Kink.com Threatens to Move to Nevada Amid Stricter California Health Rules

Some planning documents submitted to the city of San Francisco this week revealed that Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth is threatening to move the production arm of his porn company out of the city for good.

As Mission Local reports, the plans call for most of the enormous, former National Guard Armory complex in the city’s Mission district to be converted to office use (much of it is already used for offices, however an upper floor, a gymnasium, and multiple rooms in the basement are used for porn shoots daily for Kink’s various straight and gay web channels). Acworth says, “The fact is that new regulations threaten to essentially criminalize the production of hardcore pornography in California,” and he adds that proposed regulations not yet in place with Cal/OSHA would make porn production here prohibitively expensive.

Why so expensive? The threatened move comes after Cal/OSHA levied $78,000 in fines against Kink in January, citing unsafe-sex complaints that, Acworth contends, were filed by L.A.-based pro-condom group the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. AHF has had it out for Kink, and immediately leapt on the story of performers Cameron Bay and Rod Daily getting infected with HIV last year even though all signs point to the probability that neither were infected on set — they were in a relationship and having sex together off-set, and all their scene partners tested negative. AHF quickly held a press conference with a teary Bay, suggesting that she was faced with dangerous conditions on set.

Acworth and many other in the straight-porn community object to the forced use of condoms on set, which is something that’s being proposed as a statewide regulation. All performers at Kink are offered the choice of using condoms, and most on the straight side opt out. All gay scenes at Kink require condoms, and all performers, gay and straight, are getting tested every 14 days. The new proposed regulations would also require further documentation of that testing sent to the state.

Anyway, nothing may come of this, or something might, and it likely won’t matter to fans of Kink’s whipping, humiliating, electrode-shocking, wrestling, and pissing videos.

[Mission Local]

Previously: KINK.COM LASHES BACK AT CAL-OSHA OVER FINES

11 thoughts on “Kink.com Threatens to Move to Nevada Amid Stricter California Health Rules”

  1. Porn companies are being welcomed into Nevada with open arms. Particularly to under developed areas along the border with California. Which would benefit from the 20 billion dollar industry moving there.

    The large studios are ALREADY union shops, by the way. If they operate in Hollywood and vicinity, it could be no other way.

    What people are not understanding here is that this has NOTHING to do with condoms on performers.

    NOTHING.

    This is entirely about shutting down adult video production in California entirely. The regulations in question are going to enforce hospital OR procedures on porn sets. NOT condoms. Face shields. separated and filtered air systems. Exposure protocols for even sweat!

    When companies like Kink say that the regulations are going to make porn unrealistically expensive… THIS is why.

    The law says that all of Section 5193 of California title 18 will apply to the making of porn. The regulations would be impossible to comply to unless porn was shot in a surgery. And even then, if you think regular porn is boring? What do you think if the performers are forced to suit up like your dentist and hygienist?

    The condom issue is a red herring to distract you all from what they are really doing. Read the text for AB 1576. Read the text for 5193 that it encompases. Don’t believe me. Read it yourself.

    Then ask, WHY has the porn industry been shut out of the process of writing this law? Why have even adult performers been banned from testifying unless they are produced to the committee by AHF?

    1. Yes I agree doesn’t need to be that ridiculously expensive however some of these companies do not practice safe sex after the aids crisis of the nineties and early eighties this is bullshit it’s thinking they could take prep and not get infected Hey once you get infected that’s it

  2. Chandler in Las Vegas

    The best bet to avoid any interaction with local health department and big city law enforcement would to move production to Nye County, just over the hill from Las Vegas. The less populated counties remain the Wild West.

  3. so what if they move…what ever they pay in taxes or pay to workers isn’t going to hurt san fran at all…models arent paid anything anyway. condoms save lives, infection rates are onthe upswing again but these porn companies think pills and tests before a shoot are safer than condoms. if i get a test a few days before a shoot i could bb after the test but before the shoot. i could forget to take my prep, or not be able to afford it before a shoot. there are so many ways shit could happen WHY would anyone take a chance just to make a fucking money for 400-500$

  4. Don’t like Kink.com, why many gays wanted to watch this studio abusing gay men? I dont wanna get whip or punish when I have sex but to feel the love of course. Waste of money.

    1. Some of us like and get into domination and humiliation. I don’t know how so many get off on boring mechanical flip flop sex on some of the most popular sites. Porn is about being on the edge and fantasy. I want to see gagging, spit, facial cum shots, and humiliation. Kink is not my favorite but 100x better than most.

    2. I cannot believe that in discussions about sex we are still at the “I don’t like it so I don’t understand how people can like it, that’s shit” level! In a gay porn blog!

      It’s SEX! Everyone has a different taste, every view is allowed!

  5. The few parts of Nevada that have legalized prostitution require condoms to be used. New Hampshire is the only other state besides California where there is a law on the books that says shooting porn is legal.

    If Kink plans on moving production over to Vegas, then they should plan on having their production crew unionized, since Las Vegas is a heavy union town.

    Cameron Bay did have a legitimate concern. Her breast implant was busted on set from being punched which left a large bruise. Also, her scene partner cut his penis and bled in her mouth. The scene partner didn’t test positive, but both are things that OSHA can fine you for.

    Acworth claims that condoms cause tears and chafing. I think getting the shit beat out of you and having various objects stuck up your ass, and being double penetrated probably might cause a tear or two. Also, these issues with condoms never seem to be brought up on gay sets, and condoms are not optional on gay productions at Kink.

    1. Gay porn is totally boring and a waste of time anyway. Sometimes I wonder how guys actually pay for that crap.

        1. Just something about Van Darkholme’s directing that sucks, also that he hired a “straight guy” to do 2 of his gay sites as an assistant director.

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