Step Closer to Required Condoms in Porn?

A quick update to a story Lisa Ling and producer Arash Ghadishah brought to us in November about the delicate issue of mandating condoms in the pornography industry. The worker safety board in California voted unanimously yesterday to further study a condom requirement proposal written by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Under the current law, porn stars must test negative for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases within 30 days of filming. Most pornography insiders, many of whom we talked to, say the testing policy is safety precaution enough — adding that more viewers would turn away if condoms were a requirement at a time when the industry is already losing business to free Web content. We also talk to former porn star Darren James, whose positive HIV test in 2004 shut down the industry for a month. He now advocates for a condom requirement. Here's the segment, "Risky Business."