Really?

 

 

So it seems in the adult boards, (I won’t specify which one) there has been a lot of talk about the use of condoms in the adult industry.

 

It started when a gay performer, who also does straight porn contracted HIV and put the whole industry on the West Coast into shut down mode.  In the mean time they were tracking every performer who may have had contact.

 

Well now the discussion has escalated, because on of the performer/producer has admitted to never using condoms on set or personally. 

 

Why?  Because he doesn’t like the way sex feels with a condom.  He doesn’t believe he will ever contract the virus from a woman.  Thinks his chances are slim to none.

 

He also feels that the average consumer watching adult movies is one who doesn’t want to see them, because they think that the performer ‘has something’ if they wear a condom.

 

Now, I think a performer should be involved in that decision. It is one thing if you are casting a non condom movie and you specify that everyone is tested and the only way you’ll be in the movie is if you do it bareback.

 

But you can’t expect to hire a girl and on the day she shows up and say by the way this is a non condom shoot.  Isn’t that putting their safety as well as the other performers involved at risk?

 

A lot of actors in the industry are couples already.  Or have worked with each other long term.  An inner circle of people who realize this is what they do.  They do behave in riske behavior because they know the risks at stake.  Especially if they fuck up in their personal life and get sick and pass it on.  That puts a lot of other people out of work.

 

I know that there are a lot of performers who have STD’s  on the West Coast that are still working.  So if they show up at your set you are going to let them perform without condoms, because you believe sex needs to look real?  That like hiding your results from a performer.  And that is not only deceptive, by unfair to that performer.

 

Does he or she know they are working with an infected partner?  I thought we as adults were smarter than that.

 

Okay this was my rant for the day.  I’m sure I’ll get some sort of backlash for it.

 

-Maddy