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AHF Blasts L.A. Adult Film Biz for Not Complying With Measure B
By Rhett Pardon
Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 Text size:
LOS ANGELES — The AIDS Healthcare Foundation on Tuesday blasted Los Angeles adult film studios for not complying with Measure B, calling out the top-billed porn companies and Immoral Productions, a streaming site and DVD producer that has become the group’s first target.
Last night, the AHF, which sponsored Measure B’s passage, said it filed the first complaint under the new Los Angeles County porn-condom law against Immoral Productions because it received an anonymous letter alleging that Immoral Productions was producing condom-less movies.
“Immoral Productions is producing adult-themed content wherein the actors are engaging in vaginal and anal penetrative acts without the use of condoms,” the AHF said in a letter to the county’s Public Health director, Jonathan Fielding.
Today, at a press conference, AHF President Michael Weinstein charged that Immoral Productions is not the only studio that allegedly isn’t following Measure B.
"Look at Vivid, Hustler and many other companies," Weinstein said. "They have said publicly they’re not going to obey the law and use condoms."
Weinstein said that because the industry has not put its two feet into the measure, "this is something that is coming to a head" because it has "festered over 10 years."
The AHF is urging the county to take action over the Immoral Productions complaint within 30 days.
"We’ve seen nothing to how [the county is] going to enforce the ordinance," Weinstein said."We are challenging the county to take action."
Weinstein said that he had been paying close attention to the "adult blogosphere" for reaction to the voter-passed county ordinance, and that he hasn’t been pleased since most studios are "thumbing their nose" at it.
Immoral Productions, Weinstein said, has been especially egregious with recent condom-less shoots that are outlawed with Measure B.
It was a "willful act by Immoral Productions to apply for a permit knowing they wouldn’t comply," he said. "This studio received a provisional health permit and then went on the blogosphere, championing the permit."
According to Weinstein, the AHF received an anonymous letter from a "knowledgeable" person who had "access to the set." "This tip is not someone who was paid," he claimed.
The AHF then reviewed videos on ImmoralLive.com. "We checked it out and we found it as a valid," Weinstein said. "It’s not hard to verify [when and where] films were shot. They are streaming all of the time."
The AHF’s Mark McGrath, who leads research and policy for the group, said that the first complaint will be a test for county leaders.
"The question is: Will the count fulfill the wishes of voters," he queried. "There is a law on the book."
Weinstein said that the AHF is hopeful that county officials will take action against Immoral Productions, including fines that they say could reach $1,000 and possibly a six-month jail sentence.
But, he noted, that the county is not required to respond to the complaint.
Sad thing about Weinstein is that he seems to have forgot that 30 plus years ago the authorities were hunting gays and lesbians in bath houses and such as a health problem, he is now leading the crusade to to hunt porners over a health problem. How is this not a freedom of speech/expression issue and isn’t it time the FSC get bagged in this fight and some real big guns brought in, like the ACLU, which probably protected Weinstein back in the day from the morality police.
Here’s a little exercise in logic for the readers: if the letter that AHF claims it received was “anonymous,” then how can Weinstein know that it was indeed written by a “knowledgeable” person who had “access to the set,” or that it was not in fact written by someone who is paid by AHF? “Anonymous” means he doesn’t know who wrote it, or what their true position is. All one can know of an anonymous letter writer is that he or she purports to be telling the truth.
Furthermore, why would a Measure B tipster write a letter to AHF, rather than to LA County, or FilmLA? AHF has no enforcement authority…
And I’m sure that the timing of the letter and press conference, which would have coincided with the first hearing in Sacramento on AB 332 (before it was tabled in committee), was a complete coincidence — just like when the licensing board chose to act on AIM’s (6 month old) application within one day of AHF hosting Derrick Burts’ press conference in December 2010.
They were hunting gays in bath houses, Larry, not lesbians. The health hazard were twofold: 1. Their recreational behavior- club drugs, poppers, antibiotics killing the gut’s own immune defense through constant bombardment, causing immune deficiency and 2. Doctors as part of the idiotic/opportunist and/or corrupt Medical industry
declaring AIDS first as gay related, then as caused by a virus they can’t isolate or provide a reliable test for. There has been no freedom of speech: Advertisements cost money, as do political connections. And there’s been so much control of speech for political and financial reasons, that there is little to no freedom of thought, either.
The real health hazard is killer bees dying coz of gmo crops, which will eventually lead to the extinction of man… all his red herring, hocus-pocus stuff leads us away from the real health hazard…
Dan should file a frivolous harassment suit against the AHF. They are not the ones responsible for enforcing the law.
They going after the low hanging fruit to try and get a cheap pelt.
Mixed metaphor aside, that is a very astute comment. And it’s not simply harrassment, either.
Weren’t they told to piss off when they tried to obtain a contract to enforce Measure B?
No — AHF, in a gesture of magnanimity, assured the world that it wasn’t in this for the money, and stated it would not pursue a government contract to become the condom police. However, the prominent placement of the reprehensible Dr. Paula “Mylanta” Tavrow of UCLA at subsequent AHF press conferences has led me to believe that UCLA was/is being positioned to get that slice of the pie.
Remember that nutty idea that OSHA lady suggested about removing visual evidence of condoms in scenes? How about CGI a rubber on a bareback scene to satisfy the condom nazis message to the world?
I remember. I also remember you owning her on her claim that a latex condom constitutes an “impermeable barrier.” You said, “That’s patently false,” and you were correct.
The only impermeable barriers were the heads of the OSHA board and other condom nazis.
Isnt there someway Immoral could sue Weinstein and the AHF for restraint of trade and invasion of privacy.
Depending on the facts in his case, and how this plays out in terms of action taken against him/his company, Dan could have many potential claims against AHF and others. I say this as someone who’s already heard some of the facts.
You’ve heard of projection, right? That’s where someone really, really hates someone because something in them reminds them of something in themselves that they hate but can’t own up to. Weinstein and AHF as part of the evil, murderous and corrupt AIDS industry are highly immoral, targeting a company which calls itself “Immoral”.
And expect a cure for AID$ as soon as there is a profit motive to do so, and end billions in grants, superfluous wages, research monies and mucho expensive, non-curative “therapies”.
What did Weinstein and the AHF do in regards to Prop 8? And wouldnt the money he spent on B here have been better served with that cause. If AHF spent more money on B than Prop 8, Weinstein is a moral coward and should be exposed as such.