California’s Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board voted 3-2 against new rules for the production of adult films.
Folks, as covered by Xbiz, the verdict is in. It’s a happy day in Porn Land.
The board needed four votes for the amended § 5193.1 for inclusion in the California’s Code of Regulations.
§ 5193.1 not only required condoms for all filmed sex but also “barrier protection for eyes, skin, mouth and mucous membranes” where there is possible contact with OPIM (other potentially infectious materials).
California’s Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board voted 3-2 against those new rules for the production of adult films.
The new regulations were initiated five years ago by Michael Weinstein, head of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Click here for the complete article at Xbiz. For more background on the now-denied regulations, click here.
The results produced some jubilant faces, and even a few tears.
Most of all, now that Michael Weinstein’s plan to make us all wear hazmat suits just to jack-off has been derailed, click here and watch a movie at “the Netflix of Gay Porn,” NakedSword.
As we discussed this morning, porn’s future is at stake at the Cal/OSHA hearing today. Sister Roma, mr. Pam, and Brendan Phillips are on hand, representing NakedSword. Max Cameron, Brian Bonds, Dylan Strokes, Trenton Ducati, industry legend Nina Hartley, Mike Stabile, and the FSC’s Eric Paul Leue are in attendance.
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Along with the following new images, mr. Pam just checked in. There is a long list of performers waiting to speak as well as Eric Paul Leue of the FSC. Doctors and lawyers have so far been encouraging the board to vote no.
The requirement was just way too broad. Would a regulation only requiring condom use during anal and/or vaginal sex have passed?