Sixteen state governments either plan to or have enacted legitimate age verification requirements to access pornography sites in an effort to protect children from the harmful content.
The Free Speech Coalition (FSC), the United States porn industry’s leading trade group, is urging the shutdown of all adult film production following concerns that an adult film performer has possibly tested positive for HIV.
A measure mandating the use of condoms on all adult film sets in California will remain on California’s fall ballot after its proponents declined to withdraw it prior to Thursday’s deadline.
California voters will decide in November whether the state should require the use of condoms in pornography, as Los Angeles has since 2016.
California officials came just one vote shy of approving a measure that would have required porn actors to wear condoms–as well as “porn goggles” and dental dams–while filming adult movies.
Trade groups representing the adult film industry filed a formal protest on Tuesday against new regulations being considered by California health officials that would mandate the use of protective eyewear and condoms on all pornography productions filmed in the state.
A trade group representing the adult film industry is pushing back against new California regulations that would require performers to wear condoms and “porn goggles” on all sets in the state.
A measure mandating condom use on all adult film sets in California will appear on the 2016 ballot after organizers gathered the required number of signatures last week.
LOS ANGELES — Adult film performers in California could soon be required to wear condoms and goggles to prevent exposure to bodily fluids, and producers would have to pay for medical visits and Hepatitis B treatments, under a new set of safety procedures recently released by the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Cal/OSHA).
Los Angeles, California–Controversial president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Michael Weinstein, aims to be California’s first “porn czar” by passing a 2016 ballot measure, which he wrote, to monitor all adult film sets in California to make sure all male performers wear condoms.
