Kink.com CEO Pens Letter To AIDS Healthcare Foundation President

No stranger to controversy, founder and CEO of Kink.com, Peter Acworth, has penned an open letter to AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein.

XBiz (link below) has reprinted some excerpts, though you can read the full letter here.

In his personal blog, Acworth sternly chronicled Weinstein's legal battles against adult including crusades against the now defunct AIM testing facility, adult production studios, and his lobbying initiatives including Weinstein's crown jewel — Measure B. "If the current direction continues, I believe it to be inevitable that what remains of the adult video industry will leave the state, and threaten the performer protections we've worked so hard to create."

Acworth's concerns speak to what could potentially be a larger problem with stricter legislation and regulations.

"I'm afraid it is just a brutal reality that the industry will leave California under these regulations. Abroad, standards are lower than what the industry already self-imposes here in the U.S. Worse, I fear smaller production companies will shoot underground and that we will see a reduction in the safety on-set that the industry has worked very hard to build over the last decade," Acworth wrote.

Were the industry to leave California or, worse yet, go underground, it would fundamentally change the entire industry. Acworth's main hope is for a common ground and common sense solution.

"The fact is, none of the performers you bring to your press conferences would have been protected had AB 1576 been passed 10 years ago, because no California condom law is going to protect performers during their personal lives, or shooting on unregulated sets overseas. PrEP, if it works as advertised, could do just that. In fact, we've recently begun working with HIV and sex worker health organizations to develop an educational program about PrEP specifically targeting adult performers — it would be great if you could be a part of it," Acworth wrote.

The full letter is worth your time to read. What are your thoughts on this legislation? Could it actually kill the industry? Let us know in the comments section below.

Via XBiz