Sink Or Swim
By The Colonel
Life is good in Los Angeles, or is it? In today’s crumbling adult market all we needed was another HIV outbreak leading to county and state official’s intervention. The MILF story has gone mainstream. Here are excerpts from LA Times story. Let’s read on and connect the dots:
‘An actress who works in Southern California’s pornography industry has tested positive for HIV, renewing county and state health officials’ concerns that the adult entertainment industry lacks sufficient safety measures to prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.’
‘Dr. Jonathan Fielding, health officer for Los Angeles County, said Wednesday that his office was launching an investigation.’
‘Officials from the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health also said they will look into the circumstances of the case, which is the first publicly confirmed HIV infection in Southern California’s porn industry since 2004, when an HIV outbreak shut down production for four weeks.’
‘At that time, a porn actor who had returned from working in Brazil spread the virus to three actresses who had performed with him. A transsexual performer unrelated to the other cases also tested positive.’
‘As the clinic downplayed the positive test, public health officials cited their ongoing battle with the porn industry over the use of condoms during filming. The two sides have been at odds for years, and despite the intense scrutiny, Fielding said he is concerned that condoms are still not being used.’
‘You wouldn’t send someone to work on a high-rise building without a hard-hat, so why are we allowing these performers to perform without condoms? Fielding said.’
‘Deborah Gold, a senior safety engineer with the state Occupational Safety and Health Division, said her agency repeatedly had attempted to crack down on unsafe workplaces in the adult entertainment industry, issuing several citations against employers, including a gay male production company that touted its condom-free filming.’
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Do you understand what this means for the adult industry? If the county and state officials take over monitoring the adult industry in Southern California, every performer must register as ‘sex worker’, and that without saying can and will have severe consequences and impact all aspects of their personal lives, from renting an apartment to getting a daily job, getting a line of credit, etc. Furthermore, if the usage of condoms becomes mandatory, that will put an end to many popular sub-genres in today’s porn from ass to mouth to cream pies, gang bangs, etc. This will be the perfect nail anti-porn movements from feminist organizations to religious nuts, white supremacists and crazy morons needed to seal our coffin. Just when you think things can’t get any worse.
For a long time, I’ve spoken against the dangers which the reckless behavior s of a few can and will eventually pose on many, from inflicting physical and psychological pain on women to working with foreigner performers specially transsexuals, homosexual activities, hiring intravenous drug addicts (IVDU), etc. I’ve told the truth and for that I’ve been accused of being discriminative, hateful and narrow minded, among the other things. While all along the way my intention has always been to raise the awareness and prevent a disaster that, god forbid, if happens will drastically impact and devastate many people’s lives and livelihood.
I ‘d like to end this article on a somewhat positive note, but I really don’t know what to say, except for I hope once again we swim rather than sink, and dodge this bullet, too.