In the article, "Adult Film Scare Could Alter Rules", Duke Floored adds an opinion at the end of the piece which I believe is incorrect. First, I'll post the article, and then I'll explain what I disagree with, and why...

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Adult film scare could alter rules
by Duke Floored (send email to Duke Floored)

By Beth Barrett and Gregory J. Wilcox

Dr. Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, said regulations won't drive "the big boys" underground.

"You don't live in fear of what could be driven underground."

Kerndt said officials take the outbreak seriously and see unsafe practices in the adult film industry as posing health dangers to the general population.

"We're concerned about this, because it has the potential, unchecked, to spread rapidly to their partners apart from their industry partners," he said.

Kerndt said a state-county task force has drafted a plan that would make condom use mandatory by forcing production companies to comply with a California Occupational Safety and Health Administration injury and illness prevention plan or face closure.

"We want to bring this industry into the mainstream by putting it under the regulations that currently exist for Cal-OSHA. This would be a model for the rest of the country."

There are about 200 adult film producers -- most of them in the Valley -- and about 75 percent of them have stopped making films, including industry giant Vivid Entertainment LLC in Van Nuys.

No one knows how long the stoppage will last or what its financial impact will be.

"As of now we have stopped making movies, for at least a week, perhaps two, as AIM puts together the list of people who have been affected by the HIV scare," company co-chief executive officer Steven Hirsch said Friday.

"We feel that with condoms and mandatory testing people will be safe on our set."

Duke Floored says: If LA County mandates condom-use in porn, porn production will move out of LA, out of CA, out of the USA if necessary. The demand for bareback sex is unquenchable."
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...Okay, so here's my take on all that.

Mandatory Condom Use in adult entertainment, if made a legal prerequisite by COSHA, would and should, in my opinion, become adopted by a national OSHA committee within seconds of implementation in Los Angeles.

If Condom Use in adult entertainment was mandated nationally, which it would be, would productions then outside the country then thrive?

Yes, they could.

So, what would prevent non-condom, out of country companies or shoots from threatening a Condom Use adult industry in America?

How about Taxes?

Yes, Taxes.

If condom use is made mandatory in American Porn, all we have to do is add teriffs to the price of imported porn made, or shot, in other countries.

We do it with automobiles, so why not tax foreign made porn?

With Mr. Floored's assumption that 'bareback' porn always wins, I also disagree.

See-through condoms don't bother me a bit.

Pop shots onto faces aren't a problem, nor are pop shots on all other areas of the body, as long as a performer doesn't have an open cut.

HIV can't easily get into the human body if there isn't an open cut, or sore.

In the end, all we're really debating is a penis sheethed in see-through latex.

I can live with a penis sheethed in see-through latex, coming off at the last second to pop on the uncut, soreless face of a lovely young girl, possibly fresh out of high school.

The alternative is possibly death.

When you stop and think about it, it's really not a big deal.

You simply levy huge taxes on foreign videos, and foreign shoots that don't use condoms.

OSHA implements mandatory condom use nationwide.

The assumption that no one will buy American Porn anymore with condoms is flawed.

As for production moving out of LA...

...Doesn't Jenna shoot in Scottsdale, Arizona?

...and doesn't she shoot there because it's CHEAPER to live there?

Hell yeah it is.

Try buying a house in LA. GOOD LUCK.

Then try buying one in Scottsdale.

For what you get in LA, you can get a full-on MANSION in Scottsdale.

If you want to keep production from leaving LA, you need to bring down the home prices. Good luck with that. I'm amazed people still shoot at all in LA, considering the cost.

But the real reason porn is still shot in LA is this...

...Porn has flourished in LA for so many decades, and will CONTINUE to flourish there because-

-Girls come to LA to become Stars.

When that plan fails...they need quick money.

Then, they do porn.

That's why porn will never leave LA.

LA Porn feeds on the broken dreams of singers, actresses, junkies, models, and various other 'entertainers'.

And that's why Porn will never leave LA. Never ever.

Not even with mandatory condom use.

As for the foreign porn coming in...

Would a porn buyer pay $60 for a DVD without condoms, made in Mexico, versus a see-through condoms using porn DVD made in LA that costs $24.95?

Most viewers will take the $24.95, and not worry about the see-through condom.

Porn is about the damn girls, anyway...isn't it?

Why in the fuck would a heterosexual guy give a flying fuck about a penis anyway? I know I sure as hell don't care.

Once again, it's time for America to lead the way, and the rest of the world will follow.

When we start using condoms in porn, it will spread to the rest of the world.

Once upon a time, the same Duke Floored arguement was used against the use of seatbelts in automobiles.

I think we know how that turned out.

Can you buy an automobile made in Japan that doesn't have seatbelts in it?

Nope.

Think about it.

Safer cars eventually became a selling point.

Thus, I think Mr. Floored is completely incorrect about this issue.

Just my two cents worth. Take it, or leave it.

The Outsider