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HIV Chills a Hot Skinflick Industry
By John Maynard
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 17, 2004; Page C04
Southern California's multibillion-dollar pornographic-film business was thrown into turmoil this week after a health advocacy group disclosed that two actors had tested positive for HIV.
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Sharon
Mitchell and Alicia Herring of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care
Foundation in Sherman Oaks, Calif. AIM provides HIV tests for adult-film
actors. (Fred
Prouser -- Reuters)
The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, a nonprofit organization that each month screens about 1,200 actors in skinflicks for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, confirmed yesterday that the actors, who work under the names Darren James and Lara Roxx, had tested positive for HIV and that 65 other actors so far had been placed on a "quarantine list." That list, a network of people who filmed sex scenes with James or Roxx recently, as well as the actors those people filmed sex scenes with, is being compiled and published on AIM's Web
AIM's executive director, Sharon Mitchell, said it would take two months before the actors on the list can be cleared. During that period, a number of big porn-film producers will close up shop.
Vivid Entertainment, one of the largest adult movie companies, releasing more than 60 movies a year, has stopped production on its films but said it was not necessarily going to sit out the entire 60 days.
"We will wait for the next week or two and will work with AIM as they put together the list," Vivid co-founder and co-chairman Steven Hirsch said in a telephone interview yesterday. "We are going to see how many people are affected, how many people, if any, became infected, and then make our decision based on that."
Wicked Pictures publicist Daniel Metcalf said his company, which produces about 50 movies a year, "will suspend production at this point until more information is learned."
Both Vivid and Wicked require mandatory condom use by their actors on the set.
News of the two actors' conditions first appeared Thursday on the Web site of the trade magazine Adult Video News and was also reported in yesterday's Los Angeles Times.
Mitchell said yesterday that James contracted the disease while filming in Brazil. "We had a veteran actor who went down to Brazil and worked without a condom," she said. Back in the States, James subsequently performed with Roxx and another actor last month.
This is the third HIV scare in the industry since 1998, which actor Ed Powers blames on "rogues" in the industry. "Guys who do their own stuff," Powers said. "They're not part of the collective gathering. They're not part of the mainstream, but they work with girls.
"If they pass something on, it goes into the mainstream."
Many companies have stringent HIV testing rules that require tests within 30 days of the start of production. "When you think of how little HIV has come into our business that's all about sex . . . we're doing pretty good," Powers said.
Actress Tyler Faith, who has worked in more than 150 films, says she thinks there should be more stringent rules about working outside the country. Still, she knows the risks.
"You have to know what you're getting yourself into," she said. "If you think that it couldn't happen to you, you're kidding yourself. It worries me every day."
Mitchell said that although the larger porn-film studios have voluntarily stopped filming, she believes "gonzo companies" are still running. She defines these companies as those that shoot their films with "no plot and no condoms."
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LOS ANGELES
(AP) - An AIDS scare prompted adult movie companies to halt production and bar
dozens of performers from the set after two actors tested HIV-positive.
At least 45 actors and actresses were under a voluntary work quarantine and
about a dozen companies were adhering to a voluntary two-month moratorium until
new HIV tests are completed, industry experts said.
"It's very scary," said Mary Carey, a porn star who ran for governor
of California last fall. "This is kind of a wake-up call for
everybody."
Carey said she had not worked with the infected actor but as a precaution, she
was canceling a lesbian porn shoot.
The last industry HIV scare was in 1999, when a male actor tested positive for
the disease. He no longer performs and no other actors were infected. Before
that, a male actor infected five women in 1998.
A nonprofit health group was trying to identify performers who had sex with the
two HIV-infected actors as well as a "second generation" who slept
with their movie sex partners.
Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of public health and health officer for Los
Angeles County, said the agency did not consider the HIV case a threat to
public health "at this point."
"I think in general, they've done an appropriate job in terms of the
quarantine measures taken," he said.
However, he said, the discovery shows that screening programs are not perfect
and the only way to prevent AIDS "is not to have unprotected sex."
Sharon Mitchell of the nonprofit Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation
said the male performer apparently contracted HIV last month while filming in
Brazil. He tested positive for HIV on Friday and a follow-up test on Monday
confirmed it.
On Thursday, Mitchell confirmed that one of about a dozen women the man had sex
with in U.S. films also had tested HIV-positive.
The industry news magazine AVN said she was a Canadian woman who had been in a
scene involving unprotected sex, and had been in the adult film industry for
only three months.
It was unclear how much impact the work stoppage would have on the $4 billion
to $13 billion-a-year industry, which is centered in the San Fernando Valley
and cranks out 4,000 movies annually.
