The vote represents a major victory by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which has waged a fractious, years-long campaign to bring about legally mandated condoms for all porn production.

“The passage of this ordinance, though anticipated, will certainly be met with consternation and anger by producers of adult content in Los Angeles, and is sure to result in consequences that neither AHF nor the City Council apparently care to contemplate,” writes Adult Video News (AVN) in an editorial.

“Though they couch the ordinance as a measure to protect workers, both the City Council and AHF have ignored warnings from the industry that mandating condom use while disparaging the testing regime—which has protected performers for years—will not only fail to keep performers safe to the extent imagined by instigators of this measure, but may actually put them in greater danger as companies go underground, leave the state or abide by the new measure in lieu of testing.”

AVN Chief Executive Theo Sapoutzis has also weighed in. “(T)his action by the Los Angeles City Council to support an extraordinary expansion of government authority without even undertaking any studies or holding sufficient hearings in support of its decision is simply outrageous,” he said.

“We do not believe that AHF has the best interest of our industry or its performers in mind, and point to the many distortions and outright fabrications disseminated by them as proof of their hostile intent toward the industry. Neither do we believe that this is the end of AHF’s aggressions toward the industry, but just the beginning.”

CLICK HERE for the full AVN editorial.

CLICK HERE for a write-up today from the Los Angeles Times that includes a response from the Free Speech Coalition, as well as a quote from an AHF spokesperson, who said “we will follow them” in response to concerns the industry may move out of California.