February 2, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco pornography company that specializes in films featuring scenes of dominance and submission was fined more than $78,000 this week by state safety officials for maintaining dangerous workplace conditions, among them allowing performers to have sex on camera without using condoms.
Records show that the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Cybernet for a number of violations after an inspection last August. The largest part of the fine — $75,000 of it — targeted Cybernet's policy allowing its performers to choose whether or not to use condoms.
The inspection was prompted by a formal complaint filed against Kink.com by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-headquartered advocacy group.
Previously, AHF Foundation successfully lobbied for condom requirements on porn sets in the city of Los Angeles and later for all of LA County in 2012.
The foundation filed the complaints after two Kink.com performers who were romantically involved tested HIV-positive last year.
Well, no wonder… They were using HIV + performer...
About policy allowing its performers to choose whether or not to use condoms, I think its completely on the actor's side, because they are who do the acts. So, whether they're using condom or not, its up to them. I think, with the all information we got about HIV/AIDS now days, they understood the risk clearly.