Joining in support are groups including the American Sexual Health Association, California Academy of Preventive Medicine and the California State Association of Occupational Health Nurses. The foundation says it’s saving an exploited workforce that’s pressured into dangerous sex in the name of profit. Leading the Proposition 60 charge is the deep-pocketed and respected AIDS Healthcare Foundation and its controversial leader, Michael Weinstein.
By mid-September, they had raised $315,485, while the Proposition 60 campaign has raised $1.98 million, more than six times that amount. Opponents, however, have had a hard time raising funds. “It’s not hard to shoot somewhere else - they’ll just get an Airbnb in Oxnard.”
“A lot, maybe half, moved out of the county,” said Mike Stabile of the Free Speech Coalition, a porn industry advocacy group. According to FilmL.A., which tracks data related to the industry, adult film permits in the county approached 500 in 2012 but plummeted to just 26 last year. The Los Angeles County condom law - spearheaded by the same group backing Proposition 60 - has not been enforced, but delivered results nonetheless. “We’re selling entertainment, and it’s not entertaining for people to see a sex scene shot with rules and restrictions that make it less exciting,” said John Stagliano, a longtime Los Angeles-based producer and distributor of pornography. in San Francisco is one of many California porn production houses that would be affected if voters pass Prop 60, which would require porn stars to wear condoms while filming. 21, 2016 at headquarters in San Francisco. Porn film director Sebastian Keys talks with an actor and film crew members on Sept. That could cost taxpayers “several million dollars per year” in tax revenue, according to the legislative analyst. Producers and performers say it’s a needless bureaucratic intrusion on freedom that will simply chase business out of the state, much like Los Angeles County’s 4-year-old law prompted filmmakers to flee to neighboring suburbs. Also opposed are the Free Speech Coalition, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and LGBT-rights groups such as Equality California and the Transgender Law Center.Ĭritics argue the proposition is poorly drafted and would allow anyone to sue adult film performers and on-set crew members, threatening individual privacy and safety. The initiative has garnered unusual bipartisan opposition from the state’s Republican and Democratic parties, as well as Libertarians and the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee. It’s a good idea.”īut Proposition 60 has drawn considerable opposition, and not just from California’s multibillion-dollar porn industry that spawned such adult classics as the Mitchell brothers’ 1972 “Behind the Green Door,” set and filmed in San Francisco. “I always thought, ‘They’re having sex with a dozen people a day, why aren’t they using condoms?’” said Andrea Battles, a clerk at the L’Amour Shoppe in Santa Clara. Watch: Will the porn industry change in California?
According to a recent Los Angeles Times poll, 55 percent of voters would vote yes, which is similar to the 57 percent who passed a similar Los Angeles County condom law in 2012. Surveys suggest public sympathy for Proposition 60’s condom requirement. 8, California voters will decide whether to make the state famous for its film industry the first to force protective prophylactics on X-rated actors. Var _ndnq = _ndnq || _ndnq.push() Ĭall it a condom conundrum.