California workplace safety officials have fined Larry Flynts Hustler Video and another porn producer for not using condoms on set to protect sex performers from exposure to disease.
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Associated Press reports that Hustler is looking at $14,175 in fines for three violations, including failure to provide condoms or other protective equipment, according to a Division of Occupational Safety and Health citation.
Hustler “failed to ensure the use of appropriate personal protective equipment, such as condoms” to protect its employees from semen, vaginal excretions and blood in the course of producing adult videos, according to the citation.
The present penalties are based on the same section of state law that also requires hospitals to provide nurses with protective gear to spare them exposure to blood-borne and fluid-borne illnesses.
Flynt has commented previously that audiences dont want to watch porn in which actors use condoms.
Hustler was also fined for failing to maintain a written injury and illness policies and for failing to provide workers with vaccines for hepatitis C.
Hustlers citation stems from a Sept. 14 inspection of a job site in response to a complaint from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that advocates for safe sex in pornography.
Forsaken Pictures faces $12,150 in fines for similar violations. The fines were issued March 9.
Cal/OSHA Senior Safety Engineer Deborah Gold commented that the state continually investigates the porn industry, though job sites can be difficult to find, and has cited a handful of producers for violations in recent years.
In 2010, a porn actor tested positive for HIV at a California clinic, causing panic among actors. Some San Fernando Valley pornographers in the multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry shuttered productions as a precaution
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