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Venereal disease doesn't distinguish between straight, gay and bisexual. It's a safe sex/promiscuity issue, not a sexual identity issue.



You're approaching the question as an abstract exercise in the political correctness in treating people equally without regard to sexual orientation. Bishop and others view this as very much a practical question of how to avoid HIV, no theoretical pretentiousness at all.

As Bishop said, the hard facts are not at all politically correct: gay males and transsexuals are a lot more likely to carry HIV that straight guys.

Another thing you may not have considered is the reality of HIV testing in porn - it differs greatly between straight and gay/tranny porn.

Straight porn performers are tested frequently. This is important because the only 100% proven way to avoid HIV is to avoid risky contact with HIV+ people. To the extent that straight porn performers work only with tested HIV- partners, and those partners themselves avoid HIV+ contacts, the performers greatly increase their odds of remaining HIV-.

The problem here is that the gay/tranny side of porn isn't HIV-. They don't test; they don't know. They don't try to exclude HIV+ people from performing so it's safe to assume some do. Think of it as a “don't ask, don't tell” policy ...

Condoms have limited effectiveness is preventing HIV transmission. Political sloganeering aside, they fail sometimes, perhaps as often as 5% according to CDC estimates. That's not good enough for many performers, and the only way to make the odds any better is to simply avoid anyone who might be HIV+, which in porn means gays, trannys, and anyone without a test.

There are other STDs besides HIV but the HIV issue alone is a show-stopper: if infection rates were the same for every other STD the performers would still avoid gays/trannys on the HIV issue alone.

PS. Take a look at the IAFD Dead Porn Stars and perhaps a little reality will set in.
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