Porn Shoots, Sex Acts in L.A. Can Be Tracked Via Smartphone?

By Dennis Romero Thu., Mar. 1 2012 at 8:07 AM

Categories: Porn

Nate 'Igor' Smith

A porn star expresses her opinion of L.A. City Hall.

One of the great standoffs in modern history has pitted the multi-billion-dollar porn industry against L.A. City Hall.

The L.A. City Council recently passed a law that requires on-location adult video performers to use condoms, but there's still no fine print about how, exactly, that will be enforced. In the meantime, the porn industry is saying it will abandon its longtime home in "Porn Valley" if it is forced to use prophylactics.

Some porn leaders are even teasing the city: How are you really going to enforce this? Here's one way:

With QR codes.

That's right. Planned Parenthood in Seattle has recently been experimenting with condoms that have QR codes printed on them. They can be scanned and entered into a database that then maps where people are getting it on.

Seriously.

Planned Parenthood

Sex, mapped out.

What we want to know is, who's in charge of placing scanners in orifices. And how. And what happens to those poor guys who can't fill in the, ah, data?

Oh. The codes are scanned in via smart phone apps prior to sex. Much better.

According to a Planned Parenthood statement:

The check-ins show up on a map on the website that is searchable by gender, orientation, approximate age, location, and other filters. In the past week the response has been incredible. Check-ins have come in from 48 out of 50 states and from six continents!

They're calling the program, in which 55,000 QR-enabled condoms were distributed to community colleges, universities, and health centers "www.WhereDidYouWearIt.com" (and not, as an editor of ours suggested, "Where's Willy").

In any case, back to the porn industry:

Imagine if there were a program in which porn producers had to scan the condoms they were about to use into a database patrolled by the city. That way we wouldn't have to waste valuable LAPD time on prophylactic patrols:

And porn producers could cheat their asses off by not actually using the condoms they scanned.

What do you think?

[@dennisjromero / djromero@laweekly.com / @LAWeeklyNews]

Tags:

condoms, Planned Parenthood, porn, QR codes

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briansays

want you to know we up here in sfbay will do our part to keep our end up...

dejavunorthhollywood

Ummm, this is going a bit far now.... talk about 'Big Brother'.

RickJamesBeyotch

Can you scan one condom twice?

ArtsBeatLA

I like the "Where's Willy?" title.

Jada Bug19

Porn rocks! Who cares! Why do people give a shit what other people do! How fuckin nosey and lame! Uhhh get a life.. Go get laid! Ha!

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GO GET SOME STDs BRO HELL YEA THAT BE ALL BAD!

Robert Murri

I understand the idea that Planned Parenthood is putting forth that is to normalize the idea that wearing a condom for sex is common among peers. It is to encourage condom use to reduce STD in the more casual population that does not get tested and operate as a professional in the sex industry.

The program is not and I'm sure never thought to be a device for LA to track down porn stars and requiring them to use these QR embossed condoms when they perform. It does require that a Scan is made of the QR code and the smartphone will log onto PPH site with your GPS coordinates and ask you to fill in the date of where and how you use it.

If LA tries to adopt such a law and program for the porn industry, they can kiss that multi-billion dollar revenue producing industry out of Porn Valley and to other parts of So. Cal or Las Vegas. Las Vegas has been courting the porn industry for almost a decade to move there, even with some tax breaks if they do.