The AIDS Healthcare Foundation was one of the primary backers of recent legislation requiring porn stars to wear condoms in adult films. But the L.A.-based organization has now announced that they aren't interested in being responsible for monitoring film sets to ensure compliance. more ›

Simi Valley recently passed a law requiring porn performers to wear condoms, which was widely perceived as a way to keep out condomless productions fleeing from Los Angeles. But tucked into that law was a provision requiring adult videos producers to submit unedited copies of their films to the local police department for review. more ›

You might have seen the billboard sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation around town: it features a ginormous inflated condom with the tagline "Why Not?" A mother of three in the Valley had her own answer to that question: she just didn't want to have to explain the billboard to her curious children. more ›

He's a hustler, baby. And he just wants you to know - his empire is brimming with condoms. Larry Flynt, porn mogul and publisher of Hustler Magazine, and Hustler Hollywood have donated 50,000 condoms to AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA). more ›

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) announced over the weekend that it's gathered more than half of the signatures it needs to get a measure on the November 2012 ballot requiring L.A. County porn performers to use condoms. Mayor Villaraigosa signed a law requiring porn performers to use condoms in films shot in the city earlier this year, hence to move to require them for the county as well. more ›

A new program run by TeenSource.org and the California Department of Public Health’s STD Control Branch does the unthinkable -- it makes condoms accessible to teenagers. (!!!) The program, appropriately entitled the Condom Access Project (CAP), gives kids a list of places close to where they live or go to school that provide condoms free of charge. more ›

On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed into law a controversial measure that makes the issuing of permits for adult film productions linked to the production company's compliance with mandatory use of condoms by their performers. So what's next? more ›

L.A. City Council's nearly unanimous vote granting final approval to the condoms in porn ordinance is supported by some members of the multibillion dollar porn industry. Those in opposition, however, may pack up set and head elsewhere. more ›

Tuesday's news of Los Angeles City Council's passage of the proposed condoms in porn ordinance has sparked much controversy in the pornography community, and one porn industry lobbying group has its fists raised and ready for battle. more ›

Los Angeles has become the first city in the nation requiring adult film actors to use condoms while on set. City Council voted 9-1 favoring the proposed ordinance today. In addition to requiring adult film actors to practice safe sex, the ordinance will also force production companies to pay a film permit fee. The fee will pay for inspections enforced by the city. more ›

In a preliminary vote taken today, the Los Angeles City Council has voted 11-1 in favor of an ordinance put forth that would require actors in adult films wear condoms. Adherence to the ordinance would be a condition of film companies receiving filming permits. more ›

Should adult performers be made to wear condoms in their films? The decision is going to be in your hands come June, after a signature-gathering effort secured the initiative a spot on the June ballot. more ›

The L.A. City Attorney's office apparently does not want voters determining the fate of safe sex in the local porn industry. City attorneys filed suit against AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) in L.A. County Superior Court on Thursday. more ›

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. more ›

CAL/OSHA is trying to crack down on the porn industry when it comes to the exchange of bodily fluids (you know...typical workplace concerns) and porn performers voiced their anger over the proposed regulations at a meeting yesterday, reports the Daily News. Officials from CAL/OSHA tossed around ideas including requiring performers to wear goggles while performing oral sex, and using dental dams during cunnilingus. And while goggles may have their place, they aren't necessarily mainstream turn-ons. more ›

Larry Flynt of Hustler has always been a popular target for protesters, and that hasn't changed in recent years no matter how supposedly mainstream porn is becoming. At tonight's XBIZ Adult Film Awards at the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset, activists who want to see condoms used in porn films will rally against Flynt and Steve Hirsch, the co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment. more ›

Local motels may soon see film crews renting rooms by the hour, after a unanimous LA City Council vote on Friday instructed the City Attorney to look into requiring porn actors to wear condoms in order for porn companies to obtain a filming permit. more ›

It's been a crazy week (and then some) for California's other film industry, as they've experienced yet another HIV outbreak among adult film actors. As is usual for this sort of thing, the latest death sentence inflicted on multiple porn actors has led to a quarantine of potentially affected people, calls for shoot cancellations, and now a reinvigorated campaign to mandate condom usage for adult film actors. Yet, stunningly, it's not intermittent quarantines and interrupted shoots, but the call to mandate safe sex practices, that has the porn industry pitching the biggest hissy fit of all. more ›

The movement to strengthen regulations in the adult entertainment industry will go forward today as California’s of Department Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) convenes its first meeting of an Advisory Panel. more ›

No matter how much you bare and share while performing in an adult film, you are still entitled to you doctor-patient privilege. more ›

KFI AM 640 has a video from a Spanish TV crew showing tons of used condoms off hiking trails in Elysian Park near Little League fields. The radio station says this is a hot spot for males to have anonymous sex. "Maybe shining a light on this, hopefully, discouraging males who would come up and do this type of activity," LAPD Captain Bill Murphy said. "We'll get that word out there." 90 arrests have been already made this year. more ›

Nothing says lovin' like the best chefs in Los Angeles teaming up with some of the most reliable providers of reproductive health care, and it's all coming to Santa Monica this Thursday as Planned Parenthood presents Food Fare, its annual fundraiser. more ›

When it comes to condom use in the local porn business, Los Angeles County officials are opting to keep their hands to themselves. more ›

Sex in jail is illegal, but if it's going to happen, it had better be safe. At least that's the wisdom behind the eight-year-old program that "makes condoms available once a week to 300 inmates within the segregated unit" at the Men's Central Jail in Downtown Los Angeles, explains the Daily News. more ›

The porn industry's self regulation, albeit a good step, but never to the satisfaction of health officials, has been for the most part under the radar until cases like the one happening this week. Yesterday morning it was reported that one case of HIV was within the industry. Then in the afternoon, reports surfaced that there has been at least 16 since 2004, when the last reported group of performers tested positive for HIV. more ›

After all you've learned about sex this week here at LAist, it would be such a shame if you forgot a condom at the last minute. more ›

Nothing like a fresh breath of uptight air to balance out our state's rep as being full of left-wing nutjobs: Shoppers in Mission Viejo are lodging complaints with The Shops, a mall that includes the A/X Armani Exchange store. They're upset about the store's current window display, a giant red heart behind these words: "Give Love Get Love" and "Practice Safe Love Armani Exchange supports National AIDS Fund." What's wrong with that? Oh, wait--if we mention AIDS we must be talking about sex, right? Yes, kids, that heart is "made of hundreds of red, packaged condoms," explains the OC Register. It's not clear what the specific nature of the complaints are, just that they began last week, and have been shared between mall management and the store, who are not violating mall policy and may opt to keep the display up if they wish. more ›