[quote:4a6bb9b467="len801"]Ecco l'ulltima notizia pubblicata sul sito AVN.com sul'attrice Canadese, Lara Coxx. E' arrivata a Los Los Angeles (dal sua nativa citt'a di Montreal) verso la meta' di marzo 2004 con soldi prestati e voleva farsi dei soldi per vivere meglio. Ora e' senza soldi, senza lavoro a sta appettando altri test per confirmare i test primari che indicano che ha il viro HIV. Lei faceva la stripper da circa 3 anni a Montreal. Lei dice che non e' stata lei a infettare James, che i test che ha preso a Montreal e Los Angeles prima di girare film non risultava positivo per HIV. Lara a detto che ha girato delle scene per Devil's Films, e dopo e' stata ingaggiata per lavorare con Marc Anthony e Darren in una scena DA (doppia penetrazione anale). Lara dice che il giorno dopo ave girato questa scena, sentiva del dolore e dei sfoghi sul sedere. Si reco' da un dottore che gli consiglio deigli antibiotici, e spreco' tutti i soldi per la scena a medicine. Dopo di quello fu informato da sul vecchio manager che Darren James aveva il HIV.
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Lara Roxx: 'I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world.'
By: Mark Kernes
04-17-2004
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Lara Roxx, the first innocent victim of the HIV firestorm sweeping through the adult industry, never wanted to be the center of attention.
When she arrived in L.A. in mid-March from Montreal, on a ticket paid for with borrowed funds, her short brown hair streaked with pink, all she wanted to do was perform in enough scenes to create a nest-egg that she could take back to Canada and use to go on with her life.
Instead, she's now broke, jobless and had been staying with friends, and if the tests come back Saturday evening as she's hoping they won't, HIV-positive.
"My manager [Daniel Perrault] woke me up on that morning that they all found out," Roxx told AVN.com. "I was very upset on that day; I don't even remember what day it was."
It was Tuesday, April 13, the day the news broke that popular performer Darren James had contracted HIV - the first active performer on the straight side of the industry to do so in nearly five years.
But for Roxx, the story started two months earlier.
It was around February 10, 2004. Roxx had been performing, mostly for Canadian-based Internet sites, for exactly one month, and she was about to do her first boy/girl scene for an American video feature.
"When I first walked into Daniel Perrault's office, I told him what I was ready to do, and he told me he wasn't ready to represent me under those conditions," Roxx stated on April 16. "I told him I wasn't interested in anal at all, and I was a little freaky about the no-condom thing, too. I'm educated about the STDs since I'm in grade 3. I was educated about condoms. I knew I didn't want any STDs. I was protecting myself in the proper ways to not catch STDs, the ways I was taught."
But though she'd been a dancer for three years, Roxx wasn't very familiar with the adult video industry, and she admits that later, when she decided to accept offers to do scenes in L.A., Perrault advised her that he thought she was too innocent to survive the U.S. porn scene.
Perrault nonetheless brought Roxx into contact with director Marc Anthony, who was reportedly in Montreal scouting for talent, and he in turn introduced her to his actors, Darren James and Max Black. Roxx thinks there was another actor, possibly Canadian, named Max who was also present.
Perrault had arranged for Roxx to have an HIV test, but she's not sure what kind of test that was; just that blood was drawn for it.
"Really, that's a question for Daniel Perrault or the lab where I took my test," Roxx responded. "I think it's AIM's equivalent in Canada, but we don't have to test for Chlamydia or gonorrhea; we only test for syphilis and HIV."
Patricia Petite, who also works with Perrault, is said to have been working with an ELISA test. Petite is on the first-generation A list, those who had sexual contact with James.
At this point, Roxx doesn't know whether the test was PCR-DNA or ELISA, but when she flew to Los Angeles a few weeks later, at the urging of L.A.-based manager Thomas Hope, one of the first things she did was go to AIM for a new PCR-DNA test, and that was negative for HIV.
"There's a rumor out there that I might have given him [Darren] the virus," Roxx noted, "and I don't care about what people say because I know the truth and that's what's important to me."
The executive director of AIM, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, confimed today that James' is still believed to be the source of the HIV-virus, and he is believed to have obtained the virus from Brazil.
Now freshly tested, Roxx was booked for some scenes for Devil's Films... and then she got another offer from Marc Anthony for March 24.
[b:4a6bb9b467][size=18:4a6bb9b467]"When I got there, me and Marc had a little conversation, because Thomas Hope told me I was going to do a d.p., and so I get there and Marc Anthony tells me it's a d.a., which stands for double anal, " Roxx recalled. "And I'm like, ‘What? I've never done a double anal.' And he's like, ‘Well, that's what we need. It's either that or nothing.' And that's how they do it. [/size:4a6bb9b467][/b:4a6bb9b467]
"But Marc Anthony was playing that, and I think that really sucks, because I'm mad at the friend I thought I had in Marc, because he knew double anal was dangerous. I knew it too, really, probably, but I was just putting it way back in my mind because I was down in California to make the maximum amount of money, to come back home wealthy. I had plans for the money."
[b:4a6bb9b467][size=18:4a6bb9b467]The scene was to be with Marc and Darren, but before getting into the action, the performers chatted, with Marc telling Roxx about his and Darren's recent trip to Brazil.
"He told me that, but I didn't take that as, oh, people in Brazil may be fuckin' dirty or whatever," Roxx explained. "I was like, ‘Oh, cool; how was Brazil? How was their festival over there? Was it fun?' I didn't ask him if Darren slept with a girl with HIV over there, you know."[/size:4a6bb9b467][/b:4a6bb9b467]
But not being schooled in the ways of porn, Roxx didn't know that it was commonplace for performers to show each other their tests before beginning a scene.
"I wasn't experienced enough to go up to people and ask them for their test, and the only person that showed me their test before we had a sexual relation was, unfortunately, Marc Anthony."
The double anal came off as planned, but the next day, Roxx made a painful discovery.
[size=18:4a6bb9b467][b:4a6bb9b467]"The day after that scene, I had a rash appeared on my ass; a rash like I've never had before, and I was in pain. I couldn't sit on my butt."[/b:4a6bb9b467][/size:4a6bb9b467]
Roxx went to the medical clinic run by Dr. Rigg, where a doctor - Roxx's not sure who - prescribed a course of antibiotics.
"That stupid doctor prescribed me stupid antibiotics without even looking at it [the rash]," Roxx protested. "He was like afraid."
A friend, actress RayVeness, took Roxx back to the Rigg clinic on March 30 and raised hell about the treatment she had been given there.
[size=18:4a6bb9b467][b:4a6bb9b467]"The first medicine, the antibiotics I was taking," Roxx said, "were so strong that they gave me a yeast infection, so the rash on my butt was gone, but I had a huge, huge - the biggest yeast infection I've ever had in my life."[/b:4a6bb9b467][/size:4a6bb9b467]
[size=18:4a6bb9b467][b:4a6bb9b467]"I spent all my money from that scene that was remaining, after I paid [them] back for my plane ticket, on doctors," Roxx said bitterly.[/b:4a6bb9b467][/size:4a6bb9b467]
"After that, I saw another doctor from AIM," she continued, "because I was like, ‘Fuck Dr. Rigg.' I felt sick and I didn't want to work while I was feeling sick; I felt so sick I wasn't able to work. So I went to see that [AIM] doctor; he was very young, but I'm sure he was very well intentioned and he very much cared about his job and the people he was taking care of, and I think that was a good doctor. So we did all kinds of tests, but they wouldn't give me test results because I just spent all my money at Rigg."
