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Originally Posted by Robbie
Hang on a second ADG...what studio in California does "not require tests if the performers use condoms"????
No "straight" studios that I know of for sure. If you're gonna make that statement please back it up because you know goddamn well that the enemies of this industry are reading these posts and if they believe what you just said they will use that to HURT our industry.
One other point...you said "Agents sending out talent to perform in extremely high risk behavior"
What? First off I think agents are kinda parasitic, but to be fair...they are "agents" for talent to go to do porn scenes.
If we are going to call fucking a "high risk behavior"...then yeah, I guess that's what they are SUPPOSED to be doing as their agent.
Now if you tell me that the agents are sending talent out to walk a high wire 500 feet in the air without a net...then I would say they are sending them out on a dangerous assignment.
But sending a talent out to fuck in a porn scene, when that is what the talent DOES in porn scenes? I think you're going a little off and being a little bit over the top here.
Remember...as I said, the enemies of our industry READ this shit. And unless you want your own words quoted in court AGAINST our very industry, it might be wise to keep the rhetoric down to a dull roar.
Just sayin'. I'm not trying to attack you. I'm just pointing it out.
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I'm surprised that someone as informed as you, claims to be unaware that some adult companies have been shooting without testing...it is not exactly a secret:
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Hot Desert Knights also assumes its actors are HIV-positive and therefore is unrepentant about making films without condoms, said Bill Gardner, a co-owner of the company, which is based in Palm Springs.
Although Gardner does not inquire about the HIV status of the actors he hires, or require HIV testing, the company warns each actor in writing about the risks he will be taking.
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Thomas Bjorn, president of San Diego-based Puppy Productions, which specializes in films showing sex without condoms, estimates that 30% of his actors are HIV-positive.
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Scary stuff...
I've been an activist for various causes most of my adult life, so I'm used to the argument, "don't debate controversial issues publicly, because the opposition might get ideas or use the info against us."
Nonsense.
In the case of the adult industry, AHF/Weinstein is eating the industry's lunch, and all some people can do is worry about when someone within the industry points out some of the problems in the adult industry which should be confronted and dealt with if we are going to move forward.
Besides, none of the info that I am revealing is secret information. In fact most of it comes from public sources that I know the AHF and others are well aware of.
As long as you have one segment of the industry operating with an attitude that condoms are mandatory but testing is not, while another segment embraces testing, but not condoms, you have a prescription for disaster, especially when you have people doing cross-over work involving both of those sectors.
One approach which can be considered, is that instead of being this nebulous unmanageable adult industry that cannot agree on most basic issues like testing/condoms, we need to form instead a specific organization that defines rules/standards for the members of the organization.
We need a more closed system. We also need to do a lot more educating. If nothing else, then I sincerely hope that a performers Union of some sort comes from all of this that will better look out for the interests of the performers.
As a shooter/producer, I have as much at stake in what happens as anyone. I would like to see the adult industry grow up and get better.
ADG