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City Wants Medical Professional to Inspect Porn Sets for Condoms
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When the city of L.A. began talking about requiring porn actors to wear condoms on set, the adult industry heaved a collective moan (ha), understanding how difficult that kind of regulation would be to enforce. And sure enough, even though City Council passed exactly such legislation in January, officials have had a hard time figuring out who, exactly, will be tasked with trotting on over to porn sets and inspect the penises therein to ensure that they are latex-clad.
But now, a city working group has released a report with some recommendations as to how to go about this Herculean task, and one suggestion is that Los Angeles hire a medical professional whose sole job would be to enforce condom use via periodic inspections.
The group additionally suggested that if the same regulation passes county-wide with voters in November, it should be entirely the job of the County's Public Health department to enforce it.
Looks like the job of keeping L.A.'s porn sets in condoms is going to be just as hard as porn professionals said it would be a difficult task.
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