Brazzers is shooting in Las Vegas...
 

...which I don't suppose is news to industry insiders. But Brazzers might want to consider a couple things--like shooting porn in Nevada in general and Las Vegas in particular is not legal. And because of that shipping porn girls from CA to NV to shoot scenes might be considered a violation of the federal Mann Act, aka the White Slave Traffic Act (more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act).

They also might want to consider forbidding talent from posting anything on social media about shoots. Several LA companies are already doing this with the threat of cancelling the shoot if this rule is broken. The business (in LA, at least) is halfway to being underground again, though I guess Brazzers didn't get the memo.

This is what I'm referring to: https://twitter.com/Lola_Foxx. Go down her Twitter feed and there are multiple references to "shooting in Las Vegas for Brazzers" and being at Burbank Airport, etc.

Is this a smart thing to do with all the harassment the business is getting at the moment?

read her tweets,she is not a smart one lol

Apparently she has some sort of Palsy when uploading images as well. Saw several that were just well I dont know what they were.

Who died and made you Head Picker on the Booger Patrol?

Does anyone else see the irony of someone posting "Whatever happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas and not be posted on message boards that everyone knows are well monitored by law enforcement"?

Bump for the FBI and great GFY justice.

Mike South????

who gives a fuck if shooting porn in vegas is legal or not?

what is your motivation for the cock block narc thread OP?

Just a Brazzers hater trying to stir up some shit?

Narcop is on the case!

They have been shooting here for MANY years. Probably since the company started in fact.

Seriously? No offense, but why do you give a fuck, like this is "breaking news" or something?

Man Act > Man Win

Here is the real issue.

The Aide Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has hundreds of millions of dollars, is very organized and will stop at nothing to get condoms in porn.

I know this firsthand as they targeted me and as you may be aware I am condoms only for my productions.

Once AHF start turning companies in places like Nevada and Florida for shooting without permits, condoms, insurance etc.. they will be prosecuted by local law enforcement agencies that have no experience with the adult industry. They will also be investigated by Federal OSHA.

I am not saying this a doomsday scenario, but I would not want to be arrested in Florida or Nevada for shooting porn without condoms.

^^^ This. :thumbsup

I am sure a 7 man task force of nevada pd is now on this already. They actively post on this board to seek out crime.

Arrested? For what? For not using condoms? There is no condom laws in those states - just anti-prostitution laws that may cover shooting porn if someone gave a fuck - which they dont.

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"illegal porn" lol Poor guys might get fined or something.

There is a national OSHA law that mandates condom usage. And if you think they that 'don't give a fuck' - please feel free to submit your scenes, location and dates of production to

Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
www.osha.gov 1-800-321-6742

There's a difference between saying something *will* happen and the possibility that it *could* happen. No one can predict the future, not even Porno Dan. You might consider the fact that you were targeted for attention that brought you trouble like many the other producers in California who have gotten targeted in the past by law enforcement and other governmental agencies because you make a lot of noise and stick your head up and practically ask for it. John Stagliano, Max Hardcore, Rob Black, TT Boy, Ira Isaacs and many others have learned that lesson and they all produced porn exclusively or mostly in California, the primary state where it's legal. Unless your movie is considered obscene of course, which could be applied to even the most vanilla sex movie. Historically, California is the state that is by far the most risky to shoot porn, not the least risky.

hmmm, I thought I read that Vegas was abiding by whatever the courts said was legal in CA.

The nature of my business requires me to 'stick up my head', after all I do shoot live on the Dish network eight times a week.

Yes, California has had the most investigations, but then again the vast majority of content produced was shot here.

I personally know Michael Weinstein, the President of the AHF, a I served on sub-committees with executives of his organization trying to come up with compromises to the blood-born pathogens law.

He will not stop coming after those in the adult industry that shoot without condoms. This is not what could happen or what I think the future holds, this is a promise that he has made numerous times in the national media.

I wish you the best of luck shooting down in sunny Florida and sincerely hope that you are never the subject of an investigation.

Porno Dan seems to be predicting that Weinstein will win and that all producers nationwide will be forced to use condoms. He could be right but I'm pretty skeptical of this.

Porno Dan is far more informed than me on these issues and I don't shoot boy/girl so no dog in this fight... but I'm not so convinced this nation will start shooting condom porn just because some guys in LA want to make that the norm.

I don't blame Dan for raising the alarm and putting the fear of arrest into people - if I were shooting condom porn I wouldn't want my competition shooting raw dog either.

Out of curiosity why don't you shoot BG?

I make more money and less hassle shooting solo and building shit.

7 posts huh? Welcome to GFY. Who are you.

