The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) and the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards (CalOSHA) met today to discuss the call for an advisory committee on condoms within the adult film industry. In a nutshell CalOSHA is calling for mandatory condoms in all future porn productions. The FSC isn’t necessarily arguing against the condom use, they’re just trying to give everyone outside full disclosure of it’s maintained practices and procedure.

But it got me thinking. Almost every time I see a guy wearing a condom, and really it depends on whether i’ve seen condoms in the other sex scenes, I think to myself “I wonder what came up on her monthly report.”

Yeah it’s kind of mean.

But it’s a scary world. Now that it’s no longer the 70′s we actually have diseases out there that, not only can’t be cured, but also kill people. Sadly enough in the adult film world it almost seems a matter of when, more than if. So all of this can be prevented with simple condom use.

What about people who don’t like condom use in their porn? It’s true, there seems to be a large “taboo” contingency that prefers skin on skin with no latex in-between. I may possibly be one of them. But obviously it goes beyond personal interests, tastes, perversions and fetishes when we’re talking about safety and health. Especially from an industry thats trying to be as open and transparent to the federal government as needed and possible.

Looking forward into the future one can almost imagine non-condom porn videos becoming their own niche. Sold for a higher price and largely transformed into a collectors item and relegated to be referred to as “from the good ol’ days.”

As an aside, since these talks have really only begun, no change is expected to be set in place for at least 2 years.

Start stockpiling.