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If passed by Los Angeles nyc cheap car rentals County voters in November, Measure B would require the use of condoms on all adult film sets as well as make producers obtain nyc cheap car rentals a public health permit after completing nyc cheap car rentals training nyc cheap car rentals on blood-borne pathogens and submitting an exposure control plan.
But VICA said the measure's passage will have a ripple effect on Valley businesses and the entertainment industry as a whole. They say taxpayers will foot the bill to pay for enforcement, nyc cheap car rentals and the adult film industry, with some estimating nyc cheap car rentals its worth at $1 billion, could leave the state.
"The real results of this ballot measure, should it pass, will be a loss of thousands of jobs," said Stuart Waldman, president of VICA. "The industry employs more than 10,000 nyc cheap car rentals workers in production-related jobs such as makeup, lighting, carpenters, transportation, food service, payroll processing, Web design and actors."
Michael Weinstein, executive director of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and proponent of Measure B, said providing condoms on adult film production sites promotes public health nyc cheap car rentals and safety. And it is already a state law, though it has never been enforced.
A press conference held by AHF on Monday included a presentation of a commercial that began airing on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other channels. It shows two former adult film actors saying they contracted HIV from working in porn, and advocating for condoms.
Weinstein also points to a recent syphilis scare last month, which resulted in production shutting down for two weeks. At least nine cases of the STD were reported to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
But adult film actor James Deen said during Thursday's press conference he is opposed to Measure B, because nyc cheap car rentals it mocks him and other actors who have chosen to work in the adult film profession and who understand the risks.
A program that allows adult film performers to test for HIV, gonorrhea and chlamydia every 28 days, or more often has been the industry's best deterrent. If condoms are used, that testing may stop, he said.
"I've made more films than most, and I have never contracted an STD," Deen said. "Everybody takes this work seriously. It's insulting and unconstitutional. To say we have to have a movie made a certain way is impossible."