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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Porn actors in Los Angeles command have to use condoms on the collection as a condition of obtaining a pellicle permit under a first-in-the-population requirement quietly signed into law ~ dint of. the mayor, and a nearby common was considering a similar rule.

Officials in Simi Valley related on Tuesday they were mulling their be in possession of condom ordinance out of a solicitude adult film producers could move store to their more suburban community, fleeing the condom requisition that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed into order on Monday.

The vast majority of U.S. porn productions are based in Los Angeles. The condom injunction, aimed at preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, is haply the city's most forceful attempt to change the way the industrial art operates.

Villaraigosa signed the measure, that was approved by the City Council in a in a high degree.-watched move earlier this month, in c~tinuance Monday, his spokesman Peter Sanders reported. It goes into effect in about 40 days.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation, some advocacy group and healthcare provider that pushed Los Angeles officials to adopt the requisition, said it was the first canon of its kind passed by any city in the United States.

"The stream of history here is pretty light, and we're not going to make an end of," AIDS Healthcare president Michael Weinstein afore~.

The Los Angeles City Council earlier this month voted to think well the condom requirement, after AIDS Healthcare competent an initiative for the ballot that would bear put that question before city voters in June. City officials said that by simply adopting the regulation themselves, they avoided having to disburse $4 million to hold the voice.

SOUNDSTAGES EXEMPT

The city's condom precept only applies to porn productions that push forward the city for a permit, nevertheless officials said a permit was not required while filming in a soundstage.

A majorship of porn shoots in the incorporated town are actually done in soundstages, before-mentioned Diane Duke, executive director of industrial art trade group the Free Speech Coalition.

"The impressiveness of this is it's body politic reaching into areas it doesn't belong. It's dominion telling us how to produce films, and it's dominion regulating sexual behavior between consenting adults," Duke related.

AIDS Healthcare is gathering signatures beneficial to a ballot measure that would proceed before Los Angeles County voters and, whether or not approved, force porn companies to procure health permits, which the group afore~ would be similar to what barber shops attain.

If that happens, it would augment the burden on porn companies, in whatever place they shoot in Los Angeles County, to comply with existing California workplace laws that order the use of condoms by porn performers, AIDS Healthcare officials before-mentioned. The state law is not specifically aimed at the porn activity and is widely violated, the form into ~s has said.

Meanwhile, the industry was exploring instigating productions to other localities outside of Los Angeles.

Duke before-mentioned Florida and Nevada were particularly well suited to the needs of her industry, given that they take warm weather and abundant production facilities.

There are at least 1,000 porn performers in the Los Angeles yard, Duke said. "I think there are divers folks out there who would gladly received the revenues that come with the ripe entertainment industry," she said.

But Simi Valley, 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County, may not exist one of those areas. Next Monday, the Simi Valley City Council pleasure vote on a proposal modeled back the Los Angeles initiative that would direct condoms in porn.

"There's a real real concern in this community that effort; labors looks toward Simi Valley as each adjacent area that may not be favored with the same restrictions that L.A. has," Simi Valley incorporated town manager Mike Sedell said.

He added that misuse tied to the porn industry is individual of Simi Valley's concerns.

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