Measure B passed in California?
I’m sure most of you have heard about Measure B passing in LA county this last election on Nov 6th. Measure B requires porn stars to wear condoms for any and all videos shot within the Los Angeles Country. That means guys must wear condoms for scenes with women or men and Women must use dental Dams in scenes with other women. I’m am not in utter shock that this measure passed but I am in utter shock that it was even on the ballot. Whether you watch porn or not, I’m sure you have read articles or seen stuff in the news about the proposition to mandate the use of condoms in porn. I’m sure most of you who don’t watch porn probably thought, “yeah people should wear condoms when they have sex” and so you voted Yes without understanding what you were doing. I’m sure your intentions were good but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The LA times wrote a pretty decent article endorsing the “NO ON B” stance. The only problem I had with the article in the LA times was that it likend the use of condoms for the “protection of the worker” to that of the use of a helmet on a construction worker “for the protection of the worker”. My problem with this analogy is that the sale of the end product of what ever a construction worker is working on does not directly correlate to the fact that the construction worker wore that helmet. A business owner doesn’t decide NOT to buy a property because he saw the construction workers wearing helmets when they were building the structure. Nor does a business owner decide to buy a property purely because he DID see the construction workers wearing helmets.
A better analogy would be Runway models and for the sake of making it easy I will refer to run way models as female but males are included here as well. Run way models look a certain way to sell products. The way they look directly correlates to the sale of what ever product they are modeling ( sound familiar?) Most successful and sought after runway models are extremely tall and thin. Some are naturally thing while others put themselves at risk with eating disorders to maintain the desired run way look. The model puts herself at risk so that she can work. Her job is to sell the clothing she’s modeling. Let’s say there were a law passed in California that required all runway models to be within what the government considered a “healthy weight” category because being under these weight was putting the model at a health risk and also causes young people to develop eating disorders since they are seeing these bone thin models as role models. Let’s say this was the chart hypothetically so you guys have an idea of where I’m going with this.
What do you think would happen to run way models in California? They would move, there would no longer be runway shows in California. Designers still would use the waif thin models for their shows because that’s what sells. Teen girls and boys will still be influenced by the waif look and still develop their own body dysmorphia problems. There will be NO change to the fashion industry other than the fact there will be no more runway models in California. This is much like what is going on with porn. So if Porn is being told what to do by the government thanks to you voters , then why not mandate healthful weights for Models? They are putting themselves and the public at risk….inspiring eating disorders and self image problems., heck why not ban contact sports those guys put themselves at risk…..maybe boxers should wear body condoms since they get blood on each other and put each other at risk. Then while we are at it, let”s ban all any extreme sport like river rafting, sky diving motor cross, even nascar ( there’ve been a few deaths from those) lets make it so no one ever puts themselves at a risk. Let’s stop driving cars…those have killed a few people……of course I’m going extreme but every extreme measure starts with a small step. If a measure such as my hypothetical runway model one were on the same ballot as measure B, I am willing to bet that people wouldn’t have voted to mandate this hypothetical model weight measure…..so why did they vote to mandate condoms in porn. People like to pick on porn. People in porn are pariahs, we are seen as lesser people because of what? because we have sex? so you think you should be able to boss us around and tell us how to do every single thing we do because we sin differently than YOU?
What the voters who thought they were doing good did was unknowingly open the gateway for their own rights to be taken away. it’s baby steps towards having the government run your life in every way. You poor sad sheeple.