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The san fernando p[orn industry consists of about 900 to 1200 working performers every month. About 90% of these performers use no protection whatsoever. It's like a huge unprotected sex orgy that goes on every single day. [...]

[...] I would estimate the rate to be at the most 5 to 7% positive, and that may even be alittle high.



Actually this is something that has surprised me for a long time. Why is the STD rate so low? Indeed, why is the HIV rate so low?

The apparent HIV rate is as low as I'd expect if the industry were condom-mandatory. And the fact that condoms have failure rates for every other STD (from mechanical failure if nothing else) suggests that porn might not be worse than you'd expect from promiscuous people in daily intimate contact with so many others, even if condoms were used.

If there are any realistic statistics that could be used to estimate the expected STD rates in these circumstances I'd be interested in hearing about it. I've long wondered if maybe a surprisingly large number of that 1,000 performers in fact did not had sexual contacts outside the industry.
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