Quite apart from the absurdity of the legislation now passed in Los Angeles regarding porn actors being required to use condoms – not to mention the usual bansturbator desire to save us from ourselves, there is a pressing question.
The city council has now asked the police, city attorney’s office and workplace safety officials to figure out how they enforce the rule, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Surely they should have been asking themselves that question before enacting the legislation? They might have concluded that they cannot and therefore, common sense might have prevailed. Yeah, I know, I know…
Surely this is a classic example of where enforcing a regulation will simply drive the business elsewhere.
Freud would have had something to say about the opening sentence of the Mail’s version:
A controversial new law forcing porn stars to wear condoms during film shoots in Los Angeles will come into effect in the next six weeks after being rubber-stamped by the city’s mayor.
It’s a weird day when porn actors are banned from working naked.
Late on this, sorry (busy week), but California intrigues me. Local knowledge points to a dire economic situation and businesses swarming away from the state due to pig-headed socialist policies. And then they do this to an industry which is purported to earn more than mainstream Hollywood?
I can see California going broke very soon if they don’t stop being blinkered ex-hippies.
“They insist that adult films featuring condoms are not as popular and that some actors prefer not to use them.”
That’s something of an understatement. AVN (adult video news) has a more complete picture of what is going on:-
Importantly, none of the companies have said they would begin to make all-condom productions, because they know from experience that such movies do not sell enough to make back their costs, leaving them in the unenviable position of refusing to comply with the law or seeing their businesses bankrupted through lack of sales, as happened with Video Team after it and several other companies tried going “all condom” after the 2004 HIV infections. And though it is occasionally suggested that adult companies could fix the “condom problem” “in post,” in fact, it would cost hundreds of times more to digitally erase condoms from movies than it cost to make the movies themselves.
“The government can’t compel us to make a product that the market doesn’t want,” stated Video Team’s former owner Christian Mann.
So yeah, all production will move out of LA and find a new home.