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艾德•巴特勒, 加州色情电影业压力重重. BBC CHinese, June 10, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/fooc/2011/06/110610_fooc_us_adult_movie.shtml

, which was translated from
Ed Butler, Californian porn industry's 'perfect storm' of troubles. BBC, June 2, 2011.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9502367.stm

Quote:

"Like the music industry, pornographers are struggling to persuade their audience to pay for what they watch.

"Each day would be 15 hours long. * * * 'And what about the health risks," I asked. "Have you had many infections?'  'Well, just chlamydia a couple of times, gonorrhoea - nothing much. Anyway, we test each month so, when you're diagnosed, you just take your medication and you're good to go. No problem.'

Note:
(a)  pitch up: "to arrive in a placeGerald finally pitched up two hours late."
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/pitch-up
(b) Bobbi Starr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi_Starr
(1983-  ; Italian/Hungarian; graduated from San Jose State University with a music degree and plays the piano and oboe; started her pornography career at the age of 23; She met someone who introduced her to the adult industry in San Francisco, California, but it took a year before she decided to enter the industry; In 2011, she was named by CNBC as one of the 12 most popular stars in porn)
(c) The report stated, "It had taken a Supreme Court battle back in the 1980s to make porn legal in California in the first place, formally distinguishing it from common-or-garden prostitution."

Usually Supreme Court means United States Supreme Court. In this case, it is California Supreme Court. It is possible the journalist, presumably British, should have known better. Or he knew it was state, not federal, supreme court--therefore writing an "a" prior to "Supreme Court."

People v. Freeman, 46 Cal. 3d 419, 758 P.2d 1128, 250 Cal.Rptr. 598 (1988).
http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-freeman-30828
("Defendant Harold Freeman hired and paid actors to perform in a nonobscene commercial film which portrayed sexually explicit acts. On that account he was charged with and convicted of five counts of pandering -- procurement of persons 'for the purpose of prostitution' * * * defendant's convictions of pandering must be reversed")

The opinion, in paragraph 1 under the section Facts, described, "As part of their roles, the performers engaged in various sexually explicit acts, including sexual intercourse, oral copulation and sodomy."

Because it is "nonobscene" (see quotation above), the film was protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. US Supreme Court has held repeatedly an OBSCENE film (or act) is not protected. The main thrust of California supreme court decision was that porn industry workers were not prostitutes, thus rendering a porn producer not liable to California state law that criminalized pandering--or acting as a pimp.

(d) Also:
(i) Ed Butler, ASSIGNMENT: Inside California's Porn Industry. BBC podcast, June 6, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gx5fw
(ii) Inevitably a listener complained,
Rajan Datar, California's Porn Industry on Assignment. BBC, June 17, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/overtoyou/2011/06/californias_porn_industry_on_a.html
("Rob Howe from California emailed us to express his dislike of this edition of Assignment. Rob said that he is not a prude, but the Assignment on the porn industry was 'classless and gratuitous' and well below the Service's usual standards. He felt it was unnecessary to include some of the elements featured in the programme.")

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