California rejects plan to force porn actors to wear condoms, dental dams and goggles (theguardian.com).
Although I’m pretty sure there is a fetish niche for such.
“California has rejected a move to force porn actors to use condoms, dental dams, and even goggles during filming in order to prevent sexually transmitted infections. Following six hours of impassioned testimony from nearly 100 actors and producers fiercely opposed to the stringent regulations, members of the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards board voted 3-2 in favor of the rules, failing to reach the four-vote threshold necessary for adoption.
“After the vote was finalized, the crowd inside the hearing room in Oakland erupted with cheers and applause.”
Obviously eager to continue watch their fellatio money shot without scuba jizz goggles and cunni- and anilingus sans dental dam, the very thought of which veers uncomfotably towards the Hannibal Lecter.
“‘These regulations were based in stigma rather than science, and would have severely hurt adult performers,’ said Eric Paul Leue, the executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry, in a statement following the vote. … the Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF), a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization, first petitioned the state to update and clarify its standards for workers who may come into contact with ‘bloodborne pathogens’. The existing regulations did require protective barriers for workers who come into contact with bodily fluids but had been largely applied in medical settings, not the adult film industry.”
It could’ve traumatised viewers too, I dare say, but:
“‘First and foremost, it’s about protecting the performers’ [Michael Weinstein, president of Aids Healthcare Foundation] said. … Many young people get their information from these films, and the message they get is that the only hot sex is unsafe sex.’ Weinstein, a dogged advocate for condoms, also helped pass legislation in Los Angeles county requiring the use of condoms in pornography.”
Likely in the hope such would put all off such “disssgusting” porn and probably contraception to boot, putting marital aids back where they belong, as an aid to Puritan work ethic, and sex not for procreation back in the grey area—and non-marital back alley—where it is simply not talked about.
“Many performers and public health experts argued that the new rules would be less safe than the existing industry standard promoted by the Free Speech Coalition, called Performer Availability Scheduling Services. Under that system, performers are tested for STIs every two weeks, and the results are stored in a private database. Producers then hire performers who are deemed ‘available’ by the database, without learning any additional information about their medical status. By contrast, the new regulations required performers to be tested for STIs every three months.”
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