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However, based upon some of the chatter I have heard from Sacramento as well as being told by several legislators at the last lobbying day, the state of California is concerned with the health and safety of performers in the industry.



Concerned enough to do something about it? I doubt it.

This is the California legislators' dilemma...if you move to start enforcing labor laws on the porn scene, you've just given a de facto imprimatur to the business of porn, alienating a big chunk of your voting block, unless you happen to be the one California Assemblyman from the Tenderloin. If you do nothing, you're perceived as not addressing the health and welfare of California residents (mostly), and applying labor laws arbitrarily, angering another voting block. Your only other option is to come out (pun intended) against porn, and you've just angered all of the porn producers who pay California income taxes, not to mention the performers who have to do the same.

Basically porn is a no-win issue for a legislator: s/he is fucked with just about every position. Maintaining the uneasy status quo is their best option right now, which means whores and stuntdicks will have to come together (pun intended) and act as a cohesive group to solve their health problems.

Oh, and by the way, that comes with another set of problems. If the performance population demands, and gets, enforcement by OSHA, who's pocket do you think that will come from...mine??? Ha! Porn DVD sales suck already, you think the producers are going to try and stick me with that added cost...get to learn the economic realities of pornographic wage deflation (pun intended again).