With potentially more rules coming to the California porn industry, it is beginning to feel like porn is akin to the Internet: when you let something grow and establish itself for so long without regulation, it becomes impossible to reign it in. Even when it seems to be the right thing to do.
Tracy Clark-Flory makes an excellent point at the end of this report:
On the one hand, the guidelines introduce the progressive prospect of adult companies taking responsibility for workers’ medical care (currently, performers often pay for their own STD tests). On the other, it conjures the fantasy-smashing image of a begoggled porn star performing on a plastic-wrapped couch.
