Two porn companies fined for unprotected sex on set
 

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(09-17) 01:37 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

State officials have taken unprecedented regulatory action against the porn industry, fining two adult film companies more than $30,000 each for allegedly allowing actors to perform unprotected sex.

The citations against Evasive Angles and TTB Productions, which share the same address in the San Fernando Valley, come after an HIV outbreak earlier this year involving four actors and forcing a temporary shutdown of adult film production in Southern California.

The state Division of Occupational Health and Safety said after the outbreak that it would begin investigating the industry to determine whether it complied with state health and worker safety laws.

The companies received citations for violating the state's blood borne pathogen standard, a regulation that requires employers to protect workers exposed to blood or bodily fluids on the job. The companies have 15 days to appeal the eight citations.

"What this means is that any employer whose workers are exposed to any potentially infectious material, such as semen or vaginal fluids, must follow state regulations covering workplaces," said Susan Gard, a spokeswoman for Cal-OSHA, which issued the sanctions Wednesday. "Any bodily fluid is considered infectious. That means barrier equipment must be used."

Officials at Evasive Angles and TTB Productions could not be reached for comment early Friday.

The citations also accuse the companies of failing to notify authorities about actors who contracted HIV on the job, as the law requires. The producers also failed to have a written injury prevention program and report a workplace accident to state officials within eight hours, as required by state law, agency officials said.

The citations were the culmination of a months-long investigation of a complaint filed by a porn industry worker whom the agency declined to identify, citing confidentiality.

Health officials have been urging adult film producers to require that all actors practice safe sex during filming, including wearing condoms. It is a widely held belief among producers that showing condom use in their films would hurt profits because the customers do not want to see safe sex.

The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, a nonprofit group that conducts sexually transmitted disease testing for the porn industry, said only about 17 percent of actors use condoms on a regular basis.

just good

good

protected sex sucks. I'm stricktly against condom use.

Why? Are Finnish condoms still made from reindeer intestine?

:eek2

what?
I don't produce porn.
I never use one, nor do I like to look at them in porn. Do I rot in hell now?

Holy shit!!! That is some hard core law makin'....

:Graucho

Humm.....
So now the state recognizes the porn actors as employees in spite of the fact that everytime they sign a release the declare themselves independent contractors??
If this is the case then that measn they should also be entitles to unemployment, workmens comp, and the other benefits that other "employees" are entitles to.

I have not heard about that change yet.....
this is a CYA move by the State of California.

Just like they have failed numerous times to enact any law mandating condom use, these fines will fail to stick.
The only thing that porn companies have more of then tapes and money is lawyers, and very god lawyers at that.
Not one production company that I know of has been notified of anything by the Division of Occupational Health and Safety.
We have not, and we have been registerd with the state since we opened for business.

ROFL OMG!! HAHAHA :1orglaugh

Me neither...

If the condom only law didn't pass yet, was the fine for them not posting health risk warnings on the job site?