Appearently the Golden State is the only place in the US where its legal to make a porn film.

The Calif Penal code sez:

653.20. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) "Commit prostitution" means to engage in sexual conduct for money or other consideration, but does not include sexual conduct engaged in as a part of any stage performance, play, or other entertainment open to the public.

There was even a Supreme Court ruling that overturn a lower court conviction of a porn producer on charges related to prostituition. The opinion, CALIFORNIA v. FREEMAN, 488 U.S. 1311 (1989) written by the Justice O'Conner that said: " the prosecution of [Freeman] under the pandering statute must be viewed as a somewhat transparent attempt at an 'end run' around the First Amendment and the state obscenity laws."

So all you criminal justice lawyers out there, if I hire an escort to visit my hotel room with a camcorder so we can make a dirty movie, we do the act and video it, I pay her and she gives me the tape. Could I be arrested for prositution? On what grounds? If not, what other laws would prevent me from opening "Buck's Do it Yourself Adult Film Production LLC" to meet the need for artist expression by men traveling in California without their wives and girlfriends??