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On course if this law is passed the idiots and tyrants
on the LA City Council will wonder why all the porn shoots
start moving out of LA to Arizona or down to Orange County.
L.A. City Council Approves Porn Condom Initiative Tentative approval could help city avoid costly election in June. 4:18 a.m. PST, January 11, 2012 LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- The Los Angeles City Council has given preliminary approval to an effort to require porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots. A proposed initiative requiring porn actors to wear condoms recently qualified to appear on a ballot, and the City Council's approval of the effort Tuesday could help the city avoid an expensive election in June. The ordinance would require porn producers seeking film permits in the city to require the use of condoms and impose a fee to cover the cost of set inspections, the Los Angeles Times reported. The tentative law is the first of its kind. State law already requires porn actors to wear condoms, but safe-sex advocates contend the law is seldom enforced. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said the city clerk certified the over 71,000 signatures it helped collect, far more than the 41,000 needed for the ballot initiative. "There are thousands of STDs in this industry," said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, adding that jurisdictions pass the issue around like a hot potato. "It's the ick factor. They don't want to deal with this because it's sex, and because it's porn," he said. Weinstein compared the measure to other public health laws that the city enforces, like those regulating massage parlors and smoking in public. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health has issued over $125,000 in fines against porn producers in the past five years for various violations, but some of those citations are on appeal, according to figures from the agency. Despite facing fines, most major porn companies continue to film without condoms. "History has shown us that regulating sexual behavior between consenting adults does not work," said Diane Duke, executive director of Free Speech Coalition, the trade association for the adult entertainment industry. "The proposed regulation would likely diminish existing protocols and force adult companies out of the city, out of state or underground making it ultimately much less safe for performers," she said. The head of California's Occupational Safety and Health department, Ellen Widess, on December 23 told a Los Angeles deputy city attorney who is disputing the measure in court that the regulatory body has no objection to the measure. |