Airing the Valley's dirty laundry
It's not too late to reserve your free spot for the panel discussion on Wednesday all about L.A.'s (the Valley's really) most ignored industry: porn! I'm hosting this discussion, "Dirty Business: Should the Porn Industry Be Saved?" with great guests on November 28 at 7 PM at the Hammer Museum in Westwood.
Los Angeles' dirty little economic secret is its $12-billion-a-year pornography industry, located primarily in the San Fernando Valley. Competition from amateur porn on the Internet, piracy and other pressures are cutting into profits. The question is: Should we care? How much should the industry's health risks weigh against its economic value? And how important is the issue of morality when we're talking about jobs, sales receipts, and tax dollars? Zócalo brings together a panel of experts—porn producers and former actors Nina Hartley and Ira Levine, economist Jack Kyser, Sharon Mitchell of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, and Peter Kerndt of the Los Angeles County Department of Health—to discuss whether or not L.A.'s porn industry is a boon or a burden.
Go to the Zocalo L.A. website to register.
12BILLION...seems just yesterday it was 7Billion. Now talk about a growth industry. Sheesh.