The porn industry's largest company, Vivid Entertainment, told The Associated
Press in a statement that it would continue production, arguing that they
already have safety measures in place. However, late Thursday Adult Video News
posted a statement from Vivid spokeswoman Ellie Reeve on its Web site, saying
the company had decided to cease production.
Jill Kelly, a former adult performer turned producer, said she was delaying
about eight movies.
"It's going to hurt some people (financially) but who cares?" she
said of the moratorium. "It's about safety now and about people's
lives."
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An anonymous midget and two Christians are fighting to save you from sins of
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by Matt Coker
The numbers, meanwhile, are huge. In 2001, Americans rented
750 million adult films on video or DVD alone. Total industry revenues now stand
at between $5 billion and $10 billion.
Adam Glasser (a.k.a. porn star Seymore Butts) stars
in 'Family Business,' a reality show broadcast on Showtime on Friday nights
ow’d we get here? Adult entertainment initially entered America’s homes in the
1980s, with the first videocassette recorders, and blossomed in the 1990s with
video-on-demand, phone sex and of course, the Internet. “We’ve also become more
comfortable with sexual information in the general culture,” says sociologist
Pepper Schwartz, author of “Everything You Know About Love and Sex Is Wrong.”
“But it’s not a change in our basic values. We’re just lightening up a little
bit about sex.”
Besides the VCR, other factors helped win America over to porn. A more explicit
sexual dialogue emerged, brought about by the AIDS crisis, and pop culture has
pushed the boundaries of what’s acceptable. In the 1980s, rock bands such as
Motley Crue started putting porn stars in their videos; now they’re staples in
videos by Eminem and others. Howard Stern’s radio program has turned many porn
players into household names. John Wayne Bobbitt became famous for having his
penis cut off in the early 1990s, then parlayed his notoriety into a
short-lived career in adult entertainment. Who can forget the infamous Pamela
Anderson-Tommy Lee tape, which only added to the two stars’ allure? The 1997
film “Boogie Nights” told the story of one man’s journey in the business. And
with the 1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal, life imitated porn.
In the coming weeks, we'll see Traci Lords promote
her autobiography, 'Underneath it All'
More than anything
else, however, the Web is responsible for porn’s increased visibility and
acceptance. Because of the anonymous nature of Internet surfing, porn sites
have proliferated since they first started appearing 10 years ago. As the
technology advanced and high-speed access became more available in people’s
homes, the business boomed. Analysts estimate that the Web’s 100,000 adult
pornographic sites now take in $1 billion annually. Similarly, as with the
Internet, satellite systems and video-on-demand now allow users to order up
skin flicks without leaving their sofa—or their hotel room. Adult titles are
estimated to be viewed 10 times as often as standard fare by business
travelers, and they’re often more expensive, too ($6.95 compared with $3.95,
for instance).
As some aspects of porn have taken off, others have fallen apart. Many porn
magazines have seen their circulations drop by 10 percent a year since the
mid-1990s. Longtime adult magazines Playboy and Penthouse have lost millions of
customers. Penthouse, which once sold 5 million copies a month, now has a
circulation of well under 1 million and hasn’t had an issue on newsstands since
April. “You gotta keep changing in this business,” says Legs McNeil, whose
book, “The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film
Industry,” is due in January. “Wherever the new technology is, that’s where
porn goes.”
This fall, Fox will premiere a new series, 'Skin,' featuring Ron Silver as a
porn mogul
McNeil says the business itself, most of which is done in Los Angeles’s San
Fernando Valley, has gotten more mainstream, too. “Girls line up and audition
to be in these films now,” he says. “If they’re not on drugs and they’re smart
about it, they can exploit themselves the way they want to be exploited.”
Jameson, he points out, has set a new standard for career management. Besides
doing films, she’s CEO of ClubJenna Inc., an Internet management, production
and licensing company. Jameson has written a book, “How to Make Love Like a
Porn Star,” that will be released next year. She’s also been profiled on
“Entertainment Tonight” and has even debated Bill O’Reilly on Fox. (Though
here’s one example of porn crossing over that didn’t work: Jameson was to be
featured in a line of Pony shoe ads this year. The company has since pulled the
ads in favor of a different style launch next spring.)
