Condoms on June 2012 Ballot? Porn Initiative Inches Closer
The June 2012 ballot may ask Los Angeles voters to determine the fate of safe sex in the local porn industry. A concisely named porn initiative - City of Los Angeles Safer Sex In The Adult Film Industry Act - mandating condoms for actors launched in August 2011 and is a month ahead of its December 23 signature deadline.
A total of 41,138 signatures are needed to qualify the initiative for the ballot; the coalition has collected more than 64,000 signatures. Overachievers!
Ged Kenslea, a spokesman for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), says that while state law requires film actors to wrap it up during sex scenes, it is not enforced. The measure would connect the issuance of adult film permits by the City of Los Angeles to condom use in adult films shot and produced in L.A. It would also require fee collection from adult film permit recipients to allow periodic inspections of sets to monitor compliance.
AHF and former adult performers, including two infected with HIV while working in the porn industry, have been advocating the measure.
Kenslea told L.A. Now, "The feedback we’ve gotten is that this proposition has been well-received in all areas of the city."
For Adult Industry Responsibility (FAIR), the coalition spearheading the rubber mission, will hold a press conference today.
The signature success announcement comes on the eve of World Aids Day on December 1.
