VIVID’S STEVEN HIRSCH REVIVES L.A. CONDOM MEASURE FIGHT, CLAIMING NEW LAW PUTS THE ‘CON’ IN CONDOM
LOS ANGELES – (December 5, 2012) – Steven Hirsch, founder and co-chairman of leading adult studio Vivid Entertainment says Los Angeles voters were duped when they were urged to pass Measure B, which makes it mandatory for performers to wear condoms while shooting adult movies.
"In reality, the voters were conned and nobody’s any safer; not the performers and certainly not the taxpayers," Mr. Hirsch says in a Huffington Post blog. "First of all, it’s not just condoms that are now mandatory on adult sets. Actors may now be required to wear a virtual hazmat suit — goggles, gloves, lab coats, dental dams and facial protective gear? Movie sets will look more like a hospital ER. This is sex, not surgery!"
Mr. Hirsch said the adult industry and the Free Speech Coalition are already preparing to challenge the new law in court, "and we are confident that we will win. But we could also lose; and if we do, the adult industry will most definitely leave the state. But win or lose, taxpayer money will be spent defending this lawsuit, and taxpayer money will also pay to prosecute the next suit… the one that will surely come from the measure’s sponsor, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, if we win."
The studio chief said "the penalties for violators of the new law are hard to imagine – up to six months in prison for each infraction. If there’s more than one infraction on one set, years of imprisonment could be levied over a single movie. As if this wasn’t draconian enough, the new law also opens the door to harassing civil lawsuits by any industry opponent. This means that any self-appointed morality ‘monitor’ who feels that a studio has not lived up to the letter of Measure B can file suit and claim monetary damages.
"AHF, the sponsor of the bill, carefully hid everything but the condom part when arguing for passage of Measure B. And they misled voters when they argued that the cost of inspections would be paid for by permit fees charged to the studios before shooting a sex scene. Because adult films simply won’t be shot in Los Angeles County anymore. Virtually every major adult studio is actively planning their out-of-town shooting strategy," he added.
Mr. Hirsch cited reports that Los Angeles taxpayers will have to pay an estimated $582,000 over a two year period to construct a plan for implementing the law. "That’s right, not to actually implement it, but to figure out how to implement it. And as we plan our shoots outside the county, we can’t help but feel for the estimated 10,000 professionals whose jobs will also leave the state, an unintended consequence well beyond the loss of fees, permits and income to L.A.
"And all of this for what purpose? The adult industry never had a sexually transmitted disease problem in the first place. In fact, our industry has an amazingly good health record — far better than the general public — because we test rigorously and frequently. Sometimes the best of intentions yield the worst of results. This will likely be the legacy of Measure B: a misguided case for condoms that deserves only condemnation."
About Vivid: Founded in 1984, Vivid has always placed heavy emphasis on high quality erotic film entertainment and has created wide brand-name awareness through its films, innovative marketing, and a licensing program that extends to advertising, apparel, book publishing and a range of other products. The VividTV division offers programming that includes the full range of offerings from the largest single adult studio archive. In addition to its Vivid-Celeb imprint famous for celebrity sex tapes, the company is known for its Vivid SuperXXXHeroes parodies. Mainstream television audiences got to know the company through two seven-part series on Showtime. Co-founder and CEO Steven Hirsch received the first AVN Visionary Award as a leader who "has propelled innovation and taken his company and the business as a whole to new heights." The company’s website, www.vivid.com, has a loyal following of fans of Vivid movies. For more on Vivid visit Twitter.com/VividCorp or Facebook.com/vividgirls.
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prison sentences for not wearing condoms.. so perhaps my term “condoms nazis” wasn’t over the top
prison sentences for not wearing condoms.. so perhaps my term “condoms nazis” wasn’t over the top afterall
Yet another reason why people who run companies should be seen and not heard.
I replied to this article on the Huffington post. I’ll leave the same reply here:
“It is indeed a sad story. This whole law passed, thanks to deception, half-truths and flat out lies.”
when you talk about deception, half-truths and flat out lies. you are talkin about which side? They are both guilty but the FSC was way more guilty. Steven Hirsch continues to repeat that bullshit even now.
Hate to say it but theres on old saying that people get the government they deserve…and in this case that couldnt be more true….porners got the government they deserve.
There’s wisdom in Tocqueville quote about getting the government “we” deserve, but I don’t deserve the government I get. I don’t consider myself part of “we”, I guess. Also, saying we deserve the government we get is also like saying the person/people who gets raped deserves it. The media and the choices we have (you think it was a fucking coincidence that Gore and Bush were both Skull n Bonsesmen?) are controlled. There have been a lot of atrocities in history. Did the victims deserve it? And in modern times we generally can’t accept that the gov’t would murder it’s own Princess or President, yet mothers, brothers, cousins (etc) of leaders, have been murdering or murdered all throughout history, so what do you think they think of the rest of us and we are so much better supposedly as a human collective than in history? The only thing better is the mass media mind control and our lack of critical thinking in spite of the access to information we have, so in that sense you can say we get what we deserve and we prove to the illuminazis perhaps that we “deserve” this shit because we don’t rise up, end world hunger, stop the evils of corporations acting as “persons”, guarantee people a livable wage and healthcare, etc…
Always a laugh riot when AHF stooge Mike South, the man who saluted liar and convicted burglar/embezzler Derrick “RentBoy” Burts as a man who tells the truth, flaps his gums about truth and deception.
you mean burts is more than just a turd burglar and a bad cue card reader for cash?
Oh yes. I wrote about it here while Burts’ case was still pending. Updated it on Sean’s site following Burts’ conviction. According to court websites, and contrary to his claims here on LIB, Burts is still a fugitive (last time I checked, at least).
The whole AID$ industry is a criminal syndicate anyways, so go figure one of their hired whore mouths is too. I know you know that I know that you know that documentaries like “House of Numbers” prove this to be so, but sheeple will still be sheeple. Baah-humbug!