I stumbled across this old news story, and I think it captures neatly a reality many of these artificial contraception advocates fail to take into their calculations. The story is on a threat by a California Congressman (a Democrat, naturally) to force by law all these California porn companies to require their performers to wear condoms while filming. Even during an AIDS outbreak, there is resistance.
While most people in the sex industry appear to agree in principle with the idea of consistent condom use, it has long been believed here that condoms are not sexy.
''In any sexual interaction where condoms are used, consumers tend to drift from that,'' said Graham Travis, head of production at Elegant Angel Video, a production company that turns out as many as eight new releases a month. ''What the consumers want to see is performers without condoms, something that's as real and intimate as possible.''
Forcing condom use, he said, would mean that ''a lot of people would go out of business.'' In any event, Mr. Travis said, ''I don't think the will is there from the performers.''Condoms are not sexy. Another way to put it is that human sexuality is designed to revel in the contact between two people. There is no way the human mind can wrap itself around the notion of sex mitigated by an artificial barrier. People don't want to have sex feeling rubber. If people did, then the fake rubber vagina would have replaced all women.
Outside one of the foundation's two clinics in the San Fernando Valley on Monday, an actress who calls herself Nautica Thorn said the idea of all male performers wearing condoms was ''great,'' but impractical.
I think it always has been, and it has nothing to do with people liking the "high risk" stuff. Sex and intimacy go hand in hand. Sex without the intimacy cannot even foster the illusion that sex means "love". There is a reason why no guy would want to kiss his girlfriend through a piece of Saran wrap.
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