L.A.’s Insane War on the Porn Industry
Requiring adult film stars to wear condoms is bad for business—and for pleasure.
From http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/30/las-insane-war-on-the-porn-industry
OP/ED by . Kennedy of http://www.987fm.com/pages/onair/musicinthemorning.html
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| January 30, 2012
OK boys, strap on your rubbers, it’s raining nonsense.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 9-1 to require male porn actors to wrap their rascals and wear condoms when they’re shooting. And when they’re filming.
The move is being closely watched by other filth hamlets looking to "protect" their citizenry from disease, pregnancy, and profit, and will ultimately force this long-standing pillar of entertainment away from L.A.’s safe and welcoming bosom.
Pornography is not real life. It’s neither instructional nor realistic and neither end has ever been the purpose of good buggery videos. Porn is supposed to transport you to a naughty, secret garden where your privates are free to do as they wish in the confines of your own sinful clutches. You should be free from moral distraction when you’ve got a fistful of the one you love.
Seeing a bratwurst wrapped in red latex? It’s fine for a public service announcement in the food-preparation industry, but it’s a real mood killer when you’ve taken matters into your own hands. The last thing you want to think about (other than gangrenous dying kittens) is how Indiana Bones is safe from Ginger Lynn’s diseased temple of poon. It kills the moment! Porn actors are generously endowed, ready at the drop of a kumquat, with pristine, chancre-free knobs and buttons. A condom screams disease. Worse still, it triggers the evolutionary mechanism for disgust, and I don’t know if you’ve tried rolling in the hay while sniffing bad lunchmeat, but it blocks your business from further arousal.
Worse than the emotional scars and misfirings of your Speedo’s contents, the lucrative adult industry will find a home away from the hubris-and-hibiscus-scented streets of L.A., and maybe that’s why the only dissenting vote came from San Fernando Valley councilman Michael Englander. Given that the valley is the epicenter of the industry, Englander probably has a few turns as a fluffer on his resume for all we know.
No judgments! The porn industry has treated the Valley and greater L.A. well for decades—lube sales alone have funded many an after-school program in Van Nuys. For a city with an ongoing budget deficit and a pension crisis that will make Deep Throat look like a Disney movie, I wouldn’t be in a rush to chase out of one of Los Angeles’ longest-lasting success stories.
If destroying fantasy, generating disgust, and killing jobs (and payroll taxes!) weren’t reasons enough to rethink the ban, chew on this: Requiring condoms on male adult performers may well create a false sense of health and safety. Latter-day Long Dong Silvers will be perceived as having cleaner wieners and they’ll then go out and ring the bells of whomever will have them when they’re off duty (unless the city amends the ordinance requiring said studs to register their weapons whenever they’re in use, on or off set). That will conceivably spread hepatitis A through Z; herpes simplex, complex, and multiplex; and worse to a number of falsely lulled receptacles.
The condom nonsense is an example of the hostile business environment that consumes the great state of California like a mega-dose of chlamydia. It is a worthless distraction that will never have the intended effect of sterilizing an industry that already has every reason to keep its participants’ naughty bits clean enough to eat off of. If actors do wear state-mandated prophylactics, porn sales will suffer, and jobs will be lost. And just what do you think idled porn stars, too broke to buy rubbers by the barrel full, are going to do to while away the dull, boring hours between collecting unemployment checks?
Kennedy is host of 98.7 FM’s Music in the Morning in Los Angeles and has an emotional allergy to latex.
WOW!
I think this is the BEST article I’ve read on this subject. Great Job!!!
Hey Kennedy! Got one word for you!
A-FUCKING-MEN!
Kennedy? Holy shit, now THAT’S a blast from the fucking past.
This article impressed the hell out of me.
