California’s AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an American gay health charity, plan to file a petition that could see the production of bareback pornography banned in California.
Pinknews.co.uk reports that the group are pushing to amend state law which would require all adult-film stars to use condoms.
Bareback, or condomless, porn has seen a resurgence in recent years, and has become a popular gay porn genre.
Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation said: “Although workers in adult films should enjoy protections under [current regulations], the adult film industry has steadfastly refused to take any steps to protect its workers from diseases spread by blood-borne pathogens, resulting in thousands of employees becoming infected with sexually transmitted diseases.”
In August, the foundation filed 16 worker-safety complaints with the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, over the lack of condom use in adult films made in California. According to the Foundation’s petition, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health has documented “an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases” among California’s porn stars.
Last year porn director Chi Chi La Rue made a public service announcement about barebacking in the porn industry.
“When I first started seeing barebacking titles appear, of course I was disappointed and very outspoken,” said La Rue. “The fact is that it was pretty obvious to most that the models ‘appeared’ to be HIV+ and were having unsafe sex with what ‘appeared’ to be other HIV+ models… What we are seeing now is drastically different. We are seeing movies with 18 year old twinks being gang banged without condoms. We are seeing…20 year olds in the UK who have reportedly become HIV+ after making their first porn.
”...Some companies say that they test their models, which just gives a false sense of security. There is no way to 100% protect the health of models by testing only. What if the test was taken a day before the person’s HIV became detectable? What if the model caught HIV a day after he was tested?”
In a recent interview with Same Same, pornstar Steve Cruz talked about the importance of safe-sex. A few weeks ago, Steve Cruz blogged on his site that he wanted to use Dominick Ryder for one of his films, but opted not too after a bit of controversy started to swirl around it. Dominick has been doing alot of bareback porn lately, which i guess worked a nerve in the mainstream industry. Steve even did a poll on his website, which garnered mixed reviews. here's what he had to say below...
“I spent most of my early 20s partying and having risky sex. It’s a miracle I survived my darker years,” said Cruz. “I’m very public about this. I try to use my experience to help others avoid the hard choices I made in my past. I lost very close friends to HIV. Most guys I know who are positive are living with HIV, thanks to the medications. It’s convenient to forget HIV is still a deadly virus. As a single guy, men were always pressuring me to bareback. It’s gotten so relaxed that I felt safer negotiating sex on a porn set where condoms are enforced than in my private life.”
via:samesame.com.au
If people want to bareback in the privacy of their own homes, then that is your prerogative. I think if people are going to make porn, there should be a responsibility to protect all those involved. oftentimes, there's this attitude from gay men that they're going to get in anyway so why bother using condoms. I too will go on the record to admit that I have had plenty of risky sex. I've gone to parties and fucked plenty of guys bareback as well as allowed guys to fuck me without a condom. by the grace of GOD I am negative. I do see alot of times when i go out guys try to pressure me into having condomless sex. I always tell them idon't want to get sick. People have a responsibility to look out for the models they are hiring. if some negative 21 year old wants to do bareback porn, I'm not sure it's a great idea, since they are putting themselves at risk. yes the cocktails have gotten better to keep HIV+ people living longer. As someone who knows far too many people with this disease as well as formerly working for a non profit AIDS organization, living with this disease and taking a fistfull of pills everyday is not a joke. I am curious as to see where they plan to go with banning bareback movies from being produced in California. I don't think it will be possible for them to even ban bb porn, since it is in high demand. There will always be people out there who want to see condomless sex and actually get off on seeing some latin twink with a big ass push three- dozen nut busting cream out of his ass after a ten-hour bukkake session. What do the bareback companies have to say about this? Definitely will keep up on this story as it develops.
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