows nobody is really getting shot? It's a fantasy. The actors cannot work without frequent full test results. They're probably a lot healthier and cleaner than the average population, actually.
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Elligirl
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SparkShark16
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an extremely logical move.
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CaptB
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it takes about 30-90 days to seroconvert to HIV. The longest it has taken has been 6 months, and I think 3 cases in which went over the 180 day point. It is hard to pinpoint the exact day when they contracted it in some of these cases.
I think it is an excellent idea. This protects the workers in the industry. Maybe not for the people that peddle these sort of films. But for the porn actors and actresses that contract it, it takes once to make them firm believers.
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CaptB
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Confucius
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its not as hot with condoms!!
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Confucius:
then you're not doing it right
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Confucius:
YOU TELL UM!
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Personally, I think it's a great idea. Besides the fact that it can take well over 30 days to test positive for HIV. Everyone knows it's a risk you take for being in the industry, but anything that helps keep the "naughty bits" relatively "germ free" seems to be a step in the right direction.
(I'm not a porn star, nor a fan of the "art")
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sk0j0