Porn Companies Get Called Out For Condom Blacklist

Advocacy group AIDS Healthcare Foundation has filed workplace health and safety complaints with Cal-OSHA (California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health) against 16 adult entertainment companies. They contend that making porn without condoms amounts to unsafe working conditions for performers. And they’re right. From the LA Times:

The complaints will mark the latest move by the Los Angeles-based advocacy group to pressure the porn industry and government regulators to do more to safeguard the health of adult-film performers.

The foundation sued Los Angeles County last month alleging that public health officials had failed to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and to enforce laws requiring employers to protect workers against exposure to bodily fluids. The suit was filed after the disclosure that an adult-film performer had tested positive for HIV.

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Former adult film performer Shelly Lubben, founder of the Pink Cross Foundation, said she contracted herpes and became infected with the human papillomavirus, or HPV, while working in the industry and had to have half of her cervix removed.

“We want the fans to know what they’re contributing to,” she said. “They’re demanding harder and grosser porn. We want to educate them to exactly what they’re watching — diseased people… It’s illegal for bodily fluids to touch skin, and yet it happens every single day in the porn industry.”

And we thought journalists were getting screwed.

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