Much of the porn industry seems more interested in profits than preventing HIV infections. The LA Times reports on the most recent infection scare in the city’s industry, as productions halt in the wake of the positive HIV test of an adult performer. Despite numerous calls in recent years from different quarters, ranging from AIDS activists, health care providers and former performers the industry has resisted condom use in films, citing fear of profit loss, and threatening to move production to neighbouring Nevada if condom use is made mandatory.
Full story at the LA Times
Background at the LA Times – the Derrick Burts story
About the Author
Reive
Reive would describe himself as a bisexual, polyamorous, consensual sadomasochist and sex positive activist, but his friends just call him a slut. He is well known in Vancouver's kink scene, having been a founder of BIO’s Vancouver Dungeon (now run by Metro Vancouver Kink), The Conference of Kink, Halloween Ghost Ship and the fetish nights Cirque de Sade and now NOIR Fetish Ball. With 19 years of experience in kink, he’s presented numerous seminars on BDSM and sexuality, spoken at Douglas College, SFU, and UBC, and has been featured in articles in The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Province, and Whiplash Magazine among others. He has been a source for several documentary and news producers, and was very thankful to end up on the cutting room floor for the series Kink. Reive has worked as an SM technical advisor, most recently on Smallville, and in the past for The L Word, and the unreleased short film Bondage.
