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• HAS EVERYONE LOST THEIR MIND? I will tell you what's coming next - I just read that Michael Weinstein has just gotten himself a WHOLE Los Angeles City Health Dept. now. Guess what that means? It means he can enter into any private property, car, business, etc., with an officer in two based on fears of "public safety" without a warrant. I know because that's how they got access to the bath houses, sex clubs, massage parlors, and other sex related businesses without a warrant in the 1980's when we had the HIV witch hunts back then. My God won't anyone listen to HISTORY? Where are the lawyers? Does anyone know where we can get some research into "regular" movie sets and HIV rates or disease? How do we know that HIV (which the study wasn't even about HIV - but common STD's), is higher or lower on porn sets that "regular" movie sets? I have a friend, Frances Nuyen, who was the directory of the academy for 20 years who wants to lend a voice to this. I honestly think the only way we're going to get mainstream media attention to this insanity is to ask our porn ladies there to consider doing a "top off" in front of city hall or something. Talk to me ladies - I was good at this in the 80's when this happened before.

  • Actually, Jody, he hasn't. The ordinance that will come to the LA voters this November originally would have broken off the city of LA from the county....but now it has been revised to only call for a committee to study the possiblility of breaking LA off. Weinstein is scummy, but he isn't all powerful.

• And it's what I thought - http://www.csatf.org/pdf/24BLOODBORNE.pdf This has not been revised since 2000! I see NOTHING on here about the filming of sex scenes in movies and let me tell you I've seen some "regular" movies that make the porn industry movies look "tame"!

  • @Jody

    The document you refer to was posted prior to Cal/OSHA devoting a page to adult film workers in 2004 as well as the ongoing process begun in 2009 to revise policy in the document linked. Between 2009 & 2013 the porn industry was actively involved in the process used to create a draft OPIM policy directly related to adult filming and will likely participate in the public comment/input process which is next stage of policy development for OSHA.

    With your experience it might be worthwhile to download the OPIM draft for informed participation in the ongoing policy development process.

    Gloves for food workers is a consumer protection vs having any intent to protect workers from hazards of food borne pathogens they might encounter in the workplace.

    • None of what you've written changes the fact that the regs in place today were written for medical clinic and mortuaries and bear no relation to the reality of adult production.

      "Between 2009 & 2013 the porn industry was actively involved in the process used to create a draft OPIM policy directly related to adult filming and will likely participate in the public comment/input process which is next stage of policy development for OSHA."

      LOL Cal/OSHA has disregarded all input that is not based on condoms condoms condoms. Despite the lies propagated on other sites, Cal/OSHA NEVER EVER at any time considered regs that had any basis in the reality of porn sets, and NEVER considered regs not built around condoms.

      "Gloves for food workers is a consumer protection vs having any intent to protect workers from hazards of food borne pathogens they might encounter in the workplace."

      LOL all the more reason to reject the mandatory condom regs….

      You sidestep the points that 1) the AHF-driven campaign for condoms is based on "public health" claims, even though the public never gets exposed to STIs on porn sets; and 2) the workers do not want this "protection" -- instead, they want their bodily autonomy and human rights --- as well as their jobs; and 3) the basis for the rejection of gloves was, in part, complaints by those who'd be forced to use them that it would restrict the way they do things (and generate unnecessary waste of disposable gloves).

      If protecting the unsuspecting public at large isn't important enough to force barriers in a way that infringes on the way an industry does things, then how can the "protection" of individuals in adult films who have assumed the risk of STIs possibly meet that standard?

    • Also, Lurking....the porn industry was and is no more "actively involved" in promulgating the proposed CalOSHA regulations on "barrier protections" and adult filming than sex worker activists were "actively involved" in the passage of the antisexwork initiative Prop 35. This was clearly a collusion between CalOSHA, UCLA, LACDPH, and AHF in deliberately crafting the adult regs to fit AHF's goal of mandating condoms and other "barrier protection" and targeting specific acts as beyond the pale.

      I have posted an analysis of the draft OPIM at BPPA; it not only mandates "barrier protection" such as condoms and dental dams (as well as possibly even gloves and goggles for face protection); it also specifically bans certain acts for potential contact with "bodily fluids" that could "potentially" spread infection. Meaning, no facials; no pop shots to the face or the vaginal or anal area, and no vaginal or anal internal ejaculation. There was talk of an exception for oral sex, pending performers take a Hepatitis vaccine and be cleared by an approved doctor...but AFAIK, the draft OPIM contains no exemptions for oral sex.

      Obviously, that could change with the progression of the process...but given CalOSHA's history and their alliance with AHF, I can't see them deviating from their campaign.

      • Seems you weren't present and haven't read over five years of OSHA minutes that reflect the industries choice of temper tantrums vs presenting meaningful dialogue and verifiable data for the entire talent pool to justify alternatives or less stringent regs than proposed.

        • Seems you are incorrect. Again. This is more of the same propaganda -- OSHA just wanted to help and the adult business f'd it up. Blah blah blah…

          I have attended Cal/OSHA hearings and Cal/OSHA trials. And adult biz people who have worked with Cal/OSHA on the new regs agree with me unanimously that Cal/OSHA NEVER put condoms on the table. Sorry, you don't get to come over here and lie without getting called on it.

          It is also odd for a "homemaker" in Ohio to be so knowledgeable about this subject, when you claimed to have wandered over here last year to ask about getting an STI test for yourself. LOL

          BTW, does South know you're cheating on him, coming over here to visit us? LMFAO