A month ago, Capital Video was talking up its “excellent relationship with its host communities”. General counsel Lesley Rich suggested that their store would be “designed in a ‘mainstream’ manner… Capital intends on opening an ‘upscale’ store in Northampton, and would be very receptive to discussions with the community on the look, feel and the […]
Day: December 11, 2006
2004: Cal/OSHA issues citations to adult film companies for failing to protect employees from health hazards
After an HIV scandal rocked the porn industry in 2004, California workplace regulators fined two adult film companies for safety violations, issuing this press release on 9/16/04: SAN FRANCISCO – Cal/OSHA, the state’s occupational safety and health program, yesterday issued its first-ever citations to employers in the adult film industry. Two employers, Evasive Angles and […]
Carol Queen: Time for the Porn Film Industry to Stop Being a Poster Child of Heterosexual HIV Transmission
Carol Queen is no anti-porn crusader. She’s the author of Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture. That doesn’t stop her from advocating for condom use in porn films in this 2004 article for the San Francisco Chronicle: As good a job as porn has tried to do in preventing its No. 1 occupational […]