LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After safer sex advocates filed over 557,000 signatures last week on a California ballot measure requiring condom use in adult films shot anywhere in the state, Mark Kernes, the Board Secretary for the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), the porn producers’ trade group, as well as an Industry Legal Writer and Analyst, admitted in a print article on AVN.com (Adult Video News) website (where he is ‘Senior Editor’) and (in all certainty as ‘Mark, from Chatsworth’) during a public radio call in show on ‘AirTalk with Larry Mantle’ on 89.3 KPCC-FM, that the industry is breaking the law by not using condoms on adult film sets and by not taking out required film and public health permits. Kernes also stated the porn industry is unlikely to leave Los Angeles County because “…they like the atmosphere in Southern California, you can shoot outdoors for longer periods during the year.”
In a September 15th web news article on AVN.com headlined, “AHF and FSC Reps Square Off on KPCC's 'AirTalk', Kernes wrote about the industry’s willful disregard for film and public health permits:
“…they're {producers) … lying on their health permit application or simply not getting a filming permit. Most have chosen the latter course, possibly because lying on an official government document can be worth up to a couple of years in prison.”
Then on the well-regarded public radio talk show ‘AirTalk with Larry Mantle’, also on September 15th, host Mantle introduced a “Mark from Chatsworth, you’re on AirTalk” without identifying him as Kernes OR as Board Secretary of the Free Speech Coalition. It is unknown if Kernes shared that information with the radio producers ahead of time; however, ‘Mark’ began his comments with the statement, “I’m a journalist in the porn industry and have been covering it for the last twenty years.”
Then, in response to Mantle’s questions about the industry’s threats to leave Los Angeles over the condom laws, ‘Mark’ responded (in comments that run from approximately 7:48 to 9:14 in the 18 min. segment):
“There definitely has been some flight to Vegas, but the industry, in general I think, does not want to move to there because frankly, they like the atmosphere in Southern California, you can shoot outdoors for longer periods during the year.
And, of course, we have a California State Supreme Court decision that says shooting pornography is legal in California, and there are only a couple of states that had decisions that said that. So, no, they don’t want to leave L.A.
Some of them have been shooting outside of L.A. County, though, but that’s kind of a far trek, because the studios are based in L.A. County, so they don’t like to do that. Many of them are simply shooting as we might call it 'underground' in the county.”
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