A #stopAB1576 website and letter-writing campaign against a statewide mandatory condoms-in-porn bill launched on Monday.
The website has no stated backer or “about” page, but an embedded video PSA against the mandatory condoms-in-porn-bill is hosted at a YouTube page of porn studio Kink.com.
AB 1576, sponsored by Assemblymember Isadore Hall III (D-AHF), would require porn actors to wear condoms at all shoots, mandate STD tests, and require porn studios to keep health data on its performers. Locally, Kink.com and other porn studios alleged if the bill passes, they may choose to leave California.
“AB 1576 is opposed by both adult film performers and filmmakers because it puts performers’ health at risk,” AB1576.org states. “It would also effectively force California’s adult film industry out of state and underground, putting thousands of people out of work and costing the state a multi-billion dollar business.”
The subject of Kink.com’s possible move from the historic Armory building in the Mission District is the topic of a story in this week’s Bay Guardian, “Getting the Kink Out, [5/14].” The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (formerly Cal/OSHA) fined Kink.com $78,000 for safety violations related to the alleged HIV infection of two actors on the set of a Kink.com shoot last year. [In truth, no such infection occurred on set, as all of those performers’ scene partners are HIV-negative. — ed]
Porn performers have already taken to Twitter using the #stopAB1576 hashtag to speak out against the bill.
“Shame on you for taking away performer rights, Isadore Hall,” tweeted performer Anikka Albrite.
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