GROUP TAKES ACTION AGAINST PORN COMPANIES

A Los Angeles based advocacy group, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), has filed a complaint with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) against 16 porn production companies that show unprotected sex in their movies.

AHF submitted over 60 movies which showed scenes of unprotected sex in the complaint, three of which included gay ‘bareback scenes’ (scenes without the use of condoms).

“…we see it as our duty to pursue action on the issue of safety in the workplace—in these instances, unprotected sex acts taking place in albeit non-traditional workplaces—porn sets located throughout the San Fernando Valley that are churning out billions of dollars of adult fare every day,” said Michael Weinstein, President of AHF.

“This is why we are filing workplace health and safety complaints with Cal/OSHA today: to press for the enforcement of state and local workplace regulatory guidelines which would require the use of condoms in all adult films produced in California.”

US Law states that adult film actors must prove that they have tested negative for HIV and any other STDs within 30 days of going into work on a film. However this does not always happen, and AHF believes that condoms should be mandatory in the porn industry to prevent the misinterpretation of the promotion of unprotected sex, as well as health concerns for the actors and actresses.