Condom requirement for porn film actors to be voted on in California

[Zomby Woof]

Condom requirement for porn film actors to be voted on in California

State regulators are expected to vote Thursday on a petition asking them to require porn industry performers to use condoms and to take other safety measures. The six-member California Division of Occupational Safety and Health standards board appears likely to create an advisory committee to report back on whether the law should be changed and how it could be accomplished.

The board, appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has up to six months to act on a Dec. 17, 2009 petition filed by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation that seeks to change state law to require safe-sex protections for adult-film workers, including mandatory condom use and more stringent safety training and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.

Earlier this month, staff members recommended that the board create an advisory committee to consider amending the law “in order to give greater protection to employees in the adult film industry.”

“It’s to study the issue more. If it merits it, they would formulate the language and bring it before the board,” to amend the law, said CAL/OSHA spokeswoman Erika Monterroza.

More:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/condom-requirement-for-porn-film-actors-comes-to-vote-in-california.html

[stevedeshazer]

1. !!

:popcorn:

[Gaedel]

2. Easier to pass laws than to fix the budget n/t

[anigbrowl]

15. You said it. This is a real waste of tax dollars.

I don't know how strict testing is for HIV and STDs, but let's be realistic - even if the safety regime for movie-making is bulletproof, people can still get diseases outside the workplace. There are better ways to get the message out, but in any case this is a complete waste of the legislature's time.

[nolabear]

3. You mean OSHA doesn't cover this?

Damn. I had to wear steel-toed boots for shop work...

[pampango]

4. The obvious question: Who has the job of monitoring the enforcement of this law?

;)

[MUAD_DIB]

8. Yeah, like that'll be a hard job.

[damyank913]

10. It won't be that bad-it's the safety equipment that's a bitch...

Goggles, gloves, lotion...

[Lerkfish]

5. well, great, its not like they don't have a crisis meltdown budget thingy going on

so that they can devote time to this

[kestrel91316]

6. I hate to say it, but these are jobs that WILL leave the state if they pass the law.

They will start filming porno flicks just across the state line in AZ and NV, or else south of the border.

I actually have had a number of clients over the years who were in some aspect of the porn industry. They paid their bills the same as anybody else. And they, too, have fallen on hard times of late.......

Sigh. I know safety is important. I just have trouble with spending time and energy with this rather than fixing our serious problems.

[Tempest]

7. The jobs will leave, so will the cost of treating HIV positive actors

You don't really believe the majority of porn actors have health care coverage, do you?

According to Sharon Mitchell, the director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, less than 5% have coverage.

[kestrel91316]

12. Guess what? They will continue to LIVE here. They will just travel elsewhere

to do the work, so the state they GO to will reap the tax benefits. We will be stuck with their HIV treatment costs.

[uppityperson]

13. And if those states pass similar laws...?

I find "they will go elsewhere" for this.

They too have fallen on hard times? Was that meant as a pun? If so, I chuckled.

[damyank913]

9. Who says Americans don't manufacture anything anymore.

They want to "study" it more. Is that what they call it now-a-days?

[maxsolomon]

11. aren't the actors regularly tested for HIV?

if so, what's the point? why not make everyone wrap themselves in saran wrap, too?

[anigbrowl]

14. Meh

I'm not into porn but I don't see why creators of it should be forced to turn their films into public service announcements. As a filmmaker, I prefer to avoid depictions of people smoking because I don't want to make it look cool, but this is completely a matter of individual choice and I wouldn't accept anyone telling me that I HAD to do it.