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Porn's Statewide Condom Law Dies in California Legislature

The porn industry celebrated a rare victory in a summer of bummers. See also: Porn Biz Shut Down Again Over Yet Another HIV Case. A proposed law, AB 640, that would have explicitly required male adult performers to use condoms on-set, died a quiet death over the weekend. The legislation was sponso ... More >>

Porn's Latest HIV-Related Production Shut-Down to End

The porn industry's trade group announced tonight that it would soon lift the voluntary production shut-down that followed a third report of a performer coming up HIV positive. See also: Porn Biz Shut Down Again Over Yet Another HIV Case. The Free Speech Coalition says the moratorium would end Fri ... More >>

Porn's 4th HIV Doubted by Adult Biz Group

The adult video industry's lobbying group last night cast doubt on reports that a fourth performer has come up HIV-positive following an outbreak affecting at least three porn stars. See also: Porn Biz Sees Fourth Case of HIV. The Free Speech Coalition called it a case of "rumors" and accused the ... More >>

Porn's HIV Shut-Down is Bad For L.A. Economy?

A 6 percent drop in the number of folks working in the entertainment industry (motion pictures and sound recording) had business journalists wondering if the porn industry's HIV-related shut-down in August caused the plunge. There were 22,000 fewer jobs in Hollywood and beyond last month, according ... More >>

Porn Biz Sees Fourth Case of HIV

A fourth case of HIV in the adult video industry has been reported to the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, its president, Michael Weinstein, told LA Weekly today. The performer came forward to reveal his status to the organization, Weinstein said. "We were approached by the performer," he sai ... More >>

Rod Daily: Second Porn Star Comes Up HIV Positive

This week the porn industry got the worst possible news when a performer who goes by the name Rod Daily tweeted that he has tested positive for HIV. His would be the second positive for the virus in the adult business since August, when Cameron Bay, identified by industry blogger Mike South as Dail ... More >>

Porn's HIV-Driven Shut-Down Didn't Apply to Underground Production?

The porn industry's so-called "moratorium" on production is over after nearly a week (Aug. 21-27), but it seems that not everyone honored the shut-down, a fact that has been observed on some adult-biz blogs. See also: Porn Production OK'd After HIV Scare, But Some Performers Are Wary. In fact, the ... More >>

Porn's HIV Case Didn't Originate On-Set

The porn industry's lobbying group said last night that a performer who has initially turned up positive for HIV did not contract the virus on-set. As the Free Speech Coalition set out to ease fears of an STD outbreak, its leader, CEO Diane Duke, said " ... there is no indication of on-set transmis ... More >>

Porn's Latest Scandal: Hepatitis

Porn star Lisa Ann has taken to Twitter to say she was booked over the weekend to work with a male performer who might have tested positive for Hepatitis C and tried to work anyway. The male star was not identified. Ann says she put two and two together after discovering he was listed as "not avail ... More >>

Porn's Syphilis Scare is Bunk, Adult Group Says

That hoopla over a porn star who might have tested positive for syphilis and then possibly exposed 15 others (damn, porn stars really do get around) turned out to be much ado about nothin,' at least according to the adult industry lobbying group known as the Free Speech Coalition. The organization ... More >>

Porn Condom Law Blocked in California Assembly Committee

The porn industry has lost a few battles in the last year or so. It faces mandatory condoms on-set in both the city and county of Los Angeles, for the most part. And when bareback production apparently tried to invade Ventura County, the government there also said prophylactics would be the law. So ... More >>

Porn Industry Issues 'Call To Action' Against State Condom Law

As the porn industry flees Los Angeles in search of a better life, one free of condoms, it's also simultaneously battling a proposal that would make prophylactics the law on adult video sets across California. The industry lobbying group known as the Free Speech Coalition reached out to supporters ... More >>

Tax Day Becomes Porn Day; Studios Donate Earnings To Fight Mandatory Condoms

The patriotic denizens of the porn industry are dedicating their proceeds April 15 to the cause of freedom. That is, they're giving cash in support of a court challenge of Measure B, the L.A. county initiative approved by voters that requires adult performers to use condoms:

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 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 >>

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 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 >>

Porn Condom Law Unconstitutional, Says Scholar Antonio M. Haynes

Measure B, the L.A. county initiative that passed last week with nearly 56 percent approval, is all about worker safety in adult video, say its backers. But some folks, including porn industry leaders, say the requirement to use prophylactics in porn is a restriction on free speech. Some lawyers s ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 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 >>

300 Porn Stars Treated for Syphilis

The porn industry's official STD service announced this week that 300 adult performers have been tested following a syphilis scare started by one Mr. Marcus. That's a lot of porn stars. But it doesn't appear to be nearly enough for the industry to be able to say all performers have been tested. ... More >>

Porn Production Back This Weekend as New Syphilis Test Saves The Day

The porn industry has a new syphilis test that just might save the day. After a nearly two-week ban on production, adult video shoots are clear to restart this weekend, an industry official told the Weekly. Following a syphilis scare that L.A. county health officials say has infected as many as 9 p ... More >>

Porn Shutdown Likely Following Syphilis Reports

A reported outbreak of syphilis among adult video performers has prompted industry leaders to call for a temporary production shutdown. Adult Production Health & Safety Services, the industry's STD testing arm, has called for a "temporary moratorium" on film shoots after it says at least one perfor ... More >>

Entire Porn Industry Treated For Syphilis as Adult Video Production Shuts Down Today

The porn industry went dark today. The Free Speech Coalition, the adult video industry's lobbying group, told LA Weekly that Porn Valley's major studios were complying with the Adult Production Health & Safety Services' call for a production moratorium following an apparent syphilis outbreak. The ... More >>

Shelley Lubben's Pink Cross Aims to Rescue Sex Actresses: The Industry Wants Her to Shut Up

Porn Condom Enforcement Issue to be Worked Out by ... L.A. Arts Committee?

