This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

[Poker_Babe]

After reading this, I felt a little uneasy...

John Rogers, The Associated Press
Published Wednesday, August 21, 2013 8:29PM EDT

LOS ANGELES -- The adult film industry announced a moratorium on the making of porn films Wednesday after an actor tested positive for HIV.

The performer was not immediately identified and officials didn't say when the positive test was recorded.

The actor's sex partners are currently being tested by doctors with Adult Production Health and Safety Services, which works with the porn industry.

"The moratorium will be lifted once the risk of transmission has been eliminated," Diane Duke, executive director of the industry trade group the Free Speech Association, told The Associated Press in an email.

She added that the actor is not believed to have been infected on a film set.

The industry briefly put a similar moratorium in place last year after nearly a dozen performers were infected during a syphilis outbreak.

Word of the latest moratorium quickly drew critical responses from porn industry opponents. Among them was Michael Weinstein, whose group the AIDS Healthcare Foundation successfully lobbied voters last year to adopt an ordinance requiring actors use condoms in the making of most porn films.

"How many adult film performers have to become infected with an array of preventable sexually transmitted diseases -- including HIV, which is not curable -- before the porn industry actually complies with the law requiring condom use," he said in a statement.

Since the ordinance's adoption, county officials have said they are investigating one violation.

Assemblyman Isadore Hall III, who is pushing for the state to adopt a similar law, called Wednesday's news "devastating and preventable."

"Exposing workers to this type of harm would not be accepted in any other industry in this nation," the Los Angeles Democrat said.

The industry, which says its audience does not want to see condoms, is fighting the Los Angeles County measure in court.

After a federal judge ruled last week that the measure is constitutional industry officials promised to appeal.

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[Nordling]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

Monica Foster (Cam model and former porn star) started a petition on just this subject:

https://www.change.org/petitions/lo...an-matt-holder-to-maintain-a-current-std-test

 

[GemmaMarie]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

Aren't all porn stars required to do STD testing, first off? I thought this was a thing, & maybe it is & that's how the AIDs was caught. I just honestly don't know.

I mean it seems silly to require one camera man to provide STD proof when since he's having sex with them OFF site, it's kinda just normal judgement to use protection & if not then that's on you. And if he's coercing them into having sex, then that's totally a different thing than just carrying around his latest STD test.

back to topic though- It is nerve racking but these things happen. Personally I think safety should be paramount to what people want to see and that the decision to use or not to use a condom should be left up to the actors and no on else.

 

[Just Me]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

My understanding is that STD testing in the industry is just self policing. There are no laws that I am aware of that require people to be tested. If you want to work with particular companies, some but not all will require current STD tests. The moratorium is also just public relations talk, there is no law or requirement that film companies will stop producing films during that time.

 

[yossarian]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

It's actually a female performer, not the guy they're talking about:

http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Cameron-Bay-HIV-Status-Confirmed-526334.html

 

[GemmaMarie]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

It's actually a female performer, not the guy they're talking about:

http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Cameron-Bay-HIV-Status-Confirmed-526334.html

If you're referring to my inquiry/response, when I was discussing the camera man I knew he wasn't the one with HIV, I was responding to Nordlings post.

I can't open the link ATM, but now they have come out with the name of the actress? In the original it had yet to be released. These things are so important! Regular testing should be a requirement if it isn't.

 

[yossarian]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

It's actually a female performer, not the guy they're talking about:

http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Cameron-Bay-HIV-Status-Confirmed-526334.html

If you're referring to my inquiry/response, when I was discussing the camera man I knew he wasn't the one with HIV, I was responding to Nordlings post.

I can't open the link ATM, but now they have come out with the name of the actress? In the original it had yet to be released. These things are so important! Regular testing should be a requirement if it isn't.

Yeah, her name is Cameron Bay, and she made a statement confirming it.

 

[bawksy]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

Aren't all porn stars required to do STD testing, first off?

This may be a discussion for another thread, but I'm pretty sure mandatory STD testing is mostly just for California / San Fernando Valley industry porn. For example, I don't think cam girls are required to do testing before performing in multi-girl cam shows, despite being, by definition, professional porn performers.

 

[IsabellaSnow]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

Problem with HIV is it can take a long time for it to actually come up on a test. Same with quite a few of the more permanent STD's. So someone could come out as negative while they're actually positive.

As they say, most viewers don't want to see condoms when they watch porn. I see condoms in porn very rarely.

I wonder if it started becoming compulsory to wear them though if peoples opinions would change, I also wonder if it would encourage the large amount of teenagers and young adults watching porn who do try and copy things they see in them to start getting used to the idea of wearing condoms as a compulsory thing.

I personally don't find condoms in porn sexy, if anything they can be a turn off as condoms just don't look sexy. I'm not currently on birth control so in real life condoms are just a part of sex. When I was single though, most men I slept with would hate the idea of wearing condoms. In fact, the idea of having to wear them during sex never seems to cross many young men's minds. Because there are so many forms of birth control I think many men have forgotten why condoms should be worn, they also assume a girl is on birth control even if she's not.
Maybe if all porn showed men wearing them it would be a very good thing for society. I don't know about the implications to porn, but if it were something that could help people not only in the industry but worldwide to stay safe, then making it compulsory to wear them would be a good thing.

 

[Zyleth]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

Well, this wasn't the thread that caused me to sign up, but gotta start somewhere!

I'd much rather see more condoms than more porn stars getting incurable illnesses. Even if they did bother me a lot, some things are just more important.

 

[GemmaMarie]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

Problem with HIV is it can take a long time for it to actually come up on a test. Same with quite a few of the more permanent STD's. So someone could come out as negative while they're actually positive.

As they say, most viewers don't want to see condoms when they watch porn. I see condoms in porn very rarely.

I wonder if it started becoming compulsory to wear them though if peoples opinions would change, I also wonder if it would encourage the large amount of teenagers and young adults watching porn who do try and copy things they see in them to start getting used to the idea of wearing condoms as a compulsory thing.

I personally don't find condoms in porn sexy, if anything they can be a turn off as condoms just don't look sexy. I'm not currently on birth control so in real life condoms are just a part of sex. When I was single though, most men I slept with would hate the idea of wearing condoms. In fact, the idea of having to wear them during sex never seems to cross many young men's minds. Because there are so many forms of birth control I think many men have forgotten why condoms should be worn, they also assume a girl is on birth control even if she's not.
Maybe if all porn showed men wearing them it would be a very good thing for society. I don't know about the implications to porn, but if it were something that could help people not only in the industry but worldwide to stay safe, then making it compulsory to wear them would be a good thing.

I agree with you & I also think that after a while people would also get used to seeing condoms in their porn and would stopped being bothered so much by it. If it simply became the "norm" it's either watch it, watch nothing, or shell out the money to get your fave camgirl w/ a hubby to make you stuff without one! Hey- could be good news for the married cam girls!! :lol:

 

[yossarian]

Re: This kinda' made the hairs on the back of my neck stand

There was a period in the mid-90s when you started seeing a lot more condoms in porn, but the internet basically killed that. There's the problem: the financial incentive. If all major porn producers switched to condoms-only, they would be put out of business by the people all over the internet who didn't. Unfortunately, the way things work now (testing and notification) is probably the best way it could work, given the economics of the marketplace.