California Porn Company Fined $78K for Workplace Safety

[Redfairen]

Source: Associated Press

A San Francisco porn company has been hit with a fine of nearly $80,000 for maintaining dangerous workplace conditions, among them allowing performers to have sex on camera without using condoms.

Kink.com spokesman Michael Stabile says many performers prefer not to use condoms and that the fine is part of a long-running campaign by those who oppose the porn industry.

The inspection was prompted by a formal complaint filed by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles advocacy group, after two Kink performers — Cameron Bay and her then-boyfiend Rod Daily — tested HIV-positive last year.

Last September, California lawmakers voted down a bill that would have required that porn actors use condoms.



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2014/01/31/3301445/ca-porn-company-fined-78k-for.html

[Trillo]

1. It is curious that they can be fined for (breaking a law?) (or something)

conditions that includes a law that didn't pass the legislature.

[jakeXT]

8. It looks like they are enforcing something else

Last September, California lawmakers voted down a bill that would have required porn actors to use condoms during filming, but CalOSHA rules require companies to minimize employees' exposure to blood and other potentially infectious bodily fluids.

[Jesus Malverde]

13. Porn company fined $78,000, accused of workplace safety violations

The OSHA citations issued Thursday named a range of violations, including improper use of extension cords, and failure to have on-site first aid materials approved by a physician. But the bulk of the fines -- $50,000 -- related to allegations that the company failed to protect workers from blood-borne pathogens.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porn-studio-citations-20140131,0,4614083.story

When I was there what impressed me the most was there are places that buy lube by the barrel.

[jakeXT]

14. 1 star reviews from amazon

This is a hazard! I've already lost two cats in this thing. There should be a warning sticker or something. I assumed the cats would float, but they sunk like rocks into the lube. And no, it's not what you think. Don't be disgusting. I was trying to create my own cat lube wrestling league. You know, for sickos.


I'm very disappointed! I bought this last month and had it shipped directly to congress. Foolish me, I thought that it would be less painful when they made us bend over...well it didn't work!

http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-Gallon/product-reviews/B005MR3IVO/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

[Ecumenist]

2. GOOD!!! HIV is no joke and if they want to continue to make movies, then damn it, START USING

SAVE SEX PROCEDURES & I'm a native Angelena and LIVE in northern California... Make NOTHING but common sense

[seattledo]

3. Agreed, and it's sexist to not require them...

since not using them puts the women at more risk than the men.

[MNBrewer]

4. Not in the porn I watch.

[eggplant]

12. +1!

[onehandle]

5. It's my understanding that the porn industry is moving to Vegas. nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. my scumbag relatives went to Scottsdale

We're running a little family pool to see how long it takes for them to get thrown in jail.

[jakeXT]

9. Try moving that

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory

[yuiyoshida]

15. omg..I have seen that building..

Walked around it..its massive...

[DeSwiss]

7. Send those regulators to W. Virginia!!! STAT!!!

- Finally, someone who knows when and how to fine someone for something truly IMPORTANT like sexytime movies!!!!

K&R

[ck4829]

10. "And you're missing warning signs about that dangerous machinery over there... Gonna be 50 bucks."

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Elected lawmakers

Funny how, despite the era of the Moral Majority & all the Televangelists,
the public never hears that their elected representatives actually have
to vote on such stuff. With so much money being made, guess they
wouldn't actually want the public to know there is a downside to the
business, it would be bad for business! Sort of like oil spills in the
"Drill, Baby, Drill" realm.