I met Allan Gelbard years ago in Sacramento during a lobbying stint. He is a well-respected First Amendment attorney who represents a lot of people in the adult industry. When he speaks, I listen.
In his article, Measure B: It’s More Than Just Condoms!, he deciphers the language of the measure to point out that performers will be required to wear more than condoms. This is only some of what just posted at AVN.com:
Under Measure B, it would require adult film producers to provide, and to insure their employees actually use, “appropriate … equipment such as, but not limited to, gloves, gowns… face shields or masks and eye protection… mouthpieces… pocket masks, or other ventilation devices” where “reasonably anticipated skin, eye [or] mucous membrane… contact with potentially infectious materials” such as “semen, vaginal secretions… saliva… [or] any other body fluid” might occur. You know, like kissing…
So, if Measure B passes, it will only be legal to make adult films in Los Angeles if the performer can’t actually have any actual physical, skin-to-skin contact with each other.
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Mr. Weinstein is certainly free to urge the adult industry to promote safer sex practices. If he owned an adult video store, he would be free to carry only safer sex films. But he is not free to force the government—through lobbying, frivolous lawsuits, or through the abuse of the initiative process—to violate the Constitutional rights of the producers of, and performers in, adult-oriented entertainment by compelling them to only express themselves, sexually or otherwise, in a manner that he deems acceptable.
Mr. Weinstein also claims—falsely—that “not one cent of taxpayer money will be spent.” Thousands of local jobs and billions of dollars in revenue—and the resulting millions of dollars in tax revenues—are at stake. The county will be sued if Measure B passes, and it will lose. Measure B will be found to be an unconstitutional content-based restriction on speech by any reasonable court. Worse yet, as the law would violate both the state and federal Constitutions, the County will have to pay not only its own attorney’s fees, but also the attorney fees for the adult industry litigants, which may run into the millions of dollars. Guess where those dollars will come from? Not from Mr. Weinstein or the coffers of AIDS Healthcare Foundation…
Read more here…
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