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Mandatory Condoms for Adult Videos Stars?
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is on a mission to force the Adult Videos industry to make actors wear condoms with a new bill it wants residents to vote on in Los Angeles.
Because LA is the Adult Videos industry hub, AHF has been gathering signatures from residents to get legislation on a voting ballot that would “formally condition the issuance of adult film permits by the City of Los Angeles to condom use in adult films shot and produced in Los Angeles, including collection of a fee from adult film permit recipients to allow for periodic inspections of sets in order to monitor for compliance,” according to a statement. So far 64,000 signatures have been gathered, ahead of the organization’s Dec. 23 deadline.
Mark McGrath, a health consultant working with AHF, said 3,400 cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea infections have been documented in the Adult Videos industry between 2004 and 2008 by the L.A. County Department of Health, and in August an unnamed Adult Videos star tested positive for HIV. Still, the industry has responded with a warning that business could move out of LA or go underground if stars have to wear condoms. It also mantains that the public would not support prophylactic-only Adult Videos.
What’s your take on this? Should Adult Videos stars be forced to wear condoms for their own sexual safety? Do you prefer condom-less Adult Videos flicks?
Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.
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Adult Videos a Poverty Exit Strategy in Africa
(The Root) — I have been dreaming of becoming a Adult Videos actor since a very young age. I live in the Ivory Coast and I am looking for a producer or a director to sign a contract and to be in a movie … I am relying on you to make my dream come true. This is the advertisement that André (not his real name), a 21-year-old, posted on the Internet with his email address and cell phone numbers. This computer science student in Grand-Bassam — a town some 25 miles from Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast — is not unusual in Africa. Hundreds of young men and women in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and elsewhere are all trying to join the pornographic-film industry in Africa or abroad.
The world pornography market (adult video networks, pay-per-view movies on cable and satellite, websites, in-room hotel movies, phone sex, sex toys, magazines and DVDs) is estimated to be tens of billions of dollars, according to Dan Miller, managing editor of XBIZ Premiere, a trade publication for the adult entertainment industry. Warning that exact numbers are difficult to acquire because the vast majority of companies in the sector are privately owned, Miller says, “America’s market is by far the largest in the world in terms of scope and revenue. It far exceeds the market in Europe. Based on the information we have, I would estimate the market in the U.S. to be in the neighborhood of $7 billion.”