What is certain is that Cal-OSHA is about to submit (or already have) new regs that are adult industry specific to Fed-OSHA for approval (as is necessary). If Fed-OSHA approves those adult industry specific regs for Cal-OSHA they are in essence approved for all of the US. Any state that chooses to -- can incorporate those regs into their OSHA laws.

Meaning that if Nevada and Florida or any other state does, they can very easily do what Cal-OSHA is doing in regards to regulating porn and condoms. There will be no need for a vote by the public or an Assembly/Senate Bill. A few members of each state's OSHA Board will just need to vote on and accept the new regs. If they do then condoms can become mandatory in any state. Weinstein wont need to push anyone. It will become the new way to get rid of porn from a state that necessary want it.

Here in Cali, Simi Valley and Ventura County passed similar laws to Measure B once that passed the voters. Not because they had a ton of shoots happening in their town - because they wanted to send a message to the industry to stay away. Weinstein didnt have to pressure them to do it.

And BTW the regs dont just apply to B/G - G/G will need dental dams.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like you and porno Dan are saying 2 different things. Dan seems to think that right now you can be arrested for shooting non-condom porn in any state due to OSHA regs...is this true?

They will have to pry the camera from my DEAD COLD HANDS first. LONG LIVE POV

Agreed... :thumbsup

No Dan and I are saying the same thing. I dont think anyone is going to be arrested in Cali for not using condoms. CalOSHA regs only provide for fines (and barring operation of the company within California) not arrest.

Measure B in LA provided for criminal charges but B isnt being enforced at this time.

Once the new California regs are approved by Fed-OSHA it will make it easy for any other state to adopt those regs and enforce condoms/barrier protection in that state.

For instance, if Nevada and Florida wanted to they could adopt the same regs that California uses and beging enforcement and levy fines against those companies that are shooting in their respective state(s).

I suspect that this will happen. So eventually we will have a national condom law. Its an easy way to regulate porn. Much easier than trying to challenge it on a First Amendment/criminal basis.

The industry can move out of California but thats not a guarantee that at some point condoms will not be required in those states where producers relocate. Its not time to panic but just be aware that just because you're not in Cali, that doesnt mean condoms wont be the law where you are.

And if the idea of moving out of the US is intriguing that might be a tough sell as well.

I am in Budapest for the European Summit and of one of my US based producers is here trying to shoot US male talent with EU girls. He was told by the agent here that his male talent needed 3 months of clean tests to show as well as an HIV test from two different testing facilities in Budapest. And if thats not bad enough one female talent refused to work with any US based male talent because of the recent HIV situation in LA.

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

so you are saying that SOON other states may (or may not) adopt these regs...where as Dan is saying it's illegal NOW across the US

Also Dan used the word "arrested" and you said it's just fines... still confused here

People often say things are illegal when in fact there is no specific statute making them illegal. The vague nature of the obscenity law and the philosophy that a judge "knows it when he sees it" could mean that even some vanilla porn movie could be obscene.

Also I think it's important to point out that one can often ask the same question about a certain law or specific scenario to the top five well known industry attorneys and get five completely different answers.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh - Considering 1 in 4 or 5 in LA have an STD lets practice safe sex and masturbate quietly.

Great points Jim. But I'm still confused by the different stories of PornoDan and Porn Law

Pornlaw - are you saying this statement from PornoDan is false:

"There is a national OSHA law that mandates condom usage."

so you're not worried about the condom gestapo I take it

one thing is for sure... don't fucking jack off in a porn movie theater... just ask pee wee herman :2 cents:

No its not false. The law that regulates condoms/barrier protection in California is California Code of Regulations sec 5193

Linky --> https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5193.html

This law is called Blood Borne Pathogens (and yes it has been approved by FedOSHA already). Most states in the US have adopted a similar law. So in essence there is a national condom law. The difference between California and other states is that CalOSHA has determined that it applies to porn production when it is really written for the healthcare industry.

Other states have not yet taken that position. Could they - yes. Will they - I dont think so since no one has yet. But they could and they could do it tomorrow without notice.

However once the NEW regs specific to adult production are submitted and approved by FedOSHA then I think it will make more sense for states to adopt those regs and be able to enforce them.

Right now, even with CalOSHA it is putting a round peg into a square hole by using 5193 as the basis for their enforcement mechanism. When the new regs talk about condoms, testing, vaginal and anal penetration they will make sense. The industry will be "vertically integrated" into the regs.

However no one that I am aware of has challenged California Code of Regs 5193 in the California courts. Every producer that has been fined for not using condoms has simply paid the fine since it would be less to pay the fine then to litigate the Constitutionality of the regs.

But Dan is correct.

For the record .. it is very legal to film porn here in vegas... I've had a license to do so since 2001...
carry on now

It is ILLEGAL to shoot in Nevada. PERIOD

and VIVID is breaking the law as well by filming the last Axel Braun movie there.
Again, I guess you have to catch them in the act of making the video- but that will happen.

