10-14-2010, 08:46 AM
What's that ticking you hear, Chip? Just a matter of time before justice is served...
Quote:Another Porn Actor Tests Positive for HIV
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
California's multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry has been left reeling after another positive HIV test for a porn actor.
The revelation Tuesday led to two of the industry's biggest companies shutting down production and a scramble to find partners who may have been exposed by the actor, whose identity and gender have not been released.
The actor was a patient of the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, a San Fernando Valley clinic that caters to pornographic actors.
Clinic spokeswoman Jennifer Miller told the Los Angeles Times that efforts are under way to notify individuals who may have had sexual contact with the actor. Miller did not return calls or e-mail from The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment told the Times that they stopped production as a precaution when the positive test was revealed.
...Porn actors are required by law to test negative for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases within 30 days of going to work on a film.
...Weinstein said the latest case is the ninth HIV-positive adult film star to be treated at the AIM clinic since the 2004 outbreak. ...