Sam, you have to remember that many (not all, not even the majority) people in porn basically flunked out of everything else in life and landed “here”. Enough of them wood be dumb enough to try to operate the whole time on a single condom (and save money too!)

Government mandates are find, provided that they (a) hit the intended target of making certain things safer, and more importantly (b) do not create situations which make everything else more dangerous.

Condoms, when used properly, are a good idea and increase safety. Nobody denies that (unless they are idiots). Condoms, when used improperly, provide a false sense of security that leads to problems.

My biggest fear is people getting sick and continuing to work, because they are “shooting safely with a condom”. Then the dom breaks, and boom, someone else gets sick.

You gotta admit, there enough dumb people in porn for that to happen…

You don’t have to use just ONE condom for the whole shoot. I’ve done plenty of condom shoots with no problem.
Hell, have had even more sex in life with condoms and never had an issue.
Lots of industries have Gov mandates, rules & safety regulations. Trying to think of an industry that doesn’t?

“are effectively prevented by correct condom use”.

Here’s the problem: Condoms break – and slip:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8070546

You are dealing with 2% or so breakage and almost 4% slippage (which leads to fluid leaks in both directions) under normal, cilivian, two pump chump usage levels. In porn, the usage generally would be more “industrial strength”, with penetration often being prolonged for filming, occurring in more stressful positions, and often including artificial lube and similar. While I can’t find a study, my guess (and only my guess) is that you would effectively double the breakage rates and more than that for slippage.

Further, and this is key: the real risk in using condoms in porn is that performers will become even MORE casual about their health, and performers who are knowingly ill may still perform. With a combined 10% or higher rate of breakage and slippage, that could end up being fatal for performers.

The real, true, and correct process should be two fold: Government mandated and monitored testing to assure that performers with ongoing infections are not performing, and the use of condoms during penetration scenes.

Now, there is still the questions of oral sex, ejeculation / cum shots, and the like. If I understand correct, things like Southern Bukkake would be illegal. I think that much of the fight is about aspects of porn that cannot ever match the standards being put forward. At some point, they may infringe on freedom of expression, and that’s a whole other “all the way to SCOTUS” legal argument.

Despite all their objections at the top of the petition FSC never specifies antibiotics, TasP, or PrEP in 27 pages of suggested language (changes to the enclosed proposed policy) Instead they add ‘Personal Protection Options’ with a testing protocol appendix specifying Aptima as the PCR-RNA.

Below is my favorite KINK through 27 pages of suggested language changes.

Application add ‘C’ exception for employers with no direction and control over the creation of a production.

@Karma

Yep FSC is advocating prophylactic antibiotics as a prophylactic to condoms.