The L.A. City Council made a history when it voted to require condom use at on-location porn shoots in our fair metropolis. But history still awaits. We reported last week that a top city official has requested that a report on how to enforce this rule be put off until almost the end of summer. N ... More >>

Porn's Mandatory Condom Rule in City of L.A. a Law Nobody Wants to Touch With 10-Foot Pole

When the L.A. City Council voted to require condom use at location porn sets in town, it was a huge victory for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The group has been battling for years to get the smut business to clean up its act when it comes to safe sex. But as an account of the city's "working gro ... More >>

Porn Industry Fights Back Against L.A. County Condom Initiative

After the city of L.A passed a law requiring that condoms be used at studio porn shoots in Los Angeles, you'd think this battle was over. But it has only just begun. The L.A.-based porn industry's lobbying group this week issued a response to claims of victory over the issue by the AIDS Healthcare ... More >>

Porn Industry Says Ex-Performers (Stacie Halas, Shawn Loftis) Shouldn't be Banned From Teaching

So you did a little performing in your younger days -- like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. And? Should that mean you can't be a successful reality show star or even a teacher? The case of Stacie Halas, the Oxnard school teacher accused of having performed in adult video, has set the porn industry ... 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 >>

XXX Porn Sites That Advertise Local College Girls Get The Block Treatment From USC, UCLA

imgurThis USC rooftop action deserves a .xxx domain.​Why would a university want to buy a porn domain name on the web? Because that website URL just might advertise hot, nude college girls who (allegedly) attend said school. And that would be bad for ... something. And so campuses across the ... More >>

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 >>

Porn Defends the Money Shot

Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS

Porn Star Tested Twice as 'Reactive,' But Eight Other Exams Showed Him HIV Negative

​The porn industry's trade group, the Free Speech Coalition, today unveiled details of how its latest HIV scare came to be. A performer initially had a positive indication, setting off a shut-down of production, and sparking a war of words between the FSC and L.A.'s pro-condom AIDS Healthcar ... More >>

Porn Industry Gets Back to Work as Performer Thought to be HIV Positive Apparently Isn't

Star ForemanDearth Vader look-a-like at Exxxotica convention last month.​It was the HIV case that set off a war of words between the porn industry and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. And it turns out it wasn't an HIV case at all. The adult video trade group Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announc ... More >>

Criticism of Porn's HIV Scare Sparks Outrage at Manwin, the Adult Video Juggernaut That Employed Performer in Question

mofos.com​Updated at the bottom with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's response. First posted at 5:09 p.m. The company that employed a porn star who might be HIV-positive today said the man did not continue to work, nor did he work with other performers, after a test indicated he might have th ... 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 >>

PornWikiLeaks Shuts Down: XXX Industry Worked With ... FBI, AIDS Group Against Website That Leaked Porn Stars' Personal Info?

Performer Justine Joli.​Here's a first (maybe): The porn industry is in bed with the FBI. Or so it says. And the two made magic happen from various positions in an attempt to polish off PornWikiLeaks, the website that posted the names and medical records of hundreds if not thousands of adult p ... More >>

Porn Industry, Johns Hopkins Expert Say L.A. County's STD Figures For Adult Performers Are Bogus

YouTubeBehind the scenes.​On the eve an important state meeting on condoms in porn, the adult industry today claimed that L.A. County statistics on sexual transmitted diseases in porn are seriously flawed. While the industry has long maintained that its STD rates are lower than those of the g ... 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 >>

PornWikileaks' Exposure of Porn Stars' Personal Info Inspires Likely Lawsuit From Attorney Corey Silverstein

Vice BooksSasha Grey, leaked?​It looks like a porn industry attorney is preparing to sue "individuals using the PornWikileaks website for illegal activity" after that site exposed the health records of the hundreds of the Valley's adult performers, according to a statement from the Free Speech ... More >>

XXX Porn Domains Approved; L.A.-Based Adult Industry Not Happy

estheraseIt's coming.​Good news for porn hounds. Maybe. You now have your very own domain. Kind of how the White House has .gov. You have .xxx. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the folks who control such things, gave a green light to triple-X this week. It looks l ... 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 >>

'XXX' Domain Names For Online Porn Delayed But -- Breaking News -- You Can Still Find Smut Online (Somewhere)

diebmxPorn!​Implementation of the ".xxx" domain name suffix was delayed by the international organization responsible for such things. Darn. We need this. Because a name like YouPorn (.com) isn't quite clear enough for us. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) postpo ... More >>

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 >>

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