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Originally Posted by Rumbledog
You missed my point, but that's ok.
This response is just like a torrent or tube owner justifying how they steal our content in one way or another.
Why do you stop your car at red light? Because its the law or ignorant? or simply both?
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So what was your point? I'm not being combative. I just have a very strong opinion.
I don't believe that you can blame producers. Performers are not their children. They are grown men and women.
Think about this:
In the 1980's AIDS was a death sentence. And it was an epidemic. Nobody was sure what the hell was going to happen next.
John Holmes...arguably the "biggest" male porn star of all time, even died from it (along with a few other IV drug user/performers).
Nobody called for "mandatory condoms" or for the govt. to get involved or blamed producers for people's "safety" when they are filming people fucking.
By the time the 1990's got around, if you got diagnosed with HIV you could take medication and stop it from ever becoming AIDS. It was no longer an automatic death sentence.
People have been living with it for decades and these day take ONE pill a day. Just like taking a vitamin in the morning. They are perfectly healthy and live normal lives.
And in the 1990's, nobody was screaming all this bullshit. They didn't even do mandatory testing.
Mandatory testing didn't even start until a few years back.
I just think that everybody should stop knee-jerk reacting and take a deep breath.
Testing does allow folks to stop the spread of it. (too bad that "civilians" don't test every once in a while too)
You're never gonna stop people from doing IV drugs and sharing needles. It's just a fact. Been happening since our great grandparents were young.
You're also never gonna stop guys from fucking other guys. It just happens. Nobody wants to admit it...but it happens all the time.
And you have to keep in mind, these guys and girls who are "performers" work in the sex industry for a reason: They are good at fucking, and they enjoy fucking a lot more than the average human being.
You can't expect Michael Phelps to not go swimming when he's not doing the Olympics. He probably is in a pool more than anybody on Earth. LOL
And you can't expect good looking, young people to not fuck and have fun.
All of us can rail about it and demand that they always use condoms (which is the WORST sex in the world...you can't feel shit) on set AND in their personal lives.
They won't.
And you can't blame a guy holding the camera and paying out the money and taking all the legal risks when you have extremely sexual people who voluntarily are fucking in front of your camera.
If you really think about it...minus the knee-jerk reactions and "outrage", it's kind of silly to think that anybody can command people to wear a condom or not fuck in their private lives.
It's a goddamn miracle that people are willing to allow blood to be drawn and their medical records passed around like cliff notes.
But what isn't silly...is ALLOWING the govt. to take step one into our sex lives.
Our founding fathers NEVER envisioned that.
And before you tell me that AIDS didn't exist then, I'd like to remind you that Syphilis & Gonorrhea were death sentences up until antibiotics were made.
I don't recall George Washington or Thomas Jefferson saying that the govt. had any right to tell prostitutes of the 18th and 19th century that they had to wear a condom.
Because they KNEW it's not the govt.'s place to do so.
It's YOUR place and MY place to make that decision for OURSELVES. And not for others.