California voters will be asked to vote for porn performers to use condoms. (pause for hysterical laughter as various scenes flicker through your mind - Official Condom Inspector with a screen credit on the finished product. "Finished" used deliberately.)
We have already done this with Measure B to which no one in that industry paid any attention. Or so I am told. The only porn movie I've ever seen was at a party in the '60s where it ran on a loop against a living room wall and the only affect it had on me and 95 per cent of the other guests was uproarious laughter. The other five per cent were passed out on the floor and incapable of critique.
Mentioned only to show that I am not a qualified speaker on this matter.
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Anyhow as if we don't have enough silliness in this season, we are now expected to pass a proposition that requires porn producers to call OSHA and notify them every time the cameras are about to roll on a new production. Additionally, the producers pick up the testing and medical costs for the performer.
Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, who formulated the prop squares up with Ela Darling, LA President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee.
Darling earned a graduate degree in library science and became a reference librarian. Apparently desiring a more active business life, she came to LA and became a porn star. She said, "People like to imply that we're (porn performers) stupid. Most of us are educated, very smart. It's what we want to do."
If it's smart to go cruising for suicide by AIDS, more power to ya, lady. Meanwhile, if you enjoy a good laugh, grab a porn movie and see if your old 6th grade teacher is starring in it. If a reference librarian can become a star ...
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