Pornography

Porn Video Wants Your Crowdfunding Cash

The world of XXX video has certainly had its challenges in recent years, from the onslaught of free porn online to this month's HIV outbreak to a battle in L.A. over mandatory condom rules. The production company Shane's World, known for bringing reality style programming to hardcore adult video, t ... 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 >>

Sydney Leathers Goes Pro-Condom After Porn's HIV Scare

The porn industry has been battling against mandatory condoms in adult production, saying that consumers don't want to see them and that its voluntary performer testing works. See also: Sydney Leathers Could Have Been Exposed to HIV in Porn Debut. One of those performers is the newly initiated Syd ... More >>

Sydney Leathers Could Have Been Exposed to HIV in Porn Debut

The woman at the center of the latest Anthony Weiner sexting scandal might have been exposed to HIV on-set as part of her foray into porn. Sydney Leathers' debut adult video, "Weiner and Me," which was released online this week, features performer Xander Corvus as Weiner. He did a scene with Camero ... More >>

Porn Ban For U.S. Armed Forces?

The porn industry has had a rough five years, from an online migration of content that has pirated its products to a drive in its hometown of L.A. to require condoms on-set. Now a conservative group wants to cut off one of adult media's key constituencies -- the military:

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 >>

Farrah Abraham's Sex Tape Hits The Internet May 6

The onetime star of MTV's Teen Mom is now the headliner of Backdoor Teen Mom, a sex tape coming to a laptop near you May 6. Farrah Abraham, set to turn 22 in May, is said to have been inspired to close out her 21st year "by making a personal tape that would forever capture her beauty and sensuality ... More >>

Porn's L.A. Condom Mandate To Be Defended In Court By AIDS Group

The battle over condoms in porn just got real. Well, actually, it's been real for a while. But the group behind the effort to make condoms mandatory in adult video, the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is claiming victory this week. A judge said the organization could defend L.A. county's con ... More >>

Porn Is Obscene And Eric Holder Should Prosecute, Conservative Group Says

The Bush years saw the prosecution of such porn luminaries as Ira Isaacs (who was sentenced to 48 months in January), John "Buttman" Stagliano, who got off, so to speak, and former journalist Max Hardcore, who served time in federal prison for making stuff that's fairly common now. They were dark d ... More >>

Porn's Allie Haze, Ron Jeremy To Speak At USC

Pasadena City College got mad headlines when porn star James Deen spoke to a "Navigating Pornography" class (as if we need instruction on that!) in February. USC, of course, will not be outdone by a community college:

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 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 >>

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 >>

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

Porn Tour of Los Angeles Will Give You Mild Version of Adult World

Huge update here people. Can you say half-price? Details at the bottom. First posted at 8:02 a.m. on June 6. Best idea ever: Tour the world of L.A. porn for a night for only $399. See where the magic really happens. Even better: L.A. Porn Tours is glitzing it up with a party bus, two live porn sta ... 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 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.

Porn is Rick Santorum's Enemy: Should L.A.'s Adult Video Industry Be Concerned?

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is, ironically, well known to fans of kinky sex because of the alternative identity that has been attached to his name. Ironic because Santorum, a conservative among conservatives vying for the Republican nomination, is a known homophobe and outspoken prude. If ... More >>

Arizona Lawman Says L.A.'s Wayward Porn Industry Isn't Welcome in His Town

The porn industry has been making a lot of noise about a possible move out of town following the City Council's enactment of a condom requirement for location shoots in L.A. One of the places mentioned as New Porn Valley is Arizona, where some production already takes place. However, as we've said, ... 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 >>

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 ...

Anal Bleaching: From Porn Trend to Mainstream (Un)Necessary Evil

It's possible that you're more familiar with the Internet rumor that actress Lara Flynn Boyle bleached her anus at the behest of then-boyfriend Jack Nicholson than you are with the lawyer show she was on for years. True or not, what most of us can agree with is that bleaching your asshole sounds l ... More >>

Vivid New Year's Eve 2012

Porn Defends the Money Shot

Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS

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 >>

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: 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, 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 Star Karaoke at Sardo's: A Valley Industry Tradition, Also Featuring Fake Bono

Paul T. BradleyNicki Hunter and her superfan: a night's expectations achieved.​ We'll get to (Fake) Bono in a minute. Ok, you know that one where the librarian loses the glasses and becomes the master of all things sexual? All it takes is a change in music and a little lighting...and voila! ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

National Health Group Urges Mandatory Condoms For Porn

Vice BooksPorn star Sasha Grey.​A major health professionals' group this week weighed in on the ongoing battle over condoms in porn, and the industry probably isn't going to like it's, er, position. American Public Health Association just posted an apparently long-simmering, uh, "position pap ... More >>

Porn Machete Murder

Mopes and mayhem in the Valley

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Book By Ex-Porn Star Shelly Lubben Promises To Expose Adult Business As Degrading

Shelley Lubben's book offers an inside look at the porn business.​A new book by a former porn actress threatens to expose the adult video industry, recently rocked by a new HIV scandal, as a place where women are exploited and sexually transmitted diseases flow freely. Shelley Lubben's just-r ... More >>

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 >>

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Calls For Complete Shutdown Of San Fernando Valley Porn Production Following HIV Report

​Sorry guys (and freaky chicks who also like porn -- God bless), but this HIV problem in adult video is getting serious. After two major porn-production players, Vivid and Wicked, stated they were putting "shoots" on hold, the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is calling on all adult video ... 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 >>

State Advisory Panel Considers Mandatory Condoms For Porn Industry

​The Aids Healthcare Foundation is hailing the first meeting of a state advisory panel Tuesday that will weigh whether condoms should be required in adult video shoots. The California's of Department Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) advisory panel on the matter was meeting at the Cal ... More >>

Former Porn Stars File Suit Against Porn Industry Health Organization For Allegedly Releasing Medical Records

​Two former porn stars are planning to sue the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM) for allegedly breaching the privacy of their medical records. Representatives of the pair were scheduled to announce the suit Monday with the help of the Aids Healthcare Foundation, which has a ... More >>

Feds Investigate Porn Healthcare Organization For Allegedly Releasing Stars' Medical Records

The AIM crew, with founder Sharon Mitchell at bottom, right.​The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has opened an investigation of the Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Health Care Foundation, the Sherman Oaks nonprofit organization that handles STD testing for the porn industry, it was a ... More >>

State Board Will Hear Arguments For Requiring Condoms In Porn

​Condoms, porn and safe sex come to the heart of Orange County Thursday as the state's Department Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) holds a Standards Board meeting that will hear arguments for mandating condoms on the sets of adult film shoots in California. Former porn stars Shelle ... 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 >>