Hell yeah, this one is the article of the year , Cindi….hey you porno land motha fuckas..shut the fucking motha fucka down like I said here and head for North Las Vegas and set up shop and let’s get to crackin’ biz is rolling and were carrying the Porn biz now and you should move the shit now….FUCK LA CITY COUNCIL and MAYOR VIA LA RAZA….Fuck you!! 2 face bastard.. You need to wear a fucking CONDOM…Waste of life ,peace of shit. Just so Pathetic…….hahahahahaa. I need another “hit” . I need some real LA cush and or some Humboldt county smoke. Las vegas weed?? I justa don’t know…good nite.
Ligeniaires has broken out at the LUXOR and if you stayed here in vegas(AVN) you better get checked!!. $$$$$$$$$$$$. litagations are in the making..u know what I mean. Puke! whoooaaaaa.
Rick put down the pipe dude!
When I was a teen, everybody fucking HATED Kennedy, but I secretly wanted to fuck the living hell out of her. Hard.
No, this is just another action by our over bearing government, to fine a certain type of business out of business. While making a financial killing while doing so. What the government is doing to the XXX industry is retarded! To me any kind of money being made during the worst recession we’ve seen in decades…is a good thing. Even if the moralists in our country don’t like porn “money being made is good for our economy.”
Right now the Obama administration is also going after Catholic hospitals, for not offering planed parent hood type services. They’re Catholic! Why is the Obama administration breaking one of the Amendments in our constitution (the freedom of religion amendment)?
Everyone should know by now…that any freedom; from porn to religion, is in jeopardy right now, because of our socialist-government. We the people, really at some point, are going to have to fight and stand up for whats left of our rights.
The powerful-people in and behind the scenes in government right-now, are attempting to dismantle the constitution peace-by-peace. They started this destruction by enacting a false-terror-attack called 9/11…which put in place laws, that would help these “traders” use those laws against us. Can you say the T.S.A…from body-scanners to false imprisonment in F.E.M.A Camps. Now these scanners are being used on American-citizens and small children; children who have the bad luck of having their names on terror watch lists.
This new law is just one more thing that our “so called government” is doing to take more of our freedoms away.
If they can make porn unattractive, by making condom use by male-performers mandatory…the governments thinking is, that the “public” will stop watching porn because of the condoms. But the other reason is so the government can then nickle-and-dime the XXX industry out of business; by fining anyone making porn every-time they catch a XXX company filming without using condoms. Say good bye to the Republic! The Obama-nation is upon us!
^^^^^^^Agreed. I’d rather spend a night slamming my dick in a door than have to listen to her yap and pretend to enjoy her company.
If she was dumped on my doorstep, gagged and hogtied, GAME ON!
KarmaFan; I smoke Kush with a Bong that a female performer/ Director gave me the other day after shooting 3 website shoots and she gave me some off the stuff she got from Santa Barbara. Good Chit ,MAN!! thanks for your concern buddy! I’m kool and just waking up and heading for the tropicana gym. Have a great Condomless porno day!.
Kennedy is a great radio host on 64 KFI on sundays. She looks like Lisa Ann….But I think Lisa Ann is sexier and has a very sweet personality and I love her ANAL work. Kennedy might want to come on board and work a scene and or 2 with those LA Crossover’s and see what the real cause of Denial is all about. Right People?.
Of course this is also why over the last 20 years they kept changing the laws making it harder and harder for a citizen to own a gun. They claimed it was so crooks could not get them but crooks can always get guns. They wanted it to be very hard for the honest citizen to own a gun so when the shit hit the fan like it is now we can’t defend ourselves or rise up against our corrupt govt.
We protest peacefully and the police state uses tear gas, water guns, and rubber bullets to disperse us from forming a protest against the rulers of our country (the 1%).
Think about it — the First and Second Amendments mean the difference between being a citizen and being a subject.
OMG, Is the government the Pussy Ninjas now???
NINJA PLEASE:/
pussy Ninjas…hahaha Like that one. I would make up “fake” locations and park trucks in front of the house and throw them off and see them (cops) showing up and……No body’s there. that would be really fun and Las vegas metro cop told me the other night…that would really fuck up the LAPD. 3 cop related shooting in 2 days in Vegas. Its hopping like HotCakes there. and going to get better!!.
Rick; Pick up the bong dude!.