Will California Porn Stars Be Forced To Wear Condoms?

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The porn industry in California could be facing some tough new regulations soon, including mandating the use of condoms for actors.

State regulators voted yesterday to created an advisory board that could impose new restrictions and regulations on the industry.

You can read all the specifics here, but what I really want to know is whether you think forcing condoms on the porn industry is something that should be done?

– Andy

17 thoughts on “Will California Porn Stars Be Forced To Wear Condoms?

  1. safe sex shouldn’t even be a discussion anymore in the porn industry, it should just be mandatory.
    its long overdue

  2. What consenting adults do together (as long as there is FULL disclosure) should be no ones business. What’s next, are they going to force us all to wear pink stars?

  3. Alex is totally right. it shouldn’t be an issue or a discussion. Safe sex should be mandatory in an industry that promotes sex.

  4. The question should be why would one need to be FORCED to wear protection? To each his own but you never know what your partner has engaged in before you. No matter how hot or fit they may look. It’s kinda stupid that such regulations would need to be put in place at all.

  5. In all Honesty I’m all for safe sex. I’m responsible for distributing and informing people that live in my dorm about condoms. However, I feel like this could be looked at as 3 things:
    1. Violation of Private rights. Are they next going to make us wear shoes in our own house and put couch covers on our couches?
    2. Censorship: Its rated X for a reason, and they are being censored of their choices.
    3. A far stretch but still applicable, First Amendment Right. They are making a statement. Committed long term couples probably don’t use couples. Tons of married people don’t wear condoms. If your alive, its cause there wasn’t a condom. Its a type of symbol, of what I don’t know cause I’m always safe, but being in their shoes its taking away something that they have the choice to do.
    ^Opinion^

  6. also andy remember not everything about the porn industry is as happy go lucky as you might think.
    there are very seedy aspects of some of these companies, including drugs, not proper screening of the porn stars.
    also remember something that i think is not focussed on enough is that even if you have HIV or AIDS, if you take your meds and you live a life filled with healthy food and vitamins, you could potentially live for twenty years after the initial result, since there are AIDS sufferers, who have been living for 20 years or more.
    i think sometimes AIDS/HIV education misses, is once you’ve contracted the virus – many people just think – oh its the end we don’t have to be as careful with our health, not SO. in fact as an HIV positive person having unprotected sex just lessons your life expectancy since you can pick up other secondary infections, which your already compromised immune system will have difficulty fighting off, like herpes, infections if the guy has poor hygiene etc etc.
    i actually shudder when i hear things like – oh we are both HIV positive therefore we don’t use condoms. thing is you have a chance at living quite a long time – to put this in perspective – if you contracted a virulent form of prostate cancer – you might only have 5 weeks to live, whereas HIV positive is not necessarily a death sentence, if you start taking care of your health immediately, you have a better chance of living longer, than someone diagnosed with a very active cancer.
    i think manhunt in its manhunt cares section – should review this since it would be nice to see – so you have HIV – now what? And include tips on staying healthy and one of the things that should be focussed on more is the HIV positive community and how to live longer and enhance their current health status.
    since i think many people still have that – oh we have HIV now it doesn’t matter anymore – those people should be more careful with their health – not for the other person’s sake per say – but for their own, they might sleep with someone who doesn’t have HIV unprotected but has a very bad infection due to hygiene issues – this will lessen the HIV positive’s life expectancy – where they could have lived 20 years extra – they are now down to 2.

  7. You can be as unsafe as you want in your private life. Host a bareback gangbang with 30 HIV+ men in your back yard for all I care.
    That being said, pornography is a business. Much like employers are responsible for training their employees in dangerous/hazardous operations, and ensuring that necessary safeguards are in place, I do think the porn industry should be responsible for ensuring that their employees are engaging in safe practices.
    I think porn stars should be able to sue their employers and their co-stars for negligent assault/homicide/whatever when they contract STDs, especially for ones that do not have a cure. Maybe lawsuits like these would finally give the industry a cause to ban unsafe sex practices.
    Of course, I know nothing of the industry, or the history of it, really. Maybe lawsuits like these already occur. I’m just thinking out loud.

  8. tskunt my feelings on the matter are
    1) there are many porn stars currently that are in the industry not by choice (straight and gay porn), they were victims of abuse, or they are on drugs and were lured into the industry by unscrupulous people, so these people need to be protected as do those that are there by choice.
    2) secondly porn is a fact of life now and due the internet, 13 year olds have access to porn so i think the industry does have a responsibility to promote safe sex practises because like or not, unfortunately due to most parents not monitoring their kids, they have access to porn and this is kind of like the silent consideration of viewers who may be underage
    3) as javier said, its an industry that sells sex, therefore people need the safety equipment who are part of it, its analogous to working in a nuclear facility whether you want to or not, you have to wear protective gear and safety helmets to protect yourself from the radiation, it isn’t a choice to say no I don’t want to – you just have to wear it, or else you can’t be part of a nuclear facility or get a job there.

  9. I fundamentally disagree with Government Mandate of personal choice. Be that a business or a private citizen.
    I choose not to partake in unsafe sex, I choose not to do porn and I disagree with many decisions these performers and studios make.
    Though we live in a Country that is very proud to toss around the bragging rights of living in a “free country” or to “let freedom ring”. As I see it, The government has told me I shouldn’t smoke – they’re working to take away that right, I can’t be married, I can’t donate blood, I can’t drive without my seat belt, and so on.
    I feel like the only one who’s daunted by this stream of progress… What will the next 50 years look like, how about 100. If we continue to encourage/allow the government to make these decisions for us. What’s next? Massachusetts already has imposed a “SNACK TAX” on foods that aren’t what the gov. deems “good for you”. I’m seeing a rather daunting future if they continue to inch up control.
    We’re free living human beings, the responsibility is on us to act in our best interest. Maybe condom-free porn will dissolve on its own because we’ve educated the people of this country to be wise enough to make these decisions on their own.
    The people of this nation need to own up to some personal responsibility and those that don’t, while a harsh and unpopular reality… Population Control.

