Ciao Trez.
Non c'e' gran che a fuori delle solite dichiarazioni di quelli dentro e fuori l'industria porno (esempio: uso obbligatorio di condom, quarantine di attori che girano all'estero, test piu' frequenti, interferenza e controllo dalle autorita', ecc). Ognuno cerca di mettere avanti i loro proropri interessi.
Leggi questo articolo pubblicato dalla AVN.com il 4 giugno per darti un'idea:
http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Na ... _ID=105910
[size=9:79e7bc9c71]Public Hearing Just the Beginning of Scrutiny of Adult Industry Safety Practices
By: Scott Ross
06-04-2004
VAN NUYS, Calif. - Assemblyman Paul Koretz walked away from today's public hearing that he called for on health and safety issues within the adult industry with an initial impression that the best thing would be if the adult industry voluntarily adopted a condom-only policy.
But for the moment, Kortez's office told AVN.com that the only immediate course of action is to reflect upon the information presented today, then start gathering even more information until the assemblyman feels there is enough information to come to a conclusion, whatever that may be.
Government officials, representatives of the adult industry, STD specialists, and HIV policy advocates testified this morning at the hearing that presented two dominant questions: 1) Do the current protective measures taken by either the heterosexual and/or homosexual side of the adult industry or provide performers with adequate health and safety protections?, and 2) Would additional measures economically smother the very industry they were purportedly protecting?
The hearing, held at the Van Nuys Office Building this morning, was called by Koretz, chair of the Assembly Labor Committee, after a bill seeking to create regulatory health and safety standards was stalled by the Assembly Health Committee, which Koretz sits on.
The stalled bill, written by Assemblyman Tim Leslie (R-Lake Tahoe), called for the state's Department of Health Services to create safety standards for adult performers. As evidenced today at the hearing when state health officials presented testimony, those standards would require mandatory condom usage, something that the majority of the adult industry is desperate to avoid, with many companies threatening to move out of state if regulatory legislation is passed.
For the most part, the government officials were unimpressed with the two frequently repeated beliefs that the adult industry would react to regulatory attempts by either returning to its underground roots or by undertaking a mass relocation of the companies, talent, crew, and tax revenue that the adult industry generates.
After calling for mandatory condom usage and endorsing the concept that production companies should be carrying the costs of testing, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, M.D., the public health director for Los Angeles County, explained his rationale by saying that the, "fundamental issue is that workers are being subjected to life threatening diseases in the course of their employment."
Fielding expressed his displeasure that the gonorrhea rate within the adult industry varied between 14 to 28 positive performers at any given time, even while acknowledging those performers represent an estimated two percent of the talent in the industry.
Prior to Fielding's testimony, a deputy chief for enforcement at California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) confirmed that a complaint had been filed against an adult company for violating Cal/OSHA's health regulations and an investigation into the complaint will begin in the near future, as reported yesterday on AVN.com.
Vicky Heza, the Cal/OSHA deputy chief, stressed that the state's workplace safety oversight agency would first have to prove that complaint fell under their jurisdiction, something she admitted would have to be done on a case by case basis.
However, in comparing the adult industry to the garment and agriculture industry, Heza indicated that it was her belief that the reason there were not more complaints from the adult industry to her organization was that people were too intimidated to come forward.
Also representing the state health department was Dr. Gail Bolan, M.D., who heads the department's STD control branch. Bolan felt that best reason for making condoms mandatory for pornography was for educational purposes, noting that, "cultural messages are carried best by popular media." Bolan noted that no testing strategy provided 100 percent safety.
Kat Sunlove, the executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, opened the panel of adult industry experts calling a mandatory condom policy "too harsh," saying that such measures would force the adult industry underground or out of state.
Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts, interrupted the hearing when immediately after Sunlove's presentation, he shouted out that her opinions did not necessarily reflect the opinions of everyone on the FSC board of directors.
Glasser is a member of the FSC board who recently announced that his company was now among the handful of adult companies that are condom only, a move he has called for other producers to emulate. He elaborated that point later in the day, during the period allotted for public viewpoints.
During her time on the panel, AIM Healthcare Foundation's executive director, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, PhD, recounted the history of AIM, then discussed some of the new safety protocols that the industry aree developing, including a two-week quarantine for performers who travel abroad.
Eventually the Assemblyman will decide whether or not the adult industry needs to be regulated for the protection of those who work in it, and if so, he must then decided how to handle it, with possibilities such as whether or not to craft new legislation to that effect, or attempt to amend the currently stalled bill.
First Amendment attorney Lawrence G. Walters, who was not at today's hearing, felt that even if legislation mandating condoms within the adult industry was ever signed into law, it would eventually be ruled unconstitutional. "I think that would constitute an unlawful infringement on Free Speech. In effect, it's a mandatory content inclusion that dramatically affects the expression in an erotic film," Walters said.
[Ed. Note AVN Senior Editor Mark Kernes contributed to this report]
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Per il resto, AIM continua a aggiornare la loro lista di "quarantina" (vedi quest'ultima a questo link del 4 giugno). Quasi tutti gli attori/attrici sono stati "liberati" (cleared) a base di test recenti. Nessuno atro caso di HIV e' stato identificato a parte di quelli gia' menzionati.
http://www.aim-med.org/Quarantine.html