Roxx isn't sure just when she saw the AIM doctor for her yeast infection, but she knows it was sometime in early April.
[b:4a6bb9b467][size=18:4a6bb9b467]"They were not only taking my blood; they were doing all kinds of - they were taking mucus samples from my toes, my vagina, everywhere," she recalled. "The AIM doctor prescribed me something for bacterial vaginosis, which I took, and I hope I'm rid of that shit now. And he diagnosed me with genital warts, which I think that might have [caused] the rash on my butt on that day. I don't know too much except for what was on that paper from AIM."
Roxx also developed a case viral pharyngitis, for which she went to Northridge Hospital on April 10 and received medication. It was while she was taking the prescribed drugs and recuperating that Roxx received the fateful call from Perrault.[/size:4a6bb9b467][/b:4a6bb9b467]
"When Daniel told me that Darren James was HIV positive, it totally freaked me out," Roxx said. "It totally made me realize how I trusted this system that wasn't to be trusted at all, because it obviously doesn't work.
"We should think about these issues right now, to change stuff around to make this a safer fuckin' business. It isn't a safe business, and I thought it was, and I would have not did that scene with no condom with Darren James if it would have crossed my mind that those tests weren't good and that I couldn't trust him or the people he's been with. I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world, is what I thought."
As this is written, Lara Roxx is waiting for the results of her second round of tests for HIV, hoping that the first positive test was just a mistake. She's also thinking about what her future will be like if she has the virus, and muses about taking some classes in filmmaking at UCLA - if she can afford it.
Those wishing to make contributions to help Roxx get back on her feet can send them or drop them off at AVN, 9414 Eton Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311, and they will be delivered to Roxx.[/quote:4a6bb9b467]
Veramente deprimente leggere questo articolo.
Possibile che sia così a basso livello il mondo del porno come descritto da Roxxx??
Oppure è (giustamente) incazzata e spara merda a destra e a manca??
O magari è finita fra gente senza scrupoli??
Non capisco come possa fare una scena e poi finire i soldi in dottori e l'aereo per il ritorno. Allora perchè l'ha girata, se non ci guadagnava nulla??
[b:4a6bb9b467][size=18:4a6bb9b467]Una domanda: cos'è un rash ???[/size:4a6bb9b467][/b:4a6bb9b467]
Darren James - HIV!!!
Moderatori: Super Zeta, AlexSmith, Pim, Moderatore1
Avevo letto bene il tuo post, ma non posso rispondere in modo completo e professionale perche' non ho i dettagli. Faro' del mio meglio.Scorpio ha scritto: caro len801, vedo che non leggi quello che scrivo; manchi perchè non hai risposto alla mia domanda: quanti e chi di questi infettati sono morti dopo essere stati contagiati (oltre a John Merdaccia Holmes)?
Per esempio, non si sa quando John Holmes abbia contrattato AIDS (e nemmeno HIV). Ma si e' detto che Holmes era al corrente che aveva AIDS dal 1985. Ma lui non lo disse a nessuno, e continuo' a girare film porno (ando' in Italia a girare con Cicciolina). O che la gente nell'industria sapevano qualche cosa o sospettavano il peggiore non e' chiaro. In una vecchia intervista con Tracy Adams (che giro' un film con Holmes in Italia) diceva che Holmes era molto malato e Tracy rifiutava di fare scene di sesso con lui. Non hai che guardare il film RISE OF THE ROMAN EMPRESS (1986), per renderti conto che faccia aveva Holmes. Holmes mori nel 1988. Non si sa se ha infettato attori o attrici, ma fece pochi film durante quel periodo prima dalla sua morte. Lui giro' un film gai verso il 1984 (non ricordo il titolo) e credo che certi attori che figuravano in quel film sono morti. Allora Holmes giro' un film gai verso il 1984 e si e' spesso detto che Holmes abusava della droga.
Non hai che dare un'occhiata alla sezione "dead porn stars" del database IAFD.com nella sezione "AIDS". La lista e' lunga, sono quasi tutti masci ma risale anche qualche pornstar femminile conosciuta:
Lisa Melendez (settembre 1999)
il trans Morelle DeKeigh (1994)
il trans Leilani (1993)
Lisa De Leeuw (novembre 1993)
http://www.rame.net/faq/deadporn/
Nei film gai, l'industria hard usa condom nelle scene di sesso da quasi 20 anni. Nel film hard ordinari, soltanto qualche ditta (Vivid, Wicked, VCA) insiste sul condom dalla primavera del 1998 in seguito alla scoperta che Marc Wallice aveva HIV, e era sospettato di aver infettato circa 6 attrici tra cui Brooke Ashley.
Negli ultimi 3-4 anni si e' visto un forte aumento di scene estreme: double vaginal, double anal, anal to mouth, sborrate in bocca e ingoio, gangbangs, pussy-to-anal-to pussy (penetrazione dal culo al fica e di nuovo al sedere). Questo non fa che aumentare la possibilita' di contrattare STD (malattie veneree) saenza parlare di HIV e IDS. Attori e attrice vengono a vadono in europa, in Brasile, e non si sa se gli attori sono bene esaminati per tutte queste malattie.
Non sappiamo come, quando e dove Darren James abbia contrattato HIV. Chi dice che e' stato in Brasile, chi dice che sarebbe stato da Lara Roxx quando lavoro' con lei in Canada nel mese di Febbraio 2004. Il problema che AIM che amministra i test non ha nessuna idea.
Marc Wallice sembra che era al corrente che era HIV, perche' presentava dei test fasulli a quel tempo.
Credo che fu nel 1995 che certi esami indicavano che Barabar Doll era HIV. Se ne ritorno' in Francia, ma non so che fino ha fatto.
Nena Cherry, HIV dalla meta' del 1997. Non si sa niente di lei da tempo.
John Stagliano fece una scena di sesso con un tras in Brasile nel 1997, ma encora e' vivo, e' proprietario della Evil Angels, gira qualche film, ed e' sposato con Tricia Devereaux (infettata verso marzo-aprile 1998, si suppone da Marc Wallice) e hanno avuto anche una bambina.
Marc Wallice risulto' positivo verso aprile 1998, e' ancora vivo, e lavora dietro le quinte per varie compagnie di produzioni (che non vogliono rivelare la loro assiciazione con lui per ragioni ovvie)
Brooke Ashley, la piu' loquace delle 6, se ne ritornata a Hawaii, e ancora vivente ma povera e malata.
Kimberly Jade, una delle 6, non si ha piu' notizie di lei da tempo
le bella nera Jordan McKnight, ancora vivente e lavora (o lavoravava) per un sito internet
Caroline, attrice europea, una delle sei, se ne ritotno' in europa e non si sa piu' niente di lei
L'ultimo caso celebre di HIV prima di Darren James fu quello di Tony Montana (che era attivo nel porno dalla meta' degli anni 80. HIV dal 1999). Lui e' sposato con la vedova di John Holmes, Laurie Holmes (vedi la sua filmografia al DabatabseXXX in questo forum).Ancora vivo.
Commenti e domanda da Domanda di Romeo:
Veramente deprimente leggere questo articolo.
Possibile che sia così a basso livello il mondo del porno come descritto da Roxxx??
Oppure è (giustamente) incazzata e spara merda a destra e a manca??
O magari è finita fra gente senza scrupoli??
