readThis: Trouble in Pornland. A major HIV outbreak?

As you may have heard, the porn industry in California is currently in the middle of a voluntary shutdown due to an HIV outbreak. Pornblography has some of the latest, including a reaction from someone who works in the industry:

I have been working in the business for about five years, and this week I’ve realized how rose-colored my glasses have been. I’ve had the luck of associating with some of the good people in this business. The ones who care about the well-being of the talent, and care about the fate of this business. It is absolutely shocking to me to learn over the past two days that there really are people in this Valley who don’t care. Don’t care if people get HIV, don’t care if guys who should be quarantined are working, don’t care if performers have valid tests. The only priority is to get some fresh girl fucked hard on camera. To get her first anal. To get her first DP. To get her first interracial. Then throw her ass to the curb. “She knew the risks.” Maybe she did, maybe she didn’t. Maybe her pimp was gonna beat her ass if she didn’t take the extra $100 to do two minutes of anal with some no-name male performer who may have been sucking dicks on Santa Monica Boulevard the night before. Whatever the particular situations may be, how can somebody have so little human compassion to not do anything and everything in their power to help?

Here's a good post from indie filmmaker Brian Flemming. It's about his own experiences using explosives on a movie set, which is a heavily regulated activity. He compares it to the porn industry, which has pretty much nothing at all:

Lara Roxx had zero protection by government agencies. There was no cop on that set. No fire marshal. No doctor. Nobody had a license. And nobody broke the law by paying a teenager to accept the uncovered penises of two men into her anus.

Roxx showed poor judgment, yes. She isn't blameless. But there are plenty of neophyte stunt performers in L.A. who would also be delighted to show some poor judgment and get themselves hurt or killed on a Hollywood movie set--but the government regulates those sets. I've auditioned plenty of eager young actors who would no doubt be willing to do their own dangerous stunts if it meant getting a good role and getting paid--but the LAPD, the LAFD and the Screen Actors Guild would all have something to say about that.

The 18-year-olds flooding into the porn industry have just about nobody. The porn companies label them "independent contractors," so the performers don't even have the workplace safety protections that fry cooks at Burger King do.

Lara Roxx, who is too young to legally drink in a bar, has HIV not just because she participated in a dangerous sex act. She also has HIV because there was nobody to stop the producers from dangling money and other inducements in front of this young woman to get her to take that risk.

Hopefully, none of this gets the attention of Jesus' Favorite Christian (TM), John Ashcroft.

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