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Porn Condom Law For All Of California One Step Closer To Reality

Even as the adult video industry is fighting L.A. county's mandatory condoms-in-porn rule, a similar law that would cover the business statewide is one step closer to becoming law. The bill by Compton state assemblyman Isadore Hall passed the lower house's Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, And ... More >>

Porn Film Measure X Flouts L.A.'s Adult Video Condom Law

There have been short video clips spoofing Los Angeles County's relatively new condom mandate (Measure B) for porn production. But one brave adult-video house, Zero Tolerance, went ahead an made a full-length XXX film about the most-hated law in Porn Valley. Measure X, the studio says, ...

Porn Talent Agencies Fuming Over Complaints That Allege Unsafe Workplaces

The porn industry is mad as hell, and it's not going to take it anymore! This week a group of adult talent agents lashed out at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation for its latest formal complaint against an agency for allegedly sending performers into unsafe workplaces (e.g. sets where condoms are not m ... More >>

Porn Stars To Persuade Calif. Lawmaker Condoms Are Bad For Adult Video

The adult business is going to sic a gaggle of porn stars on a state legislator who wants to make condoms the law for XXX production across California. We thought the standard protocol for swaying lawmakers was to sic highly paid lobbyists on them, flood them with campaign contributions, and ply th ... More >>

Porn's Condom Mandate Could Go Statewide Under Isadore Hall Legislation

Even as the porn industry is resisting local laws requiring condom use during adult film production, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is taking its safe-sex fight statewide. L.A. state Assemblywoman Isadore Hall is expected to introduce legislation that would make condoms the law for adult video not ... More >>

Porn's Condom Problem Just Got Worse In City Of Los Angeles

Porn producers in the city of L.A. might now have to get a county health permit to do their thing. The L.A. City Council voted unanimously yesterday to draft an amendment to the city's mandatory condoms-in-porn ordinance that would force those applying to L.A. for adult film permits to get county a ... More >>

Porn Industry, Steven Hirsch, Kayden Kross, File Suit Against Mandatory Condoms In L.A.

As we predicted, freedom of speech is shaping up to be a key issue in the porn industry's fight against mandatory condom use on-set in Los Angeles County. Smut business titans including Steven Hirsch, chief of Vivid Entertainment, announced that they have filed a lawsuit in federal district court i ... More >>

Porn's Anti-Condom Camp Should Give Back Fabian Thylmann's Cash, AIDS Group Says

The folks who brought you mandatory condoms in porn wants the industry to give back cash it took from an adult-content kingpin arrested recently on suspicion of tax fraud. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation says the No On Measure B campaign took $220,000 total from the mostly online juggernaut known as ... More >>

Measure B Election Results: Porn's Mandatory Condom Initiative Wins; Industry Vows Challenge

Updated with the initiative winning. The industry says it will challenge the measure in court. First posted at 9:38 p.m. Tuesday. Despite disapproval from the porn industry, the Los Angeles Times and the L.A. Daily News, the L.A. county initiative that would mandate condoms in porn was winning toni ... More >>

Jayden James: Porn Star Speaks Out Against Mandatory Condoms In Adult Video

One of the strongest arguments to come out of porn's fight against measure B, the initiative that would mandate condom use at most adult video productions in L.A. county, is reproductive choice. One of the stars to step forward against the measure is Jayden James. In an interview with the Weekly, s ... More >>

Kimberly Kane, Porn Star, Speaks Out Against Mandatory Condoms In Adult Video

Some of porn's biggest stars are speaking out against the November ballot's measure B, which would require condom use at porn shoots in most of Los Angeles County. Among those decrying the initiative, sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation as a way to make adult video practice safe sex, are Ro ... More >>

Porn's Jessica Drake, James Deen In Video Spoofing Condom Law's Alleged Hazmat Gear

The battle over L.A. county's controversial condoms-in-porn measure is being fought through video clips, its seems. How apropos? Adult video industry opponents of measure B, which would require condoms for porn production in much of the county, have produced a new video (after the jump) depicting t ... More >>

Porn's Mr. Marcus, Man Behind Syphilis Scare, Paid By Industry Anti-Condom Campaign

Updated at the bottom with a new response from the pro-condom side. First posted at 3:04 p.m. In its battle against mandatory condoms, the porn industry has enlisted the help of ... the guy who sparked the adult biz syphilis scare and production shutdown in summer? Yep. The performer who goes by t ... More >>

Party With Porn Stars in West Hollywood

There's another campaign battle going on out there, and it definitely doesn't involve Big Bird. (Or maybe it does). The porn industry is fighting a county ballot initiative, Measure B, that would force performers to use condoms on sets in most of L.A. And the smut biz has one thing that the pro-co ... More >>

Porn Stars Rally Against Condoms

Only in L.A. will you find hot young women begging for a condom-free experience. It's true. Some of Porn Valley's top performers are rallying against a measure that will be on the November ballot in Los Angeles County: Measure B would at least attempt to enforce condom use on adult video sets. Acc ... More >>

Porn Condom Ballot Initiative For L.A. County Gets Half The Signatures it Needs

The people behind Los Angeles' mandatory condoms rule for on-location porn shoots in the city say they have more than half the signatures to put a similar law before countywide voters. And they still have until June 5 to get the rest. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation today announced it has obtained ... More >>

It's a Wrap: Condoms Are Required for on-Location Porn Stars in L.A.

