Los Angeles, and specifically the San Fernando
Valley, is the undisputed home of the porn industry. It is estimated
that approximately 90% of the adult films produced in the United States
come from the Los Angeles area. The new city ordinance that has just
passed the Los Angeles city council by a 9-1 vote would require that all
actors in adult films created within the city wear condoms. This has
drawn the ire of the adult film industry, which claims that it is
already highly regulated and that its actors are required to be tested
at least every 30 days for STDs and other blood-borne pathogens.
The film industry is also claiming that there is no market for adult
films that contain the use of condoms, especially internationally. And
with the struggling economy and the ubiquity of free Internet
pornography, the adult film industry is already struggling.
Of course, the simple answer for the adult film producers is to simply
move their operations outside the Los Angeles area. "The only thing that
the city could potentially achieve is losing some film permit money and
driving some productions away, but you can't actually compel an
industry to create a product that the market doesn't want," said
Christian Mann, general manager of Evil Angel, one of the largest
production companies in the adult film industry.
The other side of the argument comes from groups like the AIDS
Healthcare Foundation, which points out that California state law
already requires the use of condoms when workers are exposed to
blood-borne pathogens. The group notes that the law is rarely followed
or enforced in the state and that the new city ordinance is designed to
help with that enforcement effort.
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