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Voters in LA to decide on use of condoms in porn

Adult film actors in LA city are already required to wear condoms, but campaigners want this extended county-wide.

LA COUNTY VOTERS are to decide if condom use should be obligatory for porn actors, after AIDS campaigners said they had collected enough signatures for a November ballot.

The campaigners submitted more than 360,000 signatures to support enforcing condom use in the US porn movie industry, which is based in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles.

Last year a HIV scare shut down LA’s adult film industry after it emerged that an actor had recently tested positive.

Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation — one of five groups which spearheaded the poll push — said he was particularly happy as this is a White House election year, so turnout is likely to be high.

“We are extremely pleased to learn that our County of Los Angeles ballot measure to require adult film producers to obtain public health permits has successfully qualified for the November ballot,” he said.

This ordinance, modeled after the County’s similar health permitting process for tattoo and massage parlors and bathhouses, should go a long way to improve safety on the sets for adult film performers.

He noted that the City of Los Angeles already voted in January to require porn actors to wear condoms on set, the latest move in a battle between AIDS activists and the US adult film industry.

“We look forward to taking this measure directly to voters throughout the County of Los Angeles in November,” he said.

The LA Times reports that the Free Speech Coalition – a lobby group for the adult film industry – had previously called the initiative “government overreach into the way we make movies”.

Film L.A. Inc., which issues permits for film companies shooting in the West Coast city, said about five percent of the 45,500 permit days the agency issues per year are for pornographic film shoots.

- © AFP, 2012

- Additional reporting by Emer McLysaght

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