Some people think that it’s only porn stars who have to push up with shady producers and dick head agents. But that just isn’t true.
Vogue recently sat down with a ton of mainstream models to talk about some of their experiences on set, with agents and shitty model houses — including one story about how a creepy photographer was getting way to forward with a 13-year-old!
Today the Free Speech Coalition sent out an email announcing that beginning June 30, 2019, talent agents in the adult industry will be required to provide educational materials on sexual harassment prevention and eating disorders to performers who work with them. The Labor Commissioner has the right to investigate and inspect agencies and can assess a fine of $100 for each violation.
Despite what Eric Paul Leue says, this is actually nothing to do with the adult industry. This isn’t a regulation setup for our industry but the entire movie industry. In fact, this new rule is in direct response to all the Harvey Weinstein mess.
In the statement, they said, “Free Speech Coalition has approached numerous vendors to help develop material specific to the adult industry. However, no vendor approached has yet been able, willing or interested in creating material specifically for the adult industry.”
Again not true. We happen to know that Eric, the current executive director of the free speech coalition was offered an entire series of free brochures professionally produced brochures, specifically for the adult industry and part of that offer included the cost of printing these at or below cost. This printing house is one that also prints a massive amount of data for business from the US government. Then printed brochures these can be distributed to the talent through not only the agents but also at each of the main testing facilities for CET and Talent Testing.
As an alternative, if they didn’t want to do printing or didn’t have the money, they could be created as digital brochures and then distributed not only via email from the talent agents to all their talent but also directly from the Free Speech Coalition’s website.
Why he is now claiming they couldn’t find anyone is behind me and seems quite strange he would make such a claim.
Anyway, the point of this post wasn’t to figure out what is going on with the FSC but to let you know that there are problems not only in porn but also in mainstream. Things are just as bad in the real world as they are in porn.
And the new regulations from the State of California Labor Board are as a direct result of that, not anything to do with porn. All talent agents, not just porn ones must comply with the new rules. I’m unsure why the FSC would say otherwise and make people think the state is coming down harsh on just us. They aren’t. It’s new rules for EVERY talent agent, mainstream and porn alike.
The free speech coalition is messing up a lot lately. they really need to get their shit together.
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FSC has never been about the talent, its about protecting the interests of the studios/producers.
What is the big deal about agents having to give their talent leaflets about eating disorders and sexual harassment? IMO the state should be providing them if they are legislating them but it would take about 30-45 minutes to research and make these up on a computer.
As for Harv Weinstein, he can go to hell and prison, getting fucked up the ass daily while in both places! The bubbas will love him at Sing Sing (his criminal charges are in NY state). Too bad Bill Cosby is in Pennsylvania, they would make great gay lovers if forced to “shack up” together in a prison cell. Suck a fucking dick, Harv!
More of Matthew’s violent prison fantasies. And he goes into such detail about them.
Refresh my memory, Matthew: did you also share these fantasies at adt and on Sean’s forum or only here?
EEOC and various other alphabet soup Labor regulatory agencies have required ‘sexual harassment’ training for decades. Back in 1985 one of my duties as branch manager of retail banking for a large commercial bank was scheduling workers for this training then documenting compliance in personnel files. Every job or company with ‘no fraternization’ policies has them to protect stakeholders from costly lawsuits.
In a sense FSC is speaking truthfully …it isn’t about the industry or even Weinstein or ‘new’ California labor regulations. It is a sign of the times and getting what you ask for. The industry wanted recognized legitimacy now it is recognized and regulated same as any other legitimate US industry.
The regulations are not new, focused enforcement efforts are. Those efforts are a direct result of labor complaints against the industry over the past five years. FSC is doing what they are supposed to do by making agents, and producers aware of their liability risks with information to mitigate those risks.
Spinning it as somebody else’s fault is FSC job too. NFW the are going to say California labor agencies watching closely especially now after Kink and Agent rulings went against industry. HINT ….consent is key word to why performers prevailed in those losses.
The industry has been trying for several years to create uniform ‘consent’ policies. Now with regulatory scrutiny agents and producers will be forced to cut people loose the way Kink had to cut Deen loose when the Stoya-Deen opened a very public ‘me too’ can of worms.
California Labor commissioner works the same as OSHA. They administer Federal minimum standards the state can make stronger. They are dependent on complaints. Given the decades FSC has proven their interests as a ‘trade association’ conflict with performer rights is it any surprise performers are more willing to file a complaint with a labor agency?
“This printing house is one that also prints a massive amount of data for business from the US government.”
Exactly!!! FSC is just like every other industry advocacy group that would have you believe they scoured the law to make sure they included everything employers need to cover their ass vs reality. Federal Labor agencies offer free or dirt cheap basic (generic) materials to meet the minimum requirements of mandated training. Any employer is free to use them ‘as is’ or ‘customize’ with ADDITIONAL material specific to their industry or workplace with minimal costs to print their ‘brand(ed)’ materials.