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H.I.V. Found in 22 Actors in Sex Films Since 2004
New York Times ^ | June 12, 2009 | Gardiner Harris

Posted on 06/14/2009 6:14:51 AM PDT by Zakeet

Health officials in Los Angeles said Friday that 22 actors in adult sex movies had contracted H.I.V. since 2004, when a previous outbreak led to efforts to protect pornography industry employees.

The officials accused an industry-supported health clinic of failing to cooperate with state investigations and of failing to protect not only industry workers but their sexual partners as well.

“We have an industry that is exposing workers to life-threatening diseases as part of their employment,” said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of public health for Los Angeles County. “That is outrageous and anachronistic. These infections are virtually entirely preventable.”

The latest controversy began Thursday, when The Los Angeles Times reported that a pornography actress had tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. The infection was confirmed by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, a clinic founded by a former pornography actress that offers health testing to sex-film performers.

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Dean Fryer, a spokesman for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, said the clinic “is not cooperative with us.”

“We don’t even know who the employer is in the most recent case; we don’t know who the talent is,” Mr. Fryer said. “They don’t provide that to us.”

Occupational health officials have long argued that failing to require that performers wear condoms during intercourse and other acts is a violation of safe-workplace regulations.

But Deborah Gold, a senior safety engineer with the California occupational health department, said violations in the pornography industry were so widespread that the state had a difficult time cracking down.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; hollywood; porn; promiscuity; riskybehavior; rumprangers; sin; surprisesurprise
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1 posted on 06/14/2009 6:14:51 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

employer? talent?

Its sad they got the disease. Its sad they are in this ‘profession.’


2 posted on 06/14/2009 6:18:51 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Zakeet

:the state had a difficult time cracking down.”

Guess they will have to try harder from now on!!!!


3 posted on 06/14/2009 6:19:59 AM PDT by WKB (From "Handout" to "Bailout")
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To: Zakeet

The govenment is going to waste time and money on the wasted? Porn ‘industry’ ‘workers’ are pure garbage. Let them get sick and die. Who cares?!


4 posted on 06/14/2009 6:21:55 AM PDT by mefistofelerevised (M SURE THERE IS A NOBLE LLAWYER SOMEWHE)
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To: mefistofelerevised

they could be worse, they could be working for the government. at least they produce something that helps the economy


5 posted on 06/14/2009 6:23:19 AM PDT by robertwalker62
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To: Zakeet

Safety standards are out the window and the workers get screwed again. Same old story.


6 posted on 06/14/2009 6:27:20 AM PDT by BipolarBob (It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
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To: robertwalker62

You are right. Even prostitutes are higher up the latter of virtue than the government thieves.


7 posted on 06/14/2009 6:27:33 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Zakeet

Message to “actors” in “sex films”....you reap what you sow.


8 posted on 06/14/2009 6:28:04 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: robertwalker62

At least they are in to produce something (dubious at times) and seek for profit. In that light, I hold them in slightly higher regard as an industry.


9 posted on 06/14/2009 6:28:19 AM PDT by wally_bert (My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre)
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To: robertwalker62

If you don’t like Government Programs, that is OK but not all government workers fit your perception. So, I must conclude based on your entire statement that you are pro-porn


10 posted on 06/14/2009 6:28:37 AM PDT by Tuketu (GOP, state you will reverse all 0bama Dictatorial / DemZI decrees and laws)
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To: WKB

Quit “poking” fun at them.


11 posted on 06/14/2009 6:29:03 AM PDT by central_va (www.15thVirginia.org Co. C, Patrick Henry Rifles)
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To: Zakeet

Clearly this is a crisis that needs direct oversight. Time for the President to take over this industry and manage it himself. Then we need a czar.


12 posted on 06/14/2009 6:30:24 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Zakeet

Perhaps I missed it but 22 positives means nothing if we don’t know how many were tested. 22 out of ? could be above or below the average for beekeepers, Trappist monks or rodeo clowns or any other profession.


13 posted on 06/14/2009 6:31:49 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ( Hey, remember the last head of state who dictated the design of automobiles?)
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To: Zakeet

Isn’t this like reporting a drunk at a bar?


14 posted on 06/14/2009 6:32:36 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: robertwalker62

Oh, I must have gotten confused. I though the porn industry was the goverment.

Everytime I get letters from the government I feel like I’m bending over and getting ......, well, you know what
I mean.


15 posted on 06/14/2009 6:32:48 AM PDT by mefistofelerevised (M SURE THERE IS A NOBLE LLAWYER SOMEWHE)
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To: Zakeet

Excuse me, I am supposed to care?


16 posted on 06/14/2009 6:36:27 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: central_va

One never knows where these things will end up!!!


17 posted on 06/14/2009 6:39:26 AM PDT by WKB (From "Handout" to "Bailout")
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To: muir_redwoods

Thank you! I was wondering if any one else would notice.


18 posted on 06/14/2009 6:41:30 AM PDT by sailor4321
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To: Zakeet
“They don’t provide that to us.”

They're not allowed to. Violation of confidentiality. And I wouldn't be surprised if faggots pushed for that one.

19 posted on 06/14/2009 6:43:41 AM PDT by LouAvul
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> But Deborah Gold, a senior safety engineer with the California occupational health department, said violations in the pornography industry were so widespread that the state had a difficult time cracking down.

I don't understand. If we're talking about the porn industry, then surely the authorities have PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE to go on. How difficult can it be to crack down on parties whom you've got live on film in the very act, in flagrante delicto?

20 posted on 06/14/2009 6:43:53 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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