Pornfanintx has a brain...

...and a heart.

Tony, I love your forum, and I love the fact that you let us speak our minds, and don't censor what we say here.

The industry comes here just as much as adultdvdtalk, or maybe more, because they know this forum is open, free, and real.

However, I think you, and Jeff, and maybe Dion (although I don't know where he stands on this yet, but probably with Jeff)...

You guys are just dead wrong on this issue.

The girl I knew had ALREADY DONE her first film when I had my last arguement with her. And guess what?

NO ONE had bothered to inform her of the fact that the industry DOES NOT test for Herpes.

Not to mention HEPATITIS.

In fact, she even informed me that a guy who is currently STILL a big, big star had Hepatitis, and guess what...

She had already fucked him...because he, in his infinite caring, loving way...had brought her into the industry.

18 year old girls straight out of high school are NOT experienced whores. These are KIDS who had bad parenting, got no attention, and have decided to 'act out'.

Shit, some of their fucking MOMS advise them to go into porn, like this girls did, and even THEY don't tell them about the risks involved.

I guess I don't buy the 'they should know better' idea.

Sorry, I guess I still have a heart.

For instance:

When you go whitewater rafting on a class 5 river, you get a long, long lecture before you ever get to sit in the boat.

The raft guides explain that this is dangerous, and that yes, you could die. They explain that if you fall out of the boat, going top speed, your skin could get turned into hamburger by the brush along the banks, that you could drown, and if you go over a really step falls, yes, you could break your ribs, suffer internal bleeding, and die.

Then they give you a few minutes to think about it, come back, and ask who is still up for the trip.

Why can't this strategy be applied to newcomers to the industry?

Not telling some dopey kid, straight out of high school, who probably was an ugly duckling until senior year, and who is just doing this porn thing to get back at people, and prove she is 'beautiful'...

Not telling that kid about the risks she faces, and letting her jump in and GET Herpes and Hepatitis-

-that's just fucking sick.

Sorry Tony, sorry Jeff...your disagreements just don't make sense...

...unless you just don't have a heart.

Then you all make sense.

If the infection rates for Herpes and Hepatitis are really as high as you say, Tony, and there are tests available out there...you all are risking losing a major class action lawsuit by avoiding using them.

That's called negligence.

Whether for moral reasons, or whether for financial ones, I think all you producers need to change your tunes about this.

One of these days, a couple of your actresses are going to figure out that they deserve WORKERS COMPENSATION for getting Hepatitis or Herpes on your sets, and they won't come looking for you...

...their lawyers will.

You all love to talk about how porn is just a job, and that it's just like going to work at any other job.

Well, if that's true, then it should be treated that way.

Part of having a good workplace comes from protecting your work force from injury.

Is Herpes an injury? Is Hepatitis?

Fuck yeah they are.

What would you rather do:

A) Fall off a two story building and break a leg at a construction site.

or

B) Get Herpes and Hepatitis on a porn set.

Duh.

The leg will heal.

Think about it.

You all have a responsibilty- morally AND legally- to provide a safe workplace.

Fucking stop whining about it, and making up stupid self-serving excuses, and make your workplace safe.

So, people may get shoved out of the industry, so what?

Do you really think there will ever be a shortage of people who want to volunteer for porn films?

Shit man, if people knew it was safe, and all diseases were tested for...

You'd have a fucking FLOOD of new, hot talent on your hands, instead of a hundred or so, most of them skanky, chicks to choose from.

Duh.

'The Outsider'