A porn producer and actor who’s also making the most of his infamy, Adam
Glasser (a.k.a. Seymore Butts) stars in “Family Business,” Showtime’s reality
show about the daily life of a porn mogul. “This series is an opportunity to
show people that the industry is filled with normal people,” says Glasser,
whose program also features his mother, who does his company’s accounting, and
his (much) older cousin Stevie, Glasser’s right-hand man. The mini-mogul thinks
America’s been ready to have porn stars in their home on a weekly basis for a
while now. “It’s where we’re at,” he says. “Plus, to me, it’s about demand. Why
would somebody put a porn star on a snowboard unless they thought it would sell
a lot of snowboards and get them a lot of publicity? They’re not going to do it
just to get clobbered by the Moral Majority.”
Of course, some people don’t see any of this as positive. “When you smoke pot
as a kid, or get someone to buy you beer, you know it’s wrong. Same with porn,”
says Bruce Taylor, president and chief counsel for the National Law Center for
Children and Families. “If you stop thinking it’s wrong, it stops affecting
your values system. That’s dangerous.” He says the media mistakenly falls in
love with people like Seymore Butts and Larry Flynt, the Hustler magazine
publisher played charmingly by Woody Harrelson in 1996’s “The People vs. Larry
Flynt.” “Seeing bad guys on the screen is part of our culture,” says Taylor, a
former federal anti-porn prosecutor. “They’ve got money and power and fancy
clothes and big castles. But I think most Americans can see through it.”
But what will we see next? How about porn stars in prime time? Paul Fishbein,
founder and president of The Adult Video News Media Network, says he’s had
meetings about taking the AVN Awards show—a gala event dubbed “the Oscars of
porn”—to television. In years past, the ceremony has been broadcast, but only
on the Playboy Channel. “Now,” he says, “we’re talking about mainstream TV.” As
long as Joan and Melissa aren’t on the red carpet. That’s a merger of porn and
pop culture no one cares to see.
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few large companies operating out of Southern
California
Southern California, or "SoCal,"
is the southern portion of the state of California. Geographically, the
division between central and southern California is customarily at the
Tehachapi Mountains. Politically, the region is defined roughly by the
following eight counties (in descending order of population): Los Angeles,
Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Imperial.
Some people consider San Luis Obispo and Kern counties to be part of the
region. Over two-thirds of the state's population lives in Southern California.
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Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley or, simply, The Valley, is the
northern portion of the city of Los Angeles, California, roughly bounded by
Burbank to the east, San Fernando to the north (both separate municipalities), Canoga Park to the west, and the Santa Monica
Mountains (Mulholland Drive) to the south. The administrative center of
"the
Valley" is
Van Nuys.
The Valley is home to numerous industries the
most well-known of which include those involved in motion pictures, recording,
and television production (including CBS Studio Center, NBC, Universal Studios,
Walt Disney Pictures, and Warner Brothers Studios). The Valley is also home to
a multi-million dollar pornography industry.
..... Click the link for more information. are responsible for much of the pornography
Pornography is the representation of the human body
or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal.
Introduction
Pornography
may use any of a variety of media — written and spoken text, photos, drawings,
moving images (including animation), and sound such as heavy breathing.
Pornographic films combine moving images, spoken erotic text and/or other
erotic sounds, while magazines often combine photos
and written text. And novels and short stories provide written text, sometimes
with illustrations.
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the link for more information. produced
in the United
States
For other
uses see United States (disambiguation)
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The
distribution of pornography has changed radically after the 1980s Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s
- 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
1988 1989
Events and
Trends
- * Solidarity
movement in Poland eventually topples the country's Communist regime.
o Gorbachev
introduces Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union
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videotape
The video cassette recorder (or VCR) is
a device that uses magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television so
it can be played back later. Many VCRs have their own tuner and can be
programmed to record the signal on a particular channel during a particular
time interval.
History
Before the advent of the VCR proper, portable
video recorders using half-inch wide tape on 7 inch reels were marketed by
Sony. These did not have timers, and were mainly used by schools and colleges
to record educational programmes, and by businesses as a means of distributing
training films. Even earlier, in the 1950s, British enthusiasts could buy home
kinescope kits which allowed the filming of TV shows on 16mm film.
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television
Cable television or Community
Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to 'cable') refers to
television, FM radio programming and other services that are provided to
consumers via fixed coaxial cables, rather than by the older and more
widespread radio broadcasting (over-the-air) method. It is most common in
Canada, the United States, Europe, most of Australasia and much of eastern
Asia, though it is present in many other countries.
..... Click the link for more information. largely displacing X-rated theaters. Video
distribution in turn is in the process of being replaced by DVD
DVD is an optical disc storage media format that
is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for
storing data. The abbreviation "DVD" originally stood for Digital
Video Disc and now stands for Digital Versatile Disc. The name
was changed to reflect the multiple uses for a DVD. A DVD appears very similar
to a compact disc.
