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An AIDS advocacy group is bringing labor complaints against nine porn talent agencies for advertising actors who are willing to have unprotected sex on camera.
9 Calif porn agencies targeted in labor complaints
Seeded on Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:36 PM EDT
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein says the Los Angeles-area agencies are knowingly exposing the porn actors to sexually transmitted disease.
The complaint is addressed to state Labor Commissioner Angela Bradsteet. It cites a labor code that prevents talent agencies from being licensed if they endanger the health, safety or welfare of the artist.
The nonprofit has been pushing for mandatory use of condoms in porn films since an HIV outbreak in 2004 spread panic through the industry and briefly shut down production at several studios.
In a related story:
Group to appeal porn condom decision
A judge's decision not to order the county Department of Public Health to require porn actors to use condoms will be appealed to the 2nd District Court of Appeal, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced Thursday.
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#1 - Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:39 PM EDTGood. I don't think there's anything wrong with the porn industry in theory, but a little common sense regulation would take a lot of the problems out of it. The argument is that people would be less likely to buy porn where condoms are used, so mandate it, and it'll be the only kind available. Something tells me that it won't have a significant impact on porn consumption, but it'll have a significant impact on the well-being of the actors and actresses.
#2 - Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:09 PM EDTI'm surprised that it isn't mandated. Restaurant employees are mandated to wear hair nets. Is hair really more deadly than AIDS? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I don't think we'd accept allowing companies to dangle their employees on thin ropes hundreds of feet in the air with no back-up safety system, so why should we accept companies that deliberately expose their employees to dangerous diseases?
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