Someone sent this in. Thank you!
It’s no secret to anyone in the jizz biz that the industry, as it now exists, is on its final legs. The current economic situation, which has affected every industry, along with the growing piracy, has all but killed the industry. Now enter the Aids Healthcare Foundation, and OSHA, and the final nails are being driven as we speak. While many in the porn industry blogosphere, and industry “news” sites like AVN are claiming to be winning the battle, they couldn’t be further from the truth. The success of the most recent obscenity prosecutions isn’t helping the industry either. And by the looks of everything so far, it is almost assured that John Stagliano, who has lost every motion (as ridiculous as they have been) will certainly lose, if not take a plea.
But now to the heart of the matter. RUMOR has it that several adult companies have offered to make substantial donations to the non-profit Aids Healthcare Foundation in return for them “backing off’. There is only ONE reason they would do this, and we all know what that is. They know they are going to lose, and lose big time.
RUMOR also has it that LATATA (also a target ot AHF) is forbidding any of their talent from attending the upcoming hearings. It is well known in the industry that any current performer who comes out publicly in support of better working conditions can kiss their ‘career’ good-bye. The “Plan” as it is known to those participating in it is to buy the silence of the AHF and keep the performers quiet. You will notice that nobody, not AIM, AVN, XBIZ, or anybody has even published the dates of the upcoming hearings. Like always, they want to keep the performers as uninformed as possible. Their goal is to make sure that no “stake-holders’ in the industry show up at these hearings. The “donations” to AHF are to ensure that they too do not show up at the meetings. (Is that what AHF was after thew whole time?) With no ‘stake-holders’ present, they hope that OSHA will vote to NOT amend the 5193 statute.
The “invite” only meeting last week was one for the ages. It was more like a bunch of petulant children whining about not getting their way, than a meeting of some of the most prominent players in a multi billion dollar industry. If this is the best they can come up with, then the end is certainly near. Only time will tell, and that time is coming very soon. The interesting thing was that not all the members of LATATA were invited, Why do you think they did that?
Another funny thing, RUMOR has it that the amount offered to AHF is more than they have ever given to AIM in almost ten years….I wonder how Sharon Mitchell fells about that? I wonder why AVN hasn’t reported this.
Monica
May 27, 2010
So what are the dates of the hearings? I wouldn’t be too worried about LATATA stopping their talent from attending or threatening to black list them – people who want to show up will, and at this point in my view, LATATA (or any agency for that matter) in the grand scheme of things has very little influence in whether you work or not in the adult industry (or outside of it).
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
There is a previous post on this site that has the time dates and location of the hearing.
Darrah Ford
May 27, 2010
Shoot, sorry for forgetting to add it in. I’ll edit it in now above also.
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
Monica,
Do you knwo that LATATA(legal adult talent agency trade aociation) is LA direct, Goldstar Modeling, Type 9,speigler girls, A LISt talent,,,,and a few other agencies?
Duncan
May 27, 2010
Uh, Anonymous/JoeKnow – it’s pretty obvious that you are “someone sent this” :headshot:
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
Wow duncan,
Did you figure that out all by yourself? You should take that little Sherlock Holmes ring you got out of your box of cracker jacks an open a private investigatin business. Now, if youre really good, you will tellus how some dooosh like me gets this information that you previously had NO CLUE about. And dont even try to tell us you knew this.
I’m eagerly looking forward to your next groundbreaking, investigative, and utterly worthless comment. Thanks, in advance.
Monica
May 27, 2010
Yes I’m very aware of who LATATA is comprised of, which is obvious on my gettingintoporn dot com blog. Your point?
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
The wording of your firts post I got the impression that you thought LATATA was a single agency. My bad.
Did you know that four of the LATATA memebers are part of the “Plan” to attempt to influence the upcoming hearings?
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
The wording of your first post gave me the impression that you thought LATATA was a single agency. My bad.
Did you know that four of the LATATA members are part of the “Plan” to influence the upcoming hearings?
Monica
May 27, 2010
I’m not surprised – actually this entire pattern is common place in virtually any industry that comes “under fire”.
I wonder if the AHF will accept the rumored bribes and back off…if they do they’re no “better” than those they’re trying to burn at the stake.
I still don’t see the big deal in regards to implementing condoms more regularly in porn along with a few other health regulations. Safe sexy is just as sexy as condomless sex and in the end would put the industry in a better light as condom scenes would “display a good example” to our youth.
Yea, porn is a form of art, but so is food for sale in a restaurant (culinary arts). If a restaurant has to follow health guidelines and keep things up to a certain code, why shouldn’t porn studios?
Honestly at this point this argument doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things when it comes to the “future of porn”, considering that many studios are going out of business due to free tube sites and the “stars” deciding to primarily work for themselves rather than others anyways.
Now, I remember reading a story / posting on here a while ago about Shy Love’s agency leaving the LATATA organization due to a possible threat towards her sexual health (if I remember correctly, she wanted a more recent test for who she was paired with in a scene and was denied it) – I checked the LATATA site and noticed her agency isn’t on the list any longer. I wonder if she will show up for this hearing and voice her concerns in regards to the validity of LATATA considering her experience (if that was a factual story). If she did, that would probably be an interesting shift.
Duncan
May 27, 2010
@JoeKnow you guys from lukeford.com are funny. tell Shy and the love twins Duncan said hi. They know who I am.
I’m eagerly looking forward to read more news about “Dr. Mitch” from you Gayzor.
@Darrah Ford – your new template looks cool, but i miss your logo.
less press releases please 😉 – I’d love to read some interviews here.
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
Monica,
The more I hear your opinions the more impressed I am. I have checked out several of your video blogs and you seem to have a pretty good head on your shoulders.
Performers need more people like you who are willing to speak out….Testiomony from established performers like you CAN make a differnece in these upcoming hearings…..I hope you decide to step up…….
Reading opinions like yours makes me rethink my usage of some derogatory terms regarding performers.
P.S. Tha t Shy Love story was mine…thanks
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
And Duncan,,,,what “Gyzer” knows about Dr. Mitch and AIM couldnt fit on the top of a pin. But thanks anyway.
Hey Duncan, do you know why Scott, Ray, and Alicia were “let to” from AIM?
Would you like to know?
Anonymous
May 27, 2010
p.s. Duncan, you knwo who I am too. And it aint the guy you mentioned here. LOL
Duncan
May 27, 2010
^^ You go Joe.
Anonymous
May 28, 2010
Thanks Mar……I mean Duncan
Duncan
May 28, 2010
Joey, I see you also sent your stuff to Mike South. XXXinsiders like you will change the world.
Anonymous
May 28, 2010
I didnt send it to anyone but Darrah……..Adultfyi, and Mike both lifted it from this site. But good try, but another fail. I think Darrah aslo posted it on GFY
Keep trying Spuncan, you might be closer th the truth than you think, then again, you might be miles away. You amuse me, please keep up the guessing game.
Anon
May 28, 2010
Duncan is Mar!!!
Anonymous is Not Joey!!!
LOLOLOL!!!
PS: You forgot to reveal your respective Social Security Numbers!
PPS: Why did Mike South quit his job at NASA?
Anonymous
May 28, 2010
Funny thing about Mike,,,,,,since banning me from his site a long time ago he has lifted about half a dozen things I have written on other sites and put them on his. And Mike’s site says this article is from Adultfyi.com……Darrah had this first,,,,funny thing how Darrah gets this story and the industry ‘news’ sources are suspiciously silent……The right to free speech is also the right to remain silent,,funny how they like having it both ways.
Anonymous
May 28, 2010
My mistake.
The adultfyi article says rom “mikesouth.com”
Mike south changes the name of the article and puts “By Mike South” under it and then writes “An xxxInsider ssys….”
Both of them lifted it from here.
Anon
May 28, 2010
Anonymous, it´s THE NOT INVENTED HERE RULE. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here )
Start your own blog!
Kelli
May 28, 2010
The porn industry is not now nor anytime in the near future “coming to an end”. But I did hear from this one guy that the sky was falling.
🙂
Mike South
May 29, 2010
actually it was sent to me by someone else I didnt even know it was here until someone else told me about it
and BTW ya idjit anything I post says By MikeSouth you see wordpress pulls in the name of the login that posts it
Darrah Ford
May 29, 2010
**Duncan says: @Darrah Ford – your new template looks cool, but i miss your logo.
less press releases please 😉 – I’d love to read some interviews here.**
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I miss the logo too. But we can’t have a custom header. But now I figured out we can have something in a widget which would show just below the title. But I want to retire the P.S. Babylon name too. If I could hear back from the person who made the logo, I would ask if he could make me one with the same angel but in a black & white theme to match the new template.
I see press releases as news. And many who read my blog are not in the porn industry. So they might only be reading it here for the first time. And if I didn’t have press releases, my blog may not have that many posts.
Anonymous
May 29, 2010
Mike,
No problem. You speak your mind and thats what I like about you. Its what yu say that I sometimes dont agree with, but that isnt what matters. I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the end your right to say it.
And Kelli, I NEVER said the porn industry was coming to an end. I said the industry, AS IT NOW EXISTS, is coming to an end. I see a big change in the way the industry operates, not an end. The business model of most companies is going to change. Of course porn will still exist, nobody is disputing that.
Anonymous
May 31, 2010
Having been in this industry for many years as both a performer and a producer I am shocked that with the advent of new technologies available to us we are still bitching about condom use. We have the technology to remove the condoms in post! I am not happy with the way talent is being thrown to the wolves so to speak and their health is not being considered. Testing is not prevention. If talent chooses to request condoms then they should be given condoms. In this business I think talent should be able to make informed decisions about their health and when they are not capable of making good decisions it is the role of the producers and companies to protect them. It is a matter of human compassion. Talent has always been regarded as pieces of meat and it is not right. Even animals have rights and we fight for them so why not adult performers? To you Darrah keep up the good work because the talent needs a voice.
Darrah Ford
June 1, 2010
Thanks! 😀 Is the technology there? I think I remember Karen Stagliano saying on the ADT forum how if they can tell her how to do it, John would do it. It was a while ago but that’s the gist of what she said.
Anonymous
June 1, 2010
We are in a digital age. The technology is used in mainstream to add and remove many things like actors images etc. The same technology can be used in Adult. It just takes a little time and research a commitment to realizing peoples health issues are a problem that we all need to be concerned about and try to help in any way possible. I for one have been shooting condom porn (straight porn) for a while and NEVER had an effect on sales or from my clients.
Anonymous
June 1, 2010
Above poster,
Are you going to step up at the hearings. This is the place where real change can happen, but not if good people like you remain silent. Hope you decide to come forward…..And who knows, since you already shoot condom porn, your stock may go up quite a bit.
Best wishes to you. Thank you for being responsible.
Darrah Ford
June 4, 2010
Wicked still films with condoms and many amateur gonzo porn. I think many just don’t want to invest the money. I think they think if anything happens to anyone, they’ll hire someone else.