Italy- Stars of Italy’s flourishing ‘Spaghetti Porn’ industry are ready to protest a new tax on adult materials. Jessica Rizzo, [pictured] dubbed the woman most loved by Italians, called “unjust” a tax which she predicted could increase prices paid by consumers of videos and magazines by “30-50%.”

“This government promised to simplify and reduce taxes. Instead, it has invented new ones,” Rizzo told newspapers, going on to say that she may have to fire some of her 50 employees. She and husband Marco Toto run one of Italy’s most important adult empires which includes films, video distribution, a satellite channel, magazines, erotic chat lines, lingerie, nightclubs and sexy seminars for couples.

Emanuele Falsitta, member of Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party who proposed the measure, considers the tax on pornography a way to discourage consumers.

“It’s right to penalize certain activities, like that of the porn industry,” said Falsitta. “Rather than take money away from non-profits.”

The Italian government will in reality get a piece of the action in a very lucrative industry: 400 “spaghetti-porn” films made yearly, 40 adult production houses, 2,500 sex shops for an estimated yearly turnover of 516 million euro.

Rizzo has threatened to take to the streets with other porn stars, including the world-famous Italian Stallion Rocco Siffredi, who says the government has “picked a fight with sex.”