In this condom witch hunt, you can randomly stick your finger in any ass and come up with shit.
LOS ANGELES –AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host a press conference and protest Thursday, August 26th at 10:30am in front of porn impresario Larry Flynt’s corporate headquarters—the Flynt Building—(8484 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills).
AHF will announce its filing of additional ‘Notice of Safety or Health Hazards’ complaints with Cal/OSHA (California’s Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health), the state’s workplace health and safety regulatory and watchdog organization, over the blacklist on the use of condoms in adult films produced by Larry Flynt Productions (LFP).
AHF filed similar worker safety complaints with Cal/OSHA last August against 16 California-based adult film companies, including Flynt’s Hustler Video. To date, Cal/OSHA has opened investigations into three of the companies and is still evaluating and considering additional investigations.
Protest & Press Conference: AHF to File Additional Cal/OSHA complaints against Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video with 100 adult DVDs—a stack nearly 5 feet tall
When: Thursday, Aug 26th 10:30am
Where: In front of the Flynt Building, Larry Flynt Publications (LFP)
8484 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 90211 (corner of La Cienega)
Who: Michael Weinstein, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, President; Brian Chase, Assistant General Counsel, AHF; Whitney Engeran-Cordova, Director, Public Health Division, AIDS Healthcare Foundation; HIV prevention advocates and safer sex protesters
B-Roll & WARNING:
The DVDs and DVD cases of the 100 adult films—a stack nearly 5 feet tall—to be submitted by AHF as part of its Cal/OSHA’s complaint will be prominently displayed during the press conference.
AHF will support its current worker safety complaints with the submission of 100 Flynt Productions adult DVDs filmed under various Flynt brands—Hustler Video, Hustler Hardline, Larry Flynt Presents—in which the performers do not wear condoms. AHF’s Cal/OSHA complaints assert that the films demonstrate unsafe—potentially life-threatening—behavior in a California workplace, as the sexual acts filmed without participating performers using condoms depict the unprotected exchange of bodily fluids.
Flynt, the publisher of Hustler Magazine, created his privately held company Larry Flynt Publications (LFP) in 1976. LFP started to produce adult films in 1998, through its Hustler Video and related brand.
“As a global HIV and STD medical provider operating treatment clinics and prevention facilities here in California, we see it as our duty to pursue action on the issue of safety in the workplace—in these instances, unprotected sex acts taking place in albeit non-traditional workplaces—porn sets located throughout the San Fernando Valley that are churning out billions of dollars of adult fare every day,” said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “Larry Flynt has been quite vocal and outspoken in his opposition to condom use in his films. This is why we are filing additional workplace health and safety complaints with Cal/OSHA: to press for the enforcement of state workplace regulatory guidelines which would require the use of condoms in his—and all—adult films produced in California.”
Background Materials for AHF’s New Complaint to Cal/OSHA regarding Larry Flynt Productions:
In support of its latest complaint to Cal/OSHA asserting that film sets where condoms are not used provide unsafe California work environments, AIDS Healthcare Foundation officials undertook a review and analysis of 100 adult films produced and/or distributed by Larry Flynt Productions. AHF will submit the DVDs to Cal/OSHA in support of its workplace safety complaint regarding these California film sets. Among AHF’s findings:
* 100 adult entertainment (porn) DVDs purchased;
* 33 DVDs depict double penetration WITHOUT condom use;
* 5 DVDs featuring Spanish language and Latino/Latina performers;
* 8 DVDs (primarily) featuring African Americans; in one of these DVDs;
* at least 2 DVDs featuring Asian women;
* and finally just one scene in one LFP Hustler Video DVD showed CONDOM USE: performer Brittany Andrews and her male partner, TJ Cummings in “The Erotic Adventures of Nikki Nine”
Among the Larry Flynt LFP Video Group LLC titles included in the analysis and new Cal/OSHA complaint include the DVDs: Backwoods of Memphis, Bush Administration, Campus Confessions: Vol. #8; Coffee ‘n’ Cream, Educating Nikki, The Erotic Adventures of Nikki Nine, Eurobabes Gone Wild # 2; Flynt Vault #1; seven different “Hustler Hardcore Vault” films including DVDs featuring performers Lacie Hart, Mia Bangg, Tiffany Taylor, Carmella Bing and Tory Lane; Hollywood Porn-Parody 6 Pack, Hot Blondes, Jail Babes Classic, Real College Girls #17; Real College Girls #19; Real College Girls: Latin Edition; Asian Fever: Special Edition, Mya Luanna; Asian Fever: #29; and Chicas Calientes Special Edition.
History of AHF’s Advocacy for Condom Use in Porn Films in California
As part of an ongoing campaign to require the use of condoms in adult films shot in California, AHF has been mounting a high profile advocacy campaign directly targeting the industry, including key players like Hustler’s founder Larry Flynt; it has publicly pressed Los Angeles County political and health officials to comply with the law to control known HIV and STD outbreaks—including those found among performers in the industry—and to require the use of condoms on sets in LA County; and it has also sued the County to achieve that aim.
Between 2004 and 2009, 22 individuals thought to be connected with adult industry have tested HIV positive; LA County health officials determined that eight of these people were likely infected as a result of their work in the industry.
STDs in the Industry in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health is aware of an ongoing and pervasive sexually transmitted disease crisis in LA’s pornography industry, a fact that is well documented. DPH has cited numerous figures confirming an STD epidemic among performers in adult films, including the fact that performers in hardcore pornography are ten times more likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease than members of the population at large.
According to figures cited by DPH, there were 2,013 documented cases of Chlamydia among LA porn performers between 2003 and 2007. In the same period, 965 cases of gonorrhea were documented. Many performers suffer multiple infections. In the period April 2004 to March 2008 there have been 2,847 STD infections diagnosed among 1,884 performers in the hardcore industry in LA County. DPH attributes the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases in the porn industry to a lack of protective equipment for partners, including condoms.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and services to more than 135,000 individuals in 23 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific region and Eastern Europe. www.aidshealth.org