Mr. Condom

The LA Times has a profile of Michael Weinstein, the guy who's been leading the charge to get the adult movie industry to require the wearing of condoms on porn sets.

"Porn mogul Larry Flynt, who also opposed the condom mandate, said Weinstein had 'played the press beautifully' on the issue.

'If the whole industry had to respond to his demands, the whole industry would just shut down. But that's not going to happen,' Flynt said. 'He'll get his 60 minutes of fame, I guess.'

Weinstein maintains that protecting porn workers is the right thing to do. But he also concedes that the campaign is a public-relations windfall: 'We got more publicity for safer sex and condoms than we ever could have gotten any other way.'"

[LA Times]