**** industry isn't feeling new condom rule - Health - Sexual health - msnbc.com

LOS ANGELES — Actors in adult movies filmed in America's pornography capital would be required to use condoms under an ordinance granted final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council.
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The measure, adopted 9-1, next goes to the mayor for his signature. Before it can take effect, however, the City Council has ordered police officials, the city attorney and others to hold meetings to figure out how it might be enforced.

The council's second and final vote to approve the law was taken without public discussion on a day when most of the **** industry's major players were in Las Vegas preparing for Wednesday's opening of the Adult Entertainment Expo, their industry's largest trade event.

Several industry officials condemned the move as being an unneeded exercise in political correctness that cannot be enforced.

"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 Productions, one of the industry's biggest makers of **** films.

Like others in the business, he said large numbers of consumers, especially overseas, consistently refuse to buy films in which condoms are used.

Veteran **** actress Tabitha Stevens said she has worked with and without condoms during her 17-year career. Although Stevens, who also produces films, said she prefers to work with condoms, she doesn't believe their use should be mandated by a government authority.

"If you want to wear them, wear them. If you don't, don't. That's up to the talent to decide. It shouldn't be up to the government to decide," she said by phone from Las Vegas.

Stevens and others also said the industry's self-imposed testing standard, in which major companies require that actors be tested every 30 days for sexually transmitted diseases, is working well. They say there has not been a confirmed case of HIV related directly to the **** industry since 2004.

Advocates of the new law said the testing isn't sufficient and the condom requirement adds another level of safety.

"We are not opposed to testing, but testing is not prevention in the same way that a barrier protection is," said Ged Kenslea, spokesman for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which supports the condom requirement.

He also accused the adult film industry of not being forthcoming in reporting all cases of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and others.

Kenslea scoffed at the idea that the industry, about 90 percent of which is believed to be based in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, will pack up and move because of the restriction.

"The industry is not going to go away," he said, adding that other parts of America aren't as tolerant of hard-core-sex films and that the industry's infrastructure, from writers, directors and actors to production facilities, is already based here.

 

That's why I stick with girl- girl

 

 

It's the death of the facial.

 

death of cream pies

 

"Talent". Like it's some special skil to fake an orgasm and be creampied.

 

still dont understand why prostitution is illegal unless you are filming it?

 

Talking from personal experience eh? haha kidding......but seriously....faking an orgasm isn't easy and requires to much mayonnaise.

 

For pornos both the male and female get paid

 

meh no big deal, all they have to do is film in another county. stiwrb has it right girl/girl is where its at

 

lol mayonaise

 

I really don't care if she makes a peep or not, just as long as she makes me something to eat when I'm done.

 

So.... If you both pay into a pot and share half its considered okay then right :P

 

so in a **** if one of them does it for free its prostitution? or how about if they both get paid but theres no camera? Or there is a camera but they both do it for free?

It so confusing

 

Amen brother!