Activists submit signatures for California condoms-in-porn vote

[Kotya]

26. The genre is called "pro-am"

As in "professional amateur" and makes up the majority of porn that is currently being produced. And by professional amateurs, we're talking about 18-21 year old women from small towns across middle America. They answer ads on craigslist, are flown out to Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Tempe, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and work for 6-12 months tops before being discarded and replaced by countless other young women lined up to take their places. They all dream of stardom and wealth. It never happens.

A very good (and very depressing) documentary on Netflix, "Hot Girls Wanted" explores this world.

Anyhow, the people supporting a condom requirement likely don't understand the state of pornography production in modern America. Many still have an 80s-90s view of it as an industry controlled by a handful of wealthy producers centered in the Valley. An industry that once employed stagehands, lighting directors, camera operators, makeup artists, writers, directors and composers making films that cost 6 figures and featuring legitimate "porn stars" under contract who made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

That industry is gone (or at least on life support) as far as I can tell.