To make "mandatory" rules is simply pissing in the wind. The fact is that anybody with a vidcam, a hacked editing suite and some willing participants can shoot, edit and distribute porn. Porn Valley is a location, and there's no rule book that says scenes have to be shot there. If a company chooses not to belong to your governing board, which would be voluntary, who would stop them? If it were state mandated, who would stop them from moving their productions to Nevada or Arizona or Connecticut or North Dakota? The only way your governing body would even begin to work would be for it to federally mandated. Good luck on that one. But let's assume for a sec that the Fed mandates your governing body. What keeps companies from moving to Mexico or Canada or Europe? Not a damn thing.

Let's be honest for a sec. For how many years has the industry skirted the bounds of legality? For all the hype of Vivid's big building and clean cut image, they are the exception not the rule. Most companies are run by and employ young people who really aren't bothered by the rule of law. We're talking about a dirty business that eats people up and spits them out, Nina Hartley aside.

So, Des, I'm curious. Who would run this governing body of yours? Would I be correct to guess it would be a well respected industry elder statesperson? Such as yourself? I ask this because I have to wonder why this has become your cross to bear. I'm not saying this to you in my normal "bash Desi" style. I'm saying it because you're little more than a blip in the history of the industry. Sure, you were the 1st mother- daughter team and all that, but your star shone really only a short time. And frankly, you have a bit of a get rich quick scheme mentality. I just have to wonder if you're simply trying to position yourself for a new career.

I'm sure I'm in the wrong and for a change your moivations are purely altruistic as always.

Barry