UH OH: Nevada Might Consider a Condom Law For Porn Shoots

After the mass exodus of the porn industry from California to Nevada in the last two years, some recent rumbling that Nevada health officials might try to enact a mandatory condom law for porn shoots following two recent on-set infections is likely to freak out a lot of porn companies that have moved there.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services and the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration have issued a joint statement saying “they are now reviewing whether to adopt similar rules for the adult film industry as those governing sex workers in Nevada’s legal brothels.” Currently condoms are required, even for oral sex, in all of Nevada’s whore houses, which are legal in all counties except Clark County, where Vegas is.

This follows on last year’s drama over California’s proposed Assembly Bill 1576, which drove even more porn companies than had already moved to contemplate a move to Nevada.

The on-set HIV transmissions in question happened last September on an as-yet-unidentified bareback gay porn set, and this happens after two companies that shoot gay porn with condoms — Kink.com and Raging Stallion/Falcon — began shooting in Las Vegas in the last year.

In particular, the straight side of the industry largely based in Los Angeles, following the passage of Measure B in 2012, defected to Nevada in large numbers in the last two years, even though most porn was always shot, technically, outside L.A. County in the Valley. CORRECTION: Commenter The Other Devin points out that the San Fernando Valley is all in L.A. County, so my bad.

Even Nevada might not be safe for bareback!! What will the cum sluts do!?!

12 thoughts on “UH OH: Nevada Might Consider a Condom Law For Porn Shoots”

  1. I’ll be surprised if Nevada passes the measure. If the (straight) porn industry was able to kill the bill in California I expect they’ll be able to kill it in Nevada.

    The barebacking issue is bigger than gay porn, btw. It’s mostly about straight porn – which is why I’d be stunned if there’s any federal ban on bareback porn. Straight porn is mostly bareback and it generates too much money for too many entities that would be jeopardized if condom use is mandated b/c consumers of straight porn by and large reject porn w/condoms. Gay audiences are much more accepting of condoms in porn.

    Plus, all of this panic! about condoms and barebacking is like 20 yrs late. HIV has become a fairly manageable disease for those who are infected and w/proper management risk of transmission is fairly low. Even w/o condoms. And with all of the testing that goes on in porn – gay and straight, transmission of HIV is pretty rare. Considering the number of porn shoots that go on every single day nationwide the fact that we only hear about transmission maybe 2 or 3 times per year is striking. And the last one we heard about in gay porn came from an operation that wasn’t following the established industry standards for testing. Which says to me that the standards work just fine. So all of the panic! about barebacking…it’s about something other than genuine concern about on-set HIV transmission. Trying to make it about that is going to lead right into the effort to mandate condoms in porn being unsuccessful.

    1. The straight industry didn’t kill the bill it died and wasn’t considered this year. Nevada outside of the Vegas strip is very conservative and has a sizeable Mormon population. If brothels have to use condoms and testing, you don’t think they won’t require it for porn performers.

  2. The small part of the state where prostitution is legal requires condom use and testing. Why should porn be any different.

  3. Existing federal laws (OSHA workplace regulations) already make it possible to ban bareback porn throughout the country. It’s only a matter of enforcement. So stop carrying on like bareback operations in the US are currently legal, because they’re not–not a one.

  4. All of the San Fernando Valley, where most str8 porn is shot, is w/in Los Angeles County. Towns like Simi Valley are in Ventura County, which is right next to Los Angeles County.

  5. If porn studios start going out of business it’s probably going to be due to them forcibly having to move to avoid condom and testing laws…

  6. I wonder how these fruity condoms taste…well haven’t they know that straight porn at 95% were BAREBACK. Stupid law.

    1. What is the rate of HIV infection in the Philipines? I have heard that it is quite high. Is there access there to PReP and PeP and the life-long HIV meds? What is the healthcare system like?

      1. It wasnt high actually those early cases of HIV was from straight only last year that a focus was given to gay sex maybe because of internet hook ups. Dont know about PreP or any medicine for HIV infected person coz yeah Im still a virgin even if I got dated recently by my straight friend.

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