 News that Cal/OSHA, the government agency which monitors and enforces workplace safety and health, had been snooping around a Naughty America shoot sent ripples through the porn industry this week, sending gay porn producers in particular into a frenzy.
More after the jump...
While one might suspect labor-intensive shoots like the waterboarding-and-watersports of Titan's Fear or the scroto-electric shock therapy of Dark Alley's Gaytanamo might be under scrutiny, many producers hoped the inspections would next fall on bareback porn producers who've stolen market-share in recent years from their more upstanding condom-using brethren.
While straight companies have renounced condoms in favor of HIV and STD testing, gay companies have been reluctant to do so since many performers are HIV positive and outright exclusion would decimate the gay adult ranks, not to mention bring protest from HIV-discrimination-battling advocacy groups. Another option, sero-matching, would match positive performers with positive performers and negative with negative, but is highly unscientific and doesn't address concerns about exposing actors to different strains of the virus.
While the straight industry's 2004 outbreak resulted in a temporary shutdown of the industry and a greater vigilance of testing, the gay bareback porn industry has flaunted such precautions -- with its most famous advocate, Paul Morris calling negative status "the new virginity" and encouraging gay men everywhere to convert so that we could have uninhibited sex again.
Why stop at bareback and not address cum eating, watersports or condom-jumping diseases like herpes? Cal/OSHA's bloodborne pathogen standard only focuses on HIV, Hepatitis B and C--meaning your favorite condom-filled producers are hoping that their less-than-regulated competitors fall under the government scrutiny.
Of course, bloodborne pathogens aren't the only dangers on set today. Below, a few other things we at the Sword think Cal/OSHA should be inquiring about:
- Letting homosexuals drive 18-wheelers on the set of Buckshot-s Big Rig
-The runaway jeep incident on the set of Raging Stallion-s Grunts
- Any scene with convicted rage-a-holic Mark Dalton
- Collin O'Neal-s courting of Midnight Express-like foreign-prison terms
- Possible impalings by Chad Hunt, Ricky Martinez or Diesel Washington
- Just about everything in Folsom Filth (our eyes! our eyes!)
Related:
-- CAL-OSHA Visits Naughty America Set (AVN)
-- Cal/OSHA Fines Adult Companies for Violating Health and Safety Regulations (AVN)
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