Check out NSFW photos from last weekend's AVN Adult Entertainment Expo here. See our cover story on the condoms-in-porn controversy here. The movement to require condoms for porn stars in L.A? It's a wrap. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week signed the rule into law: It requires that on-location ... More >>

The End of L.A.'s Porn Industry?

Following the new law of the land that performers must wear condoms at "location" adult video shoots in L.A., some industry titans are threatening some serious coitus interruptus. Porn magnate Larry Hirsch, head of the nation's biggest porn-maker, L.A.-based Vivid, has been giving interviews saying ... More >>

Porn Star Condom-Use to be Mandatory at Most Los Angeles Adult Video Sets, City Council Votes

Updated at the bottom with official reaction from the porn industry. First posted at 12:53 p.m. The L.A. City Council today said that yes, porn stars must wear condoms when performing within city limits. The 11-1 vote means that a costly ballot initiative asking you, the voter, to approve just suc ... More >>

Porn Defends the Money Shot

Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS

Would You Vote to Force Porn Stars to Use Condoms on-The-Job? You Might Get Your Chance in the City of L.A.

​Do you want to force porn stars in this, the adult video capital of the nation, to use condoms on-the-job? It's a question you might be asked the next time you vote in a citywide election in Los Angeles. That's because AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has been at war with the Valley-based p ... More >>

Porn And Condoms: State Tells L.A. City Attorney's Office it Can Enforce Mandatory Condoms at L.A. Adult Video Shoots

​The porn industry is pissed off at California workplace safety regulators for telling the city of L.A. that it can enforce mandatory condoms at city-permitted adult-film shoots. The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has said the workplace safety rules require condom ... More >>

Porn And Condoms: California Workplace Safety Officials Get Earful on Move Toward Requiring Condoms in Adult Video

​As the state of California seemed poised to hoist condoms upon every penis in the porn industry, the adult game has been kicking and fighting every step of the way. A major step came Tuesday when representatives of the state's Division of Occupational Health and Safety (Cal/OSHA) came to L.A ... More >>

Porn Industry Lays Out Plans For New STD Testing System For Performers

​Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? The porn industry says it has a new STD testing system, including a facilities, that it will roll out for performers in the weeks to come. The Adult Production Health and Safety Services program was announced this week by industry lobby the Free Spee ... More >>

Porn Clinic AIM Closes For Good: Valley-Based Industry Scrambles to Find New STD Testing System

VividThe porn industry is all shook up.​Updated after the jump: The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is calling on county health officials to enforce condoms at porn shoots in the absence of an STD testing regime. It has been a saga much more juicy than any of porn's non-plots. Nearly three months ... More >>

Larry Flynt's Hustler Video Cited by State For Failing to Require Condoms on L.A. Porn Sets

Hustler​Larry Flynt's Hustler Video was slammed by the state this month for -- get this -- failing to require condoms for its adult performers. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which filed a complaint against Hustler, a.k.a. LFP Video Group LLC, planned to cheer on the state's enforcement at a ... More >>

Porn Convention in Los Angeles This Weekend (Yay!)

adultcon​Rough year for porn. And we're not just talking about whips and chains. Following a recent HIV-positive scandal, New York magazine reported what we all know -- that everyone's getting their adult material online for free now. What has happened to music and film is happening to porn. ... More >>

Porn Stars Could See Mandatory STD Testing, New State Rules For Their 'Workplace'

Vivid.All shook up.​It looks like porn stars in California will see stricter safety rules on how they do their thing on-set. Just like a construction worker has to wear a hardhat, they might have to don condoms and submit to tests. At least according to our reading of coverage of a state work ... More >>

L.A. Porn Lobby Claims L.A. County Public Health Officials Demanded Blood Test From Adult Performer

Put 'em up and give us your STD test results.​Freeze. Now give us a blood sample. Scary enough if the people asking are carrying a badge. But in this case they weren't. At least according to the Free Speech Coalition, the L.A.-based porn lobby. The group claims this week that L.A. County ... More >>

Porn: California Attorney General Kamala Harris Asked to Investigate Adult Industry Medical Clinic

Porn.​The war over condoms in porn continued this week. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation sent a letter to California Attorney General Kamala Harris asking her to look into the transfer off the adult industry's main health-care and testing clinic from nonprofit to for-profit status. The clinic, ... More >>

Anti-Porn Industry Protesters Hit the Xbiz Awards in Hollywood, Try to Shame Larry Flynt, Steve Hirsch

Andy San Dimas: You lick me, you really do.​We're not sure what's sadder, that sources tell us the Xbiz Awards are known in the industry as the Golden Globes of porn, or that anti-porn protesters found the Hollywood event Wednesday worthy of targeting. (If you must know, the Female Performer ... More >>

New Marriott Hotels Say No to In-Room Pay-Per-View Porn (But Your Laptop Will Still Work)

BYO porn for Marriott.​Want to know a dirty little secret about a filthy girl we'll just call the porn industry? She gets a good amount of her income from an otherwise upright lady we'll call the BIG HOTEL CHAINS. That's right, pay-per-view porn brings the San Fernando Valley-based adult vid ... More >>

Porn Industry Fights Claims By Performer Derrick Burts, Who Was No Angel (And Who Might Have Freelanced As A Male Escort)

Ted SoquiDerrick Burts, letting the porn industry have it.​The porn business is fighting back against claims by the actor who sparked its last HIV scare that he was met with indifference at the adult-industry-backed clinic where he sought treatment. We even heard from readers who said the ma ... More >>

California, Federal Laws Already Mandate Condoms In Porn: State Has Been Citing Adult Video Makers For Allegedly Failing To Protect Performers

Steve LaThese people are fighting for something that is already a part of state and federal law: Condoms in porn.​The fight over condoms in porn took a serious turn last week when an adult performer tested positive for HIV. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation used the result as another bullet in th ... More >>

Porn Industry Group Finally Reports HIV Case To L.A. County Health Officials

The porn industry took its time reporting an HIV-positive actor.​The porn industry's main health-care organization caved and sent the results from a positive HIV test to the county, as mandated by state law. The Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare Foundation turned the results in Tuesday ... More >>

State Investigate's Larry Flynt's Porn Productions After Complaint About Lack Of Condom Use

​Larry Flynt's eponymous porn empire was under investigation by the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) following a complaint by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation decrying the lack of condom use in Larry Flynt Production's adult videos, the AHF announced late Thursday. In ... More >>

AIDS Activists Target Larry Flynt For His Condom-Free Porn

hustlermagazine.com​An HIV/AIDS health-care organization that's been on a tear against the porn industry for its lack of condom use will target Larry Flynt and his Hustler empire at a press conference outside his offices in Beverly Hills Thursday. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced (NSF ... More >>

Desmond Tutu Criticizes President Barack Obama's AIDS Strategy

Rev. Desmond Tutu​AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein isn't the only person slamming President Barack Obama's AIDS strategy, which L.A. Weekly reported last week. Now Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu has spoken out. "I appreciate that tough financial times require the ... More >>

AIDS Groups Square Off in Dispute Over Competing Fundraisers

AIDS Healthcare founder Michael Weinstein, left, during happier times.​AIDS Project Los Angeles has sued AIDS Healthcare Foundation for alleged unfair competition practices and trademark infringement, according to Los Angeles Business Journal, setting off a rare and tense battle between two m ... More >>

Was George Bush's AIDS Strategy Better Than Barack Obama's?

AIDS Healthcare Foundation​AIDS Healthcare Foundation founder Michael Weinstein came out swinging yesterday at a Washington D.C. press conference, offering up that President Barack Obama's AIDS strategy measures up poorly to his predecessor's, former president George W. Bush. "The New York T ... More >>

Aids Group Claims State Law Already Mandates Condoms For Porn Industry

​Following a meeting of a California Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA) advisory panel on the issue of whether the state should enforce the usage of condoms in the San Fernando Valley-based porn industry, the Aids Healthcare Foundation says Cal-OSHA official indicated the law probably c ... More >>

Mandatory Condoms For Porn Moves One More Step Forward

shelleylubben.comMadelyne Hernandez.​The Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board on Thursday voted to go forward with a proposal to create an advisory panel to look at the possibility of requiring condoms on porn shoots in the state. The six-member Standards Board voted unan ... More >>

Rubbers Revolutionary: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Michael Weinstein

Activist wants to save porn actors from STDs. It's been lonely

Group Tries To Force Condoms On Porn Stars (Good Luck With That)

Porn star Belladonna.​The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been on a tear against the porn industry and its often unhealthy ways. On Friday it convened a UCLA symposium of health-care groups in a step toward getting the state to force male porn stars to use condoms. God bless them for it, but ... More >>

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