The problem with Christian's last post isn't that he is somehow risky (arguing that he is for stuff he did years ago -- when he has obviously tested negative multiple times since then), but that "category 2 -- porn lifers" is somehow safer than "category 1" new arrivals.

The fact is the last three previous "Patient Zeros" were Marc Wallice, John Stagliano and Darren James were all firmly in "category 2" -- they were porn lifers (in fairness I should add that Stagliano didn't infect anyone, but the other two certainly did). So this cat 1/cat 2 stuff boils down to simple protectionism by established performers against newcomers there to compete for work.

The only thing that can protect the industry is testing, testing and more testing (and they should test for hepatitis as well -- AFAIK hep B/C aren't curable and certainly can kill you). To the extent that gay porn/straight porn crossover is a problem has to do with lack of testing on the gay side -- if HIV- status was a requirement to work in gay porn with rigorous testing to back it up, it wouldn't be such a big issue. Right now unfortunately it is, and no one actively doing untested shoots should be allowed in the straight industry.

That said the straight porn industry is in fact extremely safe -- if you compare known HIV rates for porn mopes/sluts vs. the general population, porn performers are far less likely to become infected:
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HIV Prevalence Estimate

Prevalence is the number of people living with HIV infection at the end of a given year.

At the end of 2006, an estimated 1,106,400 persons (95% confidence interval 1,056,400-1,156,400) in the United States were living with HIV infection, with 21% undiagnosed.1

For more information see "HIV in the United States."

1 CDC. HIV Prevalence Estimates—United States, 2006. MMWR 2008;57(39):1073-76.


The total adult population in the US is 228,182, 000 (2008 stats), so the HIV rate in the general population is ~.5% or 1 in 200 -- far higher than the the proportion of people who have tested positive in the industry vs the total number of performers.
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