Posted on 07/18/2009 7:22:51 AM PDT by La Lydia
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an advocacy group in Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit against county health officials, accusing them of failing to regulate condom use in the pornography industry to protect actors and actresses from contracting H.I.V. and other diseases. The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court, comes one month after a pornographic actress in Los Angeles said she had contracted H.I.V. Health officials have since released data showing 18 positive H.I.V. tests in the industry and thousands of other sexually transmitted disease infections since 2004. County officials should “require condom use in the production of pornography,” according to a statement released by the foundation, and have a “duty to combat an acknowledged epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases...
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I think you got your wish...
Waaaaaaaa! I did something stupid and government didn’t stop me! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I think you got my meaning.
Geez, this is kind of like a major league football player suing the NFL because he got a blown ACL (yeah, I know AIDS kills ... it’s just analogy). Occupational hazard lady.
Are they really serious? They want to tell consenting adults what they can and can’t do with their own bodies. Time to make a large batch of popcorn.
Paradoxically, there doesn’t seem to be much incidence of HIV in the porn industry.
Since there's no innocent third party being killed, yes they do!
They can file for worker’s compensation.
Don’t worry, Obama will appoint a porn czar to provide much-needed federal regulation of this struggling industry.
I guess it’s a little like making a steel worker use a hard hat, or steel toed shoes.
Osha will have to start making regular inspections of porn productions.
Barry Soetoro will have to appoint a Czar of porn.
Oh for heaven’s sake. It’s hard to pick the stupider side in this one.
Oh for heaven’s sake. It’s hard to pick the stupider side in this one.
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