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Originally Posted by pornlaw
I wonder when did Weinstein change his mind when it comes to porn and condoms. And why did he decide that spending millions on lawyers, lobbyists, TV ads, pollsters, ballot signers was better than treating a few more people infected with HIV. That is exactly what AHF does...
12 years ago he was perfectly fine with not getting involved in the issue... He actually deferred to Mitchell and AIM to handle the issue. See below.
He's now spent tens of millions of dollars trying to impose condoms into porn... two California legislative bills (defeated), a LA County Ballot Measure (approved but dead), a CalOSHA regulation to amend 5193 to include porn (defeated) and now Prop 60...
12 years ago Michael Weinstein could careless about the HIV and porn or condoms for that matter. He attended a California Assembly Subcommittee meeting titled ?Worker Health and Safety in the Adult Film Industry.? This is the actual summary of his testimony from the meeting;
?Mr. Weinstein made the point that there are thousands of HIV infections occurring all over the country and the world and yet the media and Legislature are now focused on the handful of infections that have recently occurred in the porn industry. He also stated that AIM may be best suited to deliver HIV testing and prevention services to the porn community rather than other HIV related organizations like AIDS Healthcare Foundation.?
You can read the full report here - > https://adultbizlaw.files.wordpress....ngreport-1.pdf
Could it be because he saw how much the media would focus on AHF and HIV if they themselves made "condoms in porn" their issue ? |
According to Weinstein and several others I have spoken to it started to be an issue when the porn industry started costing him a lot of money (ie follow the money and you find the motive)
he got tired of having to pay for medical treatment and lifesaving drugs and working to find former porn performers meaningful employment. He got tired of having "our mistakes dropped in his lap" He said we made plenty of money as an industry to take care of these people and that we needed to be more selective about whom we accepted into the biz and figured if we were held responsible for our mistakes we would be....he certainly over estimated the porn industry on that front.
Bu8t lets be honest...can you blame him, if it was your money going to pay for the mistakes of someone else wouldnt that motivate you to hold them more accountable?
He told Mitch a LONG time ago that this was going to have to be stopped, he was actually more than patient...and now we have the chickens coming home to roost.
Let me add that The FSC idea of continuing to fight these losing battles over and over are playing right into his game plan, at some point The FSC and the industry has to look at what it has spent and say ya know, we could just use condoms and end up with a lot more money in our pockets. AHF can and will bankrupt The FSC fighting these battles over and over and the end result is still gonna be that condoms are the law.
Seriously someone in Porn Valley Cali needs to wake the fuck up and say wait a minute....