Coronavirus May Cause Porn Industry To Halt Production

If you have too much spare time in self-isolation, don't use up all your content at once - by Alex Pierotti

With new measures put in place to encourage and enforce social distancing, and pubs, bars, and clubs effectively cancelled indefinitely, it's a tough time to be a singleton.

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And with so much time spent in isolation, most men are staying sane via their favourite adult entertainment websites. But it's not just airlines and hospitality suffering from the coronavirus outbreak, there could soon be a shortage of new porn content as production is halted as the industry looks to prevent actors and staff from catching the illness.

According to industry source Xbiz, the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) – a lobbying group within the adult industry – wants an industry-wide “voluntary shutdown” until at least the end of March.

Further, FSC spokesman Mike Stabile said the call is “just preemptive,”Rolling Stone reports.

“The Governor and public health authorities have called for shuttering all non-essential businesses, so we’re doing what we can to flatten the curve…We haven’t had a COVID-19 case we know of anywhere in the adult community,” he added.

Just like people are lining up re-runs of their favourite flicks on Netflix, you might also need to resort to some old content to get you through the next few months.

Alex Pierotti

Alex Pierotti is the Digital Content Editor for Men's Health Australia, with experience reporting on health, fitness and sport. With a Journalism degree from UNSW under his belt, he got his start working in TV, working on the live broadcast of the Intrust Super Shute Shield on 7TWO before making the switch to print and digital at Pacific Magazines.

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