  10. Porn stars choose to be in that business and know what they’re getting into. No one I think forcing them is a violation of rights too. If they’re gonna force them to have safe sex, then why not tell them to quite being rough on each other, especially in straight porn where women are gagged with cock til their eyes water and are choking; they’re slapped around all the time. You seeit in gay porn too, guys rough fucking other guys, making them choke on cock. Is someone gonna pass a law to quit the physical abuse too? I doubt it.
    The actors know what they’re doing, no one is holding a gun to their head making them have unsafe sex and anything else. I don’t want my porn regulated by the government. Porn is first and foremost fantasy for the general public. It is not a standard to set our lives by.

  11. There are specialty companies that make nothing but bareback… there are companies that do both bareback and condom use. One of my personal friends Sean Storm from Cre8tive Juices is a largely condom-free porn. He is a very responsible producer and all his actors get tested before any footage is shot.
    It should be more forced on the companies to enforces std testing before films are made instead of forcing condom use. If you don’t like porn that is condom-free THEN DON’T WATCH IT.
    Take it like this. As Gay people we are always talking about not having peoples religious views or moral views forced on us. Yet we are gonna go an say that OUR morals are the only morals in an industry that profits off of sex? Talk about being Hypocritical.
    Besides I rather it be regular porn industry choice and regulated. Cause all we need is another AIDS epidemic when all the barebacking goes underground video and becomes classified as smut. No testing will happen at all and a large increase in people infected will occur.

  12. I would say that selling sex means selling all types of sex not just one.
    Why should porn companies be the ones to promote safe sex? Is it their fault that abstinance only education fails and that schools fail to teach properly?
    I think that the 13 year old watching porn is not the porn studios fault, but that of the 13 year old. Thats when I started watching porn, and albeit I lost my virginity bareback to my bestfriend (also a virgin) doesn’t mean that he/she will.

  13. This isn’t ‘morals’ or ‘values.’ There is no mandate that all sex must involve the use of a condom. This is about regulating business, which the government absolutely has the right to do in many circumstances. The government has the right to involve itself with any interstate commerce.
    Purely from a business perspective, employers have the responsibility of ensuring their employees’ safety while on the job. Even if there is no law insisting on the use of condoms, the companies producing the pornography should be 100% liable for the safety and health of their actors.
    P.S. Gov’t isn’t taking away your right to smoke, just taking away your right to smoke wherever the hell you please. There are a few states that you CAN marry in. You can give blood, just can’t admit to having sex with men. And I don’t know about your state, but in at least some, only the front passengers in a car need to wear a seat belt because of the propensity of being thrown through the windshield. And NONE of these things comes close to having ANYTHING to do with the gov’t regulation of business.
    Your statement about an AIDS epidemic from underground barebacking ….. that’s a bit of a stretch, no? They’re talking about CALIFORNIA, not the entire country, not the entire world, and they’re talking about PORNOGRAPHY, not sex in your personal life.

  14. This issue gets brought up in CA at least once a year, and each year it gets shot down for two reasons 1) STD transmission in the porn industry is almost non-existent in comparison to the outside world because of the strict internal policing within the industry, 2) The porn industry has made it clear that many large studios will leave CA (and with it millions in tax revenue) if the government tries to regulate it with more rules.
    Porn is about selling fantasies, and porn stars are not forced to engage in BB sex. As long as there is a demand, studios will aim to fill that demand, by whatever means necessary. And being that CA is pretty much at the top of the list of cash strapped states, they will not makes rules that severely impact their bottom line.

  15. Can someone please explain to me why having a little piece of rubber in the shot is such a big deal? I get the appeal of barebacking in person. (I still find it stupid, but I do get it…) But are you really going to lose your boner if you see a little piece of rubber on a guy in your porn? This is silly. Most of the guys I know who bareback routinely are guys around my age (20-25) who didn’t live through the AIDS crisis so they don’t really understand how much of a big deal STDs are. It’s irresponsible to promote unsafe sex to people, especially since porn is really a bit like an introduction to sex for most guys today. Two hot guys fucking with a condom is a much better tool to promote safe sex than any middle or high school sex-ed class. Think about it guys…
    Porn stars are people who typically have multiple multiple multiple sexual partners in short periods of time. Sure, they probably all test clean for HIV, but that doesn’t really mean much since the virus doesn’t show up in your system for 6 months. In those 6 months you’re the most contagious since there are virtually limitless numbers of T cells in your body for the virus to eat. By the time the virus is traceable you’re already exponentially less contagious. So even if you think you’re clean you very well may have HIV. It’s just incredibly stupid to bareback outside of a committed monogamous relationship and it shouldn’t be idealized on film.)
    Censorship blows, but it’s better than 16 year olds getting HIV because it looked hot to bareback in porn… You really have to look at porn as a gay equivalent of sex-ed since parents and teachers probably aren’t going to be teaching their kids all that much about gay sex. End of story.

  16. Yep.
    There shouldn’t even have to be a regulation. Unfortunately, a lot of porn houses (more straight than gay, I think) aren’t using protection. Really, condoms are not the distraction people seem to believe. In fact, it’s more distractin when they’re missing.

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