* Darth believes that many STDs in the porn industry are at epidemic levels. He supports this assertion with published statistics.

** MisterZ claims that the printed stats are exaggerated errors due to a variety of factors, and that AIM which was cited as the source of some of this information attempted to have the authors of Darth's quoted piece correct these errors in vain.


ALL of the "statistic" cited in the article(as incorrect as they are) come from AIM, and nowhere else. Anything ever said about the industry by l.a. county health is based on information given to them by AIM.

go to internetarchive.org....put aim-med.org in the search box.....click on of the links around june 2003.....you will see an article titled "regarding see no evil.......it contains the letter that the l.a. times never published. In it mitch mentions that they counted all of the contacts of the positve performers as 'positive' for an std. These patients were (medical term) "presumptivley medicated" because they had contact with an infected person. And you wil see it was 738, not 438, which makes a huge difference in the releablility of the statistcis. And Darth beleives that the l.a. times only reports viable stats. ALL of the information came from AIM. But saying that 40% tested positive gets a much bigger headline than saying 6%. In the political and reporting world its called 'spin". When questioned directly about this at one of the talent meetings in 2004,(almost nobody at that hustler building meeting even knew who this guy was) the author of the article said, and i quote, "My editor made some changes regarding those stats. I'm sorry."

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