NEWS: Porn community hit by HIV scare

CULTURE: Porn community hit by HIV scare

I was browsing past Carly's Pornblography today when I was alerted to this.

It seems performer Darren James tested positive for HIV, and the industry is compiling lists of second and third generation contacts that are growing so quickly that AVN is suggesting stopping production until at least June 8th.

This must be a scary time for anyone in the industry.

Should have seen it cuming!

I like porn just as much as anyone but I think the "performers" or "actors" should get tested every 6 months or maybe before they do a movie.

[Edited on Apr 14, 2004 11:00PM]

How often is testing? Is it voluntary?

They do. They have to show proof also.

And I believe it is every month, not once every six months.

Would anyone even know if they stopped production for like a year? There's something like 200 porn movies produced a week. Even the most avid porn fan would be hard pressed to view that much.

That's real scary though. I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner on this level.

Wow, scary. I have considered HIV and the adult film industry before, but I've never actually seen what happens when someone tests positive. While it's not "neat" that someone (probably multiple someones) is infected, it's interesting to look at the procedures going down, and how they have all the generations, and projected dates for testing, etc.

The end is nigh

imagine if that guy sleeps with a couple of girls a week for his work, and they sleep with a couple of people and they sleep with a couple of people etc.
he could be single handedly responsible for wiping out a generation of pornstars
it's like mixamytose with rabbits.

reading about this is very tragic, but at the same time, it will be, for lack of a better term, interesting to see how everyone responds to this matter. can you imagine an industry as large as adult entertainment grinding to a complete work stoppage? wow.

also, i have a question after looking at all of this quarantine information. why are the dates so close together? from my understanding of the testing procedures for HIV, doesn't it take a solid 3-4 months for a reliable test to be made for virus anti-bodies? the quarantine for retesting is only a month or so from the date of potential infection for the 1st generation. have methods of testing advanced that far as to allow for a testing for anti-bodies after only one month? and why start the quarantine with people who worked with mr. james within the month of his infection? it would be good if perhaps they extended the quarantine to people who worked with him in the month before he came back positive as well.

at any rate, i sincerely hope for the best for all the talent involved. this is very sad.

I wonder what it is going to be like in LA when all of these unemployed porn workers have nothing to do. The coffee shops will be filled with them.

From what it seems like in that article, Condom scenes don't sell as well as "no condom" scenes. And they may have to do all condom scenes from now on. I'm not particularly surprised at this though; with the volumous output the porn industry achieves, it was never a matter of if this would happen, just a matter of when. Testing is all after the fact, and the emergance of the virus in the person, even if it goes without being caught for a month is too much of a timeframe to gamble with.

Texas brought up the cumshot issue as well. Much of today's porn seems to have this finishing move in it, and there's even special fetishes that specifically cum inside the female preformers. seems to me the industry got too cocky (pun intended) and forgot the dangerous gamble they were wagering.

It's kind of ironic that this news comes a week after Ashcroft delcared war on the industry. Whether this will cause the industry to move off the radar, or just give Ashcroft's censorship teams more incentive to throw pornographers in jail remains to be seen.

I don't see this as a fluke though. it was bound to happen, I'm actually surprised it didn't happen sooner. maybe it did, and no one has caught it medically yet? In any case it's a tragic consequence for these people.

Those pore girls...and guys. I wish them the best.

SnottleBocket:

You do realize that HIV is not all that contagious? It is not like a cold or a flu virus. I think it quite possible that no one else got infected.

just wait for the domino effect! They should have required condoms to prevent this!

there you go again, bringing clarity to the table!! why, oh why must you torture us!!!!

This has happened before (Marc Wallace in '99, I believe) and it was a big deal then too. But like everything, money is more important than peoples health and the shit will be back in full swing before too long. After the last time, some companies went condom only, but there will always be people willing to risk their lives to make a buck.

man... it looks like Laura Roxx, one of the 1st generation quarantine has become infected...

condoms are hott, yo.

-redcrayonkelly