LA considers requiring porn stars use condoms

for them, it's going to be hard to swallow.

With few exceptions the porn industry has done a good job of regulating itself. Let the government get involved and were back to blue movies.

The porn industry's trade association says there have been no confirmed cases of HIV in the porn industry in five years.

So what is the sudden need for this? They really didn't have anything more important?

This is almost like the government requiring people to take vitamins because they may help them to not get sick. People in the porn industry are well aware of the risks they are taking and they choose to take those risks anyway. This profession is far too lucrative for the porn producers to even think about "turning viewers off" by mandating condom use in their films. If L.A. persists in this, the film-makers will simply move somewhere else to do their business. Smoking cigarettes kills THOUSANDS of people every year but the government keeps selling them because it's big money for them. IMHO, A standard and cohesive regimen of testing actors across the industry should be sufficient.

so much for the money shot

They'll just move up the coast to Ventura... taking billions with them...

That means the cashdashians all have to wear them!

This is not the govenments job.
If they really did their job English wouldn't be the second most popular language in Southern California.

LAME! They will just film somewhere else...what a joke.

Why doesn't the L.A. City Council consider doing something about the homeless, the unemployed, cutting excessive spending by the City, or other important things that are going on in L.A.? Why are they wasting time on the use of condoms in the adult film industry? Doing that is just like Yahoo wasting time and time again reporting on the Kardashians. All they will end up doing is forcing the adult film industry to move out of L.A. and take all those jobs and monies that are spent back into the local economy to another city or state where they won't be hassled. I know a lot of people would like the adult film industry to move out of L.A., but how much of that billion dollar a year industry pay back in taxes and help the local businesses in the area? During this time when cities and states are looking for tax revenue and businesses looking for customers, everybody should do and support whatever measures it takes to keep the jobs from leaving. I say leave the adult film industry alone and let them regulate the use of condoms and monitor the required, consistent testing of their employees. Focus on more important matters L.A.!

This is just going to drive them over the state line to Nevada, which is dying to get the whole industry to relocate.

Now the government is getting into porn...is nothing sacred anymore?!

methinks that council is angling for yet another government agency-and the San Francisco pols will claim the title of taste testers.

Porn time is fantasy time. I dont wear a condom in my fantasy.

So if the government makes them wear one, where does the first amendment kick in. What next, you require everyone to wear one. It's a choice..or is that another America I'm thinking about???

Your elected officials at work passing worthless legislation!!

There you go, intrusive government. Soon all those jobs will go to Mexico.
Half kidding.....

" ATTENTION PEOPLE , PORN MOVIES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME ! "

I guess that's one way to get rid of the porn industry. Who wants to see someone having sex with a Hefty trash bag on? It seems our government just doesn't have a clue of how to NOT screw things up. They took over a "House of ill repute" in Nevada for taxes due and ran it into the ground. Leave it to the government to fail at selling sex and booze.

Glad to see that problems like crime, taxes, and immigration (just to name a few) have all been solved so that the LA City Council has been able to move onto more important issues such as this one.