Porn film firms face music over condoms
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August 22, 2009, Saturday
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AN AIDS advocacy group filed complaints against 16 adult-film studios in California on Thursday, accusing them of violating state workplace safety rules by failing to require porn actors to wear condoms.
The complaints, submitted along with five dozen DVD copies of pornographic films produced by the companies as evidence, formally call on the US state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health to conduct an inquiry.
An ex-porn actress joined the filing with a complaint of her own against three additional production companies.
The agency swiftly vowed to investigate the complaints.
"We take it seriously, and it will be addressed," Cal-OSHA spokesman Dean Fryer said of the situation.
The US$12 billion-a-year US porn movie business is largely centered in the San Fernando Valley, suburbs of Los Angeles.
Last month, the foundation sued Los Angeles County, accusing public health officials there of failing to enforce laws aimed at curbing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases within the adult entertainment industry.
The suit was filed after the disclosure that a porn actress had tested positive for HIV in June, leading health officials to reveal 16 more unpublicized cases among adult-film performers since a 2004 outbreak.
Porn executives insist the industry has successfully policed itself with voluntary guidelines that call for monthly testing and quarantines of actors found to be infected.
"If Los Angeles County chooses to enforce mandatory condoms, what you'll see is all adult production leave California," Vivid Entertainment founder Steve Hirsch told the Los Angeles Times.
The complaints, submitted along with five dozen DVD copies of pornographic films produced by the companies as evidence, formally call on the US state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health to conduct an inquiry.
An ex-porn actress joined the filing with a complaint of her own against three additional production companies.
The agency swiftly vowed to investigate the complaints.
"We take it seriously, and it will be addressed," Cal-OSHA spokesman Dean Fryer said of the situation.
The US$12 billion-a-year US porn movie business is largely centered in the San Fernando Valley, suburbs of Los Angeles.
Last month, the foundation sued Los Angeles County, accusing public health officials there of failing to enforce laws aimed at curbing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases within the adult entertainment industry.
The suit was filed after the disclosure that a porn actress had tested positive for HIV in June, leading health officials to reveal 16 more unpublicized cases among adult-film performers since a 2004 outbreak.
Porn executives insist the industry has successfully policed itself with voluntary guidelines that call for monthly testing and quarantines of actors found to be infected.
"If Los Angeles County chooses to enforce mandatory condoms, what you'll see is all adult production leave California," Vivid Entertainment founder Steve Hirsch told the Los Angeles Times.
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