I'm not sure where I stand, but here it is to read about.

There are ENORMOUS problems in CA. including serious budget shortfalls,  immigration issues, an abysmal economy with double digit unemployment, environmental issues, prison overcrowding, etc...In this election year (governor & senator race in CA.), i highly doubt voters want to hear about condom enforcement in the adult film industry...There are far more significant issues for CA. officials to focus their time, energy, & money on than condom enforcement in porn..

People who are employed in the adult film industry & people who are in this hobby are adults & they can make the decisions best for themselves as to what they do....

The companies that want to still shoot without condoms will just pick up and move to another state.  Porn is already being shot in NJ, Florida, and elsewhere.  

I tend to say let consenting adults make their own decisions.  But this tends to be one that can quickly affect others.  Mostly though I don't get the "it's not sexy" part.  I don't recall ever turning off a porn scene (granted I don't watch much porn with guys in it) because the male was wearing a condom.  I just never thought it was that big a deal.  My $0.02.

The issue's that our elected officials and special interest group's send time on. How about working on getting the economy back in shape, bringing back soldiers from the middle east, the homeless and finding a viable alternative fuel source.

What's next making professional boxers and ultimate fighters wear protective gear to save them from a severe injury, etc.

Let porn world decide for themselves.

My prediction is Porn production companies will be out of California along with the revenues it generates. On the Plus side It might be a wonderful idea for us to have to move out of this place. I think You will see More companies shooting In Vancouver Canada. In Canada A top performer is 400 to 500 a scene. Try that in the sunshine state. In Vancover it is not required to have an AIM test.

Florida will become the main Hub. I would be more inclined to take on Florida for a move. Don't think this will go down too well anytime too soon

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is that Shelly Luben, bitch that she is, is correct.  Shooting porn isn't really legal in any state other than California, where a lawsuit brought on and won by an adult production company that was busted during a shoot and charged with promoting prostitution and pandering set a legal precident.

And Florida has already shown a desire to get rid of the productions companies that are already there, having aggressively prosecuted a couple of porn companies.

Since Florida's main source of income is as a prime tourist destination, they're not going to sit quietly by while the whole porn industry invades their state.

The hospital workers should be required to wear surgical masks and latex gloves for the entire time they're at the hospital.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, pronounced mer-sa) kills approx. 18,000 people a year in the U.S.  Most of those people contract the desease while in hospitial for other problems.  In fact MRSA deaths account for a high percentage of all hospital deaths, and there is evidence that as many as 15% of hospital staff are carriers of the desease.

Compare that with AIDS deaths in heterosexual porn (I distinguish that from Gay Porn because many of the HIV/AIDS related deaths there are caused by the performer's lifestyles rather than directly attributable to video production). Since 1980, there are only TWO known deaths occuring as a result of an HIV infection, and if my figures are accurate, approximately 11 people infected.

If the article referred to is accurate, a porn movie is started every 45 minutes a day, 365 days a year.  That's 11,680 movies per year.  Figuring that most porn flix have 5 scenes, that equates to 58,400 seperate porn scenes shot every year.  Since 1980 that would mean that there have been 1,752,000 sexual acts performed on camera.  Acknowledging that there wasn't as much porn shot in the 80's and early 90's, lets be fair and reduce that number by 1/3, working out to 1,168,000... and let's round it down to 1.5 million to make it easy.  OK, now let's say gay porn accounts for another third of the total scenes shot (truthfully I'm pulling that number out of my ass, but if I had to guess I'd say that I'm being generous in my estimate; the actual number of gay porn scenes is probably much LESS than 1/3 of the total of all scenes).

So that leaves us with an even million individual sex acts performed in front of a camera.  Not even taking into account that many of those scenes involved multiple partners and included a very large percentage of high-risk acts (anal, DPs, ATM, cum-swapping, etc.), two deaths and less than a dozen HIV infections seems like a pretty good record to me.

I have no problem with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.  They do good work in third world countries and I believe them to be well intentioned.  However, I feel that their time and resources would be better used elsewhere, uless their using this issues as a way of gaining more wide-spread attention for their organization.

Shelly Luben, on the other hand, is a self-aggrandizing, attention seeking cunt who isn't worth the space she takes up.

Forgive the political reference (but it's relevant to this thread, IMO), but if the Republican candiate (Marco Rubio) for the open Florida senate seat wins in Nov., that would only be bad news for the Florida porn biz...

Marco Rubio is extremely socially conservative & i would imagine he'd make things as difficult as possible for the adult entertainment business in Florida....