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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 9, 2008

Porn Industry's Lack of Workplace Protections Puts Actors at Risk

Forum Colum - By John A. Hall - Mandatory condom usage would ensure a safer workplace for porn actors, but employers claim that their voluntary codes of conduct are adequate.

FORUM COLUMN

By John A. Hall
This article appears on Page 4.

      Porn is huge in America. Every year, 13,000 new X-rated DVD titles are released, the overwhelming majority filmed in the U.S. Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, has noted that the adult-film industry "is not being run by a bunch of dirty old men in the back room of some sleazy warehouse."
      Today, Flynt estima...

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