AIDS Healthcare Foundation is aiming to put the adult movie industry out of business — and they just might succeed.

The topic that the adult movie industry is talking about most these days is Proposition 60, a ballot initiative created by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) president Michael Weinstein. And thanks to hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by AHF to professional signature gatherers across California, it will appear on the November presidential ballot.

The fact is, Weinstein has been using his organization to go after the adult industry for more than seven years, starting with petitioning Cal/OSHA in 2009 to force adult performers to wear condoms, through both L.A. City and County mandatory condom initiatives. The county mandate passed and became Measure B, and when the county didn’t want to defend Vivid Entertainment’s lawsuit against it, AHF intervened to “save” it — hell, they even tried to force the city to form its own health department when the county’s wouldn’t attack the adult industry as hard as Weinstein wanted it to.

One result of Measure B is that it got FilmL.A., the city agency that gives out filming permits, to require that any adult producer seeking a permit promises that the production will be condom-only. The result? Much of the industry returned to its underground roots and permits for adult productions fell from 485 in 2012 to 40 in 2013.

Then, Weinstein got the brilliant idea to create a statewide initiative to enforce condom use in the industry, and that initiative became Proposition 60, the Condoms in Pornographic Films Initiative, which will be on the November 8 ballot.

“A vote against Prop 60 is your only hope of saving the Adult Entertainment you love.”

Supporters of Prop. 60, officially known as the California Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act, claim that the measure is all about protecting adult movie and web actors from sexually transmitted infections — nothing more, nothing less.

That claim, however, is a lie.

As a whole, the adult industry is hugely focused on performer health and requires that they regularly get tested for a variety of STIs, including HIV, every 14 days — and actors won’t work with a partner whose test is even one day out of date. That’s why there has been exactly one incident of HIV transmission on an adult movie set in the last 12 years. The industry also supports the use of Truvada, a medication that prevents HIV infection — a remarkably effective prescription that Weinstein labeled a “party drug.” Guess he was worried that it might put AHF out of business.

But one thing is pretty clear: Weinstein wants to drive the adult industry out of business — or at least out of state.

Now, the vast majority of adult performers don’t like using condoms, and the vast majority of the porn-watching public doesn’t care for them either. But as much as the Prop 60 supporters talk about condoms, condoms, condoms, it’s not just about condoms.

Most of AHF’s proposed legislation refers to the California Health Code’s Section 5193. And if you read it carefully, besides requiring condom use, Sec. 5193 also requires the use of “eye protection” (goggles and/or face shields), rubber gloves and dental dams (which, for those not in the know, are rubber sheets laid over a pussy during cunnilingus to prevent the pleasure-giver’s mouth from coming in contact with the labia and clit), and the equivalent of hazmat suits to prevent skin-to-skin contact — regulations that were clearly written for doctors and nurses to use while caring for patients. In fact, “adult industry” isn’t mentioned anywhere in Sec. 5193.

So what is Prop 60 really about?

This proposed law would allow any citizen of California, who sees a movie or a web scene that doesn’t appear to have condoms in it, to file a complaint with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. If the agency declines to pursue the case within 21 days, the witness could then file a civil lawsuit against anyone with a financial interest in the film, which could include some performers. Now, these lawsuits — and there will undoubtedly be thousands — will all be financed by California taxpayers. And, if any of these lawsuits are successful, the citizen who originally filed it will be awarded 25 percent of whatever the defendant is forced to pay.

Let’s think about this for a minute.

Say you’re a webcam girl doing a scene with your husband or boyfriend. Chances are, you’re not using your real name on camera — but, in response to some random citizen’s lawsuit, you’ll be forced to reveal your name and home address in the legal papers you’ll have to file. Let’s not even think about how much an attorney will charge to defend you against this horseshit. But it goes even deeper: Say you’re just a regular Joe, and you make a naughty little video of you and your life partner having some adult fun, and you decide to post that video anonymously to an amateur porn website — then you’ll be opening yourself up to being sued as well. It’s not just the big-money studios that are at risk. It’s anyone and everyone who has ever made and posted a video that could be considered porn.

The real capper, however, is that Prop 60 will set Michael Weinstein up for life as California’s “porn czar,” with the ability to sue any adult producer in the state — a job from which he could only be fired by votes from both the California Assembly and Senate. So, his real interest in the porn industry is using it to set himself up in a lifetime job at taxpayers’ expense.

Prop 60 is opposed by the California Democratic Party, the California Republican Party, the California Libertarian Party, AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, Equality California, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Transgender Law Center, the industry trade organization Free Speech Coalition, and the Adult Performers Advocacy Committee, which delivered more than 650 signed petitions to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board in protest.

If you live in California, a vote against Prop 60 is your only hope of saving the adult entertainment you love.

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