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71. If we change shame based exploitative sexuality that to much porn is about

We could change porn. Don't ask---completely different topic. And no, there's nothing benevolent about the porn industry. It's a huge multi-billion dollar industry.


However, sex workers should be as protected, as any other worker should be. I found this interesting;

Porn industry threatens to leave Los Angeles

Los Angeles voted Tuesday to protect its porn stars, but the county has no means of protection from the runaway production that the adult film industry is now threatening.
Measure B, a law requiring condom use and health permits for all porn shoots within Los Angeles County, which includes the so-called pornography capital of the world – the San Fernando Valley – passed with nearly 56-percent support on Tuesday.
But according to Variety, “the passage of Measure B could rub out what's left of L.A.'s $1 billion porn biz, as producers from industry goliath Vivid Entertainment on down are already planning to flee the county, where an estimated 10,000 people are employed making 8 percent of the world's adult films.”
“The problem is that the way the law is written, we're considered to basically be a hospital where people have to wear gloves and masks,” Steve Hirsch, founder and co-chairman of Vivid, the largest producer and distributor of porn in Los Angeles told Variety.
Hirsch said his company has plans to move production to another county in California, rather than out of state. Apart from California, New Hampshire is the only other state where pornography shoots are legal. Variety reports Vivid has “about 100 employees and produces about 60 films per year at budgets typically ranging from $50,000 to $300,000 and from 10 to 40 people employed per shoot.”

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jan/15/porn-industry-turned-off-by-la-mandate-for/

And this is fucked up, because AIM did good work

This system has resulted in low rates of HIV transmission, and hence low rates of infection, among erotic actors: reportedly, not a single HIV test in an active adult industry performer had been positive in the four-year period prior to 2004.

It was in 2004 that AIM assisted in the sex-film-industry shutdown, a quarantine that lasted fewer than 60 days. A male performer, Darren James, had tested positive for HIV in April and, to prevent another HIV outbreak, an urgent search was initiated for his potentially infected partners. A total of four more performers, Bianca Biaggi, Jessica Dee, Lara Roxx, and Miss Arroyo were diagnosed with the virus by the end of the testing rounds, including one unrelated case in New York.James had apparently had contact with 12 women since his initial negative HIV test in March upon his return from a Brazilian film shoot.
In 2009, the Los Angeles Public Health department and the Los Angeles Times claimed that there were 16 unreported cases of HIV among adult film actors.AIM Health Care Foundation reported that these cases were actually members of the general public or people applying to work in the adult film industry that had not yet actually worked in films due to their initial test being positive.
On October 12, 2010, the Foundation reported that an actor or actress have been infected with HIV. The name and gender of the person was not released to the public.Vivid Entertainment and Wicked Pictures shut down porn production temporarily to avoid spreading of the virus. Although Wicked Pictures has a mandatory condom policy, the company is shutting down to wait for the quarantine list.
Patient database breach
AIM Medical's patient database is presumably the source of a massive 2011 data leak containing the confidential personal information, including the real names of over 12,000 pornographic actors, and the results of their STD tests.Compromised patient information is posted on the controversial website Porn Wikileaks.
AIM closed its offices and filed for bankruptcy in May 2011. A privacy lawsuit challenging AIM's handling of the patient records in light of Porn Wikileaks was the last straw for the clinic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Industry_Medical_Health_Care_Foundation