I feel I have not done enough, spoken loud enough, or ranted enough about this issue. The California legislation will decide this coming Monday on wether or not it will be illegal in the state of California to do a porn scene without a condom along with other ridiculous stipulations that are equivalent to wearing a hazmat suit with all the sexiness that entails. Our industry has testing protocols to ensure our safety and our self regulation has allowed for not a single on-set HIV exposure since 2004. Now the state wants to butt in where it doesn’t belong and this actually puts the porn community more at risk with forcing business out of state, with the possibility of this causing less control over our testing protocols, the ironic possibility of causing more STD’s with condom wear because of the excessive irritation it causes to sensitive skin exposing the performers to the likelihood of getting another sexually transmitted disease much easier, not to mention the stupidity on the state for driving yet another business out of a state that so desperately needs our tax dollars.
So please everyone in California who is in the porn industry, who knows and cares about someone in the porn industry, who watches porn, or whoever cares about the real safety of individuals, speak out. I know it’s a bit late, but better late than never.
I myself thought it would never get this far knowing the facts and knowing who was behind the bill. To my dismay, we are on the verge of losing the ability to work in California. I myself am fortunate as to already have the ability to run my business out of Las Vegas. But how sad, this is where I call home, this is where most of my employees call home. I retain 11 employees, 9 of which are here in California. What happens to them? What happens to their jobs? What happens to their healthcare and their 401K that I provide?
Hopefully there isn’t enough funding to approve the bill but alas, I still have my worries and so do a lot of people in our industry. I know there are those of you out there that see the safety in condom use and I also agree that condoms do save lives, the problem is the passing of the bill will not help people, it will just drive business out of California. So there, I said my piece.
