TEMPE, AZ – Could California’s billion dollar porn industry be headed to the Valley?

One adult film star says it’s a possibility.

Taryn Thomas tells ABC15 Arizona could see an increase in adult films being made here because of a new regulation in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles City Council recently passed an ordinance requiring condom use on porn sets.

Filming pornography is actually legal in California but that’s not the case in Arizona, here it’s considered pandering.

But Thomas tells ABC15 pornography is shot in Arizona anyway.

In fact, Thomas says the Valley is a breeding ground for adult film stars like her.

Thomas says with porn being a multi-billion dollar industry, Arizona should be happy to have it.

“Ultimately it’s going to bring revenue if it does come here,” said Thomas. “Arizona should be thankful and begging us to come here because our state is in such a budget deficit.”

But Shelley Lubben, President of the Pink Cross Foundation, believes talk of the porn industry moving to Arizona is simply a bluff to get the ordinance changed.

If the industry does move to Arizona, Lubben says Arizona will be worse off for it.

“You don’t want this in Arizona because they’re bringing prostitution,” said Lubben. “They’re bringing illegal drugs. They’re having unprotected sex so those sexually transmitted diseases go into the general public. You don’t want this.”

Thomas says porn producers may use this weekend’s Arizona Pornstar Ball being held in Tempe to scout out the Valley.

Being billed as Arizona’s first adult convention, the Arizona Pornstar Ball will take place Saturday and Sunday at 910 Live near McClintock Drive and McKellips Street.

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