If the water runs out, so be it, but at least California’s porn stars will be wearing condoms!
Via LA Times:
In addition to requiring actors to wear condoms when performing sex acts on camera, the initiative would require adult film producers to pay for vaccinations and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Producers would have to get a state health license and post written notices on the set spelling out the condom requirement.
Violations could result in fines of up to $70,000.
The industry plans to campaign against the initiative, arguing that there are already testing programs for HIV, said Diane Duke, chief executive of the Free Speech Coalition, a Canoga Park-based trade association for the adult film industry.
“If the proposed initiative were to pass, adult performers would immediately be targeted by stalkers and profiteers, who would use the initiatives’ sue-a-performer provision to harass and extort adult performers,” Duke said. “This is an unconscionable initiative that would take a legal and safe industry and push its performers into the shadows.”
The current industry program tests actors every 14 days for HIV. Duke said there has not been an on-set transmission of HIV in the regulated adult film industry since 2004.