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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Beauty Is Pain: L.A.'s Popular 'Brazilian Blowout' Bashed For Toxic Fumage

Bobby Cooper SalonWe'd rather be doing Brazilian Blow​Nicole Richie swears by it. The Olsen twins bathe in it. (Their hair, you perves.) Lindsay Lohan would go back to jail for it. Studio Noi -- a shmancy little salon in Venice -- blasts it on the daily. From across the country, the ball-bust ... 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 >>

San Fernando Valley Porn Actor Tests Positive For HIV; AIDS Activists Who Want Mandatory Condoms In Porn Say We Told You So

Steve LaAIDS Healthcare Foundation protested outside Larry Flynt Publications recently. ​A porn actor has tested positive for HIV, the industry's health care foundation has told reporters. It doesn't come as a surprise: Several actors in the San Fernando-based biz have tested positive in the ... 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 Investigation Into American Apparel Worker's Death Likely

americanapparel.net​The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) apparently isn't happy with American Apparel after a worker died at the fashion company's downtown headquarters last week and the incident went allegedly unreported to Cal/OSHA officials. That's according to L ... More >>

We Got It Wrong: State Will Not Investigate American Apparel Worker's Death

americanapparel.net​It turns out a report in La Opinion about a likely state investigation into last week's death of a worker at American Apparel -- a story we pointed to a blog post that has since been taken down -- is erroneous: A spokeswoman with the Division of Occupational Safety and Hea ... 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 >>

Protesters Blast Larry Flynt's Hustler For Unsafe Sex in Porn Films

Steve La​Given the subject matter, we're playing it safe: NSFW. Around two dozen protesters showed up at Larry Flynt Publications headquarters Thursday slamming Larry Flynt and his company Hustler Video for allegedly enforcing an unsafe work environment by not having their performers wear con ... 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 >>

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 >>

American Medical Association Backs Mandatory Condoms In Porn

​The American Medical Association has joined the Aids Healthcare Foundation's calls for a government mandate that porn actors should be required to wear condoms. The association voted at its annual meeting to support legislation to that end, although it's not clear that there is legislation in ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

KCET Finds California Workers Allegedly Shipped To Mexico for Medical Treatment

Michael Moore's health-care documentary 'Sicko.'​On Thursday KCET's SoCal Connected (8 p.m.) will air an investigation of the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) that found ultra-low fines for on-the-job worker deaths ($350 in once case) and an organization so u ... More >>

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 >>

'Hunky Santa' Show Organizer Under Investigation After Performer Falls 20 Feet

Beverly CenterAerialists of the 'Hunky Santa' show.​After a performer fell nearly two stories over the holiday break during a performance at the Beverly Center mall, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health stepped in late Monday to announce it is investigating the show's orga ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Say ... More >>

Slapped Around

Downtown landowner faces inquiries over demolition pulled off without permits

Heap of Trouble

Downtown’s top landowner hauled away toxic buildings — without permits

DWP’s Endless Storm

Therapists summoned to deal with angry workers on desert project

The Death Squads

When dying is downright dirty, these guys clean up the mess

Laundry Lists

Hospital linen workers prepare to strike

Fear in the Air

A case of Legionnaires’ disease worries county workers about the safety of their building

Arnold and His Identity Crisis

Will the real Governor Schwarzenegger please stand up — for something?

Tribal Warfare

It’s Indian vs. Indian with Arnold in the middle, as the fight over the flood of money from reservation casinos heats up

Reagan Without Tears

Let’s not forget what the Gipper did to America

Reagan Without Tears

Let’s not forget what the Gipper did to America

Blue Canaries

A day at the LAPD’s counterterrorism camp

Pine-Box Office Hits

Daily Grind

Eleven years sweeping floors at the Burger Store

Introduction

Ralph Rising

What the Nader Candidacy means for Gore, the Greens, the left, and the nation

Bareback Riding

The porn industry deals with another HIV-positive performer

Where's the Left?

American liberalism at century's end