Non capisco come possa fare una scena e poi finire i soldi in dottori e l'aereo per il ritorno. Allora perchè l'ha girata, se non ci guadagnava nulla??
Una domanda: cos'è un rash ???
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Se si crede a quello che Lara Coxx dice, e' andata a Los Angeles con soldi prestati perche' voleva girare una manciata di film, farsi un bello gruzzolo di soldi, e ritornare a casa a Montreal e vivere in pace. (Prima di questo lavorava come stripper e per una ditta internet). Dopo tutto credo che questo e' il grande desiderio della maggior parte delle attrici hard.
Perche' ha ceduto all "tentazione" di girare quella scene di doppia penetrazione anale? Sicuramente i soldi, un double anal ti da sicuramente $300-400 di piu'.
Ma perche' vi meravigliate tanto? Perch/ non vadano a chiedere a Jenna Jameson, Jill Kelly e altre attrici ben mature dell'industria hard di fare un double anal, perch/ loro hanno fatto gia' i lori soldi e la loro reputazione. E piu' facile convincere una nuova arrivata di 18-21 anni di fare certe scene estreme.
Un "rash" (come ho spiegato) nel piccolo resoconto e uno "sfogo" sulla pelle.
Veramente deprimente leggere questo articolo.
Possibile che sia così a basso livello il mondo del porno come descritto da Roxxx??
Oppure è (giustamente) incazzata e spara merda a destra e a manca??
O magari è finita fra gente senza scrupoli??
Non capisco come possa fare una scena e poi finire i soldi in dottori e l'aereo per il ritorno. Allora perchè l'ha girata, se non ci guadagnava nulla??
Una domanda: cos'è un rash ???
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Se si crede a quello che Lara Coxx dice, e' andata a Los Angeles con soldi prestati perche' voleva girare una manciata di film, farsi un bello gruzzolo di soldi, e ritornare a casa a Montreal e vivere in pace. (Prima di questo lavorava come stripper e per una ditta internet). Dopo tutto credo che questo e' il grande desiderio della maggior parte delle attrici hard.
Perche' ha ceduto all "tentazione" di girare quella scene di doppia penetrazione anale? Sicuramente i soldi, un double anal ti da sicuramente $300-400 di piu'.
Ma perche' vi meravigliate tanto? Perch/ non vadano a chiedere a Jenna Jameson, Jill Kelly e altre attrici ben mature dell'industria hard di fare un double anal, perch/ loro hanno fatto gia' i lori soldi e la loro reputazione. E piu' facile convincere una nuova arrivata di 18-21 anni di fare certe scene estreme.
Un "rash" (come ho spiegato) nel piccolo resoconto e uno "sfogo" sulla pelle.
Seymore Butts ha annunciato che dora in poi tutte le scene di sesso nei sui film saranno con condom. Ci mancava solo Seymore per completare la scena. Da tempo che non fa vermente piu' film scatenati, e per l'industria cable fa un programma di mezz'ora che ho menzionato a un'altro topic nel passato.
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Seymore Butts Announces Condom-Only Policy
By: Dan Miller
04-19-2004
Seymore Butts, the veteran producer and reality TV star, told AVN.com he has instituted a condom-only policy for all his future productions.
He is believed to be the only gonzo director in the industry to make such a move, after 13 years and well over 100 videos.
"I'm going to be mandating it for vaginal and anal penetration," Butts, whose real name is Adam Glasser, said Monday in an exclusive interview.
Butts said the change was something he had considered in the past, but the HIV scare that is rocking the industry has caused him to rethink his position. Performers Darren James and Laura Roxx tested positive for HIV last week.
"I've never met either one of the people that have been directly affected by this so far, Darren or Laura. However, I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for them," Butts told AVN.com. "And when thinking about the pros and cons of condom usage, the only con that kept coming up was monetary. That was the only con I could put on my list.
"The positives were numerous " including setting a positive example, peace of mind and I even tried to look for the silver lining and say to myself, 'Now I'll be able to choose from a wider selection of girls. It also possibly makes my non-condom product more valuable. The only con I could keep coming back to was money..."
Butts continued, "I care so much about the people that work for me to have to get a phone call like someone had to have gotten last week (with the two HIV-positive performers.) That would be devastating."
Butts, who is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Free Speech Coalition, said he has the full support of his distributor Pure Play Media on his decision. His production company has been closely followed in recent months by the Showtime network for the hit series Family Business that is on hiatus after the recently completed second season. Butts makes between 9-12 movies per year.
"The time has come, for me at least, to minimize the risk as much as possible so that I can feel good about what it is that I do and what it is that I ask other people to do," he said. "And I have to have faith in myself that I'm going to be able to overcome any monetary loss that this causes me. It motivates me to build my brand in ancillary markets that maybe I've procrastinated about.
"...I have to have faith, or else I don't deserve to live in a nice house and drive a nice car."
Butts said he has no plans to shoot as he waits for more information to surface and honors the recommended moratorium.
"Everybody's nervous out there," Butts said. "I think it's sad that it took this to wake me up. And I also hope some of the people that already came out and said it's going to be business as usual reconsider and make that pro and con list that I've made.
"They're not going to be able to find more cons than I did."
Butts added that he is "excited" about shooting condom-only productions.
"I know that I have to be more creative now in order to make up for whatever it is that condoms take away from people. I look at it as a challenge to be more creative in my movies," he said.
"It's something I feel like I have to do."
Butts said that performers in his videos have worn condoms in the past, but "on rare occasions."
"The talent pool is so used to working without them," he said.
He added that this could be an opportunity for talent to organize and police itself. Butts said he would be willing to offer his guidance, support or leadership if needed at this time of crisis.
"If talent or a group of talent were to come to me and say to me that, 'we really want to change the way things are done, but we don't necessarily know how to go about doing it.' If I'm asked, right now I'm only going to dictate for my company. But if people wanted me to help them try to change things, certainly I'd be more than willing to give it my best shot."
A small number of production companies have also recently declared that they would begin shooting condom only productions.
Seymore Butts will be appearing live on Court TV from 2-3 p.m. PST today to discuss the adult industry's HIV scare.
http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Na ... t_ID=81185
Seymore Butts Announces Condom-Only Policy
By: Dan Miller
04-19-2004
Seymore Butts, the veteran producer and reality TV star, told AVN.com he has instituted a condom-only policy for all his future productions.
He is believed to be the only gonzo director in the industry to make such a move, after 13 years and well over 100 videos.
"I'm going to be mandating it for vaginal and anal penetration," Butts, whose real name is Adam Glasser, said Monday in an exclusive interview.
Butts said the change was something he had considered in the past, but the HIV scare that is rocking the industry has caused him to rethink his position. Performers Darren James and Laura Roxx tested positive for HIV last week.
"I've never met either one of the people that have been directly affected by this so far, Darren or Laura. However, I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for them," Butts told AVN.com. "And when thinking about the pros and cons of condom usage, the only con that kept coming up was monetary. That was the only con I could put on my list.
"The positives were numerous " including setting a positive example, peace of mind and I even tried to look for the silver lining and say to myself, 'Now I'll be able to choose from a wider selection of girls. It also possibly makes my non-condom product more valuable. The only con I could keep coming back to was money..."
Butts continued, "I care so much about the people that work for me to have to get a phone call like someone had to have gotten last week (with the two HIV-positive performers.) That would be devastating."
