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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Mayor signs law to safeguard against STDs
- Due to come into force in next six weeks
- Supporters: ‘LA has done the right thing’
- Critics: ‘It will jeopardise the porn industry
By
Simon Tomlinson
Last updated at 12:50 PM on 25th January 2012
Signed off: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has approved a law forcing porn stars to wear condoms while filming in the city
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.
The law, signed on Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, will come into force 41 days after it is posted by the city clerk, expected to happen as early as this week.
Officials with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which lobbied for years for such a law, expressed jubilation yesterday and said they would now turn their attention to getting a similar condom requirement adopted elsewhere.
Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which had pushed the measure for six years, said: ‘The city of Los Angeles has done the right thing. They’ve done the right thing for the performers.’
But critics claim the regulation jeopardises the long-term future of the industry in the nation’s porn capital as many firms have threatened to abandon the area.
Mr Weinstein said its adoption is crucial in protecting adult film actors from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Weinstein said his group’s next move will be to get Los Angeles County to adopt a similar measure for its unincorporated areas.
The group is in the midst of a petition drive to put the issue on the ballot, but Weinstein said he hopes the county’s Board of Supervisors will react as the Los Angeles City Council did and pass such an ordinance itself. The council gave its final approval last week.
Exodus? Industry bosses have threatened to leave the city over the condom law, but proponents want to encourage similar legislation elsewhere in U.S.
Industry officials estimate as many as 90 per cent of the porn films produced in the United States are made in Los Angeles. Most are filmed quietly in the city’s suburban San Fernando Valley.
Legendary porn king Ron Jeremy believes viewers would be put off by condoms because they ‘ruin the fantasy’ and said many customers would simply seek out overseas imports which often don’t use protection.
The 58-year-old claims the current method of carrying out STD testing on actors every 30 days was a sufficient safeguard against HIV.
Critic: Legendary porn actor Ron Jeremy (above) claims the use of condoms would ‘ruin the fantasy’ for viewers
But fellow veteran actor Darren James welcomed the new law as a means of giving further protection to workers.
‘I’m happy he (the mayor) signed it,’ Mr James told the New York Daily News. ‘We’re just trying to protect people’s lives. We’re still human beings even though we chose to be in this business.’
According to the NY Daily News, Mr James, 47, was the focus of an HIV outbreak which closed production in the area for a month in 2004 when he unwittingly spread the disease to three actresses after testing negative just a few days earlier.
After the council’s action, several of the industry’s biggest filmmakers said they might consider moving just outside the county.
That prompted Simi Valley Mayor Bob Huber to announce last week that he would ask the city attorney for his community, located just across the county line from the San Fernando Valley, to write a similar ordinance.
Weinstein said Tuesday his group would also be vigilant in keeping track of where porn producers might go.
Exactly how the law will be enforced is still to be determined.
It calls for makers of porn films to pay a fee, the amount still to be determined, that would be used to pay for spot checks at filming locations.
Health risk: It is hoped the new legislation will safeguard against STDs in the industry, but opponents believe the current method of testing every 30 days is sufficient
The City Council is creating a committee to determine the amount of the fee and who would make the spot checks.
Weinstein said he envisions enforcement would fall on nurses or other public health providers.
‘It is not anticipated, based on what we desire or what has been discussed, that it would be uniformed police officers,’ he said.
Weinstein said he would be open to working with industry leaders to enforce the law.
He noted the ordinance does not require condoms when oral sex is involved because his group, which originally crafted it, agreed with the filmmakers that infection through oral sex was not as great as through other sex acts.
The industry already requires that actors be tested for HIV every 30 days, and filmmakers say they believe that is sufficient.
‘It’s not that I don’t doubt the sincerity of their desire to protect the talent. And believe it or not, we have the same ambition,’ Christian Mann, general manager of Evil Angel Productions, said last week after the council’s vote.
‘We just don’t believe their way is the best way,’ added Mann, who is also on the board of directors of the industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition.
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A controversial new law forcing porn stars to wear condoms during film shoots has been rubber-stamped. How appropriate
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They will just move the industry some where else.
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If the measure is to stop the spread of STDs then, logically, everyone in LA should be legally obliged to wear a condom every time they have sex for purposes other than procreation. The number of HIV cases in the porn industry is tiny – that’s why they make headlines when they happen. The spread is much greater outside the industry.
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Rubber stamped, how apt ;o)
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And about time too. Of course not that I or any other DM reader has ever seen one of these films?! Anyone ever seen one?
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Don’t people understand how STDs actually work?!
You can only get them from someone else who has them. I’m pretty sure anyone working in this industry is checked regularly, so as long as none of them have it in the first place, noone else will get them from them, regardless of what antics they get up to!
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The new law has been ‘rubber’ stamped nice double entendre!
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