A popular porn star has explained why she is campaigning against a proposed law that would force adult performers to wear condoms on all California sets.
Tasha Reign is one of a number of adult actors campaigning against Proposition 60, a controversial measure due to be voted on in November.
Proposition 60 is being led by Michael Weinstein, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation president. It is effectively the tightening of a law that already exists but is only acted upon if the agency charged with enforcing it, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, is notified. Under Weinstein’s proposals, adult film sets which do not comply with the law can be sued up to a year after the film is released, instead of the current six months statute of limitations, and allow any Californian living in the state to sue if condoms are not used.
Performers argue this aspect of the legislation is particularly damaging to them because it affects their financial interests in the films they perform in. They also say having their details made public could make them vulnerable.
It also requires producers to pay for vaccinations and STD testing. It is opposed by both the Republican and Democratic parties in California.
Reign, 27, claims the measure is impractical and compromises her autonomy over her own body.
She told The Guardian: “I do acts where I literally could not use condoms, whether that be anal, whether that be double penetration, whether that be multiple guys. I cannot even imagine having a group sex scene like that.
“The bigger issue for me is that it opens up the gateway to mandate my body. I hate the idea that some man is going to tell me what I can and can’t do.
“[I don’t believe a person] should come in and tell me, on my own adult film set that I’m producing in my own home that I need to use a condom”.
The Independent has contacted Weinstein for comment.
