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Blogs
March 29, 2013
Porn Knocks On Camarillo's Door After Condoms Required In L.A.
The porn industry has been none too happy about L.A. county's mandatory condom ordinance. It has threatened to leave the state, but it might have found a solution closer to home: By simply moving production into neighboring counties that don't require condoms for adult video shoots, porn can pretty ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2013
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, ...
Blogs
March 20, 2013
Porn Sees First Allegation Of Condom Violation In L.A. County
Updated at the bottom with the industry's response. First posted at 5:34 p.m. on Monday. A porn production company has been targeted under L.A. county's mandatory condom law for the first time. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation today announced that it has filed a complaint against Immoral Productions ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
January 11, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
November 14, 2012
Porn's Condom Mandate Okay With A Majority Of Adult Video Watchers, Says Online Poll
One of the porn industry's main arguments against mandatory condoms on-set is that you, the consumer, won't by videos where they're visible. It's just not a part of the bow-chicka-bow-wow fantasy where a pizza delivery guy shows up to get down but pauses just to be safe, they seem to be saying. Ex ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2012
Porn's Mandatory Condom Rule Could Go Statewide As Group Lobbies Sacramento
Emboldened by victory at the polls in Los Angeles County this week, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation says it's taking its campaign for mandatory condoms in porn to the California legislature. Measure B, which mandates condoms for porn production in all but three of 88 cities in L.A. county, passed wi ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2012
Porn Could Film In Pasadena Without Condoms
The little old lady from Pasadena might just be a MILF these days. That's because, after the passage of L.A. county's mandatory condom law for adult video, the old-money town is one of the few places in the area where producers won't have to force performers to roll one on. It's a point we've made ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
October 15, 2012
Porn's Condom War Gets Infusion of Foreign Cash?
Updated at the bottom: The anti-condom folks say the contribution is "perfectly legal." First posted at 7:03 a.m. Backers of the November ballot initiative that would mandate condoms in porn are questioning the largest financial contributor to the adult business' opposition campaign. That happens ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
September 18, 2012
Porn Condom Ballot Measure For L.A. County Sees Campaign Kickoff
The folks behind a ballot measure that asks you, the L.A. County voter, to make condoms mandatory in porn, officially kicked off their campaign this week. Measure B will be on the November ballot, and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has been pushing for mandatory condoms in adult video for ye ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2012
Porn Condom Initiative to Get November Vote in L.A. County
You will indeed get to vote on mandatory condoms for porn stars in L.A. county. We were a bit premature when we reported previously that the measure was headed to the November ballot. The L.A. County board of supervisors had to certify the initiative or enact the rule itself. Today it voted to le ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2012
Porn Condom Mandate Could See Vote From L.A. County Supervisors
Updated at the bottom: The supervisors put off the vote (but why?). First posted at 9:07 a.m. The folks who want porn stars to start using condoms have qualified just such a proposal for the November ballot in L.A. County. But before you get to vote on it, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors gets ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2012
You Get to Vote on Condoms in Porn (Really)
While the city of L.A. continues to figure out how to enforce a mandatory condom law for location porn shoots in town, the entire county of L.A. is poised to overshadow that rule with a November vote on condoms in adult video. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation late yesterday announced that its ballot ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2012
Porn Condom Law in L.A. Likely Put on Hold For Summer
Like a lot of things with the L.A. City Council (marijuana dispensary rules, a boycott of Arizona businesses over the state's controversial immigration law), this was clearly easier said than done. This week the L.A. chief administrative officer formally asked for a 90-day extension to complete a r ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2012
Porn Condom Mandate Supported by Majority of Angelenos
You love them, you really do. Condoms, that is. A majority of Angelenos are down with condoms in porn, as spelled out in a proposed countywide ballot initiative by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation that would mandate such a precaution for the adult video industry.
Blogs
March 15, 2012
Condoms Still Suck, No Matter What Joycelyn Elders Thinks (She's on Trojan's Payroll)
By Dr. Paul R. Abramson & L.J. WilliamsonThe good news: Joycelyn Elders, former surgeon general of the United States, reads L.A. Weekly!The bad news: She's pissed at us. We made Dr. Elders mad because we said that condoms suck.Maybe if we hadn't said anything, no one would have noticed. Maybe inste ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2012
Why Porn Stars Won't Be Using Condoms, Despite City Law's Debut Today
Condoms are coming to porn shoots in Los Angeles today. Well, that's the theory, anyway. A Los Angeles city ordinance that requires condom use at on-location adult video shoots within the city is the law starting today. But like a lot of things coming from City Hall ...
Blogs
February 28, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Free Condoms in Venice Just in Time For Valentine's Day
AHFL.A.'s AIDS Healthcare Foundation is trying to transform the porn industry by having the government require condoms for adult actors. Now it wants inside your bedroom for Valentine's Day. Ah, so romantic. Well, it is "International Condom Day" and, as such, the foundation is, er, rolling ... More >>
Art+Books
February 9, 2012
Condoms Suck
We're spending billions to develop an HIV vaccine. Why not also focus on building a better condom?
