http://www.gramponante.com/2009/06/inspectors-visit-aim-and-porn.html

If a job is something that squicks me personally, then it’s probably something I’d be better off not doing. But because it squicks me, not because I’m responsible for other people’s reactions. Hmm.

Zille: how funny about the erotica. Somehow I feel like the written word should be exempt from those sorts of rules, but if all the porn producers just started matter-of-factly having actors wear condoms it could only be a good thing. I guess it’s that I can only worry so much (see: brain melt) about what hypothetical people may be hypothetically influenced by, but I can worry quite easily about the real effects on the real lives of the real people who are porn actors.

XKCD is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. I rubbed shoulders with the writer at a party once. /fangirl

I was just having a very similar discussion with a friend of mine who’s been writing kinky erotica and working in the adult industry for years, although the main focus of our discussion was condoms, and whether companies should insist on all-condoms-all-the-time, and even if written erotica publishers should insist upon characters using condoms in stories! (This has happened to me — I once had a story accepted, but was told to go back and write-in a condom!)

We decided that you can’t *force* people to fantasize about safer sex (I know for myself condoms don’t feature in to my fantasies!) but we couldn’t really figure out how to keep adult actors safe from HIV without them! So, really, we didn’t decide anything, except that people shouldn’t be shamed into thinking that fantasizing about sex-without-condoms was evil and bad, but that porn stars shouldn’t loose jobs if they won’t work sans condom….