A company in San Francisco has been fined nearly $80,000 for unsafe pornography.

Cybernet Entertainment, the parent company of Internet porn producer Kink.com, which specializes in film scenes depicting acts of dominance and submission, has been fined more than $78,000 by state safety officials for maintaining dangerous workplace conditions, in particular allowing performers to have on-camera sex without condoms.

Cybernet answered the fine by saying many of its performers prefer to not use condoms, and that the penalty announced last Friday was the latest attack in a long-running campaign by critics of the adult film industry.

"The fines are excessive and, we believe, politically motivated," Cybernet founder Peter Acworth said in a statement. "The complaints which prompted the inspection were not made by actual employees, but by outside groups with a long history of opposition to adult film. We'll be appealing the decision."

State records show the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Cybernet for several violations after an inspection of its fiming location last August.

Most of the fine, $75,000, was based on Cybernet's policy that let its performers choose to use condoms, or not.

Calling the fine "significant," CalOSHA spokesman Peter Melton said there had been several complaints against Kink.com last year, although the inspection was prompted by a formal filing against Kink.com by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-headquartered advocacy group that successfully lobbied in 2012 for condom requirements on porn sets in the city of Los Angeles and later throughout all of L.A. County.

The group has continued to champion the measures, successfully defending the county measure in court when the county chose not to, reporting suspected violations, and suing companies who've attempted to move parts of their productions outside the regulated area.

"We're all for sensible regulation that protects performers," said Mike Stabile, a spokesman for Kink.com, said in response to the foundation's complaints, "but this essentially amounts to a moral crusade. It's a solution in search of a problem."

The foundation filed the complaints after two Kink.com performers tested positive for HIV last year.

Cybernet said testing determined that the performers, who were rontically involved at the time, contracted the infection in their private lives instead of on the job.

"That's neither here nor there," responded foundation spokesman Ged Kenslea, "because OSHA requires that condoms be used..an HIV test is not a form of prevention."

California lawmakers late last year rejected a bill that would have required porn actors to use condoms during filming, but CalOSHA requires companies to take steps to minimize employee exposure to blood and other bodily fluids that are possibly infectious.

Another Bay Area adult film company, Treasure Island Media , lost its own appeal of a similar CalOSHA citation for nearly $9,000.

After the last confirmed on-set HIV infection in 2004, the porn industry adopted testing of all active performers biweekly for a range of sexually transmitted diseases.