Butts, who is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Free Speech Coalition, said he has the full support of his distributor Pure Play Media on his decision. His production company has been closely followed in recent months by the Showtime network for the hit series Family Business that is on hiatus after the recently completed second season. Butts makes between 9-12 movies per year.
"The time has come, for me at least, to minimize the risk as much as possible so that I can feel good about what it is that I do and what it is that I ask other people to do," he said. "And I have to have faith in myself that I'm going to be able to overcome any monetary loss that this causes me. It motivates me to build my brand in ancillary markets that maybe I've procrastinated about.
"...I have to have faith, or else I don't deserve to live in a nice house and drive a nice car."
Butts said he has no plans to shoot as he waits for more information to surface and honors the recommended moratorium.
"Everybody's nervous out there," Butts said. "I think it's sad that it took this to wake me up. And I also hope some of the people that already came out and said it's going to be business as usual reconsider and make that pro and con list that I've made.
"They're not going to be able to find more cons than I did."
Butts added that he is "excited" about shooting condom-only productions.
"I know that I have to be more creative now in order to make up for whatever it is that condoms take away from people. I look at it as a challenge to be more creative in my movies," he said.
"It's something I feel like I have to do."
Butts said that performers in his videos have worn condoms in the past, but "on rare occasions."
"The talent pool is so used to working without them," he said.
He added that this could be an opportunity for talent to organize and police itself. Butts said he would be willing to offer his guidance, support or leadership if needed at this time of crisis.
"If talent or a group of talent were to come to me and say to me that, 'we really want to change the way things are done, but we don't necessarily know how to go about doing it.' If I'm asked, right now I'm only going to dictate for my company. But if people wanted me to help them try to change things, certainly I'd be more than willing to give it my best shot."
A small number of production companies have also recently declared that they would begin shooting condom only productions.
Seymore Butts will be appearing live on Court TV from 2-3 p.m. PST today to discuss the adult industry's HIV scare.
Questa storia e stata pubblicata al sito AVN.com il 19 aprile 2004. Mark Anhony commenta sull'intervista che Lara Roxx ha dato che non era stata informata prima da presentarsi sul set che doveva fare un "double anal" (doppia penetrazione anale). Lui smentisce tutto e dice che l'agente di Lara era bene al corrente per quale tipo di scena Lara era stata ingaggiata per il 24 marzo. Per di piu', Mark Anthony dice che lui e James Darren girarono circa 20 scene verso la fine di marzo in Brasile e che James ebbe contatto con circa 10-15 ragazze, ma lui non sa se James Darren ebbe contatto con altre donne fuori dal set.
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Mark Anthony Addresses Reports
By: Dan Miller
04-19-2004
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Adult performer Mark Anthony, who has been added to the "first-generation" quarantine list because of a double anal scene with Darren James, on Monday addressed the risks involved in doing double anal.
James tested HIV-positive last week.
"The way I respond to it is it's the same risk as any sexual act. I don't think there's any more risk doing single anal, or anything else," he said. "At the time when I did the scene with double anal (in Los Angeles), everybody there had a current negative PCR-DNA test."
Anthony said that performer Lara Roxx, who also tested HIV-positive last week after working with James, was given a choice whether to do a double-anal scene with he and James on March 24, and he did inform Roxx's agent ahead of time of the nature of the scene. The chances of Roxx giving the virus to James are extremely remote, sources say.
"I read she was saying I didn't tell her agent that she was doing double. I did tell her agent that I was doing double anal, and that was the only scene I had available," Anthony told AVN.com. "She thought she was doing a d.p. I explained to her I wasn't shooting d.p. scenes that week, that I was shooting double anal and if she didn't want to do it, I didn't have anything else for her.
"Maybe it was a miscommunication between her and her agent. ... I don't want to say anything bad about her, but at same time, I do want to get the correct information out."
Anthony, who traveled to Brazil with James for two weeks in late March, said they shot about 20 scenes during that period. Anthony estimated that James worked with 10 to 15 different women. Anthony said that he personally did not have any sexual contact with anyone off the set, but that he could not speak for James' personal activity.
Anthony said at this point that several possibilities remain regarding how James contracted the virus " including from work in Brazil or Los Angeles, or from his personal life in both places.
"Right now the assumption is he got it from Brazil, but we don't know that for sure," Anthony said.
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Mark Anthony Addresses Reports
By: Dan Miller
04-19-2004
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Adult performer Mark Anthony, who has been added to the "first-generation" quarantine list because of a double anal scene with Darren James, on Monday addressed the risks involved in doing double anal.
James tested HIV-positive last week.
"The way I respond to it is it's the same risk as any sexual act. I don't think there's any more risk doing single anal, or anything else," he said. "At the time when I did the scene with double anal (in Los Angeles), everybody there had a current negative PCR-DNA test."
Anthony said that performer Lara Roxx, who also tested HIV-positive last week after working with James, was given a choice whether to do a double-anal scene with he and James on March 24, and he did inform Roxx's agent ahead of time of the nature of the scene. The chances of Roxx giving the virus to James are extremely remote, sources say.
"I read she was saying I didn't tell her agent that she was doing double. I did tell her agent that I was doing double anal, and that was the only scene I had available," Anthony told AVN.com. "She thought she was doing a d.p. I explained to her I wasn't shooting d.p. scenes that week, that I was shooting double anal and if she didn't want to do it, I didn't have anything else for her.
"Maybe it was a miscommunication between her and her agent. ... I don't want to say anything bad about her, but at same time, I do want to get the correct information out."
Anthony, who traveled to Brazil with James for two weeks in late March, said they shot about 20 scenes during that period. Anthony estimated that James worked with 10 to 15 different women. Anthony said that he personally did not have any sexual contact with anyone off the set, but that he could not speak for James' personal activity.
Anthony said at this point that several possibilities remain regarding how James contracted the virus " including from work in Brazil or Los Angeles, or from his personal life in both places.
"Right now the assumption is he got it from Brazil, but we don't know that for sure," Anthony said.
C'e una notizia pubblicata dal "Los Angeles Times" il 20 aprile 2004 (che non posso scaricare perche' si deve abbonare al giornale) che indica che il "Los Angeles County Health Department"
avrebbe intenzione di esaminare i registri dell'organizazione AIM, e probabilmente obbligare attori hard a usare condom.
http://www.latimes.com/
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Day 8: LA County Health Department Seeks Involvement; Condoms May Become Mandatory
By: Scott Ross
04-20-2004
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - The HIV scare that started exactly one week ago today became even scarier today, as the LA County Health Department began to speak of regulating the industry and obtaining health records from the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM).
The anticipated subpoena of performer's records at AIM that was reported by AVN.com earlier today never materialized, though representatives from the Los Angeles County Health Department did indeed attempt to gain access to AIM's records this morning.
"The LA County Health Department this morning has contacted us today and contrary to the LA Times, they are very happy with the job that we have done," AIM's executive director, Sharon Mitchell, PhD, told AVN.com. "They asked for anonymous statistics on our testing program to acknowledge how well it is working. We have agreed to give out anonymous statistics; we give them out all the time.
"We will not compromise any private information from our clients without either their permission or a subpoena from Los Angeles County," Mitchell added.
Since 1998, only 17 performers have tested HIV-positive, including the controversial Marc Wallice case, which led to ten HIV-positive performers including Wallice himself. According to Mitchell, that equates to .003 percent of the adult talent pool during that time.
This morning's edition of the Times quotes Dr. Peter Kerndt, who heads the STD program for the LA County Health Department, saying that no matter how good AIM was, the current HIV scare "shows what I consider is a complete failure " and a tragic failure " that these people have become infected needlessly."
Rather than a criticism of AIM, Kerndt's statements appear to be referring to the Health Departments well-known belief that nothing short of a mandatory condom policy will ensure the safety of adult performers.
After the HIV outbreak spurred by Marc Wallice in 1998, six adult studios declared that they were going condom-only, though only two of those companies, Wicked Pictures and Vivid Video, remain condom-only.
Video Team owner Christian Mann, whose company was one of the first to go condom-only after the Wallice outbreak, only to return to shooting without condoms a year ago, said he was willing to shoot condom-only, but only if everyone else did as well. "I've tried this before and I was getting killed in the marketplace because I was the only one selling ethnic videos using condoms," he said.
Mann estimates that within three-months after Video Team dropped the condom-only policy, his sales were up significantly.
Rob Rotton, a performer who only works with his girlfriend Rachel Rotton and is the only perfromer that she works with, doesn't feel personally threatened by the HIV scare, but does worry about the safety of others in the industry. "I really hope that it goes condom mandatory though. It has too, its just safer," Rotten said.
While the current HIV scare has led some companies to voluntarily adopt a condom-only policy, only two companies, Vivid Entertainment and Wicked Pictures were already doing so. Both companies are considered successful and have operated for over four years producing condom-only features.
Critics suggest that the reason Vivid and Wicked are able to produce condom-only projects and create healthy profit margins is that both companies have surrendered the domestic retail market.
Howard Levine, national sales manager for Vivid Entertainment titles, says that any suggestion that that Vivid doesn't care about the domestic retail market is way off base. "That's just not true. That's ridiculous. We're just doing the right thing. I've definitely taken a hit on sales [because of the condom-only policy], but we keep plodding on and going by putting out the best stuff that we possibly can.
"We do better than anybody in the domestic retail market. That's because the product that we make is a mainstream product," Levine said.
Mr. Marcus, a popular male performer who organized a talent meeting that discussed a condom-only possibility amongst other issues, said that he would be willing to work condom-only, but that gonzo, one of the most popular genres of adult video, will struggle under such a policy.
"Gonzo is one of those things that was built off raw sex happening in a raw environment. If there are no condoms in it, it automatically makes it ungonzo. Gonzo is raw," Marcus said.
Pat Myne, a director for Fuxsion, Metro Interactive's hardcore line of videos, supports a condom-only policy, while simultaneously bemoaning the policy because he feels it will be the "death of gonzo."
"I mean absolutely safety first, but it's going to kill the genre that I love the most," Myne said.
Jocelyn and Persia, two members of the first-generation of performers, took their first HIV tests yesterday, thirty days after both women worked with James. The results have not been announced yet.
Both Persia and Jocelyn have left the adult industry according to their agent.
avrebbe intenzione di esaminare i registri dell'organizazione AIM, e probabilmente obbligare attori hard a usare condom.
http://www.latimes.com/
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Day 8: LA County Health Department Seeks Involvement; Condoms May Become Mandatory
By: Scott Ross
04-20-2004
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - The HIV scare that started exactly one week ago today became even scarier today, as the LA County Health Department began to speak of regulating the industry and obtaining health records from the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM).
The anticipated subpoena of performer's records at AIM that was reported by AVN.com earlier today never materialized, though representatives from the Los Angeles County Health Department did indeed attempt to gain access to AIM's records this morning.
"The LA County Health Department this morning has contacted us today and contrary to the LA Times, they are very happy with the job that we have done," AIM's executive director, Sharon Mitchell, PhD, told AVN.com. "They asked for anonymous statistics on our testing program to acknowledge how well it is working. We have agreed to give out anonymous statistics; we give them out all the time.
"We will not compromise any private information from our clients without either their permission or a subpoena from Los Angeles County," Mitchell added.
Since 1998, only 17 performers have tested HIV-positive, including the controversial Marc Wallice case, which led to ten HIV-positive performers including Wallice himself. According to Mitchell, that equates to .003 percent of the adult talent pool during that time.
This morning's edition of the Times quotes Dr. Peter Kerndt, who heads the STD program for the LA County Health Department, saying that no matter how good AIM was, the current HIV scare "shows what I consider is a complete failure " and a tragic failure " that these people have become infected needlessly."
Rather than a criticism of AIM, Kerndt's statements appear to be referring to the Health Departments well-known belief that nothing short of a mandatory condom policy will ensure the safety of adult performers.
After the HIV outbreak spurred by Marc Wallice in 1998, six adult studios declared that they were going condom-only, though only two of those companies, Wicked Pictures and Vivid Video, remain condom-only.
Video Team owner Christian Mann, whose company was one of the first to go condom-only after the Wallice outbreak, only to return to shooting without condoms a year ago, said he was willing to shoot condom-only, but only if everyone else did as well. "I've tried this before and I was getting killed in the marketplace because I was the only one selling ethnic videos using condoms," he said.
Mann estimates that within three-months after Video Team dropped the condom-only policy, his sales were up significantly.
Rob Rotton, a performer who only works with his girlfriend Rachel Rotton and is the only perfromer that she works with, doesn't feel personally threatened by the HIV scare, but does worry about the safety of others in the industry. "I really hope that it goes condom mandatory though. It has too, its just safer," Rotten said.
While the current HIV scare has led some companies to voluntarily adopt a condom-only policy, only two companies, Vivid Entertainment and Wicked Pictures were already doing so. Both companies are considered successful and have operated for over four years producing condom-only features.
Critics suggest that the reason Vivid and Wicked are able to produce condom-only projects and create healthy profit margins is that both companies have surrendered the domestic retail market.
Howard Levine, national sales manager for Vivid Entertainment titles, says that any suggestion that that Vivid doesn't care about the domestic retail market is way off base. "That's just not true. That's ridiculous. We're just doing the right thing. I've definitely taken a hit on sales [because of the condom-only policy], but we keep plodding on and going by putting out the best stuff that we possibly can.
"We do better than anybody in the domestic retail market. That's because the product that we make is a mainstream product," Levine said.
Mr. Marcus, a popular male performer who organized a talent meeting that discussed a condom-only possibility amongst other issues, said that he would be willing to work condom-only, but that gonzo, one of the most popular genres of adult video, will struggle under such a policy.
"Gonzo is one of those things that was built off raw sex happening in a raw environment. If there are no condoms in it, it automatically makes it ungonzo. Gonzo is raw," Marcus said.
Pat Myne, a director for Fuxsion, Metro Interactive's hardcore line of videos, supports a condom-only policy, while simultaneously bemoaning the policy because he feels it will be the "death of gonzo."
"I mean absolutely safety first, but it's going to kill the genre that I love the most," Myne said.
Jocelyn and Persia, two members of the first-generation of performers, took their first HIV tests yesterday, thirty days after both women worked with James. The results have not been announced yet.
Both Persia and Jocelyn have left the adult industry according to their agent.
L'ultima notizia dal sito AVN.com che indica che lo stato di California indaga su questa transmissione di HIV. Per ora e l'organizazione AIM che fa i test per HIV, e prossimamente il governo fara' indagine sulle ditte che hanno prodotto questi film porno dove James e altri hanno lavorato ultimamente.
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Government Agencies Deem Adult Industry Has HIV Outbreak; Launches Own Investigation
By: Scott Ross
04-21-2004
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and the California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) have declared the current HIV scare as an official outbreak and have forced the AIM Healthcare Foundation (AIM) to turn over their records both Darren James and Lara Roxx, the two performers who were diagnosed as HIV-positive last week, as well as the records of the first- and second-generation of performers who may have been exposed to the virus.
"We're literally forced to cooperate in this situation. I'm expecting OSHA to barge in here at any moment, by 4 o' clock, I've been told. This is a full-scale investigation by the county health department and OSHA," AIM's executive director Sharon Mitchell, PhD, told AVN.com.
"We've been holding back this legal information since Monday. We've done everything we could but we've been strongly persuaded to cooperate by our attorneys," she added.
"Honest to God, there's nothing I could do," Mitchell said.
And if the county health department and Cal/OSHA get their way, adult entertainment will be condom mandatory in the very near future, with no facials or internal cumshots allowed. They also want production companies to start paying for testing within the industry.
"We're not here to shut the adult industry down," Dr. Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services."We're just trying to make it safe for those who work in it. The current situation makes it obvious that it is not safe."
The current situation that Kerndt is referring to is the HIV-positive status of two adult performers, Darren James and Lara Roxx, and the approximately 50 performers that have been quarantined because they may have been exposed to the virus.
James is believed to have caught the virus while working in Brazil, but that has not been confirmed and some believe that Roxx may have been the source. Tests have not confirmed one way or the other for certain.
While the Department of Health seems to be willing to work with the adult industry, as they demonstrated by meeting with representatives from both the gay and straight side of the industry yesterday, they plan on the launching their own investigation, expected to last a few weeks, immediately.
Kerdnt said that the HIV scare has been determined to be an "outbreak," giving the health department authority to investigate, "primarily to ensure that there is no further spread, as well as to offer treatment, testing and counseling to those that were exposed."
Kerdnt said that an "outbreak" can involve as little as two or three people, defining the term as, "an unusual occurrence of disease transmission."
Kerdnt said that sometime this week, Cal/OSHA will begin inspecting the production companies involved in the outbreak, visiting their sets and making sure that all Cal/OSHA standards are being met.
The Cal/OSHA standard that is of most concern to the adult industry is one that pertains to protecting workers from that may be exposed to disease-infected blood or other fluids. In other words, production companies may be required to prevent talent from being exposed to semen.
The other standard that Cal/OSHA is seeking to enforce is the requirement that all employers have a written injury and illness prevention plan.
Cal/OSHA can fine or even shut down production companies that are found to be in violation of safety standards. "They have broad powers as far as safety is concerned," Kerdnt said.
Acknowledging that production companies will likely challenge any attempt by Cal/OSHA to claim jurisdiction over them by arguing that adult talent are not employees, but independent contractors not entitled to rights granted traditional employees, Kerndt said that the Department of Labor and Cal/OSHA are both prepared to fight that battle when it comes.
"Cal/OSHA is very familiar with that defense. Even when a person is a contractor, they don't give up their rights," Kerdnt said, saying that waivers signed by the performers won't indemnify the production companies from injuries or illness contracted while working.
Considering that there isn't a condom-only policy in place at the vast majority of studios in the industry, Kerdnt felt that Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM) handled that situation appropriately and to the best of their abilities.
Kerdnt confirmed that AIM handled the situation to the best of their abilities, while suggesting that production companies were going to have to do more to enhance those abilities.
"I think they've [AIM] raised awareness," Kerndt said. "They've done a lot of important work educating and being advocates for the talent in the industry. They've created an awareness of the risk and have done what they can to minimize that risk."
Kerdnt agreed that AIM was underfunded and felt that the production companies should be footing the bill for all testing required for working within the industry.
"I think that the fact the talent is paying for this is ... you'd never work in a hospital and be exposed to hepatitis and HIV and [have] the hospital ask you to pay for tests and vaccines," Kerdnt said. "That's why it's important for Cal/OSHA come in. It requires of the employer that they have all of this in place. If any testing or screening is involved, then the employer has to pick up the costs for that."
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Government Agencies Deem Adult Industry Has HIV Outbreak; Launches Own Investigation
By: Scott Ross
04-21-2004
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and the California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) have declared the current HIV scare as an official outbreak and have forced the AIM Healthcare Foundation (AIM) to turn over their records both Darren James and Lara Roxx, the two performers who were diagnosed as HIV-positive last week, as well as the records of the first- and second-generation of performers who may have been exposed to the virus.
"We're literally forced to cooperate in this situation. I'm expecting OSHA to barge in here at any moment, by 4 o' clock, I've been told. This is a full-scale investigation by the county health department and OSHA," AIM's executive director Sharon Mitchell, PhD, told AVN.com.
"We've been holding back this legal information since Monday. We've done everything we could but we've been strongly persuaded to cooperate by our attorneys," she added.
"Honest to God, there's nothing I could do," Mitchell said.
And if the county health department and Cal/OSHA get their way, adult entertainment will be condom mandatory in the very near future, with no facials or internal cumshots allowed. They also want production companies to start paying for testing within the industry.
"We're not here to shut the adult industry down," Dr. Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services."We're just trying to make it safe for those who work in it. The current situation makes it obvious that it is not safe."
The current situation that Kerndt is referring to is the HIV-positive status of two adult performers, Darren James and Lara Roxx, and the approximately 50 performers that have been quarantined because they may have been exposed to the virus.
James is believed to have caught the virus while working in Brazil, but that has not been confirmed and some believe that Roxx may have been the source. Tests have not confirmed one way or the other for certain.
While the Department of Health seems to be willing to work with the adult industry, as they demonstrated by meeting with representatives from both the gay and straight side of the industry yesterday, they plan on the launching their own investigation, expected to last a few weeks, immediately.
Kerdnt said that the HIV scare has been determined to be an "outbreak," giving the health department authority to investigate, "primarily to ensure that there is no further spread, as well as to offer treatment, testing and counseling to those that were exposed."
Kerdnt said that an "outbreak" can involve as little as two or three people, defining the term as, "an unusual occurrence of disease transmission."
Kerdnt said that sometime this week, Cal/OSHA will begin inspecting the production companies involved in the outbreak, visiting their sets and making sure that all Cal/OSHA standards are being met.
The Cal/OSHA standard that is of most concern to the adult industry is one that pertains to protecting workers from that may be exposed to disease-infected blood or other fluids. In other words, production companies may be required to prevent talent from being exposed to semen.
The other standard that Cal/OSHA is seeking to enforce is the requirement that all employers have a written injury and illness prevention plan.
Cal/OSHA can fine or even shut down production companies that are found to be in violation of safety standards. "They have broad powers as far as safety is concerned," Kerdnt said.
Acknowledging that production companies will likely challenge any attempt by Cal/OSHA to claim jurisdiction over them by arguing that adult talent are not employees, but independent contractors not entitled to rights granted traditional employees, Kerndt said that the Department of Labor and Cal/OSHA are both prepared to fight that battle when it comes.
"Cal/OSHA is very familiar with that defense. Even when a person is a contractor, they don't give up their rights," Kerdnt said, saying that waivers signed by the performers won't indemnify the production companies from injuries or illness contracted while working.
Considering that there isn't a condom-only policy in place at the vast majority of studios in the industry, Kerdnt felt that Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM) handled that situation appropriately and to the best of their abilities.
Kerdnt confirmed that AIM handled the situation to the best of their abilities, while suggesting that production companies were going to have to do more to enhance those abilities.
"I think they've [AIM] raised awareness," Kerndt said. "They've done a lot of important work educating and being advocates for the talent in the industry. They've created an awareness of the risk and have done what they can to minimize that risk."
Kerdnt agreed that AIM was underfunded and felt that the production companies should be footing the bill for all testing required for working within the industry.
"I think that the fact the talent is paying for this is ... you'd never work in a hospital and be exposed to hepatitis and HIV and [have] the hospital ask you to pay for tests and vaccines," Kerdnt said. "That's why it's important for Cal/OSHA come in. It requires of the employer that they have all of this in place. If any testing or screening is involved, then the employer has to pick up the costs for that."
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Four Women That Worked With James Have Negative HIV Test Results
By: Scott Ross
04-20-2004
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - A positive note to end another day dominated by discussions across the adult industry regarding the current HIV outbreak. Four of the women in the first-generation, women who worked directly with Darren James, believed to "patient zero" in the current outbreak, have received negative HIV test results.
30 days or more have passed since Skyler Banks, Persia, Jocelyn, or Annie Cruz worked with James. Today's results were each of the women's first HIV test since being quarantined last Tuesday. They are significant, because now the odds for these four women having been infected with HIV are much lower than previously.
Each of the women now needs thirty days before they are completely clear and released from their quarantine status, though at least two of the women, Persia and Jocelyn, have left adult.
Four Women That Worked With James Have Negative HIV Test Results
By: Scott Ross
04-20-2004
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - A positive note to end another day dominated by discussions across the adult industry regarding the current HIV outbreak. Four of the women in the first-generation, women who worked directly with Darren James, believed to "patient zero" in the current outbreak, have received negative HIV test results.
30 days or more have passed since Skyler Banks, Persia, Jocelyn, or Annie Cruz worked with James. Today's results were each of the women's first HIV test since being quarantined last Tuesday. They are significant, because now the odds for these four women having been infected with HIV are much lower than previously.
Each of the women now needs thirty days before they are completely clear and released from their quarantine status, though at least two of the women, Persia and Jocelyn, have left adult.
Questo e' l'articolo che e' stato pubblicato nel Los Angeles Times il 20 aprile 2004
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THE STATE
State, County May Require Condoms in Adult Films
2 HIV Cases Put a Scare Into Porn
April 16, 2004
Pyramid of potential infection
April 16, 2004
Testing
(Reuters)
By Lisa Richardson and Caitlin Liu, Times Staff Writers
After almost a year of urging the adult-film industry to require actors to wear condoms during sex scenes, state and county officials say the recent HIV infection of two porn stars has given them the leverage they need to force change.
State and Los Angeles County health officials said Monday they believed existing regulations gave them the authority to require adult-film actors to use condoms, and the state Division of Occupational Health and Safety plans to begin inspections this week, marking the first time Cal/OSHA has investigated the adult-film industry.
Industry lawyers dispute the agency's legal authority, and some industry officials say pornographic movie production would move out of state if condom use were required.
Although a few California adult-film producers have voluntarily switched to condom-only productions, the majority of producers and distributors have balked at doing so. It is conventional wisdom within the multibillion-dollar industry " which employs more than 6,000 people in California, including about 1,200 performers " that using a condom doesn't pay.
"It's market forces," said Mark Kulkis, president of Kick Ass Pictures, a production company based in downtown Los Angeles that specializes in fetish films. "The bottom line is, customers don't like [to see] condoms."
He likened adult-film performers to Hollywood stuntmen and women.
"When you see an action movie and you see the hero jumping out the window, you don't want to see the wires holding him up," Kulkis said. "Nobody wants to see condoms. It's a fantasy."
Until last week's HIV outbreak, which spurred a temporary industrywide production shutdown, only two of 200 adult-film production companies in Southern California were condoms-only, industry insiders said. About 17% of the performers use a condom regularly.
David Joseph, president of Red Light District, a Chatsworth-based production company that specializes in hard-core, "gonzo" films that do not use condoms, was one of several representatives of production companies who said that if the state required condom use by sex actors, they would leave California. Other industry insiders predicted that filming would move underground.
But state and county officials say condom use is an important health and workplace issue.
"You couldn't imagine a construction company sending a person to a work site without a hard hat, and nor should we think of someone in an adult-film industry production company working without a condom," said Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "I look at this strictly as an employer-employee issue."
Kerndt said he expected resistance to mandatory condom use and agreed that some adult filmmakers would leave the state. But he cites a previous success in setting standards for the industry, pointing out that producers rigorously screen out underage actors because of the threat of closure, fines and incarceration.
"Some of the big players won't move" out of state, he said. "What we've learned is that, if you can set the standard with those folks, you can generally make an enormous amount of progress," Kerndt said.
Monday afternoon, Kerndt, on behalf of the county, asked Cal/OSHA to investigate the production companies where Darren James and Lara Roxx, the two infected actors, have worked.
Until now, the agency has spent much of its time monitoring the construction and agricultural industries, in which the majority of workplace deaths and injuries occur, said Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Susan Gard.
Also, Gard said, Cal/OSHA generally responds to complaints about workplace hazards, and so far no adult-film actors have filed complaints.
But now that the agency is getting involved, it has two main regulations that would apply to the porn industry: illness-prevention program requirements and the blood-borne pathogen standard, Gard said.
The illness-prevention program requires employers to have written policies on reducing workplace hazards. The blood-borne pathogen standard requires use of universal precautions by people who come in contact with semen, vaginal secretions, blood and other bodily fluids that may transmit diseases.
"If you think of nursing or the healthcare industry, they have to use universal precautions," Gard said. "That means you always use a rubber glove when they draw blood."
In addition to a condoms-only policy, enforcement of existing state regulations would require porn producers to bear the costs of any testing, vaccinations and medical care associated with their employees in the workplace, Kerndt said. It would also mean an end to practices in some pornographic movies that involve contact with semen.
Last year, the county health department issued a report concluding that the porn industry posed a health risk to its workers and the general population. Health officials at that time recommended that the Board of Supervisors ask state officials to develop regulations that would require adult-film actors to use condoms and be tested for a variety of communicable diseases, including HIV and hepatitis.
Since that time, county and state officials have been working with adult-film industry representatives, but news of last week's infections gave the effort to require a condom-only policy new momentum.
Rather than requiring condoms, the industry requires performers to undergo testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases every month.
Although the porn industry has been diligent about such screening, that requirement alone does not meet state regulations, Gard said.
Kerndt agreed. "As good as [HIV testing] has been, we never believed it would always work," he said. Last week's HIV discovery "shows what I consider is a complete failure " and a tragic failure " that these people have become infected needlessly."
Since James and Roxx tested positive for HIV last week, at least 49 others who worked with them or their sex partners have been identified as being potentially affected.
The effort to regulate the industry faces several difficulties. The last time there was an outcry demanding safe-sex practices came in 1998, when several actors tested positive for HIV. But the clamor soon died down.
Moreover, regulators will need to overcome arguments by the industry that porn actors are not employees, but independent contractors, Gard acknowledged.
On many productions, actors sign statements declaring themselves to be independent contractors. Cal/OSHA's regulations only govern conduct between an employee and his or her employer, not between an employer and a contractor.
"We will have to establish an employer-and-employee relationship exists, but clearly in many of these situations they are" employees, she said. Even when actors sign statements declaring themselves to be contractors, state law does not allow them to waive their basic rights as employees, she said.
