Hustler Fined $14k for Not Using Condoms in Porn Videos
- Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:55pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California workplace safety officials have fined Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video and another porn producer for not using condoms on set to protect sex performers from exposure to disease.
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health citation obtained Wednesday says Hustler Video faces $14,175 in fines for three violations, including failure to provide condoms or other protective equipment. Forsaken Pictures faces $12,150 in fines.
Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Erika Monterroza says the state has a responsibility to protect all its workers, even in difficult to track industries such as pornography.
Hustler’s citation stems from a Sept. 14 inspection of a jobs site in response to a complaint from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
A telephone message left at Hustler was not immediately returned. Contact information for Forsaken could not be immediately located.
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Comments (43)
Gypsy123
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:31pmNasty! You don’t know where that thing has been!
Report Post »Rob
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:49pmBig Brother is now EVERYWHERE! Stop it!!!!
Report Post »TrumpHuntsman2012
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:03pmHustler and Larry Flynt ? Doesn’t this belong at HuffPost?
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:00pmSlow news day for Blaze – no mention of the ongoing Tea Party protests, instead we get 14 year old’s murder, feces urine fused chair death, porno condom fines, and other SHINY objects. What happened to caring about JOBS?
Report Post »temple62
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:20pmThis event was watched with deep imagination by Rep. Bwarney Frank! He is a member of the Cloud Loony Democrats and a homosexual don’t you know!
Report Post »tranymike
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:10amif they made a baby and had to pay 350 a month for 18 years for support it would be 75,600.00 dallors they got off easy
Report Post »ryanabe
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:29amIs the $14,000 fine the ultimate money shot?
(cue rim shot)
Report Post »alina.bolero
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:26amOh … the state of our Nanny State! It is amazing how much people care about the who/what/when/where/why of other people having sex when they aren’t getting any themselves!
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:11amWrap That Rascal !!!
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:02amI guess “Trojan Man” didnt get his cut.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:48amUp next ,hefty fines for not having condiments in the bedroom.
Report Post »batteredtaxpayer
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:25amSounds like the local jurisdiction is hard up for money! Another reason people are leaving California.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:19amAh, this will make fine office banter.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:16amThink planned parenthood is behind this one.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:27amAre we going back to the Blue Laws again? I don’t need the local sheriffs dept tell me how to handle my business in the bedroom….
Report Post »NeoMouser
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 4:59am$12,150 in fines?
Report Post »they can pay that easy think about how much money the porn industry makes in a year..
its the largest industry in the world they make BILLIONS a year
that fine is spare change to them
Jesse
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 4:34am“Hustler’s citation stems from a Sept. 14 inspection of a jobs site in response to a complaint from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.”
I can see the argument over who was assigned to do the “Inspection”. “I’ll go!. No I’ll go! No Let me!!”
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 4:32amAll joking aside, this is a huge industry that makes billions and billions of dollars a year and almost all production is in California. This 25 grand could cost the state hundreds of millions.
Report Post »TerminalLance
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:47amFolks, they‘re making the point that it’s none of the government’s business to get into things like this. Now the government can tell you that you have to have sex with a condom? I mean this is ridiculous.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:52amWell, it is a workplace, and there ARE health hazards. But don’t the participants know of the risks themselves? I mean, how are they going to have a splash ending with a condom on?
Report Post »foobear
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:55amShow, the health hazards have been mitigated for a long time (decades?) by mandatory STD testing. I think there was this one guy once that got AIDS, and that was a large story, due to the impressive track record.
Shame they’d have to reset the “WE’VE GONE 3659 DAYS WITHOUT AN STD” sign though.
Report Post »ryanabe
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:27amCould you imagine what the fine would be if one of those guys was going at it without a condom WHILE smoking a cigarette? The feds would shut them down for good!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:34amJust take away their FBI copyright protection…Tax payers running defence for prostitution caught on film…I’m addicted to porn,so maybe I shouldn’t be making that suggestion
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:39amWhy would you watch porn? Don’t you know what to do?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:33amI cannot believe I read what I just read!
Just wait until CHEEZ sees this!
Report Post »Arc
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:28amThe government should fine the government for failing to use a condum and the truth for 2 1/2 years.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:28am……hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:17amBut do they have collective bargaining rights?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:46amProbably. It’s California, ya know.
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:37pmI‘m sure there’s a union for these folks….probably something like the United Order of Adult Film Performers. $14K in fines for the omission of a piece critical safety equipment? That is truly a slap on the wrist…I wonder if the evil oil companies, evil mining industries, evil loggers, or evil steel producers could get off (ahem!) light for omitting critical worker safety equipment? I doubt it very much.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:08amC,mon Blaze. Is this really newsworthy?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:38amyeah who gives a …
Report Post »foobear
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:53amThis is what happens when you let the government near your bedroom…
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:02ampocket change for them. doesn’t even amount to a slap on the wrist. and certainly news worthy. just how newsworthy is the question. and the fine? laughable.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:45am@Robert-CA
Report Post »Apparently they pay a number of people who do. LOL
DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:55amThe use of condoms in any part of the movie industry would inhibit the creation of more Democrats, so fine them heavy and make them use those rubber bug catchers!
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:29pmI don’t agree with pornography but I do disagree about it being something the government should control. Why would anyone need to pay the government for harming themselves? Oh maybe now that we have Obamacare we need to protect the tax payer against bad behavior??? See how it works folks? Next your cigarette or not wearing a helmet (on your real head) or eating the wrong food? Giving the government the control over healthcare will give them the right to seperate you from your money if your do not comply:) LIMITED GOVERNMENT GETS RID OF THESE PROBLEMS.
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:45pmWhere can I apply for the job to check whether or not the condomes are being used during filming? It would…..Oh crap, here comes my wife! Gotta go!
Report Post »YouGottaProblemWithThat
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:12pmLet me see……why doesn’t a pornographer care about his employees enough to protect them from disease? Does anyone else see the absurdity of that question? Attributing a moral or social conscience to an evil purveyor of filth makes no sense and is frankly just asinine. Larry Flynt has wrapped himself in the 1st amendment protection of what he does. He cares not for anything but making a buck. I wonder if he offers his employees a 401k plan and maybe medical and dental too. Maybe he should offer childcare so while mom is “working” someone can care for the kids?
Report Post »Dear Lord, forgive us.
MinorityRightsAdvocate
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:09amYes it is newsworthy. The Unions are out there saying we need force for work place protection and safety, and we have OSHA in everyone’s business as well. If this is going to be a profession then it can’t be exempt either! This is lunacy you get when government tries to impose personal responsibility for individuals, and why personal responsibility must be in place first for a free society.
Add to that and a decline in morals always kills personal responsibility and then demands a nanny government to protect us from ourselves, so yes this is newsworthy because it illustrates how absurd this industry is, and the notion of government imposed personal responsibility.
Not to mention this promotes a liberal, collectivist goal to destroy the family with the promiscuity and depravity of pornography…
http://minorityrightsadvocate.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/their-agenda-marches-on-this-is-not-about-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-it-is-about-destruction-of-the-family-the-anything-goes-definition-of-marriage-is-really-about-destroying-marriage-the-foundation/
Report Post »Longshot35
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:14amHey a new industry to unionize. . . Watchout if the bondage crowd pickets!
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