Ok misterz, but you still haven't answered the question of what % of porn performers DO have Hep C - the whole reason you got riled up at Darth in the first place was because his guesstimate of 50% was way too high in your opinion. Ok, so what IS the realistic %? Also, you wrote that it is true that Hep C and other STD's do occur, and "when they do they are delt with."
How are they dealt with? When someone gets Hep C and Aim finds out, how do they deal with it?

Finally, what is AIMs official opinion, is Hep C spread sexually or not?




AIM will run a HEP c antibody test. That is merely a screening test to see if other folow up tests are needed to 'diagnose' someone as HEP C positive. Those tests can include PCR viral load, or HEP C "riba' test, and even a liver biopsy. AIM is NOT a "primary care" facility. A person who tests positve for the hepc antibody will be reffered to a primary care facility for the follow up testing.

Is HEP C considered an STD? Good question. You could ask 10 different HEP specialist and get 10 different answwers. There is very low risk of transmittng HEP C through sexual contact but it can happen.

You can log onto aim-med .org and put hepatitis in the search box and see several articles. One relates to an incident in the industry about 3 or 4 years ago where a girl got a positive antibody result and the gossip mongers here and trhoughout the industry hung her out to dry.(HER AGENT TOLD OTHER PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY) Turns out she had been exposed to HEPC years ago, but as often happens, her body fought off the infection, leaving her with the antibodies. Her follow up test revealed she no longer carried the virus, but the damage to her performing carrer was already done.

When someone is diagnosed with something that is not on the release form from AIM, they CANNOT and WILL NOT release that information. That is just the LAW. The patients are medicated, reffered for follow up treatment and counseled on how their particular 'disesase" is relevant to their performing carreer. AIM DOES NOT MAKE THE RULES FOR THE INDUSTRY. IN FACT NOBODY DOES, EXCEPT THE TALENT THEMSELVES.

What % of performers have active HEP C? I beleibve AIM has not had a positive hepc "diagnosed"(full followup testing included) for over four years. I would estimate that less than 1/2 of 1%.

Most performers do test for hep and get vaccinated for hep a&b.

The San Fernando porn industry is well aware of the risks involved. There are about 1000 working performers a monthe in tne valley. EVERYBODY knows that if you are having unprotected sex with multiple partners, who in turn are having unprotected sex with multipe partners and so on and so on, then there is risk for many,many ,many diseases.(You should see how many performers get the flu each year)


IT IS SIMPLY THE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS,AND TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.

AIM EXISTS TO ASSIST THE PERFORMERS IN MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS, NOT TO MAKE THE DECISIONS FOR THEM.

SHOULD MORE TESTS BE ADDED TO THE MONTHLY SCREENING AND RELEASE FORM? THAT IS UP TO THE TALENT, NOT, I REPEAT NOT, UP TO AIM.

Why do you think the gay industry doesnt test at all? Because if they did there would be a record of the std and hiv rate in that industry, and that is something that nobody in the gay industry wants to have verified.


It would be very interesting to get some feedback from the performers who share this board. Gia, Brnadon, what do you think about the hepc in porn? Perhaps they would like to share their personal standards regarding this issue, and any annecdotes they might have regarding personal experience with this issue.

My guess is that no performers will respond to this question, just like nobody in the buissness will ever answer the question......"What did the industry ever do for any performers who got HIV?"

Of course everyone rallies around the producers when the obscenity charges are filed, but what type of SUPPORT is given the the hiv infected performers? So, on behalf of the entire industry i will answer this question for them one final time. THE 'INDUSTRY' HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING,ZERO,ZIP,ZILCH,NADA. and nobody in the industry will come on here to dispute that. Nobody on ADT disputed it either.




Edited by misterz (04/16/08 05:49 PM)