Sunday, May 29, 2011

The End of Factory Porn?

I've been waiting for this for a long time:
LOS ANGELES – Porn performers in California would be required to use condoms in sex scenes if draft rules from state workplace safety officials advance out of the proposal phase.

Cal/OSHA officials provided the Associated Press with a 17-page draft proposal that contained sometimes graphic details of the bodily fluids, waste matter and other materials that porn actors must protect themselves against to avoid infection.
It's been fairly insane that large employers could hire people to do stuff and thereby acquire diseases: it's stunt work. At the same time the basic behaviour - barring the insane spectacles - is what people do anyway, and people aren't going to stop filming that or selling the results. Maybe porn will wind up being made by people who like each other...or are at least in some codified relationship for the purposes of evading OSHA rules.

On the other hand there's a disgusting science fiction story in porn producers being the money behind a drive for polygamy, with the result that you literally marry into the business; might not be so bad as a retirement-via-divorce could have the performers wind up with some ongoing stipend instead of just the diseased naughty bits.

6 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Maybe porn will wind up being made by people who like each other

I wonder if that's more or less likely in our government being run by people who care about the voters.
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mikey said...

I think much, if not most, factory porn is produced in Bulgaria now. Or other marginally familiar Eastern European places that most Americans can't find on a map.

Of course, it's all kind of moot. There is now a critical mass of free stolen and crowdsourced porn that will ultimately strip all the profits out of being sprayed with a variety of bodily fluids in ultra-slo-motion. All of which is fueling the balkanization of porn, wherein consumers gravitate to increasingly specific behaviors driven by small collections of sites set up to cater to that level of specificity, in many cases creating their own genre superstars.

W/V considers carefully, and recommends an invasive species of porn: dorcudzo

Dragon-King Wangchuck said...

Given teh title, I was expecting something related to this.

Dragon-King Wangchuck said...

Episode 15-10 had Bench planes. Sandcasting and hammer forging! If you're into foundries, that was a hot segmant.

Substance McGravitas said...

Makeout music.

Whale Chowder said...

Like sausage, you don't really want to know how porn is made.