For the Bondage Scenes, We Need OSHA Standards for the Handcuffs

Dig this tidbit from Mark Steyn's column today.

Last Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots.

California has run out of money, but it hasn't yet run out of things to regulate.

For a government regulatory hearing, the testimony was livelier than usual. Porn star Madelyne Hernandez recalled an especially grueling scene in which she had been obliged to have sex with 75 men. The bureaucrats nodded thoughtfully, no doubt contemplating another languorous 18-month committee assignment looking into capping the number of group-sex participants at 60 per scene.

And that, my friends, illustrates why I'm coming to the conclusion that our politics and finances are symptoms of our societal decay. We no longer have the ability to discriminate between good and evil. We're racking up mammoth debts and have filled our prisons to overflowing trying to make the results of good and bad decisions equal because discriminating between good and bad is in itself, wrong. We don't dare say that Madelyne Hernandez is doing something evil. We have shrunk the list of things which differentiate good and evil as a society to the point where a woman who is filmed having sex with 75 men in a single session isn't held up as an example of someone who has failed, but instead is someone with a legitimate career that our government must protect.

There is no conceivable way that a nation that seeks to protect such people from such actions won't bankrupt itself.