Robert made a good point.

First, some kid out of high school probably doesn't bother to read a release, even if it's spelled out in big, bold type.

Second, most courts in America have what they call 'juries' that decide whether or not a claim made on a 'release' is valid, or not.

If a class action suit comes up, and it goes before a jury, you folks might have a really, really tough time convincing them that 'you're just gonna have to accept that you're gonna get herpes and hepatitis' is an acceptable risk to a performer.

Just because you have it spelled out on your handy-dandy form don't mean a mom from the suburbs, sitting on that jury, is going to buy it.

For instance, a girl who was mauled by a tiger while posing in lingerie had signed a 'release form' that said that the 'producers' could not be held liable for the tiger getting a bug up its' ass, and deciding to munch on her head.

The model took the 'producers' to court.

Guess what.

The jury sided with the model...even with her signature on the 'release form'.

Try selling a sob story about Herpes and Hepatitis to a jury, when the tests have been out there for years, and the jury knows that all you, as producers, had to go was increase the price of one VHS by ten cents to send your talent to AIM to take one.

It just ain't gonna fly folks, and you know it. Juries don't give a shit about small print, juries care about FACTS.

The girl I care about, I will probably never see again.

She thinks I'm just a jerk who wouldn't pay to fuck her, a cheapskate, and a hypocrite for watching porn...and telling her it's too dangerous to go into because of all these horrible diseases and addictions.

That's fine. I can live with myself for giving the correct advice, for giving a shit, and having her shun me.

One of these days, when she starts bleeding down there, and finds out she may not be able to have children...

...I hope she'll remember that at least ONE GOOD PERSON tried to WARN HER about the hell she was getting herself into, all for a few thousand dollars, and a few boxcovers.

I can sleep at night, even though I miss her, and fear that she won't ever be the same happy girl she used to be.

I'm mad as hell at her mom being a damn nurse, and not telling her about this shit. She knows how I feel about that. One day, when she isn't so angry any more, she may see that her mom was wrong, and she won't hate me so much.

However, even though most of you probably know by now who I am talking about, I will still fight the good fight, and attempt to make her 'career' as safe as I possibly can.

I get nothing out of this other than hope.

I hope that you people will act responsibly, even if the things I worry about have already hit her.

I hope that the next generation of 'porn stars' won't be treated so inhumanely.

She may be in too deep, and she may be gone forever.

Probably so.

But that doesn't give you people the right to act irresponsibly with her, or with any other straight out of high school naive kids who never got the right kind of parenting.

If you make your industry a safe industry, the rewards will be great, not small.

If you people test all your performers for all diseases, before each and every shoot, and make your 'workplace' as safe as it can possibly be...

...then the decision will have truly been their decision, and no fault will lie with you.

However, if you keep acting the way you all are acting, all I can tell you is this...

These girls are eventually going to figure out that those diseases they got on your sets are due to YOUR NEGLIGENCE, and ANY COURT IN AMERICA will decide to rule against you.

When that happens, studios will shut down, and the lawyers will take over selling off the proceeds.

Is that the way you want to end up?

Wouldn't you rather be honest, and risk losing one or two kids straight out of high school so you can keep your studios, and know that you did all you could to warn them?

It's seems like an obvious choice to me.

Leaving out things on purpose is just the same as lying.

If you open your hearts, you might find I'm right.

If you don't open your hearts, you'll soon be opening your WALLETS, instead.

Think about it.

'The Outsider'