Freaky flick producers want mandatory condom laws repealed in L.A.

Cassidy wouldn’t like this…

Freak Film Producer Looks To Get Mandatory Condom Law Repealed In Los Angeles

Via AZCentral

A major adult filmmaker sued to block a new Los Angeles County law requiring freaky flick actors to wear condoms, calling it a threat to free expression.

Vivid Entertainment contends that Measure B, passed by county voters last fall, violates the First Amendment right to free speech and expression and is unnecessary because the adult industry already has safeguards, such as regular blood testing of actors, to prevent the spread of AIDS and other venereal diseases.

The suit, filed Thursday in federal court, also contends that the law is vague, burdensome and ineffective and is pre-empted by California laws and regulations. It asks the court to block the measure’s enforcement and to rule it unconstitutional.

A call to the county counsel’s office seeking comment from attorneys involved in the case was not immediately returned.

The measure requires freak film producers to apply for a permit from the county Department of Public Health to shoot sex scenes. Permit fees will finance periodic inspections of film sets to enforce compliance.

Obviously, no one in the adult industry was happy about this new law.

“The idea of allowing a government employee to come and examine our genitalia while we’re on set is atrocious,” freak film star Amber Lynn told the Los Angeles Daily News at the time.

Industry critics also said that fans don’t want to see actors using condoms. They contend that if the law is enforced, the 200 or so companies that now produce freak films in Los Angeles, primarily in the San Fernando Valley, will simply move elsewhere, taking with them as many as 10,000 jobs.

“Overturning this law is something I feel very passionate about. I believe the industry’s current testing system works well,” Steven Hirsch, Vivid’s founder and co-chairman, said in a statement. “Since 2004 over 300,000 explicit scenes have been filmed with zero HIV transmission. The new law makes no sense and it imposes a government licensing regime on making films that are protected by the Constitution.”

So the government can’t come check out ya box, but some guy who you never met can chop down ya slorey backs without a Jimmy hat?! SMH

Are you annoyed by the sight of a condom when watching freak flicks? If you so, would you stop buying certain movies where condoms were mandatory??

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