Originally posted by glatt
Those who live by the *ahem* sword...
Good answer!
I feel sorry for them. Really, I do. I wouldn't wish HIV on anyone. Certain behavior is risky. You increase your risk by being a porn star. So there's no real surprise here.
Actually, the models and their handlers (agents, you sicko!) take great pains to test frequently for all STDs. Not just HIV but the clap and everything else. Even crabs are assidously avoided and no one will work with someone who is not tested clean very recently. And they tend to stay in their own sandboxes. Most porn stars do not take outside lovers unless they, too, are tested clean. The models are very conscious of their vulnerability.
But the severity of this outbreak is what makes it news...the others have been nearly unreported except by industry rags such as AVN...which I've been a member of since the late eighties. That and the titillation factor.
I'm just saying that your chances of contracting a disease as a porn star isn't much greater on average than as a non-porn-star average Joe.
Brian