Some believe fear of an AIDS epidemic has the potential to transform industry practices without state intervention.
Adam Glasser, an industry veteran, said that once he resumes filming, he will require the use of condoms for any scenes involving vaginal or anal penetration, but not for oral sex.
"I think it's my responsibility to minimize the risk that performers experience on my sets," Glasser said. "This is one way of doing that...I look at it as a challenge to make condom movies appealing."
He and others point out that the industry has had few documented cases of HIV transmission in the last few years.
"The record is pretty good. The reality is, it's not like the system is broke and someone's got to fix it. The system's worked pretty well," Glasser said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/show ... pr20.story
THE STATE
State, County May Require Condoms in Adult Films
2 HIV Cases Put a Scare Into Porn
April 16, 2004
Pyramid of potential infection
April 16, 2004
Testing
(Reuters)
By Lisa Richardson and Caitlin Liu, Times Staff Writers
After almost a year of urging the adult-film industry to require actors to wear condoms during sex scenes, state and county officials say the recent HIV infection of two porn stars has given them the leverage they need to force change.
State and Los Angeles County health officials said Monday they believed existing regulations gave them the authority to require adult-film actors to use condoms, and the state Division of Occupational Health and Safety plans to begin inspections this week, marking the first time Cal/OSHA has investigated the adult-film industry.
Industry lawyers dispute the agency's legal authority, and some industry officials say pornographic movie production would move out of state if condom use were required.
Although a few California adult-film producers have voluntarily switched to condom-only productions, the majority of producers and distributors have balked at doing so. It is conventional wisdom within the multibillion-dollar industry " which employs more than 6,000 people in California, including about 1,200 performers " that using a condom doesn't pay.
"It's market forces," said Mark Kulkis, president of Kick Ass Pictures, a production company based in downtown Los Angeles that specializes in fetish films. "The bottom line is, customers don't like [to see] condoms."
He likened adult-film performers to Hollywood stuntmen and women.
"When you see an action movie and you see the hero jumping out the window, you don't want to see the wires holding him up," Kulkis said. "Nobody wants to see condoms. It's a fantasy."
Until last week's HIV outbreak, which spurred a temporary industrywide production shutdown, only two of 200 adult-film production companies in Southern California were condoms-only, industry insiders said. About 17% of the performers use a condom regularly.
David Joseph, president of Red Light District, a Chatsworth-based production company that specializes in hard-core, "gonzo" films that do not use condoms, was one of several representatives of production companies who said that if the state required condom use by sex actors, they would leave California. Other industry insiders predicted that filming would move underground.
But state and county officials say condom use is an important health and workplace issue.
"You couldn't imagine a construction company sending a person to a work site without a hard hat, and nor should we think of someone in an adult-film industry production company working without a condom," said Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "I look at this strictly as an employer-employee issue."
Kerndt said he expected resistance to mandatory condom use and agreed that some adult filmmakers would leave the state. But he cites a previous success in setting standards for the industry, pointing out that producers rigorously screen out underage actors because of the threat of closure, fines and incarceration.
"Some of the big players won't move" out of state, he said. "What we've learned is that, if you can set the standard with those folks, you can generally make an enormous amount of progress," Kerndt said.
Monday afternoon, Kerndt, on behalf of the county, asked Cal/OSHA to investigate the production companies where Darren James and Lara Roxx, the two infected actors, have worked.
Until now, the agency has spent much of its time monitoring the construction and agricultural industries, in which the majority of workplace deaths and injuries occur, said Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Susan Gard.
Also, Gard said, Cal/OSHA generally responds to complaints about workplace hazards, and so far no adult-film actors have filed complaints.
But now that the agency is getting involved, it has two main regulations that would apply to the porn industry: illness-prevention program requirements and the blood-borne pathogen standard, Gard said.
The illness-prevention program requires employers to have written policies on reducing workplace hazards. The blood-borne pathogen standard requires use of universal precautions by people who come in contact with semen, vaginal secretions, blood and other bodily fluids that may transmit diseases.
"If you think of nursing or the healthcare industry, they have to use universal precautions," Gard said. "That means you always use a rubber glove when they draw blood."
In addition to a condoms-only policy, enforcement of existing state regulations would require porn producers to bear the costs of any testing, vaccinations and medical care associated with their employees in the workplace, Kerndt said. It would also mean an end to practices in some pornographic movies that involve contact with semen.
Last year, the county health department issued a report concluding that the porn industry posed a health risk to its workers and the general population. Health officials at that time recommended that the Board of Supervisors ask state officials to develop regulations that would require adult-film actors to use condoms and be tested for a variety of communicable diseases, including HIV and hepatitis.
Since that time, county and state officials have been working with adult-film industry representatives, but news of last week's infections gave the effort to require a condom-only policy new momentum.
Rather than requiring condoms, the industry requires performers to undergo testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases every month.
Although the porn industry has been diligent about such screening, that requirement alone does not meet state regulations, Gard said.
Kerndt agreed. "As good as [HIV testing] has been, we never believed it would always work," he said. Last week's HIV discovery "shows what I consider is a complete failure " and a tragic failure " that these people have become infected needlessly."
Since James and Roxx tested positive for HIV last week, at least 49 others who worked with them or their sex partners have been identified as being potentially affected.
The effort to regulate the industry faces several difficulties. The last time there was an outcry demanding safe-sex practices came in 1998, when several actors tested positive for HIV. But the clamor soon died down.
Moreover, regulators will need to overcome arguments by the industry that porn actors are not employees, but independent contractors, Gard acknowledged.
On many productions, actors sign statements declaring themselves to be independent contractors. Cal/OSHA's regulations only govern conduct between an employee and his or her employer, not between an employer and a contractor.
"We will have to establish an employer-and-employee relationship exists, but clearly in many of these situations they are" employees, she said. Even when actors sign statements declaring themselves to be contractors, state law does not allow them to waive their basic rights as employees, she said.
Some believe fear of an AIDS epidemic has the potential to transform industry practices without state intervention.
Adam Glasser, an industry veteran, said that once he resumes filming, he will require the use of condoms for any scenes involving vaginal or anal penetration, but not for oral sex.
"I think it's my responsibility to minimize the risk that performers experience on my sets," Glasser said. "This is one way of doing that...I look at it as a challenge to make condom movies appealing."
He and others point out that the industry has had few documented cases of HIV transmission in the last few years.
"The record is pretty good. The reality is, it's not like the system is broke and someone's got to fix it. The system's worked pretty well," Glasser said.
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Se ne sai più (e non ho motivo di dubitarne) di quel che si legge dai giornali, magari facci sapere il tuo punto di vista.Axel Braun ha scritto:Giusto lo scandalo a matrice immorale che ci voleva per far salire i voti di Bush in prossimita' delle elezioni...
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Oramai i metodi FBI e CIA li conosciamo, quì in Italia, dopo 50 anni.Axel Braun ha scritto:Giusto lo scandalo a matrice immorale che ci voleva per far salire i voti di Bush in prossimita' delle elezioni...
Cari miei, le cose qui sono un po' diverse da quello che si legge. Tanti interessi in ballo, tanti pupazzi e tanti fili.
Peró la mia era solo un'ipotesi: veramente c'è qualcosa di vero??
In America il caso sta montando così tanto a livello nazionale ?
Il Bullo: "stasera posso guardarmi allo specchio perchè oggi ho tormentato qualcuno".
E' veramente penoso :)
E' veramente penoso :)