AIDS advocacy group targets 9 California porn agencies in labor complaints

9 Calif porn agencies targeted in labor complaints

LOS ANGELES — An AIDS advocacy group is bringing labor complaints against nine porn talent agencies for promoting actors willing to have unprotected sex on camera.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein says the Los Angeles-area talent agencies are knowingly exposing the actors to sexually transmitted disease.

The complaints addressed to state Labor Commissioner Angela Bradsteet cite a labor code that prevents talent agencies from being licensed if they endanger the health, safety or welfare of artists.

The foundation has been pushing for mandatory use of condoms in porn films since an HIV outbreak in 2004 spread panic through the industry and briefly shut down production at several studios.