
I’m not a porn advocate. I am a freedom advocate. I’m a responsibility, & humanity advocate.
There was a recent Measure B passed in the 2012 election in California, requiring porn actors to wear condoms while filming. The very idea that disease starts, or is spread primarily through porn actors is a bigoted and absolutely incorrect. Porn actors, male or female, are tested monthly for STD’s, including HIV. Yes, there was an HIV scare a few years ago in the gay porn industry, but for anyone to blase attitude toward that as “well, it’s just a cesspool of disease” is not only uneducated, but makes that person inferior to basic knowledge of STDs.
While there are bareback videos in gay and straight porn, I cannot conceived how anyone can assume that all porn actors are ridden with STDs, & blatantly spreading it around. First, these porn actors are obviously health conscience on some level. For the most part, you don’t see overweight, or out of shape men or women in mainstream pornography. They are working out, keeping in shape, tanned, or whatever else it takes to appeal to a visual aesthetic on video/film to the consumer. To think they are taking all that time & effort, yet ignoring their sexual health is just stupid.
The porn industry has done a fine job at regulating itself, despite the government’s intervention over the years, by not only keeping age & work records, but requiring their actors & models to be tested regularly (monthly), and keeping those records as well. I wonder if the government will now step in & require non-married people to wear condoms while fucking, as to prevent over-population, lest we head in the direction of China’s “one kid per family” rule of thumb. Will the government step in to require female porn actors to use birth control (like the pill, or the ring, or whatever)? How soon before they start regulating positions, or areas to film in, or anything else. Measure B can also inhibit possible capital earning potential should a demographic segment wish to not see condom-based pornography.
While most people might not watch porn on a regular basis, Measure B speaks to the freedom of industry, rather than the safety of the people involved. Measure B assumes the industry, and all those involved in it, are simply too stupid to watch out for themselves, so of course the state must step in to do duty. I can’t imagine how people want the government to stay out of their bedroom, but push it into someone else’s. It’s a hypocritical vote, and I can bet money that the measure will be challenged in court. Freedom of choice extends to all people, whether you like what they do for a living or not. If it’s not hurting you, or affecting your life - don’t fucking sweat it.
Believe me when I say - gay people get it. Porn actors, straight or gay, get it. We get it because we don’t want to get it. Get it?