This is a continuation of a story that was covered in the Uncle Jimmy lost blog post’s. According to the LA Times Los Angeles county public health officials are accused of not taking action to legislate mandatory use of condoms during the filming of adult sexual movies.
The uproar is a result of the release of statistics that show 18 HIV cases and over 3700 STDs cases among porn industry talent. Now those are the numbers since 2004. Think about it, 3700 case in five years, in Los Angeles, population of over 4 million people and nearly 10 million in LA County. LA is lucky not to have that many cases every weekend just in night clubs alone.
I don’t get it. I know the industry is in the spot light compared to Joe Nightclubber. But, I think Los Angeles just like the rest of California has more pressing issues when it comes to the healthy of it’s citizens as well as it’s the health of it’s economy.
Doesn’t look like a fight that the legislators are all to motivated to pick up and run with. And, as the article points out, southern CAL is the porn capital of the world. And last time I looked this is an industry of consenting adults for consenting adults.
Read full article: www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-porn-hiv17-2009jul17,0,7108914.story