Sep 3, 2019 · The sexually free-spirited San Francisco was then, as it turns out, the only city in the United States where porn producers could do everything. “Literally everything,” Hartley stresses.

Jan 19, 2012 · About 90 percent of US porn movies are shot in LA, "almost all of them in the city's San Fernando Valley." However, the industry's taken a pretty big hit the past decade from free and …

As of the 2000s, there were hundreds of adult film companies, releasing tens of thousands of productions, recorded directly on video, with minimal sets.

Well, after today that may no longer be true. A proposition just passed requiring all porn in California to use condoms, and the industry is threatening to move.

Jun 23, 2017 · Larry Sultan spent 1997 to 2003 shooting suburban California homes that served as the film sets for adult movies and the porn stars featured in them. The resulting ‘The Valley’ is an inside...

Feb 5, 2009 · Welcome to the San Fernando Valley: the pornocopia of America, birthplace of some of the country’s most tantalizing and conspicuously sinful entertainment. Yet for all of its apparent public …

Southern California was already home to a large film industry, and so equipment, trained personnel, and other technical expertise were readily available. The Valley contained abundant low-rent industrial …

Jun 5, 2007 · The San Fernando Valley’s adult-entertainment industry – long considered the epicenter of the business – rakes in about $1 billion annually, with more than 200 local companies jump-starting a...

May 7, 2006 · In any given year, about 3,900 adult films are shot in Los Angeles, according to industry estimates. As with any other shoot, those films obtain permits from the city. But the city doesn't...

Aug 31, 2017 · Where a small number of porn stars in the San Fernando Valley once earned healthy paychecks on films aimed at a wide audience, many performers now produce their own films and …