SoCal Porn Actress Tests HIV Positive

[JudynTX]

A Southern California porn actress has tested positive for HIV, reigniting concerns that the adult entertainment industry is not protecting talent from the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

While initial HIV tests of the woman's partners came up negative, the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, a nonprofit corporation that handles HIV and STD testing and treatment for people who work in the porn industry, said the actors are not working and are being encouraged to test again in two weeks.

This case is the first publicly confirmed HIV infection in the industry in Southern California since 2004, when an HIV outbreak shut down porn production industry-wide for a month. At that time, actor Darren James returned from a work trip to Brazil and infected three actresses. More than 50actors were placed on voluntary work quarantine until they were cleared.

There has been no similar production shutdown announced since the latest news of the unidentified actress's positive HIV test became public.

In a statement posted on the adult industry Web site AVN.com, AIM founder Sharon Mitchell said this scenario is different because the actress worked infrequently and had not worked with a large number of partners.


"There has been a person who has tested positive. There were exceptionally few partners, inside and outside the industry. All partners are currently testing negative and in adult employment quarantine. All required reporting has been complied with, as have the AIM and industry protocols. The investigation is ongoing. This is not a major event," Mitchell said, according to AVN.

Mark Kernes, senior editor of AVN, said the actress was an older woman who was only hired on rare occasions.

He called the case an "isolated event," saying she did not contract or spread HIV to or from anyone in the adult film world, a testament to the protocols the industry currently has in place.

All of the actors working in the industry are required to be tested for HIV every 30 days, according to Kernes. The time between tests for other sexually transmitted diseases is longer. He said on average, there are about 1,000 people who actively work in the industry every six months.

Mitchell said the woman and all the actors who have worked with her have been quarantined.

Cont'd: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Business/Story?id=7814476&page=2

[ATRAIN]

Who was it?

[Kermit]

There were exceptionally few partners, inside and outside the industry.

Hmmmm. Don't know if I believe that one.

[JudynTX]

I don't know or want to speculate. :rolleyes

[lefty]

Just when you thought some guys were lucky.......

[BlackSwordsMan]

I hope it wasn't allie sin

[ATRAIN]

Just when you thought some guys were lucky.......

Lefty thats a hell of a sig pic of Megan Fox

[ATRAIN]

I hope it wasn't allie sin

I hope it wasnt Katie Morgan

[Kermit]

I can't believe "porn stars" still exist. It seems that amateurism has taken over the production aspect. The fact that people still pay for porn astounds me.

[JudynTX]

Does Jenna still do porn or is she a mommy now? :lol

[Kermit]

Does Jenna still do porn or is she a mommy now? :lol

Have you seen her lately? She looks like a transvestite. A really ugly transvestite.

[samikeyp]

i hope it wasnt katie morgan

+1

[JudynTX]

Have you seen her lately? She looks like a transvestite. A really ugly transvestite.

She's lost a ton of weight, almost a skeleton now! :wow

[ATRAIN]

I can't believe "porn stars" still exist. It seems that amateurism has taken over the production aspect. The fact that people still pay for porn astounds me.

Ive never paid for it.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

She's lost a ton of weight, almost a skeleton now! :wow
she looks like a damn duck now

[Kermit]

Ive never paid for it.

Somebody is.

[BlackSwordsMan]

she's married to bj penn

[mrsmaalox]

Quarantined??? :dizzy

[florige]

I can't believe "porn stars" still exist. It seems that amateurism has taken over the production aspect. The fact that people still pay for porn astounds me.


I honestly don't see how that industry makes ANY money anymore. Well I guess for the people who don't own computers.

[JudynTX]

I can't believe "porn stars" still exist. It seems that amateurism has taken over the production aspect. The fact that people still pay for porn astounds me.

Maybe some people want a HARD copy of the movie. :D

[Kermit]

she's married to bj penn

Tito Ortiz.

[ATRAIN]

Somebody is.

suckers

[ATRAIN]

Tito Ortiz.

yeah I saw her ringside with him a few times, damn she is fugly.

[BlackSwordsMan]

Tito Ortiz.

^^ ufc nuthugger

[BlackSwordsMan]

lol mma

[sonic21]

This is why I support lesbian only porn.

[Kermit]

^^ ufc nuthugger

Google motherfucker! Do-you-use-it?

[BlackSwordsMan]

lol mma

[Summers]

I can't believe "porn stars" still exist. It seems that amateurism has taken over the production aspect. The fact that people still pay for porn astounds me.

I have a friend (and, no, that's not code for "me") who buys the expensive videos because she and her husband like to watch them together and she prefers the movie quality sets and nice costumes and crap like that. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

To put it in sports terms, there are dozens of places in Houston I could go to see quality pick up games, but I'm still willing to shell out the money to watch the Spurs.

[desflood]

He called the case an "isolated event," saying she did not contract or spread HIV to or from anyone in the adult film world



Porn Industry Hit With 16 Confirmed HIV Cases
Friday, June 12, 2009


LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County health officials say there have been 16 previously unpublicized confirmed cases of HIV in adult film industry performers since 2004 when an outbreak shut down porn production for a month.

The county Department of Public Health data was requested by The Los Angeles Times and announced Thursday.

The newly released data brings the number of known HIV cases in adult film performers to 22 since 2004, including a porn actress who tested positive late last week.

The San Fernando Valley-based Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation announced Wednesday that an actress tested positive for HIV last Saturday.

Adult film industry workers had described the new case as the first since 2004.

Adult filmmakers in the U.S. now require that actors prove they have tested negative for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases within 30 days of going to work on a film.

Still, the tests aren't foolproof, as was revealed this week when an actress who had passed an HIV test before making a film tested positive immediately afterward.

[Dr. Gonzo]

They should get all the HIV positive porn stars together and do an All-HIV positive porn movie and donate all the proceeds to an HIV charity.

[E20]

Hopefully it wasn't Lex Steele.

[Thunder Dan]

I hope it isn't Nick Manning, I love his work. Very talented

[Thunder Dan]

speaking of Porn, a girl I went to college with is a porn star now, and I'm not talking softcore, I'm talking the hard hard core stuff. She went from being a sorority girl freshman year, to a rumored stripper senior year. She has a horse face, but I think every one of my friends tried taking her home from a bar in the summer of 05- only 2 of about 10 succeeded. Both of them think they are awesome because they banged a porn star before she actually was, but she isn't that good looking in my eyes. Her name is Lucy and she went to Kent and is from Queens,NY, but her porn name is Bridgette B and she tells everyone she is from Spain. I would love to run into her now just to see what she says she does. She dyed her hair and all that but she is made for porn.

this is the only clean picture I could find of her at work, her myspace is a porn page now and her facebook is gone

http://www.bridgetteb.com/intro.jpg

[Viva Las Espuelas]

"died" her hair

:lmao

[Thunder Dan]

"died" her hair

:lmao

haha I just noticed that. My mom the English teacher would kill me

[lebomb]

lol mma


Whats wrong with MMA? *shrugs*

[ATRAIN]

Whats wrong with MMA? *shrugs*

Its another lame ass stench thing. Before he was entertained with You guys (UTSA) He was trolling the MMA board and got his little ass spanked by Kori for it.

[lebomb]

These idiots are dissin MMA? Dudes that can rip their heads off??? What do they like the Ugly Betty show, scripts spelling Bee? .............. American Idol? Dissin MMA..........LOL. Now that is LOL.

[ATRAIN]

These idiots are dissin MMA? Dudes that can rip their heads off??? What do they like the Ugly Betty show, scripts spelling Bee? .............. American Idol? Dissin MMA..........LOL. Now that is LOL.

Im training in boxing and ju jitsu and there is no way I would diss an MMA fighter.

[Dr. Gonzo]

Atrain and lebomb becoming scissor sisters.

[lebomb]

Im training in boxing and ju jitsu and there is no way I would diss an MMA fighter.

No kidding. I took Tudo when I was younger.........Taekwondo and Judo mix, we used to jack people up/get jacked up when sparring. That was years ago though. Well, some of the knuckleheads on ST diss whomever because they can hide behind a screen. In person, they would wilt like a 6yr old flower.

[lebomb]

Atrain and lebomb becoming scissor sisters.

no comment

[BlackSwordsMan]

let's fight in real life lebomb

[IronMexican]

Hopefully it wasn't Lex Steele.

:lmao

[Mixability]

Cutting Through Some Of The HIV Crap

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Scare headlines are what modern journalism is all about
By Mark Kernes
06/12/2009

PORN VALLEY —"OUTBREAK!!! 16 ADULT FILM STARS TEST POSITIVE FOR HAVING HIV!!!" screamed the headline on MediaTakeOut.com — and its lead paragraph wasn't much better, claiming that, "According to Los Angeles officials, 16 adult film performers have recently tested HIV positive" (emphasis added).

But unless you're speaking in geological terms, most people don't define "recently" as five years ago, and four of the cases included in that 16 are Darren James and the women he infected, Lara Roxx, Merisa Arroyo and one other.

But scare headlines are what sell newspapers and move websites up in the Alexa ratings — and editors pushing to get a story up on a website NOWNOWNOW!!! doesn't help matters, when what's called for is objective, factual reporting.

So here are a few of the obvious factual errors and misleading statements contained in news stories of the last 24 hours:

• "In all, 16 men and 5 women who worked as adult film industry performers contracted HIV between 2004 and 2008": As the L.A. Times notes, that number, which it says came from the County Department of Health — an agency which has relentlessly pushed an "all condom all the time" agenda and which total has so far not been verified by AIM — includes both the cluster around Darren James, one transsexual performer who contracted the infection at roughly that same time ... and "10 ... cases involv[ing] men who had sex with other men."

But that "detail" simply raises more questions. It's well known that some men have sex with other men, including both gay and straight male porn stars, but the difference between them is that gay porn stars generally don't get tested for HIV on a regular basis, while the males in hetero movies do. And sadly, that lack of testing combined with the subgenre of "bareback" productions is a volatile combination.

"These little bareback companies start up and they don’t make it and they close down, and then a new barebacking company starts up and then it closes down, but the total number of these companies seems to have remained the same," said one director knowledgeable about the gay porn industry. "But there are some big barebacking companies that are around and they're staying around. I think these little start-up companies , they start and they think they're going to make like a million dollars doing bareback – it's just not that exciting anymore. It doesn't have the cachet and excitement that it used to have when no one was doing it. I use condoms in every one of my movies and I've never had an issue. I didn't want anyone ever leaving one of my sets and saying [they got HIV there]. It's very scary."

• L.A. Times, referring to the unidentified most recent HIV victim: "The performer first tested positive June 4, said Dr. Colin Hamblin, AIM's medical director. She worked the following day — June 5 — for reasons Hamblin said are still being investigated. A second positive result came back June 6. And the clinic is awaiting results of a third and final confirmatory test, he said."

And yet, in a later story, AIM's founder Dr. Sharon Mitchell disputed that account: "She [Mitchell] also dismissed rumors in the industry that AIM workers had given the woman a negative result in error allowing her to work and expose others.

"This too, is not possible, as there was no result available either positive or negative until 6/6/09," Mitchell said.

AVN is still investigating which of these versions is accurate, but the earlier impression that AIM would let an actress with a positive test work within the industry has yet to be borne out by the facts.

So: Subtracting the four Darren James-related cases in 2004, the one transsexual case from that time, the 10 cases of "men who had sex with other men," which may be related to the gay bareback industry — that too awaits confirmation — and the one case discovered last week, that leaves a total of seven cases possibly unaccounted for over that five-year period.

AVN's investigation continues, but it couldn't hurt for the mainstream press, and the adult industry at large, to heed Mitchell's admonition that, "Rumor is rampant when the words 'HIV' and 'porn' are in the same sentence; the media is like a moth to a flame. We are finding that many clients, patients and companies are tempted to discuss this delicate matter with the world for whatever personal or professional gain. Fact is, that we are still awaiting final confirmation on the Patient Zero."

[lebomb]

let's fight in real life lebomb


:lmao ................. Yall have a good weekend. Im out. :lmao

[baseline bum]

These idiots are dissin MMA? Dudes that can rip their heads off??? What do they like the Ugly Betty show, scripts spelling Bee? .............. American Idol? Dissin MMA..........LOL. Now that is LOL.

Do you like the WNBA? They could all mop the floor with you on the court.

[Mixability]

When did lebomb turn into a douche?

[lebomb]

When did lebomb turn into a douche?


Doesnt matter to me one bit...............I just think happen to think MMA is pretty cool. I like tough sports..........football, boxing, MMA. Its cool to see someones arm get bent into the shape of teh letter Q ...................*shrugs*

Have a great weekend all................. :toast

[Mixability]

Doesnt matter to me one bit...............I just think happen to think MMA is pretty cool. I like tough sports..........football, boxing, MMA. Its cool to see someones arm get bent into the shape of teh letter Q ...................*shrugs*

Have a great weekend all................. :toast

No seriously, I don't recall your posts always looking like they're typed by a drunken retard. No offense.

Have you started the weekend early? Are you drunk?

[lefty]

Lefty thats a hell of a sig pic of Megan Fox
:toast

[MiamiHeat]

ah, the beauty of a monogamous, worry-free sex life.

[Whisky Dog]

ah, the beauty of a monogamous, worry-free sex life.

How do you know your girl isn't banging other dudes while you're worry free?

[Kermit]

How do you know your girl isn't banging other dudes while you're worry free?

Worry-free + monogamous =

http://tickledbylife.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fig6_palm_of_hand-300x296.jpg

[Whisky Dog]

O I C

Well, that loses it's special feeling after a bit. We're all gonna die anyway, just wrap it up and take a risk

[MiamiHeat]

How do you know your girl isn't banging other dudes while you're worry free?

because she loves me, she's not the type to do that, and i'm a good man

[chode_regulator]

i like mma because the rules are just such that 90% of matches devolve into "grappling" -- i.e. two sweaty guys on the ground rubbing their sweaty bodies all over each other

:lmao

MMA has really fallen over the last few years
Most of the fights are pretty lame now. I could see better by going to downtown Htown.

[Fabbs]

Quarantined??? :dizzy
:lol
And of course we are to believe all of them voluntarily adhere to the "quarantine" code.

Plus it takes time for the virus to show itself on a test. Infected today does not mean it shows up on test tomorrow.

Scary.
Porn people, there is a better way!

[PakiDan]

Doesnt matter to me one bit...............I just think happen to think MMA is pretty cool. I like tough sports..........football, boxing, MMA. Its cool to see someones arm get bent into the shape of teh letter Q ...................*shrugs*

Have a great weekend all................. :toast

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