Health & Safety in the Adult Film Industry

Policy Statements

• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• American Social Health Association (ASHA) 
• California Conference of Local AIDS Directors (CCLAD)
• California STD Controllers Association (CSTDCA)
• National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD)
• San Francisco Department of Public Health

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Correspondence 02/27/03 08/07/03 05/18/04 07/27/04 10/27/04 06/19/09 09/17/09 03/02/11 07/23/12	Motions 01/21/03 03/25/03 04/20/04 Resolutions 01/14/03 01/21/03 04/20/04

California State Assembly

• Press Release: Assemblyman Koretz to the Adult Entertainment Industry: Use Condoms or Risk Legislative Action, 08/16/04
• Legislative Hearing -- 06/04/04
  Committee on Labor and Employment -- Paul Koretz, Chair
  "Worker Health and Safety in the Adult Film Industry"

California Division of Occupational Safety and Health  (Cal/OSHA)

• DPH Statement to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, 06/29/10
• DPH Statement to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, 03/18/10
• Cal/OSHA Requirements: Adult Film Industry
  • How to file a complaint with Cal/OSHA

Related Journal Articles

• Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing of Adult Film Performers: Is Disease Being Missed? Sex Transm Dis. 2012 Dec;39(12):989-94
• High Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Incidence and Reinfection Among Performers in the Adult Film Industry, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 07/11
• Occupational Health and the Adult Film Industry: Time for a Happy Ending, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 07/11
• Comparison of the Mental Health of Female Adult Film Performers and Other Young Women in California, Psychiatric Services, 06/11
• Condom Use and High-Risk Sexual Acts in Adult Films: A Comparison of Heterosexual and Homosexual Films, American Journal of Public Health, 02/09
• Sexual health of adults working in pornographic films, International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2009
• Pathways to Health Risk Exposure in Adult Film Performers, Journal of Urban Health, 2008
• The Adult Film Industry: Time to Regulate?, PLOS Medicine, 06/07
• The Changing Face of Occupational Medicine, PLOS Medicine, 06/07
• Epidemiologic Investigation of a Cluster of Workplace HIV Infections in the Adult Film Industry: Los Angeles, California, 2004, HIV/AIDS, 1/07
• Resolving the Problem of Performer Health and Safety in the Adult Film Industry, USC Law Review, 03/06
• Molecular analysis of HIV strains from a cluster of worker infections in the adult film industry, Los Angeles 2004, AIDS, 2006
• The XXX Files: CAL/OSHA'S Regulatory Response to HIV in the Adult Film Industry, Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender, Fall 2005
• HIV Transmission in the Adult Film Industry - Los Angeles, California 2004, CDC MMWR, 09/05