Measure B: Enforcing the Use of Condoms in Pornography
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Pornography is a big industry, especially in Southern California. It claims to generate $1 billion to $2 billion and provide as many as 10,000 jobs. But it's the few hundred performers who are the targets of Measure B on next month's LA County ballot. It would require condoms for all male performers, in the interests of preventing the spread of sexually transmitted disease. What would it take to enforce the new law? Would there still be an audience for the films? Would the industry leave town, taking away all those jobs? Would it work, or would a legal industry be pushed underground where the risks would be even greater? Public health and medical organizations support it, but it's divided business interests — and the performers themselves. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, the missing issues in the presidential campaign.
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Should LA County Require Condoms for Porn? ()
Measure B on next month's LA County ballot would require all male performers in pornographic films to wear condoms. Producers would need to acquire permits, and the fees would be used to finance enforcement. But the performers are divided.
You can see all of our state and local campaign coverage at KCRW.com/californiaelections.
Guests:
- Michael Weinstein: AIDS Healthcare Foundation
- Derrick Burts: former adult film performer
- James Lee: No on Measure B
- Rebecca Bardoux: veteran adult entertainment performer
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The Missing Issues in the Presidential Campaign ()
If you're frustrated by the limited number of issues in this year's presidential campaign, you are not alone. For the first time since the election of 1988, the issue of climate change was not raised in any of this year's presidential or vice presidential debates. Do voters know what either candidate wants to do about climate change, Mexico's drug wars, the Eurozone or gun control? Are increasingly polarized voters making their choices on party lines, without knowing where their own candidates really stand?
You can see all of our national campaign coverage at KCRW.com/election2012.
Guests:
- John Fialka: ClimateWire
- Shanto Iyengar: Stanford University
- Greg Mitchell: The Nation, @GregMitch
- Joshua Trevino: Texas Public Policy Foundation, @jstrevino
- James Rainey: Los Angeles Times, @LATimesrainey
Links:
- Pew Research Center on global warming
- Wall Street Journal on the 'state of the race'
- Iyengar's 'Politics: A Citizen's Guide'
- Mitchell on New York Times' story about national tracking polls
- Mitchell's 'The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics'
- Trevino on it being a race to the finish
- Rainey on fresh faces, fresh ideas in alternative candidates' debate
- Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party
- Jill Stein, Green Party
- Rocky Anderson, Justice Party
- Virgil Goode, Constitution Party
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