The porn industry has threatened to leave L.A. over two mandatory condom laws here.
Keith Plocek for LA Weekly
And it has appeared to have shut down much production in L.A. county, with speculation putting porn shoots in neighboring Ventura County, where doing adult video al fresco -- sans Jimmy Hat -- was still legal. No longer:
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The buzz about Farrah Abraham's sex tape is deafening. And now Vivid Entertainment, which scored the right to distribute the video, is bringing all the action to a television near you.
farrahabraham.me
Well, sort of. It depends on whether your particular LCD is equipped with premium channels of the adult variety:
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It's widely believed, at least by female comedians and men's magazines throughout the land, that porn has led to a new generation of male swine that thinks sex should be done with lights on and a stack of fresh towels nearby.
Nate 'Igor' Smith for LA Weekly
Not true, says a new study out of Denmark. Well, not entirely true. Porn has not wholly ruined the next generation when it comes to bedroom manners:
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See also: Farrah Abraham Sex Tape Hits TV.
Vivid Entertainment
The onetime star of MTV's Teen Mom is now the headliner of Backdoor Teen Mom, a sex tape coming to a laptop near you May 6.
Farrah Abraham, set to turn 22 in May, is said to have been inspired to close out her 21st year "by making a personal tape that would forever capture her beauty and sensuality at this time in her life," according to a statement from Vivid Entertainment. Yeah, right:
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The proposed law that would require condoms in porn throughout California passed a key committee in Sacramento last night.
Porn girl via Nate 'Igor' Smith for LA Weekly.
The state Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment said yes 5-0 in favor of requiring prophylactics for performers in adult video:
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As the porn industry flees Los Angeles in search of a better life, one free of condoms, it's also simultaneously battling a proposal that would make prophylactics the law on adult video sets across California.
Porn's Jessie Andrews by Nate 'Igor' Smith for LA Weekly.
The industry lobbying group known as the Free Speech Coalition reached out to supporters this week to ask that they urge Sacramento lawmakers to say no to condoms:
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The battle over condoms in porn just got real.
Adultcon action by Keith Plocek / LA Weekly
Well, actually, it's been real for a while. But the group behind the effort to make condoms mandatory in adult video, the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is claiming victory this week. A judge said the organization could defend L.A. county's condom rule:
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After you, the L.A. County voter, decided in November to mandate condom use in local porn production, the adult industry has nearly pulled out of town, so to speak.
Keith Plocek / LA Weekly
FilmLA, which processes permits for the city and county of Los Angeles, says it has received only two adult film applications this year:
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The Bush years saw the prosecution of such porn luminaries as Ira Isaacs (who was sentenced to 48 months in January), John "Buttman" Stagliano, who got off, so to speak, and former journalist Max Hardcore, who served time in federal prison for making stuff that's fairly common now.
Performers from Buttman's Evil Angel studio / evilangel.com
They were dark days for the adult industry. All were charged with obscenity, a crime with a fine line that's sometimes hard to prove. A conservative group, Morality in Media, wants to bring those days back:
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Even as the adult video industry is fighting L.A. county's mandatory condoms-in-porn rule, a similar law that would cover the business statewide is one step closer to becoming law.
Nate 'Igor' Smith for LA Weekly
The bill by Compton state assemblyman Isadore Hall passed the lower house's Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, And Internet Media Committee today:
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The patriotic denizens of the porn industry are dedicating their proceeds April 15 to the cause of freedom.
Iron Man XXX via Vivid Entertainment
That is, they're giving cash in support of a court challenge of Measure B, the L.A. county initiative approved by voters that requires adult performers to use condoms:
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Who says porn stars aren't stable, productive members of society?
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Jenna Jameson told her rags-to-riches story in her autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, and emphasized her triumph over porn as a performer-turned-successful-businesswoman. But ... she has experienced some turbulence lately:
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The porn industry has been none too happy about L.A. county's mandatory condom ordinance. It has threatened to leave the state, but it might have found a solution closer to home:
Pornfolk shot by Nate 'Igor' Smith for LA Weekly.
By simply moving production into neighboring counties that don't require condoms for adult video shoots, porn can pretty much stay put and satisfy what it argues is America's desire for prophylactic-free smut:
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Pasadena City College got mad headlines when porn star James Deen spoke to a "Navigating Pornography" class (as if we need instruction on that!) in February.
Allie Haze on the set of Star Wars XXX; photo by Steve Appleford for LA Weekly.
USC, of course, will not be outdone by a community college:
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There have been short video clips spoofing Los Angeles County's relatively new condom mandate (Measure B) for porn production.
Zero Tolerance
But one brave adult-video house, Zero Tolerance, went ahead an made a full-length XXX film about the most-hated law in Porn Valley.
Measure X, the studio says, ...
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Updated at the bottom with the industry's response. First posted at 5:34 p.m. on Monday.
Immoral Productions / @immorallive
A porn production company has been targeted under L.A. county's mandatory condom law for the first time.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation today announced that it has filed a complaint against Immoral Productions for allegedly filming at least one scene without mandating condom use among its performers.
According to AHF ...
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In California, we love Asian people. Maybe a little too much.
Keith Plocek
We have more Asians -- 5.5 million of them -- than any other state in America. So maybe there's some self-love there too.
And that brings us to ...
... California's favorite porn-site search terms:
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The porn industry is mad as hell, and it's not going to take it anymore!
Type 9 Models
This week a group of adult talent agents lashed out at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation for its latest formal complaint, which the nonprofit filed against an agency for allegedly sending performers into unsafe workplaces (e.g. sets where condoms are not mandatory).
The Licensed Adult Talent Agency Trade Association (and, for the record, the acronym here is really LATATA) has had enough, stating:
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Stacie Halas is appealing a professional standards board ruling that she lied about her porn career and deserved to fired from her job as an Oxnard middle school teacher.
Halas during her former career
The educator, whose story of being found out by students surfing the web mesmerized local and national media, is taking her case to the Ventura County Superior Court:
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If you've obsessed over female porn stars, don't fret -- you're not alone. You're weird, perverted and demented -- yes. But you're surely not alone.
Sasha Grey on YouTube.
A new study of 10,000 women in adult film, based on information gathered from the Internet Adult Film Database [NSFW], has come up with some not-so-striking revelations about your favorite "performers."
Revelation number one:
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