Los Angeles council requires condoms in porn films

[Darkride196]

[quote]
Actors in adult movies filmed in America's pornography capital would be required to use condoms under an ordinance granted final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council.
The measure, adopted 9-1, next goes to the mayor for his signature. Before it can take effect, however, the City Council has ordered police officials, the city attorney and others to hold meetings to figure out how it might be enforced.
The council's second and final vote to approve the law was taken without public discussion on a day when most of the porn industry's major players were in Las Vegas preparing for Wednesday's opening of the Adult Entertainment Expo, their industry's largest trade event.
Several industry officials condemned the move as being an unneeded exercise in political correctness that cannot be enforced.
"The only thing that the city could potentially achieve is losing some film permit money and driving some productions away, but you can't actually compel an industry to create a product that the market doesn't want," said Christian Mann, general manager of Evil Angel Productions, one of the industry's biggest makers of porn films.
Like others in the business, he said large numbers of consumers, especially overseas, consistently refuse to buy films in which condoms are used.
Veteran porn actress Tabitha Stevens said she has worked with and without condoms during her 17-year career. Although Stevens, who also produces films, said she prefers to work with condoms, she doesn't believe their use should be mandated by a government authority.
"If you want to wear them, wear them. If you don't, don't. That's up to the talent to decide. It shouldn't be up to the government to decide," she said by phone from Las Vegas.
Stevens and others also said the industry's self-imposed testing standard, in which major companies require that actors be tested every 30 days for sexually transmitted diseases, is working well. They say there has not been a confirmed case of HIV related directly to the porn industry since 2004.
Advocates of the new law said the testing isn't sufficient and the condom requirement adds another level of safety.
"We are not opposed to testing, but testing is not prevention in the same way that a barrier protection is," said Ged Kenslea, spokesman for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which supports the condom requirement.
He also accused the adult film industry of not being forthcoming in reporting all cases of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and others.
Kenslea scoffed at the idea that the industry, about 90 percent of which is believed to be based in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, will pack up and move because of the restriction.
"The industry is not going to go away," he said, adding that other parts of America aren't as tolerant of hard-core-sex films and that the industry's infrastructure, from writers, directors and actors to production facilities, is already based here.

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I did find this interesting considering it's not going to stop kids from having sex but sort of sets an example.

Source:[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46031059/ns/health-sexual_health/#.TxYSVm-Pn9w[/url]

Pun: It must have been a hard choice.

[EmperorScorpious]

If they want to set examples, they should hand out porn in schools.

It can double as sex education too :v:

[DamagePoint]

I see nothing wrong with this.

[Mr. Neighborson]

You'd think most female porn stars would get surgery to prevent them from having babies.

[valkery]

[QUOTE=antair;34266992]You'd think most female porn stars would get surgery to prevent them from having babies.[/QUOTE]

I think it is more about STD's than anything else.

[ice445]

Completely stupid. Another attempt by people who have no idea how something works to enforce their irrelevant opinion (what I mean by this is that the testing standards the industry uses are completely sufficient, and it makes no sense at all to try and FORCE the industry to go a step further with condoms for "safety). Nobody wants to see a porno with condoms (insert humor).

Edit - since people seem to have missed the point, I changed my wording.

[Worldwaker]

I can't help but think of the lucky bastard that now has to verify this in [I]every single porn movie.[/I]

At least, the ones being filmed in LA, as for the measure itself, it really is backwards. You don't suddenly try and regulate an entire media form with some arbitrary rule, especially when some media might not call for it at all.

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=ice445;34267043]Completely stupid. Another attempt by people who have no idea how something works to enforce their irrelevant opinion. Nobody wants to see a porno with condoms.[/QUOTE]

Why are you staring at the guy's dick to be bothered by it so much? :v:

[Darkride196]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34267075]Why are you staring at the guy's dick to be bothered by it so much? :v:[/QUOTE]

Gay porn maybe?

