Porn valley (photos)

San Fernando Valley is a sun-drenched, suburban enclave in southern California. You may know it by another name: Porn Valley.

At its onset, the porn industry stretched across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, where the entertainment industry concentrated. As Paul Fishbein, cofounder of AVN Media Network (porn’s trade media organization) in 2002, the business migrated to San Fernando Valley because of “low rents and access to the mainstream movie business.”

But times are tough these days in Porn Valley. In 2012, Los Angeles County approved a to wear condoms on-camera — causing a mass exodus from San Fernando Valley. The number of adult video permits filed in the county sunk that year, and many employees fled to Las Vegas, Nevada, where a .

Porn Valley may not be the porn capital for long.

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