Porn Stars Eager To Get Back To Work Today

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A nonprofit group that provides health services to sex-film workers announced Tuesday that an industrywide moratorium on filming is being lifted nearly a month early, effective today.

Sharon Mitchell, executive director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, the organization that provides HIV testing and counseling to sex-film workers, said producers and performers have been eager to resume production.

Four weeks ago, after actor Darren James tested positive for HIV, Mitchell and other leaders in the sex-film industry called on production companies to stop shooting unprotected sex scenes until early June, when the HIV status of everyone James had worked with could be ascertained. Since then, three actresses who had worked with him were also diagnosed with HIV, as was a transsexual performer unrelated to the other cases.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-adult12may12.story

I have friends who work in the adult film industry. Many live paycheck to paycheck (It's not as lucrative as you might think) and this has been a hardship for them. AIM did a great job of containing this outbreak, and are taking necessary steps to see that nothing of the sort happens again.

Still, until and unless condom use in adult films becomes universal, there will continue to be a risk. It's not as dangerous as high steel construction, but it is still not safe.