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The money-quote for me was:

>>"When you force the industry from a well-equipped infrastructure like the Valley, with not only traditional sound stages, but a large number of easily rented homes where adult filming is permitted and encouraged, and push it to the margins, and to area and locations where people are not aware that adult film is being shot, you're seeing the beginning of an industry moving underground."

AKA, you don't let us what we want to, we'll do things illegally. And that's the issue I have with all the 'disruption' (belch) happening around.

Soo, the porn industry is 'disrupting' location/set industry. How long before we can expect to see our houses in mainstream cinema after having airbnb'd to some rando 3 years before?

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It's absolutely nothing to do with disruption. It's the result of taking something that is legal and making it illegal. Like prohibition in the US. Suddenly ban people from doing something they once could do and a black market will form.

Funnily enough, in many cases, that's exactly what a lot of AirBnB renters are doing, too - illegally subletting their home, ignoring commercial hotel regulations, and the like.

"Only OUR disruption is okay! Yours isn't!"

I think you're drawing an erroneous conclusion that because the sets are less established, or even improvised, that they are necessarily illegal.

This is a useless attitude to have: the porn industry is not a unit, and doesn't move as a unit, it moves or forms where it is possible and profitable. If you make raw milk illegal, raw milk commerce will go underground. It's nothing personal, and demanding loudly that it stop is like telling gravity to stop.

In this case, its more prohibition of a critical component of the porn industry [ no condom shoots ] that was necessary for them to be economically viable.

lots of industries are more "viable" (profitable) if you allow them to kill workers

The industry doesn't willingly kill workers. The whole mandatory HIV testing routine was originated within the industry. I know quite a lot of sex workers and they don't appreciate this so-called 'help' from people outside the industry.

http://www.cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/

> Using male condoms the right way, every time, can reduce (though not eliminate) the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and viral hepatitis, as well as other diseases that may be transmitted through sex like Zika virus and Ebola. Using male condoms the right way, every time, can also help prevent pregnancy.

The existing safeguards aren't 100% but condoms aren't 100% either.

All you've really done by backing this is driving people to produce off the books and outside of the regulated area. All it did was add to their commute.

corporations dont have to follow the rules. why should anyone else ?

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