Porn Industry Shut Down After Porn Star Tests Positive For HIV
The porn industry in San Fernando Valley, California has been completely shut down after a lead actor tested positive for HIV on Wednesday.
As you can imagine, the “actress” had many sex partners. All of them are currently being tested for HIV. The tests are being administered by Adult Production Health and Safety Services.
Thankfully, the HIV-positive female was relatively new on the porn scene, so she might not have racked up as many sexual partners as a more seasoned actor.
The woman has not been named at this time.
Most professionals in the porn business are in shock and fear risk of disease in light of the positive HIV test. However, once that risk is gone the industry will be back up and running.
Diane Duke, executive director of the industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition, said she thinks the HIV-positive female did not receive HIV from a fellow porn actor. Duke said, “In fact, since 2004 there have only been two cases of performers testing positive for HIV and neither of those situations involved on-set transmission.”
As reported by the Daily Mail:
The industry briefly put a similar moratorium in place last year after nearly a dozen performers were infected during a syphilis outbreak.Last week, a judge decided that it is unconstitutional to require porn stars to wear condoms.
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.
The porn industry wants to continue to self regulate, despite incidents like the HIV-positive test.
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