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Worldwaker;34267063]I can't help but think of the lucky bastard that now has to verify this in [I]every single porn movie.[/I]

At least, the ones being filmed in LA, as for the measure itself, it really is backwards. You don't suddenly try and regulate an entire media form with some arbitrary rule, especially when some media might not call for it at all.[/QUOTE]

[img]http://www.naughtybits.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/southpark-cum.jpg[/img]

[POLOPOZOZO]

Wow that's dumb good thing there are places to film porn outside LA.

[B_I_G__C_U_M]

[QUOTE=ice445;34267043]Completely stupid. Another attempt by people who have no idea how something works to enforce their irrelevant opinion. Nobody wants to see a porno with condoms.[/QUOTE]
because all porn is made in LA.
we still have Japan ya know

[ice445]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34267075]Why are you staring at the guy's dick to be bothered by it so much? :v:[/QUOTE]

Lol, the thing I want to see as well as the thing I don't are usually in the same exact place.

And Japanese porn is even worse, almost all of it is censored.

[Dori]

another unenforceable moral crusading law that will only end up wasting peoples time

cool

[Inspecter]

[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;34267126]because all porn is made in LA.
we still have Japan ya know[/QUOTE]

Deutsche porn ist die beste unless it involves you know what.
[sp]scat[/sp]

[Abrown516]

[QUOTE=Inspecter;34267230]Deutsche porn ist die beste unless it involves you know what.
[sp]scat[/sp][/QUOTE]

German porn is fucking amazing.

[cecilbdemodded]

Condoms in porn? This is going to take some of the excitement out of facials and creampies, not to mention what it'll mean to felching.

[psikobare]

in france, porn movies must show protected sex if they want to have a chance being broadcasted on tv
it's been like this for at least a good 10-15 years

[Sleepy feet]

[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;34267126]because all porn is made in LA.
we still have Japan ya know[/QUOTE]

dude what the hell do you fap to?

[Dr.C]

Well there go my favorite parts

On the brightside, maybe the dudes will stop grunting about how good it feels

[Dipper]

Oh well, professional porn is boring to watch anyway.

[greenbandit]

[QUOTE=psikobare;34268946]in france, porn movies must show protected sex if they want to have a chance being broadcasted on tv
it's been like this for at least a good 10-15 years[/QUOTE]

like on adult channels? or is it broadcasted on cartoon network?

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;34268823]Condoms in porn? This is going to take some of the excitement out of facials and creampies, not to mention what it'll mean to felching.[/QUOTE]

oh my the horror!!!

[SPESSMEHREN]

[quote]Before it can take effect, however, the City Council has ordered police officials, the city attorney and others to hold meetings to figure out how it might be enforced.[/quote]

The LAPD will create a new division dedicated to watching every porno coming out of LA, and carefully analyzing each frame to ensure a condom is being worn at all times.

I can picture it now: a bunch of detectives crammed into a tiny office with a few TVs and computers, with whiteboards plastered with frame grabs of penises.

[B_I_G__C_U_M]

[QUOTE=Sleepy Head;34268980]dude what the hell do you fap to?[/QUOTE]

Porn

[psikobare]

[QUOTE=green bandit;34269046]like on adult channels? or is it broadcasted on cartoon network?[/QUOTE]

on dedicated of course, but especially, there's a half private (you need to subscribe to get it H24 but you can still watch between 12-14 and 18-21, and it's very popular) general channel, that broadcast porn late in some nights (notably after midnight on the first saturday of every month as any frenchman can tell you)
and it's a very influent channel

[Elspin]

I remember a while back a male porn star was hiding his medical records or something of the sort and a few girls got HIV because of it, so this is probably a good thing.

[Nerts]

[QUOTE=ice445;34267043]Completely stupid. Another attempt by people who have no idea how something works to enforce their irrelevant opinion. Nobody wants to see a porno with condoms.[/QUOTE]

How are you even going to tell when 90% of a porno either has the guy out of shot or his dick buried in the girl?

[B_I_G__C_U_M]

[QUOTE=Rents;34269568]How are you even going to tell when 90% of a porno either has the guy out of shot or his dick buried in the girl?[/QUOTE]

you know you like creampies
dont you rents