Actor tested positive, Adult film industry announced suspension on making porn films
Los Angeles: The adult film industry in United States has announced suspension on making of porn films after an actor was tested positive for HIV.
“The moratorium will be lifted once the risk of transmission has been eliminated,” Diane Duke, executive director of the industry trade group the Free Speech Association, said in an email.
“How many adult film performers have to become infected with an array of preventable sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, which is not curable before the porn industry actually complies with the law requiring condom use,” he said in a statement.
Since the ordinance’s adoption, county officials have said that they are investigating one violation. Assemblyman Isadore Hall III, who is pushing for the state to adopt a similar law, called the news ‘devastating and preventable.’
“Exposing workers to this type of harm would not be accepted in any other industry in this nation,” the Los Angeles Democrat said.
The industry, which says its audience does not want to see condoms, is fighting the Los Angeles County measure in court. After a federal judge ruled last week that the measure is constitutional, industry officials promised to appeal.