Blogs
January 24, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
Mandatory Condoms in Porn Becomes Law in L.A. For Location Shoots
Ed CarrascoUpdated at the bottom: They did it. First posted at 6:05 a.m. This will likely be the day that will live in infamy ... for people who make boom-boom cinema. The L.A. City Council is expected to give final approval to a measure that will require condoms for porn performers who wor ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2011
Porn Condoms Initiative Approved by L.A. City Clerk Even as City Attorney Wants to Keep it From Voters
The war over condoms in porn continues this week as the AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced Tuesday that the L.A. City Clerk has "officially certified" the signatures it submitted in order to get a mandatory condom measure before you, the voter, next year. The announcement comes in the wake ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Porn Condom Ballot Initiative Could be Blocked if City of L.A. Has its Way: Suit Filed to Stop it From Reaching Voters
The city of L.A. is trying to keep condoms off porn stars, or at least off the ballot. An initiative by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation proposes to put the matter of mandatory condoms in the adult video industry to you, the voter. It collected enough signatures (70,901 of them) and turned the ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2011
Porn Sex Made Safer: Mandatory Condom Act Coming to a Polling Place Near You (Really)
Among the important things you vote for -- governor, mayor and sometimes taxes -- will be this gem: Condoms. All for them, personally. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, however, wants to force the gear on the porn industry, which mainly calls the city of Los Angeles its home. With what amounts to fo ... More >>
News
September 29, 2011
Porn Defends the Money Shot
Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS
Blogs
August 16, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
June 7, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
May 26, 2011
L.A. City Council Passes Buck on Forcing Condoms on Porn Shoots
Sasha Grey did not use condoms.The Los Angeles City Council should adopt the motto "the buck does not stop here," because this week they passed off the condoms-in-porn issue as if it were a soggy, used-up roach. After much talk and even a City Attorney's report that said the city could, if i ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
L.A. City Officials Can Force Porn-Makers Here to Use Condoms, But Probably Won't
Protesters want to force condoms on porn.A Los Angeles City Council committee will take up the issue of mandatory condoms in porn this week. This after the City Attorney's office recently ruled that L.A. could indeed require that condoms be used on the sets of adult videos shot under city pe ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
L.A. Officials Consider Mandatory Condom Use for City-Permitted Porn Shoots
joanna8555Porn-turned-indie star Sasha Grey.L.A. leaders are pondering a law that would make mandatory condom use a condition of permitting porn shoots inside city boundaries. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation on Monday hailed the City Council's recent vote to have the L.A. City Attorney's offi ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
Porn Protesters Target Biggest Adult Video Maker, Vivid Entertainment, Near Universal City
VividDid Kim Kardashian violate state law?The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's war against condom-free porn struck at the heart of the adult industry Thursday when AHF organizers held a press conference in front of the Universal City-area headquarters of the globe's leading smut maker, Vivid Ente ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Anti-Porn-Industry Crusader Michael Weinstein Contributed Cash To L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl (Who Then Took A Step Toward Mandating Condom-Only Porn In The City)
Bill Rosendahl.Updated after the jump with city Councilman Bill Rosendahl's response. First posted at 12:12 p.m. It looks like the porn industry is fighting back against L.A. city Councilman Bill Rosendahl after he made a proposal that could lead to mandatory condom use at city-permitted adu ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Porn Star Justin Long Vows Boycott Of AIDS Healthcare Foundation Over Its Attempt To Force Condoms On Porn
Justin Long says no to AHF.The battle over condoms in porn seemed to turn into a full-on war last week after the AIDS Healthcare Foundation paraded an HIV-positive performer in front of reporters and then gloated when news dropped that the industry's main STD testing clinic was closed down by ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
Sherman Oaks-Based Porn Industry Health Clinic Shut Down By State And L.A. County Officials
The porn industry's main health clinic was shut down Thursday.Updated after the jump with information about another porn industry STD testing operation. First posted at 11:51 a.m. The porn industry's health-care clinic was shut down Thursday morning by state and county officials, a spokesman ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Derrick Burts, Porn Actor Who Sparked Latest HIV Scare In San Fernando Valley Industry, Speaks Up For Condom Use (But Offers Strange Story Of How He Came Up Positive)
MySpaceDerrick Burts.A performer who set off the latest HIV scare in adult film has turned against his employers and is speaking out against the adult video industry and its resistance to mandatory condom use. Derrick Burts teamed up with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which unleashed his t ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2010
Porn Industry Argues That Regular STD Tests Are As Good As Condoms
VividCatwoman just says no to condoms.So the porn industry has been battling to keep its adult videos condom-free -- pretty much the way you, the consumer, want it to be. Except that the state of California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) says state and federal laws a ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
October 20, 2010
Would Porn Industry Leave California, Go Underground If It Was Forced To Use Condoms? Health-Care Lawyer Brian Chase Calls B.S. On That Notion
Ed Schipul via FlickrWould the triple-X industry move out of CA if it had to deal with Jim-E?Updated after the jump with reaction from the porn industry health-care group's attorney. First posted at 3:04 p.m. The big, Mandingo-sized elephant in the room when it comes to the latest HIV crisis ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 26, 2010
AIDS Activists Target Larry Flynt For His Condom-Free Porn
hustlermagazine.comAn 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 >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Group Aiming To Force Condoms On Porn Industry Appeals Case
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced Thursday that it's appealing a lawsuit it brought in an effort to force Los Angeles County health officials to require condoms on porn sets in L.A. The suit had been dismissed by the Los Angeles Superior Court; now AHF is taking it to the Second Distr ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
County Supervisor Threatens To Banish Porn Industry Over Condoms
After a county health official said requiring condoms on porn shoots in Los Angeles County would simply drive them outside L.A., Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said let them leave. "I don't give a damn if they leave L.A. County,'' he said. "This is not an industry that we want to protect and enha ... More >>
News
January 28, 2010
Rubbers Revolutionary: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Michael Weinstein
Activist wants to save porn actors from STDs. It's been lonely
Blogs
October 22, 2009
Marriott Boycotted Over Porn
The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand ... More >>
News
June 24, 2004
Condom Wars
New guidelines gut HIV prevention � and endanger young people�s lives
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