Porn legend Ron Jeremy opposed the condom law intended for the adult film industry, saying porn would start being outsourced and "you'll hear more accents in your porn."
Los Angeles’ new condom law is definitely cramping the porn industry’s style.
A leading X-rated film producer and two actors filed a lawsuit on Friday against Los Angeles county in an effort to try and overturn a new law that mandates the use of condoms in adult movies.
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“The new law makes no sense and it imposes a government licensing regime on making films that are protected by the Constitution,” Steven Hirsch, chief of Vivid Entertainment, said in a statement. “Measure B will have vast unintended consequences which may undermine industry efforts to protect the health of our actors and actresses.”
The offices of Vivid Entertainment Group, an adult entertainment studio, are located in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. A Vivid producer has filed suit against the new Los Angeles County condom law. Passed by nearly 56 percent of Los Angeles County voters in the November election, Measure B requires porn actors to use condoms while filming sex scenes and receive training on sexually transmitted diseases. It also obliges producers of X-rated films to pay a permitting fee to the county Department of Public Health to help pay for inspectors.
“They’re telling the production house that in order to produce legally protected expression, you have to first get government approval and you have to agree to shoot it in a particular way, namely with condoms,” Paul Cambria, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, told Reuters.
“I can tell you they are leaving L.A. County in droves,” Cambria said. “It’s a multi-billion dollar industry that employs thousands of people, and ever since this all started they have been leaving and filming in places other than L.A. County.”
Tom Myers, general counsel for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the group that sponsored the new law, scoffs at the idea that forcing adult film actors to wear condoms is anything but a public health issue.
“Despite what the adult industry’s lawyers are claiming in this lawsuit, Measure B is not directed at speech and as such their First Amendment claims will likely ring hollow with the court,” Myers said in a written statement.
A recent study by the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health found that the rate of sexually transmitted diseases was much higher in porn industry actors than it was in Nevada prostitutes. In all, 28% of the porn performers tested positive for either gonorrhea or chlamydia.
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