A DVD disc can contain:
- DVD-Video
(containing movies (video and sound))
- DVD-Audio
(containing high-definition sound)
- DVD-Data
(containing data)
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Internet In the general
sense, an internet (with a lowercase "i",
a shortened form of the original inter-network) is a computer
network that connects several networks. As a proper
noun, the Internet is the publicly
available internationally interconnected system of computers (plus the
information and services they provide to their users) that uses the TCP/IP
suite of packet switching communications protocols. Thus, the largest internet is called simply "the" Internet.
The art of connecting networks in this way is called internetworking.
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for niche markets). Distribution of pornography is a large industry which
involves major entertainment companies such as AOL-Time Warner (which profits
from pornography through its cable channels, and in-room movies provided by
hotel chains).
Pornography
in the United States tends to feature mostly blonde women with large breasts
(usually augmented by breast
implants
A breast implant is a technique used in
cosmetic surgery to increase the size of a woman's (or a man's) breasts or to
reconstruct the breast (for example, after a mastectomy). There are two main
types of breast implants:
- Saline-filled which have
an external silicone shell and are filled with sterile saline liquid.
These implants are currently the only ones available in the United States.
- Silicone gel-filled which have
an external silicone shell and are filled with silicone gel. They are not
currently available for implant in the United States, but future
regulation may change this. In the 60 countries outside the United States
where silicone implants remain available, they are used in approximately
90% of implant operations.
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and buttocks and often with tattoos
A tattoo is a kind of body modification
which involves a picture, figure or text drawn in ink, or other pigment, under
the topmost layer of skin on an animal or human.
Overview
Etymology
The word tattoo comes from the Tahitian tatu,
which means, "to mark."
History
Tattooing was had been a Eurasian practice in
Neolithic times. "Otzi," the mummified ice man dated ca 3300
BCE, discovered frozen in the Tyrol, was tatooed, predating by far the first
recorded history of tattooing in Egypt. The naturally mummified man found in
the Pasaryk burial was extensively tatooed with stylized animals. In the
steppes, other natural mummies as old as seven thousand years have been found
with tattoos.
..... Click the link for more information. or body piercing Body piercing is a form of
body modification. It involves piercing a part of the human body and
subsequently inserting and keeping a foreign object in the opening until the
wound heals. This forms a tunnel of skin around the
foreign object, thus creating a suitable place for wearing different types of
jewelry. The term "piercing" also often refers to this jewelry. One
example of the process is the common ear piercing. This procedure is so simple
and mainstream that some people do not even think of
it as body piercing.
..... Click
the link for more information. . Men in pornography tend to be older and heavily
muscled. American pornography movies often attempt to promote pornographic
stars, and the boxes for video tapes tend to be extremely gaudy. Plot in pornographic
movies
Pornographic movies appeared shortly
after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible.
Pornographic films have much in common with other forms of pornography.
Overview
The movie camera has been used for pornography
throughout its history, but pornographic movies were for most of that time
typically only available by underground distribution, for projection at home or
in private clubs.
..... Click the link for more information. is often minimal.
With
the advent of AIDS
AIDS (short for Acquired Immuno-deficiency
Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and occasionally
spelled Aids) is a human disease characterized by progressive
destruction of the body's immune system. It is believed by the overwhelming
majority of medical opinion to result from infection with the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) retrovirus. First noticed
..... Click the link for more information. in the 1980s Centuries: 19th
century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s
- 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
1988 1989
Events and
Trends
- * Solidarity
movement in Poland eventually topples the country's Communist regime.
o Gorbachev
introduces Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union
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HIV transmission between performers resulted in a number of deaths, including
that of the famous erotic actor John
Holmes
John Curtis Estes (August 8, 1944–March 13, 1988),
better known as John Holmes, was an adult
film actor of the 1970s and 1980s.
Holmes was particularly active in the period
before condoms were customarily used in adult film, and was a user of injectable
drugs; he died from complications due to AIDS.
Some elements of the film Boogie Nights
were loosely based on Holmes, who was known for an unusually large penis.
..... Click the link for more information. .
After
this, the pornography industry instituted a system of testing for the HIV virus
designed to prevent the spread of the virus within the industry. In general,
the pornography industry does not depict safer sex:
mainstream pornographic movies now depict a range of behaviors including anal sex that
are high risk activities for STD transmission, as if the taboo status of
these activities has made them more thrilling for the consumers of pornography.
Anal sex and other similar activities are now part of U.S. heterosexual
pornography in a way that was unprecedented before the outbreak of AIDS.
See
also:
- 18 U.S.C. 2257
- pornography
in Europe
- pornography
in Japan