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Because there are many ways I'm sure they can come up with to make movies as good as they are today without Cal/OSHA sending out fines


Not if CAL/OSHA doesn't want them to.

OSHA agencies do a great job of driving up costs and putting companies out of business even when they don't have that as a goal. OSHA-style regulations and paperwork is the best way to smother porn companies once it dawns on the Radical Right that while courts might reject outright banning porn, maybe embrace and smother might be allowed.

This is what NAFTA was about. Most companies didn't move for cheaper paychecks - those with high enough labor/transform cost ratios had already gone overseas - but rather to escape worker's comp and OSHA regulations on employees.

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Besides, good luck finding as many whores in other states compared to what you have in CA. You'll never have as much as you have here... and you know companies are always hungry for more. I don't think any other state can keep up.


Other states don't need to keep up: the girls already go where the work is.

Sineplex uses very few American girls or scenes in their releases. After a few rounds of CAL/OSHA paperwork and additional regs, worker's comp, insurance requirements, etc, I expect a lot of companies to look a lot more like Sineplex.

The main difference in my view is that I see the current fines as no more than an effort to set precedent that performers can be treated as ordinary employees. The rules are light to help survive a court challenge on that point. Once the precedent is in place then the rules they really want will be unveiled. Releasing the full set of regs up front might unite porn companies to fund a lawsuit and influence courts.

The other view is everyone seems to assume a reasonably benign OSHA that will issue what they think are good rules but that's it. I'm wondering what happens when anti-porn people are appointed to head CAL/OSHA, people actually want to shut down porn companies. They do exist, and they will try to get that job.
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