I GUARANTEE IT

California didn?t become the global mecca of porn by coincidence; it?s the result of California vs. Freeman, a 1988 California supreme court case that established a legal distinction between making pornography and criminal activities like pandering.

The ruling has been cited to support similar cases in other states like New Hampshire, but California remains the only state where it is explicitly legal to produce and shoot pornographic movies; though porn is certainly filmed elsewhere in the United States, the legal gray area beyond California has some producers hesitant to cross state lines.

?We could move to Vegas, but there is a chance that they could come after you in the same way back in the ?80s they went after a lot of producers, which is trying to charge them with pandering or prostitution,? said Kevin Moore, a producer and director for top porn studio Evil Angel. ?Whether or not that would happen, I don?t know. ... Obviously porn is shot in other states and it?s never been an issue. But it?s different when you?re doing this and you?re trying to do it in a legitimate sense. That hanging over you is never a good thing.?

KB, don't you work for Manwin?

They aren't the only company shooting in Vegas. It is also my understanding that you don't need a permit to shoot in Vegas if you are shooting on private property. I can't say 100% that this is true, but it is what I always hear around town.

Las Vegas Review-Journal Spotlights WoodRocket.com: http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns...bout-sex-films

By DOUG ELFMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Another porn company has set up shop in Vegas, and this one comes with Generation Y porn icons James Deen and his girlfriend Stoya.

Deen costarred in ?The Canyons? with Lindsay Lohan and has nice things to say about her. He was in ?Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom? and has less-nice things to say about her.

Stoya writes for Vice and sometimes chats on camera with Huffington Post hosts.

Stoya and Deen are not just accepted in the mainstream, but celebrated.

?It?s partially a generational thing,? Stoya says. ?Because of the Internet, combined with the more graphic sexualization of mass culture, people that are say 20 to 30 are just like, ?OK, sex, whatever. I do this and I do that, and sometimes I have sex with people on camera.??

This spring, Deen and Stoya started coming to Vegas to work in a new WoodRocket.com space ? a 10,000-square-foot Mission Control Studio on Industrial Road. It?s a legal, permitted motion picture studio.

Co-owner Lee Roy Myers, who moved to Vegas with his wife in May, gives you a tour and reveals a big black throne designed as if it?s for HBO?s ?Game of Thrones.? Myers (?Simpsons: The XXX Parody,? ?Porks & Recreation?) and his cast made the adult film ?Game of Bones? for release next week.

Myers sits on the throne at my request, and I ask if he?s had backlash from anti-porn people in Vegas.

?No but,? he says, ?we?re not on the street handing out pamphlets.?

WoodRocket isn?t just making porn. It?s making anything but porn. WoodRocket puts out non-porn podcasts and Web videos.

The Web series ?James Deen Loves Food? got national media when he ordered one of everything at a McDonald?s drive-thru but was refused service.

WoodRocket has other Web series such as ?Topless Girls Reading Books? (episodes are not book-length).

?We?ve got a lot of porn stars shooting non-sex things out here,? Myers says. ?There?s a comedy in somebody known for being oversexed doing something non-sexual.?

This week, Stoya filmed upcoming episodes for her November Web series by going gun-shooting at Battlefield Vegas.

?Then we went and played with kittens? on camera, Stoya says.

Filming in Vegas is bountiful. Vegas has less traffic, more entertainment, better restaurants, and filming is cheaper.

?In L.A., you need a permit to film your kids running around the yard,? Myers jokes.

Vegas doesn?t have a mandatory condom law, unlike L.A.?s unenforced Measure B.

?They don?t have the budget to send condom inspectors? to porn sets in L.A., Stoya says.

?Plus, how are you going to tell someone who signed up for a health inspector job that it is now their mission to go look at genitals all day long??

WoodRocket is a new paradigm. It gives away free video content ? porn and Web episodes ? while charging for merchandise and incorporating product placements and selling ads. Myers says WoodRocket is making money month-to-month, though still paying startup costs.

?You have a whole generation who has been raised on: ?Oh, porn?s free,?? Myers says.

?What I think is probably the savior of porn is crowd-funding,? Myers says. ?It shows that people still want to donate money to something they appreciate.?

Other porn is shot here by companies such as Bait & Tackle and the goliath Brazzers. And women run solo Web cams out of their homes. WoodRocket still has crews in L.A. But Myers thinks the people of porn will continue to migrate here.

?I can see it every day.?

Doug Elfman?s column appears on Page 3A in the main section on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. He also writes for Neon on Fridays. Email him at [email protected]. He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman.

But, but, but KB guaranteed it is illegal.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

When you're "license" expires, let me know. I'll be one of the guys billing you for next year's permit. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh