AHF Opens Wellness Center in South Beach Offering Free HIV & STD Testing
South Beach site marks AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s 9th “Wellness Center” in the U.S. and 4th in Florida, designed to make screening for sexually-transmitted diseases accessible and affordable, as well as to promote sexual health screenings as part of routine health care for all sexually-active people
AHF’s "Sexually Active?" Campaign
promoting www.freestdcheck.org
and AHF Wellness Centers
MIAMI, FLORIDA (March 12, 2012)⎯AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has recently opened its South Beach Wellness Center—its ninth Wellness Center in the U.S.—which offers free sexually-transmitted disease (STD) screenings, including HIV testing. This newest location is at a specialized clinic on the floor above the Out of the Closet Thrift Store at 1510 Alton Rd. in Miami Beach, Florida and is open on Monday and Thursday evenings from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Walk-ins are welcome. More information can be found at: www.freeSTDcheck.org or by calling 1-877-259-8727.
The AHF Wellness Centers is designed to make testing for STDs accessible, convenient and affordable, as well as to encourage regular sexual health screenings as part of routine health care for all sexually-active people. Service offered include: free Chlamydia screening and treatment; free gonorrhea screening and treatment; free syphilis screening and treatment; vaccinations for Hepatitis A & B at cost and free HIV testing and linkage to care, if needed.
“We are pleased to be opening this latest AHF Wellness Center in the South Beach area—our 4th in Florida—offering free and low-cost services to the community,” said Albert Ruiz, Deputy Director, Public Health Division, AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “Our hope is that by offering these services in a friendly, non-threatening venue that is also accessible and affordable, more people in South Beach will consider sexual health screenings a regular part of their health maintenance – like going to the gym and getting a yearly check-up at the dentist. There is effective treatment for most STDs, so it truly is better to know your status – for your health and for the health of your partner or partners.”
According to the Florida Department of Health, Division of Disease Control, Bureau of Sexually-Transmitted Diseases, the most recent statistics show that 373 cases of infectious syphilis, 8,653 cases of Chlamydia and 2,445 cases of gonorrhea were diagnosed and reported in Miami-Dade County in 2010. Notably, there is often a significant correlation of HIV infection reported alongside other STDs. Of the 373 cases of syphilis reported in Miami-Dade in 2010, 172 of those cases—an astounding 46%–presented with HIV co-infection. Of the 8,653 Chlamydia cases, 204 cases (2.4%) were also diagnosed with HIV. Of the 2,445 gonorrhea cases, 176 cases (7.2%) of co-infection with HIV were reported.
In addition to the new South Beach location, AHF operates Wellness Centers in Ft. Lauderdale, North Miami Beach, Wilton Manors and Pensacola. The organization also operates sites in California and Washington D.C. More information and location information can be found at www.freeSTDcheck.org.
This is so they can gather data on STDs and then push for mandatory condoms in FLA. now as well.
There probably wouldn’t be much convincing in Florida to do that. The state is much more conservative than California is. Considering that both the HIV+ performer (Burts) and the HIV+ scare came from Florida based shoots, I think it would have a much easier time passing.
Bangbros is one of the worst offenders at using crossovers in now shooting bareback gay content. Ugh!
AHF already has a strong Florida presence, guys. Jeez…
BTW, the free HIV testing they provide is the oral “rapid” test — an ELISA-based test with a long window period, which also happens to be the cheapest (and among the least accurate) of HIV tests.
“an ELISA-based test with a long window period, which also happens to be the cheapest (and among the least accurate) of HIV tests.”
God are y’all still spewing that BULLSHIT? That’s what got you into this fucking mess….
Mike, you’re out of your depth here. How many times must you embarrass yourself on this issue?
Here is the description of the Orasure test AHF uses — directly from the manufacturer’s Web site:
* OraSure is not as accurate as a blood test. For example, it will miss finding 1 to 2 people with HIV out of 100 positive persons tested
* As with blood tests, six to twelve weeks must pass after infection has occurred before enough antibodies have been produced for the test to detect them
* An OraSure test performed THREE months after the potentially infectious event (sex without a condom or shared intravenous drug needles/equipment) is about 95% accurate
* A test at SIX months will be the most accurate.
* The rapid result tests have proven to be highly accurate . . . on a par with or slightly more accurate than standard [ELISA] blood tests
* All positive rapid result tests require us to draw a blood test as a confirming test
As you can see, Orasure is an ELISA-type anti-body test with a window period of 3 to 6 months, six months being the gold standard. It’s about 95% accurate at 90 days.
A PCR test is 95% accurate at TEN days. The claim of AHF (and IDIOTS) that ELISA tests are no less effective than the industry standard when it comes to adult performers is pure BULLSHIT.
In past cases, ELISA’s have turned up negative on new cases with viral loads in the tens of thousands. Anyone who walks away from a positive ELISA of any sort with a negative result and feels safe is delusional unless they’ve had no no sexual partners in half a year. Hardly workable for the adult performer community. The adult industry, unlike AHF, IS using the best practices available.
what you guys always choose to ignore
Darren james, Laura Roxx, derrick burts, john stagliano, karen stagliano
will all test negative on your pcr dna test assuming they are taking their meds….
Theres a reason the ELISA is the gold standard test if you dont know what that means in medical terms look it up…theres only one gold standard test.
while the old elisa tests may not have been as good a little research will show you that now all testing methodologies are about the same at 35 days. The whole window period nonsense is just a money making scheme, that has been shown time after time after time. AIM and the FSC make MORE MONEY on the PCRDNA test even though it is in every respect inferior. Dont believe me…do the research yourself, ask doctors, ask the CDC. Its that very bullshit that landed porners in this mess and while you may whine about it all you like its now too late.
You’ve heard of Classic MacGruber? This is Classic Mike South: he refuses to rebut, or even address any opposing arguments, but instead makes proclamations without citation.
And coincidentally, they all come down to the same thing: bashing AIM, FSC, et al in yet another desperate plea for relevance. Poor Mike.
First of all, Mike, I didn’t mention the PCR-DNA test specifically, and for a good reason. The current industry standard is the PCR-RNA test. Of course you wouldn’t be familiar with what the adult industry does today because you’re a strip club manager in Dayton who hasn’t even been to an adult industry event in years.
Second, ANYONE who is familiar with the margins on PCR testing would know that there is VERY little money un it. I will cite Tim Tritch, the man who had the AIM account all those years and who was paid a small commission on every test. He knew exactly how many tests were done, and how much they cost. There’s no real money. If there WERE real money in testing, your buddies at AHF would be running state of the art testing facilities.
For the record, I have read the CDC website, and you are wrong. Not just wrong, you are ridiculous.
You’re a parade spectator, Mike. Eat your hot dog and shut the fuck up already. Fewer and fewer people are listening (and visiting). I know you’ve noticed that, too. Isn’t it time to announce a two-for-one dance or something?
You’re wrong Mike South, there is and has never been any gold standard for HIV testing.
http://humansarefree.com/2011/09/house-of-numbers-full-documentary.html
And regarding Elisa, as Liam Sheff pointed out, we all know cheaper and faster is better, right? I’d only agree with Elisa because it’s the cheapest, but all the tests are bogus.
Yes, that’s a separate issue — each and every HIV test requires a confirmatory test. That means, ipso facto, none is definitive. If no single test is definitive, then no single test can be the gold standard. QED
Yeah, MW, and thus there is no such thing as a “confirmatory” test, because every single test manufacturer disclaimer says more tests are required and that their test “presumes” HIV infection, but will not definitively say you are HIV+. Each lab/country, etc, uses different criteria/markers which are BELIEVED to be indication of HIV infection. You test “positive” in one place and based on the same exact data the same test will be deemed “negative” somewhere else. But who cares about quack science when anyone who puts on a white coat is suddenly a cleric who you can not question? And who wants to stop the huge money making death racket when so many make their living off it… and use donations to further scare, scam and brainwash people?
Just because you believe the earth us flat or that we never went to the moon doesn’t make it true
from cdc.gov
The conventional HIV testing algorithm consists of two tests: an HIV enzyme immunoassay (EIA) capable of identifying HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies and an HIV-1 Western blot or immunofluorescence assay (IFA) used for confirmation. This is the “gold standard” HIV testing algorithm
This is a question for Michael Whiteacre. Mike South has an article on his website that says “oddly enough on the record most porn girls oppose it, funny thing is OFF the record most of them support it.” Based on your experiences, what do you think of what Mike South is claiming?
Kimberly Kane has said she prefers condoms to be used in her
sex scenes but she is against the Los Angeles condom law. A very significant percentage of porn performers prefer condoms but this does not necessarily mean that most of them want the government involved. As far back as 2007, Sasha Grey has said she favors condom only porn.
Sasha had a very successful porn career. I never read about porn companies not hiring her because of her expressing her opinions about condom use. This reminds me of right wingers saying that conservative actors are being discriminated in Hollywood. When Bill O’reilly interviewed Bo Derek, she said that her being hired had not been effected by her being Republican. Bo said people had expressed disagreements with her but she wasn’t discriminated against. On a later show, Bill O’Reilly mentioned Bo Derek and said she was discrimated for being a Republican. She did not say that! I’m sure people do get discriminated for expressing opinions in Hollywood or porn but I think making money off an actor is going to be more important (most of the time).
Just because the corrupt CDC tells us a gold standard exists in HIV testing doesn’t make it true.
http://mercola.ebeaver.org/2011/10/31/exposing_more_cdc_fraud_and_corruption/
Have you ever watched the previously linked “House of Numbers” documentary, Mike South (see “humans are free” link)?
http://mochinimix.co.za/news/a-glimpse-into-the-corrupt-science-of-hiv-testing
@Mike South – Wow, you are fun of shit.
First you claim that ELISA is the gold standard, then you write that ELISA ISN’T the gold standard unless you also do a non-ELISA (protein) test.
CDC writes of “The conventional HIV testing algorithm.” The rigorous testing in the adult industry does not reflect *conventional* circumstances. That’s why the FDA approved the PCR-RNA test for use in the diagnosis of acute / new infections. If the ELISA is just as good, why isn’t ELISA the FDA-approved test for the diagnosis of acute / new infections?
And, again, Mike refuses to address contrary points, but instead marches ahead with his drivel. So sad. He’s simply too far gone.
@Carnal Comics – Mike’s assertion re: the true feelings of adult performers out here is more of his anti-AIM, ant-FSC — and thus pro-AHF) nonsense.
First, let us disregard the ludicrous notion that Mike speaks to a large enough sample of performers for it to even be possible for him to make that kind of declaration. This is nothing more than Mike’s laughable Zeus complex again.
It’s like when Shelley Lubben says she actively counsels thousands of porn performers who all love her. She shows up at an OSHA hearing with not one current performer in her corner, but sixty shouting her down. We see a similar psychopathology in Mike, who asserted that he could have gotten 500 performers to show up at that same meeting if he’d wanted to, therefore the highest turnout on record was actually an FSC failure. In essence, he’s just an annoying know-it-all in Dayton, Ohio who won a couple of Amateur Porn awards way back in the 1990s.
Back to the question at hand: setting aside the issue of a mandate affecting bodily integrity and authority (which is huge), there are several schools of thought in the LA performer community: some demand condoms, some prefer condoms, some prefer no condom, and some demand no condom. Each is a valid personal choice.
Like most surveys (real or imagined), the results depend upon how you ask the question, and the question itself must be one that reflects real-world possibilities. “If” is for children, and has no place in public policy, business regulation or the market itself.
Are there stunt people who would be willing to hear a helmet for a fall down a flight of steps even if it ruined the shot? I’m use there are. But no one would make an offer to pay them to do it that way because it would ruin the shot. The question presents an imaginary option.
When speaking to a performer in the groups who *might* wish to use a condom, were you to inform a performer who is less politically informed/engaged that they can now wear a condom in their scenes (or in this case MUST do so) they might say, “Fine.” But when you state the market reality that condoms mean less work, and/or lower pay strictly as a function of market demand, it is logical to conclude you will likely get a much different answer.
When companies move production away from LA, two other things happen: 1) many of those LA-based performers lose work to locals, and 2) you end up with a wild west situation which endangers all performers — those brought from the LA talent pool AND those who are locals that reside nearer the site of shooting. Shooting will get sub-contracted out to stringers whom have no personal connection to the LA adult community, and these stringers will have every incentive to cut as many corners as possible, particularly in a market that is hurting because of piracy and a glut of product. There are obvious analogies to every industry we have seen move out of the US in search of cheap labor and lax regulations.
Presented with these realities, I can’t see how — logically — any performers could support a condom mandate. When you throw in the fact that the vast majority of women in the industry do NOT want the government involved in telling them what to do with their bodies, you can see clearly why there is, in reality, no support for that paradigm outside of Mike South’s jealousy-fuled imagination.
Mike I don’t know much about Mr. South to comment on that part of your post (he always seems like a decent enuf guy to me) but the rest of your post is spot on common sense about the condom issue.
I don’t understand why the majority of those that call the shots in porn, OSHA, LA/CA politicians, and other involved parties can’t see the common sense in this? There must be lots of folks that have had their palms greased by AHF.
In classical literature, tragic figures were always great men, such as nobles, who have a great fall. Arthur Miller gave us tragedy within the realm of the common man. That’s how I view Mike South: a decent enough but tragically flawed human being. This is in contrast to someone like Shelley Lubben, who is an across-the-board reprehensible, and pitiful, human being.
LOL y’all crack me up…the point was there is, in fact a gold standard. What that means in the medical community is that it is the BEST methodology available. You can argue the existence of AIDS or whatever…but there is a gold standard and I’m sorry if it offends your sensitivity but I will take the word of the CDC over a phony Doctor any day.
But the bottom line here is that it is all moot…Where were all these anti condom people when this was coming down? Everyone saw it coming. Most pornersd just shrugged and said they cant do that to us we will sue. The FSC rattled its toy sabre and their bluff was called…and guess what its going to get worse, it will be county wide.
All it will take is a few performers getting HPV or Herpes or Chlamydia and getting a huge civil judgement and that’ll be the end of it. Thats where these laws REALLY have teeth. It makes it gross negligence if a company shoots without condoms, meaning punitive damages kick in in the event of a civil suit.
That’d sure help line AHF’s coffers.
Lets not forget the Christian Mafia folks that wanted to outlaw porn could not get past the laws in this country that allow freedom of expression (except for beastiality and Child Porn and rightly so as those are disgusting). So they snuck around and back doored their way to try and get rid of porn by pretending that there was an epidemic of socially transmitted diseases led by HIV+ (in actuality there was not a major epidemic and in fact the rate of porn stars getting those diseases are far less then the national average).
So now they destroyed AIM and laws have been passed that require condoms for all scenes and other foolish demands (like face shields). They say its for the good of all people but in fact this condom mess is to try and do away with adult entertainment videos/DVDs. This is censorship while being careful to not calling it censorship.
No, Mike, the point is what the CDC refers to as a “gold standard” in that quotation is nothing close to what you are representing it to be. It speaks of “the conventional HIV testing algorithm” — that is, the kind of testing for the general population. There is a whole different set of presumptions that goes into such a paradigm.
Most people outside of the adult industry NEVER get tested, and if they do, it’s usually because they think they have a reason to be tested. There’s also a cost factor: ELISA is cheaper, and since, absent regular monthly testing for the general population, there’s no way to know (or reason to suppose) that the average patient contracted HIV in a period of time shorter than the window period.
In short, the conventional testing paradigm does not anticipate a closed group which is presumptively HIV-negative and that tests on a regular schedule.
PCR testing — such as the qualitative assays done for the adult industry — is a more accurate, shorter window, test that is better suited to the NON-conventional population that the adult performer community represents. The goal is to determine WHETHER a performer is infected (qualitative), not HOW infected (quantitative) they are.
And finally, PCR testing alone is NOT the adult industry’s protocol. The protocol is actually PCR testing + repeat PCR and confirmatory ELISA (and Western Blot) testing in the event something is detected in the sample. So, simply put, it is not true to claim that the industry uses only PCR testing. In fact, it uses several types of testing WHEN CALLED FOR — just as your “gold standard” does.
As for your claim that civil suits will “line AHF’s coffers” you again show your total ignorance of the real world. What standing would AHF have to sue if a performer — under your hypothetical — contracted something?
Your bitterness at the industry that didn’t value you as a titan has never been clearer than in the second and third paragraphs of your last comment, above. I’d like everyone to re-read those words of Mike’s until the meaning sinks in. Mike South is a bitter, irrelevant outsider driven by grudges and the wild belief that he knows better than everyone else. Mike South cheered when these evils beset the industry that rejected him. Never forget that.
Seeing AHF in Miami makes me wonder if they are doing the testing to lure Florida based talent into their testing so they can target them. More and more I think of it I think AHF somehow someway helped get the addresses and real names of porn people to PWL.
Actually Mike South, the high incidence of confirmed “false positives” is what lead the porn industry to drop Elisa and WB and go with PCR/DNA. We’re talking a Fools Gold Standard!
The huge list of known causes of false positives on antibody tests are here:
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cjtestfp.htm
Notice how receptive anal sex itself absent of HIV has been shown to cause a high antibody response & “false postive”.
You can call this AIDS testing racket professional homo-cide!
Btw, I should’ve said, “assuming the CDC says there is a gold standard”. There is no general agreement as to what test is best or what markers to use so there can be no gold standard. All tests by their own definition are “presumptive” and all require additional tests, so that explains Gold Standard or lack of one in this case. And what each chooses as to type of test and way of measuring the results you can say is each individual’s “gold standard”, but that therefore means there is none.
The Gold Standard for finding viruses was always Koch Postulates. You need to replicate it each time and has to cause the same disease each time. Nothing close to this was ever done with HIV “research”, even with the cooked books which ignored Koch Postulates.
@ Mike South, Negligence suits seem to be a non-issue. Even with the passage of the latest city ordinance, the process of PROVING transmission on set is still a very hairy one. Besides, very few performers sued before and very few would probably sue in the future. Not to mention that performers and producers tend to settle instances of set-injuries (etc) extra-judicially.
The REAL problem is AHF and the fact they keep buying porn DVDs or pointing to web-scenes and crying to regulators, like six-year olds, “Ooooooo…that guy isn’t wearing a condom…..”.
Wherever porn goes, there goes Whinestein, like an insatiable wolf. The non-profit empire keeps expanding…
Besides that, hasn’t even PCR testing been upgraded even beyond what is was?? I’ve been reading that Cutting Edge Testing (from some of the same people who were at AIM) has come up with a 24-hr test using the latest form of PCR-RNA..do they still verify that with ELISA and WB testing??
And Weinstein moving his campaign to Florida has been the open secret of the decade. It’s always been about the money for him.
Anthony
I keep thinking of old quote of a business partner of mine when talking of Weinstein now, “I want my fair share of *****(referring to area we did business in)’s queer dollar”…so does Weinstein, except queer is now AIDS/HIV.
In a civil suit you dont have to prove the transmission occurred on set, only that it is likely that it did…that used to be more difficult. With the condom law it becomes a slam dunk because if the company doesn’t enforce the workplace rule it is gross negligence…..Believe me a civil attorney will have a field day with this, Porners better pay attention or they are going to be more broke than they already are.
No Mike, I think you are wrong because performers tend not to sue. There are other ways of settling grievances and performers tend not to sue because most wish to continue working within the adult film industry.
There are rare outliers but they can be remedied with mandatory arbitration agreements. But I am not a lawyer so Michael could explain.
The fines and threat of criminal prosecution from regulators are the main fears.
Funny how, even though he claims to be a libertarian, in Mike South’s world assumption of risk and waivers by contract don’t have any legal import or effect when it might protect those whose success he is jealous of.
Let me explain this in a way that even someone as far flung from the adult industry as Mike South can understand it:
STIs are not manufactured in porn industry factories, and the performer community is not comprised of aliens who were dropped off in a pod by a spaceship. Adult performers are members of the general population. They are a subset of the general population. All the problems — medical, social, etc. — which subsist in the general population, also subsist in this sub-group.
STIs exist, and are transmitted, in the general population — the mostly untested general population. That’s where they come from.
When one compares STI rates in the adult performer community to the only good numbers LA County has for like groups (in terms of age, frequency of testing, etc) in the general population, adult performers have LOWER STI rates. Until more people in the general population of LA County get tested regularly, those are the only numbers we have.
There goes your “it’s LIKELY that it happened on a set” argument. Bye-bye.
Then there’s the issue of waiver and assumption of risk. It’s kind of hard to argue that a performer had NO IDEA trey could catch something when that performer (along with every other performer) voluntarily submitted to monthly testing for STIs. Why would testing be necessary if there was no risk?
I have to laugh whenever Mike writes “Believe me.” We don’t Mike, we don’t. Even those that once did, no longer do. It’s actually quite sad.
You see what happens when you put words in my mouth…you look like a moron…I didn’t say thats how it OUGHT to be I said thats how it IS.
and your lower STD rate is bullshit and you know it the real STD rate is about 10X what it is in the next closest sample ppoulation (except maybe homeless drug abusers)
If you’d like an explanation of the math and the statistical analysis, it’s on my site. The numbers the FSC uses were their own undoing.
I know that they lack even the most basic math skills but they really should use some of the money they pay Diane to hire a professional.
BTW I recall writing that condoms would be the LAW Believe it.
It ain’t over…believe it.
LOL Wow! You must be a prophet, Mike! You surmised that politicians in the pocket of your buddies at AHF would vote along with them.
Impressive.
Michael, I understand times are difficult but i am really worried about porn companies “running away”. To me, this would embolden AHF and within 10 years they would find a way to make condom-only the GLOBAL standard. This is utterly unreasonable, from an erotic art standpoint, and AHF must admit the heavy-handedness of their position–which is so painfully obvious.
Under what conditions would they stop advocating for condom-only? Has anyone within the FSC asked them such a question?
1) Some may relocate or expand, but the adult industry will stand and fight in CA.
2) Weinstein is a fanatic who demands the right to decree condoms, because mandatory condoms are permanent, universal product placement for AIDS fear and hysteria. He personifies the bitter, spiteful faction of gay activism that seeks to punish groups that are not what the CDC terms “MSM.” Their crime? Doing a far better job that the gay community in out country has in getting a handle on the spread of HIV.
Unless we ALL live in constant fear (even though the numbers don’t support it) the billion dollar AIDS industry can’t keep growing.
Mike South is absolutely correct when he talks about porn company liability. A company can and may ask a performer to sign a waiver of liability, but it will not hold up in a civil suit. A waiver doesn’t cover an attempt to skirt the law. That’s what the situation would be if a company shooting in California requires a performer to sign a waiver for a shoot in California, or if a California company chooses to shoot outside of California specifically to skirt the condom regulation. If anything, a waiver could make them more liable – it would demonstrate that the company knew or should have known a performer could contract an STD and asked them to perform without a condom any way. It could even be viewed as requiring them to perform without a condom. Sorry, but there’s no first amendment right to pass on an STD. Mike is also right that in a civil suit the bar is lower. It’s not reasonable doubt. In a civil suit, a performer simply has to show that it is more likely than not – 51% chance – that he or she contracted the STD on the set.
Shooting outside LA to avoid the ordinance is not a crime, and it’s not a tort. Every person and every business has the right to go where the laws are less restrictive. It happens every day.
You say performers are being “required” to shoot without a condom — you’re framing the issue the way the homo-fascists do. I say the parties have agreed to enter into a contract.
You say a waiver indicates knowledge on the part of the producer — how about the performer? He/she read it and signed it. He/she underwent monthly testing. He/she has accepted the risk.
Go peddle the AHF/OSHA line on Mike’s site. Funny how those touting AHF/OSHA anti-porn industry propaganda rush to Mike’s defense time and time again.
Mike South isn’t an AHF supporter, is he? He just wants someone to admit that he was right to say that Porn Valley had been heading for this iceberg for years.
I know it was obvious, but THANK YOU Mike for predicting this current situation. Now how is the adult industry going to get out?
…and, Joe, can’t you see the madness of AHF? Protecting performers and lowering the risk of STD transmission is one thing, but condoms across the board smack of censorship. They severely impinge about the freedoms of adult film artists.
There are other ways to keeping performers 100% safe than pursuing a condom-only initiative. Why is that so hard for you and groups like AHF to believe?
Unless you’re just trying to kill two birds with one stone and restrict erotic expression through media?
There is no such thing as 100% safety. There is always a margin, in any field of endeavor.
The notion that a flimsy piece of latex with a 15% failure rate (OUTSIDE of the rigors of adult production), and which does not cover areas which many STIs affect, represents a superior solution is preposterous on its face.
The worker safety-public health crusade is a sham, a pretense. They don’t “believe” in condoms, they traffic in fear and hysteria. And they don’t believe in any individual rights which might get in the way of their agenda. Whenever the law requires a balance to be struck, they come down in favor of restricting the right of others to even oppose their authoritarian worldview.
Do you want to know what AHF is doing next? You’ll hear it here first:
They are reaching out to hotel chains to get them to agree to not exhibit any adult movies made in violation of the LA condom ordinance. I was in movie distribution for years, and I dealt with every major hotel chain and every company that supplied them with their non-Hollywood studio programming.
How does that smell to you?
These are fascists who wish to impose their view upon everyone. This is un-American. In a free society, in a constitutional democratic republic, we don’t silence opposing views, we defeat them in the marketplace of ideas.
If Michael Weinstein and the other condom nazis want to promote condoms in porn, they should go out and make the best porn anyone has ever seen and use condoms.
Condoms are only part of the issue. If they were really concerned about bodily fluids possibly contaminating and spreading social diseases they would make all the performers wear hazmat suits and face shields. No more “dropping loads” on some hot girls face or chest.
The whole thing is Weinstein’s smoke and mirrors horror show of partial truths and obvious lies to nerf adult content in this country and fill his grubby little pockets with money from all the materials/medicines needed to follow the ordinance at the same time.
Kinda reminds me of Dick Cheney supporting the use of Haliburton for support in IRAQ and they were billing Uncle Sam I think it was $40 for every meal they provided the troops. Conflick of Interest much?
Whiteacre’s reasoning (or lack thereof) is what got porners into this mess. The idea that porn is somehow different and exempt from laws, civil suits, and whatnot.
As anyone who can actually reason knows, i am NO fan of AHF nor am I a fan of the FSC. What I am a fan of is the truth. I don’t need acknowledgement that I am right or anything like that but it does please me when people read what I write and say wow…I didn’t think of it that way…you might be right.
It saddens me to some degree when people think that just because I don’t worship Diane Duke or whomever that I cant possibly be right. You see I view myself more as an industry patriot….I have no horse in the race but I like the biz and many people in it, so when I become alarmed I feel a duty to say hey…y’all might want to watch out…your about to fall head first into that snake pit.
Now when you say what could he know and you fall into the snake pit ( the snake pit being allegory for AHF for people like Michael that don’t get it) Then my only response is to shake my head and say I tried….
I’m not a lemming, I’m not going to follow the FSC and AIM off their respective cliffs, I’m smart enough to do my own research and learn what terms like “Gold Standard Test” actually mean instead of spewing the same tired bullshit that I was fed by AIM or whomever.
I was, at one time a member of the FSC, I always donated as well at the CES Shows but when I started asking what they were doing with the money and I started looking at things like budgets and the FSC wouldn’t disclose it I started smelling a rat.
And I was right, I got copies of expense reports that had line items like 10 dollar a day tips to the maid at the Hotel in Sacramento on “Lobbying Trips” and 100.00 a day PLUS for meals for one person (The then executive Director … the one before Bill Lyon I think her name was Kat Sunlove) Anyway i decided fuck that they wont get any more of my money and I started exposing their antics.
The problem we have in this biz is that nobody has enough political savvy to see the problems, even when they are as evident as pending condom legislation.
I sad over ten years ago that if we dont exercise responsibility and police ourselves and take care of our talent and at least LOOK responsible then the government is going to do it for us and we wont like their solutions….and it has happened time after time after time after time.
Its bat shit crazy to keep doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results….
All of this aside…remember…it doesn’t even effect me….if anything it would benefit me for Porn Valley to fail, yet I don’t want that to happen. I want porners to wake up and start being proactive instead of reactive, although it may be too late…
BTW I hope the industry isnt taking legal advice from Whiteacre because if they are he is leading them to a slaughter…..He should bone up on his workplace safety and civil liability law, specially as it relates to work place safety REQUIREMENTS One good attorney could do more damage to this biz than AHF ever will…now imagine if that attorney is on AHF’s payroll….get your head out of the sand Michael, you strike me as relatively intelligent at times, you better start thinking with your brain dude.
@Mike South – Mike’s pride (and web traffic) must be hurting, ‘coz I ain’t seen such a word-filled reply from Mike in a coon’s age.
You take issue with my legal acumen. Of course, you think the industry would be better served taking legal advice from the manager of a strip club in Dayton who gets his tips from Cal/OSHA and AHF.
Let’s talk about some of your brilliant assertions, just on this thread alone:
“The Gold Standard for HIV testing”
You claim is that the FSC/APHSS protocols are insufficient or sub-par, because the “conventional HIV testing algorithm” uses both a protein test (such as PCR or Western Blot) plus an ELISA antibody test.
Right now labs are required by law to run a parallel ELISA with every PCR, (not just a comfimatory if the PCR shows “detected”). The parallel ELISA is called a ‘non reportable’ test.
BTW, those are the labs’ protocols. FSC and or APHSS has absolutely no say whatsoever on a labs protocols for HIV testing. Every lab has unique written protocols that they follow to the ‘T’. There is NO leeway in HIV testing for a lab.
“An HIV+ person on meds would test negative on the PCR”
This is laughable. HIV+ patients constantly have PCR tests done to measure their viral load as part of their routine treatment. Anyone with a brain — or with HIV+ friends — would know this. I grew up in NYC in the 1980s; I attended NYU, in Greenwich village at starting in 1985. I am better acquainted with the realities, and the horror, of AIDS-reated deaths than you can imagine.
“FSC is worthless because maids were tipped 100.00 a day ten years ago”
Do we need any more proof that you’re living in the past, Mike?
“Whiteacre needs to bone up on his understanding of work place safety REQUIREMENTS:”
OSHA workplace safety requirements apply to employers/employees.
The Cal/OSHA rules which ostensibly apply to the adult industry are in a state of flux — and have been for two years.
Where’ve you been. Mike? I didn’t see you at any of those meetings.
I’m sure your buddies can fill you in on what went down.
Finally, Mike, I’m glad you finally admit to the conflict of interest which fatally compromises your objectivity and credibility that we’ve recognized all along:
“if anything it would benefit me for Porn Valley to fail.”
I rest my case.
PS — How are those hillbilly crushes going? Get any calls back recently? LMFAO
The more you talk the more you show yourself to be an idiot….My traffic is up and my pride is same as it has ever been, my crush is fulfilling and my life is happy and good. Im not sure whom you refer to in terms of calls back, I suspect you mean Kayden and yes I spoke with her on Friday…. But we are just pals as I have pointed out before I love her to death but there is no other relationship. My non platonic love interests lie elsewhere as she would tell you Im sure.
Stop trying to be so smart you only make yourself look stupid man…..you really dont want me to start making personal attacks on you do you? I remember you from way back Kiki and I used to be friends, Im still friends with Julie and Tim and Felicia….be careful mud wrestling with pigs Mikey…you both get dirty and the pig likes it. LOL
Are you threatening me, you ol’ cripple? You ain’t got the juice left to dance with me.
LOL I dont make threats I wouldn’t follow through on but my inclination is to take the high road…as a general rule as close as I get to dragging in personal shit is if I call you an idiot.
But I can be pushed LOL ask Donny Long or Michael Fattarosi, but you are a long wa from being in THAT company….proceed.
Still taking bows for PWL, huh?
I don’t proceed by permission, I proceed by inclination.
You’re pretty impressed with yourself aren’t you Ari? *YAWN!….ZZZ
Give it up Moronica, you’re only fooling yourself. It’s no wonder none of your family speaks to you.
Ok Mike & Mike, don’t become Jeremy and Roy! Just agree to a difference of opinions and move on.
Remember opinions are like assholes, everyone’s got one!
Opinions are like assholes… both are 8 letter nouns.
I’m much more in agreement with Michael Whiteacre when it comes
to the condom issue but I don’t think he should have referred to Mike South as a cripple.
Hey, “areyoukiddingme” — I’ve been busy so I forgot to mention, we have something special planned for you, buddy boy.
@Carnal Comics — I agree; poor choice of word. He’s been hobbled, not crippled.
@Karmafan — Since Mike always refuses to even address points offered in rebuttal, one can’t have a debate with him. In his fruitless quest for traffic and relevance, he stops by LIB, thumps his chest, says “I told you so,” makes demonstrably untrue assertions, and calls anyone who disagrees with his half-assed opinions a “moron.”
You will see shortly whose predictions about the plans of AHF and the adult industry are more accurate, his or mine. And — to quote Kill Bill — that will be the story of him.
Mike vs Mike has substance, Jeremy vs Roy is one guy with thoughts(Jeremy) against one guy with threats(Roy). Where is Donkey Long? I hate to say but I miss him.
You miss Donkey Long? Shit thats like saying you miss having the clap.
Oh I address the issues dead on, the problem with Whiteacre is he can’t address some of the issues because he knows he has no arguement so instead he uses personal attacks. I considered it because I can be way more vicious than he can but then doing so would simply make me look as unintelligent as he does.
He can call me crippled or whatever, it doesnt bother me because I will walking normally again in a month or so, he will still be a moron
So, Mike “considered” using personal attacks, but instead decided to focus on the issues…
Lets’ sum up the thread above:
I begin with a demonstrably true statement: “the free HIV testing [AHF] provide[s] is the oral ‘rapid’ test — an ELISA-based test with a long window period, which also happens to be the cheapest (and among the least accurate) of HIV tests”
South responds: “God are y’all still spewing that BULLSHIT? That’s what got you into this fucking mess….” [Because, you see, we’re all idiots who call for bullshit, while HE knows the truth]
So, I backed up my statement with the actual verbiage from the test manufacturer’s website. The rapid ELISA test is not only less accurate than a PCR test, it’s not even as accurate as a, ELISA blood test.
Mike’s response? He doesn’t address ANY of the proof I offered re: the Rapid test, and switches his argument to 1) “the ELISA is the gold standard test if you dont know what that means in medical terms look it up…theres only one gold standard test”; and 2) HIV+ people will test negative on your pcr dna test assuming they are taking their meds…”
He also launches this attack: “AIM and the FSC make MORE MONEY on the PCRDNA test”
Mike is wrong on both counts, so I address this: The CDC’s “gold standard” for “the conventional testing algorithm” a) is not applicable to the kid of repeat testing on a closed group that the adult industry employs; b) is not geared toward assessing qualitatively acute / new infections in such a group; c) is not simply, even within the conventional testing algorithm, JUST an ELISA test, it is an ELISA in conjunction with a Protein test (PCR / Western Blot); and d) the testing done by the adult industry actually DOES include ELISA testing — it’s merely a non-reportable test to the patient.
Additionally, since HIV+ people routinely undergo protein testing to determine their viral load for the purpose of tracking their treatment, his statement that they;ll all test negative if their undergoing treatment is also patently absurd.
Having lost the argument, and unable to rebut the proof I offered, Mike South switches tactics yet again: “the bottom line here is that it is all moot” and then goes on to berate FSC and AIM for failing to defeat a fanatic with a $200 million checkbook anywhere but in court (where AHF and OSHA have lost every single time on this campaign).
He also attacks my legal arguments without offering any evidence, he attacks me, and admits his conflict of interest: “if anything it would benefit me for Porn Valley to fail.”
But the man who writes “The more you talk the more you show yourself to be an idiot” is above personal attacks, you know. LOL He “address[es] the issues dead on. LMFAO
Why does anyone take this buffoon seriously?
Donkey was always worth a laugh I guess. I mean aside from PWL there was the stuff about his “fleet” of boats and how he made all kinds of money from his talent page and so on. It was kind of like when Trannyfucker was in his prime insulting female talent left and right, you’re glad he doesnt do it any more but you miss it at times.
@Larry – I posted a response to Mr. L. Equine on my Facebook wall.
@michaelwhiteacre Something planned for me?(*TREMBLE! WITH FEAR!) YAWN!…you’re boring Ari! Why don’t you make another documentary nobody will ever see since no one in erotic industry will hire you!Do any stand in work lately (LOL!)?
I don’t think South needs to say anything else to Whiteacre…however Whiteacre has his work cut out for him in regards to many things he’s written and said for others he claims to speak for (sexworkers who aren’t pampered princesses pretending to be politicians) – but in actuality does not.
I invite Mike South especially, and the other readers here to get to know this young lady known as HappyHooker83 , who has a very strong message for Whiteacre…
We’ll see about that, bad boy.
Was that (HappyHooker83) a guy or a girl?
I have no idea, but I laughed out loud when I saw that. She (he?) found me on YouTube last month. She claims to be a sex worker, uses the word “Hooker” in her user name, but won’t allow men to use it. You see, when she uses it, it’s liberationist and ironic, but when men use it, it’s evidence of them being “nasty perverted men.”
She calls women “womyn”, and complains about misogyny, yet she’s an blatant man-hater who refers to her clients “tricks.”
She accuses me of ad hominem attacks, then — BECAUSE I disagree with her and point out her hypocrisy and contradictions — goes on to deduce that I am an evil male oppressor who wishes to project his “anti femail, sexual frustrations and possibly closet case dl WORST desires on” sex workers like herself.
So, she makes a blatant homophobic reference, and then goes out of her way to point out my religion. But I’m the hater … LMFAO
She also seems convinced that she is the keeper of all knowledge, because she discards my years of experience volunteering to various causes in and around LA, and asserts that “MOST STREET WALKERS, more so than online escorts, DO INSIST ON WEARING PROTECTION.” I disagree with her based upon the fact that I’ve met scores of sex workers (many of whom who call themselves hookers, incidentally) and I can tell you that LA street hookers do not routinely or consistently use safer sex. FACT.
She chides me, writing: “if you want to call yourself ‘representing’ us as it just makes you look bad.” In reality, I do not call myself a representative of sex workers, or anyone else. Using my right of free speech, I write and speak in support of their rights, and the rights of many other classes of individuals.
It is HappyHooker83 who keeps referring to sex workers as “US.” It its SHE who speaks in broad strokes about EVERYONE involved — “hookers” and “tricks” alike.
I also find it telling that, in the lengthy screed she left on in the comments section of one of my videos (I never deleted her comments) she describes herself as a failed wannabe adult performer who seems to blame the men in the porn industry for not recognizing her worth. LOL
She’s the type of bitter loser who, whenever criticized, concludes it MUST be because she’s a sex worker, or because she’s a woman, or whatever — it couldn’t POSSIBLY be because she’s proven herself to be a hateful, anti-male, pablum-puking hypocrite. She also concludes that if you refer to one sex worker as an idiot, then that means you have no respect for ANY sex workers.
In other words, she and Fostard were meant for each other.
He/She looked pretty fugly to be a sex worker.
@HappyHooker83
say wut?! LOL
This and the condom fight are serious issues & should be handled by “mature” people actually working in the business…not sideline commentators, longwinded & gloried extras on porn productions (MY, HAVE THE MIGHTY FALLEN!). Go save a dog Ari! Let the grownup big time players in industry handle these issues and this fight.
No, you moron, the credits to H.R. Blueberry (a.k.a. Jim Wynorski) movies that list me as a stand-in are an example of his extreme laziness. He lifted the end credits sequence from my movie Call Girl Wives and tacked it onto those of his own movies, in order to extend their runtime. I’ve never been a stand-in on anyone else’s movies — only my own. Those movies are not porn movies, either. On top of that, an extra and a stand-in are not the same thing, idiot.
Go fuck a dog, areyoukiddingme. I am going to fuck up your life in ways you can’t even imagine. Nothing you or anyone else can ever say or do will stop me. I am going to burn your little playhouse down. You are fucked.
“I am going to fuck up your life in ways you can’t even imagine. Nothing you or anyone else can ever say or do will stop me. I am going to burn your little playhouse down. You are fucked.” @michaelwhiteacre LOL! If you are as effective as you were in the condom battle against LA County then I’ll have nothing to worry about will I.
1) There is no LA County ordinance, only the City of LA, dumbass. 2) He who LOLs last LOLs best, fuckface.
The only person Moronica is kidding is herself.
That’s not Moronica. It’s a little bitch.
OOOOOOH!…That hurts so much coming from a bottom feeding, irrelevent, washed up, hasbeen suitcase pimp like you Ari! I’ll meet you out in the parking lot of Sardo’s Tuesday night punk!
No you won’t because you’re nowhere near Burbank. You really think I can’t punch through an IP blocker. LOL
You don’t even know how to spell “irrelevant” you cretin.
I’ll let you know when I’m next at Sardo’s. I WOULD FUCKING LOVE for you to show up — it will be the last day you chew solid food. Believe it, bitch.
By the way, I fucked your mother last night. She told me how embarrassed she was that her flesh and blood was such a worthless piece of shit. Your whole family is embarrassed by you.
Soon, however, they’re REALLY going to have something to be embarrassed about. Keep reading those news and gossip sites, fuckface. Shit is about to get hectic. You are about to bring disgrace to your family in a way you never though possible. And it will all be because of me.
Fuck you.
MW
Just for the record everyone Ari did not show up at Sardo’s Tuesday night. He is a real rough, tough talking keyboard warrior but when it comes to action he is nothing but a coward!
Apparently you read as well as you spell. I wrote I’d let you know when I’ll be there next. I’m currently in another state, and I’m not going to fly in just to meet someone who’s not there.
BTW, where’s the pic of YOU at this week’s PSK?
Unrelated, but somehow LIB is better in an odd way when Steele has a good debate partner, as much as everyone complains, it adds life. NL- I agree Larry!
Is Areyoukiddingme that fat bespectacled BadBoysJuice fella?
@Fartz — This story is developing in a big way right now. They asked for it, and they’re going to get it. Stay tuned, please.
But first, I’m finishing the latest Lubben entries. Here’s a sample: