http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/13/us-porn-actor-hiv-positive

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" US porn industry thrown into crisis after actor tests positive for HIV Last major HIV panic in California's adult film industry was in 2004 when an actor with the virus infected three colleagues The multibillion-dollar porn industry located in the San Fernando valley of southern California has been thrown into crisis after one of its performers tested positive for HIV. The discovery was made at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, AIM, a clinic that carries out mandatory testing for about 1,200 porn actors in the valley every month. The clinic has refused to reveal the gender of the performer or which studio he or she worked for, but it has started to track down all other actors known to have been exposed and is now quarantining them until they can also be tested. Two major studios have temporarily suspended filming, Vivid Entertainment, which is probably the largest porn-production company in the world, and Wicked Pictures. The anonymous performer is the first to have tested positive for HIV in over a year. The last major panic to grip the valley was in 2004 when a male star, Darren James, was found to have contracted the virus, probably from a filming session in Brazil. He in turn infected three actresses. More than 30 studios shut down temporarily while tests on many other performers who had engaged in filming with the four infected individuals were tested. The new positive test result has thrown up the long-debated issue about condoms in the porn industry. In the wake of the 2004 scare condom use became prevalent in the valley, but gradually filming without protection returned to being the norm as studios argued that the use of condoms was driving down sales. James, the actor at the centre of the 2004 events, told the Los Angeles Times that he was dismayed by the lack of progress on the issue in the past six years. "The actors … they're not getting the protection that they need. There should have been mandatory condoms," James said. "I knew it was going to happen. And how many years has it been? Again. They went right back to the same habits. Good grief, it's like my deal, all over again. I hate that." The San Fernando valley has become the focal point of the porn industry since the 1970s. It has been dubbed the San Pornando valley and Silicone Valley, a play on the prevalence on artificially enhanced breasts. Wicked Pictures is one of the only major studios that requires actors to wear condoms. It said in a statement: "Even though Wicked Pictures is condoms-mandatory, we have postponed our upcoming productions to give AIM a chance to create a comprehensive quarantine list. "Thanks to the continued efforts of AIM the entire industry was all made aware of this possible threat on the same day." AIM was set up by a leading actor in S&M films, Sharon Mitchell, who appeared in more than 2,000 films and directed several before retiring and turning her energies to the health side of the business. The clinic has been in an ongoing tussle with local health and safety bodies that argue that testing for HIV is not enough and that protection must be given a higher priority. The clinic has also faced legal suits attempting to force it to reveal the numbers and identities of infected actors. So far it has managed to resist the challenges. Under California law employers must safeguard their workers against the exchange of bodily fluids. However, most studios bypass the requirement on the grounds that the actors they use are self-employed. The question of condom use is now likely to move to centre stage later this month when a panel that advises the state's health authorities meets to discuss porn industry rules."

hopefully none of the good ones have tested positive

10/13/2010 8:15:24 PM

lol and you thought fucking for money was a good job.

10/13/2010 8:16:21 PM

listen sumfoo1, I don't look down on your profession. SO STAY OUTTA MY GRAVY!!1

[Edited on October 13, 2010 at 8:17 PM. Reason : don't ask me questions, you stupid 'reason for edit' box]

10/13/2010 8:17:10 PM

ohh i thought about it... i coulda been a star...

the whitish guy with a wang...

10/13/2010 8:18:36 PM

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"hopefully none of the good ones have tested positive"

They can be replaced.

10/13/2010 8:21:05 PM

more incentive to move toward free range porn

10/13/2010 8:22:11 PM

^sluts grazing in fields? count me in!

10/13/2010 8:38:31 PM

time to post in the unemployment thread

10/13/2010 8:40:07 PM

today we are all the US Porn Industry

10/13/2010 8:42:19 PM

just make them test monthly, or maybe even 2 weeks even

10/13/2010 8:42:37 PM

This is what they get for wanting more sex than the sex they get at work

10/13/2010 8:43:30 PM

well its a good thing I already have my 1000TB of porn on my drives yo. I think I can ride through this crisis.

10/13/2010 8:43:44 PM

I don't think HIV manifests that quickly

at least it didn't for me

10/13/2010 8:43:52 PM

it did for me

10/13/2010 8:44:12 PM

>_>

10/13/2010 8:44:39 PM

ncsugimp is marrying the dude that gave him HIV, its the right thing to do

10/13/2010 8:47:30 PM

so this was the "something big" that was happening on the 13th. qntmfred called it

10/13/2010 8:53:24 PM

damnit, EMCE, why didn't you let those peeps know about your dirty shit?

10/13/2010 9:04:52 PM

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"hopefully none of the good ones have tested positive"

10/13/2010 10:12:03 PM

MEGATON!

10/13/2010 10:16:20 PM

Realistically, two HIV scares in six years are pretty good odds given the amount of sheer fucking that goes on in the porn industry.

10/13/2010 10:18:26 PM

Dude, this storyline was portrayed on the TNT show, "The Closer" a few months ago.

Beside the "Closer" being an awesome show, the storyline was really shitty....but I must admit,

getting paid 75,000-100,000 a year for making sex movies doesnt seem like a bad idea to me, im just saying.

Just wrap it up and your good to go!

10/13/2010 11:10:23 PM

my good to go what???

10/13/2010 11:13:12 PM

just please not sasha grey!

10/15/2010 3:04:37 AM

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"Realistically, two HIV scares in six years are pretty good odds given the amount of sheer fucking that goes on in the porn industry."

You know how hard it is to pass on the aids via straight sex?

10/15/2010 9:17:42 AM

^^ i was under the impression that it was a dude

but i, too, hope it's not sasha grey...or stoya

10/15/2010 9:23:36 AM

^^ plz tell us

10/15/2010 9:24:44 AM

I hope this causes a Y2k like surge of people stockpiling crates of porn in their storage closets

10/15/2010 9:28:07 AM

^ whoa whoa whoa...you think people still PAY for porn? and even then, physical media?

10/15/2010 9:33:49 AM

VHS is the only way to go brah

10/15/2010 9:36:29 AM

amen, bro

10/15/2010 9:42:33 AM

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"You know how hard it is to pass on the aids via straight sex?"

The last actor that got HIV managed to pass it to 3 actresses....so yeah....

10/15/2010 9:46:24 AM

i would assume that anal sex is the easiest way...but i have a hard time believing it's anything but "easy" to pass HIV to another via vaginal intercourse

10/15/2010 9:52:52 AM

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"via vaginal intercourse "

10/15/2010 10:06:21 AM

one of the girls that got it a few years back got it after having a double anal scene with the dude that was infected and some other guy. true story.

10/15/2010 10:10:28 AM

I am pretty sure there is enough porn on hand at this time that the average human being who is at work at least 40 hours a week and sleeps 8 hours a night could never reach the end of it.

10/15/2010 10:13:05 AM

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"on hand"

10/15/2010 10:16:47 AM

Love me some Sasha Grey, its nice to see her in Entourage

10/15/2010 11:26:41 AM

^^

10/15/2010 10:09:43 PM

gay cancer

10/15/2010 10:14:26 PM

AIDS is not a cancer, and it's not limited to teh gays

10/15/2010 10:45:45 PM

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

10/15/2010 10:57:31 PM

the infected actor was in gay scenes but that doesn't mean he's gay

he's probably bi, like a surprisingly high portion of the porn industry

10/15/2010 11:00:47 PM

troll vs troll

10/16/2010 1:32:02 AM

I am not a troll

I e-speak out about LGBT issues

soon I plan to go IRL too

10/16/2010 1:37:43 AM