Porn production moves to Vegas after condom law

[Blue_Tires]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lee Roy Myers has everything you'd expect to find in the nation's porn capital in Southern California: sets of a classroom, hospital room, locker room and a bedroom, as well as a list of porn stars waiting to perform.

But his plywood universe is not in the San Fernando Valley. It's a few paces away from the glittery casinos of the Las Vegas Strip.

"Las Vegas is a fresh town, and it's where people need the business," said Myers, whose new studio is part of a boom in X-rated production in Sin City sparked by a Los Angeles law requiring male actors to wear condoms.

The rule and potential opportunities in Nevada were the talk of the Adult Entertainment Expo this week. The annual sex industry trade show culminates Saturday with an awards ceremony for adult films.

"It's not really an option to change the way we make our movies, and moving production isn't that hard," said porn purveyor Jules Jordan, who hid out behind nearly naked models at the JulesJordanVideo.com booth.

Jordan warned reporters not to ask him about condoms.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/17/porn-production-vegas/4557957/

[KamaAina]

1. Easy solution: more lesbian pr0n

[LittleBlue]

2. Well this was inevitable

Porn is exploding. Worldwide. The more people who get the internet, the more porn expands.

Eastern Europe is big into it now. I've heard the porn industry is growing in other states like Michigan and Florida.

[BainsBane]

3. Right, because porn just isn't the same without STDs

[geek tragedy]

4. corporate employers move due to local health regulations. nt

[quinnox]

5. Yep. Las Vegas seems fitting

It would be tough to get sin city to pass a condom ban too anytime soon, probably.

[dsc]

24. it isn't a condom ban

it is a requirement that the actors use condoms.

[bluestateguy]

6. The overall prevalence of STD's in porn is actually very small

It gets a lot of publicity when someone tests positive for something, but there is overall less STD's to be contracted there than at a typical bar or club on a Friday night.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Not true, actually

they routinely test for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia; herpes? Not at all, and I've seen an estimate (from someone from the Adult Industry Medical Foundation) that at least 50% of porn actors have herpes. So at least one STD is very prevalent.

[Niceguy1]

10. the industries propaganda is very strong

From what I have read the std rate is very high for the basic stds

[Codeine]

12. 25% of the general populace is said to have herpes.

And only 20% of them know about it.

As far as STIs go, it's pretty much a non-event anymore.

[Major Nikon]

17. How valid is their estimate?

AIM only tested for herpes at the actors' request, which means that their data would suffer from selection bias. AIM was also sued out of business for privacy violations.

http://www.aidshealth.org/archives/news/aids-healthcare-sues-aim-over

[booley]

7. I just don't' get why straight porn has this problem

"It's not really an option to change the way we make our movies,….

Uhh why exactly?

I mean I see lots of condoms on guys in gay porn. I know one of the biggest conventions featuring gay porn, International Male Leather, won't' rent to venders who do bare backing videos.

So if the gay porn business can do this and survive, why would the straight porn industry find it impossible?

[jakeXT]

8. Looks like gay porn isn't much into testing

Daily has done some work in gay porn, where testing is not mandatory. However, condom use is much more common on those projects.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiv-positive-porn-actors-call-for-condoms-on-sets/

[NaturalHigh]

11. As predicted.

California is going to lose out on a lot of income after passing this law.

[Le Taz Hot]

13. We'll make up for it

by legalizing pot. It'll happen at some point.

[NaturalHigh]

14. Undoubtedly sooner there than here in Oklahoma.

Our state will be among the very last to legalize pot, even after the feds do. Most of the politicians in this state still think Reefer Madness is a documentary.

[MattBaggins]

15. Hopefully condom use in porn will be a national regulation

[CFLDem]

16. That'll work!

Cause it's not like porn could move to Mexico.

[KittyWampus]

21. So we should have no labor laws here because jobs will move to China, right?

[redqueen]

22. *crickets*

Of course.

[CFLDem]

25. Nice strawman

But Autumn's been over for a few months.

[hunter]

18. In the future all "professional" porn will be performed in full motion capture body suits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture (The photo has nothing to do with porn, I've only posted it to illustrate motion capture suits.)

Costumes, bare skin, and "naughty" bits will be added later in digital post production.

There will be women playing the parts of men, men playing the parts of women, and everyone playing the parts of gods, goddesses, comic book characters, aliens, animals... whatever the script calls for.

"Real" porn will be made by exhibitionists and posted on the internet for free, or made by sex workers advertising their trade.

Hmmmmm...... it's pretty close to that already. That probably explains this move to Las Vegas more than anything, not condom laws. Lot's of inexpensive, even abandoned housing, easily rented for sets and production, and an active sex trade.

The most rotten thing about the porn business is the dirty dealers, those recruiting young men, women, and children from environments of extreme poverty, drug addiction, and abusive families, or the nasty human beings who post "revenge" porn and other photos and videos taken without the participant's fully informed and sober consent. That's just rape.

[flamingdem]

19. I voted against the condom law because

it is not the kind of thing to bring to a vote and because it would damage the fragile film industry further in LA. However, they really do belong in Vegas, not in neighborhoods with families.

[enlightenment]

26. Never been to Las Vegas, I take it. nt

[KittyWampus]

20. Like jobs moved to "Right To Work" states.

[redqueen]

23. +1

Only on that issue, most dems' analysis of such moves overwhelmingly aligns with progressive values.

On this one, not so much.

[Vashta Nerada]

27. I like the idea of adults getting to choose whether or not they want to wear condoms.

We don't need laws telling us we have to.

[Major Nikon]

28. Personal protective equipment is required in a number of different situations

I see no reason why porn should be exempt, however it should be under the umbrella of requiring a safe working environment. If there is an alternative to condoms that is effective in keeping workers safe, then it should be allowed. If the incident rate of STDs in porn is lower than the general population (and I don't know if it is or isn't), then the requirement for them seems more like a political solution in search of a problem rather than a workers' safety solution.

[Vashta Nerada]

29. I don't do strawmen.

[Major Nikon]

30. I wasn't contradicting you

So it's pretty hard to see where the strawman comes in.

[Prophet 451]

31. The industry urgently needs some proper regulation

Off the top of my head:
- Rubbers anytime a penis is involved.
- Rewriting the pay scale (pretty much everyone is underpaid).
- Mandatory monthly testing for all STIs.