No, I'm Not Kidding: New Legislation Calls For Porn Stars In California To Wear Goggles

Independent- Porn stars could soon be forced to don far more protection than just condoms in California. New rules proposed last week by the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHA) would require adult film actors to wear eye gear for many scenes. The rules, which have yet to be finalized, would also impose strict hygiene standards and outlaw common porn practices.

“These are regulations designed for medical settings, and are unworkable on an adult film set — or even a Hollywood film set,” said Diane Duke, CEO of the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. She said the rules would stigmatize performers and risk “shutting down an entire industry.”

For decades, California has produced the vast majority of America’s adult films. Recently, however, critics have pushed to crackdown on the state’s porn industry. In 2012, Los Angeles County passed a controversial law requiring condoms on porn sets. As a result, production in the county plummeted by more than 90 per cent.

“This is really about worker protection, and what the Cal/OSHA Standards Board is for,” he said during the public hearing last week, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. His group claims that “at least four adult performers… have become infected with HIV while working in the adult film industry, while thousands of other adult performers became infected with thousands of other sexually-transmitted diseases.”


I guess the real question is what higher power did I piss off? I move to California and two months later they are drinking poop water, and turning porn sets into a 90's Puff Daddy video? An even better question, who knew that you could regulate pornography? Since when did health officials take a strong interest in people that fuck on camera for money? I have got to say they are a little late to the party. Goggles? I guess it's best to start small, because requiring porn stars to wear goggles is like requiring a professional football player to wear a mouthpiece. It's impact on the health of those involved is damn near microscopic. 

Have the people at the Division of Occupational Safety And Health Standards ever watched porn. I am pretty sure I have witnessed multiple rapes, enough incest to shock a southerner, and possibly an attempted murder or six while watching porn. Protecting them from a little cum in the eye should be the least of their concerns. According to every porn I have ever seen 90% of the industry is 18 year olds with assholes big enough to drive a semi-truck through, and we are worried about them getting their vision blurred by a little semen? If pornographers were worried about occupational safety I don't think they would audition for something called 'Six Degrees Of Penetration'. Maybe focus on helping people that want your help. Cleansing a warehouse of asbestos is much easier than cleaning up the deep dark world that is internet pornography. Requiring women to wear goggles is like catching someone that is trying to commit suicide. You may think you are helping the greater good, but you aren't helping them. What else are aspiring actors that can't act supposed to do when they get to Los Angeles besides clean unborn babies off their face? It's definitely safer to get fucked six ways to Sunday with a roof over your head then end up homeless in a bad part of town. 

Let's be real, if these people were doing their job porn wouldn't even exist. They should have already been fired for letting it get this far without stepping in. It's not like the internet has been hiding questionable sex acts. Might be best to just call this one a loss. Too much health has been compromised. If your first step is goggles then it will decades before you even make a difference.