TRPWL’s in-depth report from Nevada is forthcoming, so for now we recommend Tom Hymes’ excellent coverage at AVN.
A statement we received from Kink.com’s Peter Acworth follows, below.
In a press announcement released late Wednesday afternoon, AIDS Healthcare Foundation says that it filed an official complaint last week with Nevada OSHA “against Bay Area adult film production company Cybernet Entertainment LLC, also doing business as Kink Studios, LLC and Kink.com (as well as DBA Hogtied.com and DBA Behindkink.com), over recent filming that may have exposed employees—adult film performers—to infectious disease by exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials.”
Last month, Kink issued its own press release announcing that it had opened production offices in Las Vegas, and that it had wrapped production on two movies shot in Sin City.
Statement by Peter Acworth–
In the past week alone, AHF has been accused of over-billing Los Angeles County $3.5 million, faced protests in the LGBT community, had their lawsuit against the City of San Francisco laughed at and called ‘baseless’, and had their porn campaign rebuked by leading AIDS and HIV prevention organizations. Meanwhile, they’re fighting an ongoing battle against their own workers attempt to unionize. So I can see why they’d want a distraction.
The complaint is baseless. It wasn’t filed by anyone at the actual workplace, but by Michael Weinstein to bolster his current political campaign. Current federal regulations make no mention of condoms, and uses standards that were developed in the 1990s for hospital labs, not porn sets. We will continue to work with performers, doctors and regulators to develop protocols that keep set safe, and still respect performers’ rights.
I believe that Kink should have kept quiet about making movies in Las Vegas. The less that AIDS Healthcare Foundation knows, the better. The x-rated industry should avoid publicizing where they are making movies. AHF may find out things anyway but there is no need to make things easy for them.
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