Career Screwicide

Fuck stars Porn performers in California could be required to use condoms in their sex scenes if a proposal from state workplace safety officials becomes part of state code. Sure, and why not ask chefs to cook without utensils...

Cal/OSHA officials have drafted a 17-page proposal containing graphic details of bodily fluids, waste matter and "other materials" that porn actors may encounter that can cause infection. Seventeen pages of nasty things that come out of a person? Sounds more like Penthouse Forum letter. A seven-member body will review the proposal after it is discussed at a public meeting next week.

The draft says porn producers must provide and require "use of condoms or other barrier protection to prevent genital and oral contact with the blood or (any other bodily fluids) of another person." It also specifies that condoms can't be reused, cannot be expired, or used with multiple partners. I get the multiple partners thing, but who the hell is putting a rubber back on after action instead of putting on a fresh one? They also say performers wouldn't be allowed to share razors under the rules (sorry, no more sexy shaving videos), and sex toys would have to be kept clean (sorry, no more filthy dildo videos).

These buzzkills would force producers to ensure that body areas contaminated with bodily fluids are cleaned between sexual acts with the same or different partners. Hey, seeing a sexy French maid outfit is one thing - but who wants to see them actually cleaning? Aside from providing medical services for all employees who have been "exposed to possibly infectious materials", showers would need to be provided to performers, and rules on how to handle laundry contaminated with human fluids would be established.

The proposed change in rules comes in response to a complaint filed in 2009 by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, calling on the state to require condoms in porn. They claim that actors were in unsafe situations and they glamorized risky sex for audiences. What, there's never been a three-way not captured on film? And how did Wilt Chamberlain nail thousands of women without being in the adult industry? Were college girls wild only because of a couple of necklace beads? Let's let adults be adults and make their own adult decisions.