Porn Industry May Ditch Los Angeles Over Condom Law, Head To New Hampshire

The city of Los Angeles and surrounding suburbs in California may soon lose more than 20,000 jobs when film producers, actors and other participants in the adult industry choose whether to use condoms during filming or move to a state that doesn’t prohibit their ability to choose how they film sex scenes.

The new condom law goes into effect in March and one producer told the Los Angeles Times that the law is “a nuisance more than anything else. We will continue shooting the movies, and if that means outside of the city of Los Angeles, so be it.”

In the meantime AIDS activist groups are attempting to persuade neighboring cities to enact similar condom laws.

One lobby group member spokeswoman behalf of the porn industry in Los Angeles noted:

“This is the first step of government overreach into the way we make movies. It’s clearly the government interfering where it really doesn’t belong.”

In the meantime finding other locations to film isn’t easy for the adult industry, the only state that says it won’t prosecute for filming adult movies at this time is New Hampshire. Some producers have promised to move their base of operations to Nevada however that state’s brothel workers are required to use condoms which could lead to problems for the industry unless Nevada lawmakers make exceptions for adult film productions.

Do you think that requiring adult film producers to use condoms on all adult movie sets infringes on an adult performers right to choose how they have sex on film?