Oh, and Whitney Engeran of AHF, “the largest GLOBAL AIDS organization”, are you back from Thailand yet? There’s a new HIV crisis there:

http://tv.ibtimes.com/taiwan-hospital-transplants-5-hiv-infected-organs-people-demand-answers/1761.html

Or, are you on your way to the UK? The BBC reported over the weekend that HIV cases are on the rise in Devon and Cornwall.

Nahh, what am I thinking? You’re fighting porn. Because that’s a *REAL* public health crisis. And you can get lots and lots of juicy press off of porn, right Whitney?

And how’s jailbird Derrick Burts doing? When’s his next court date again…? I heard that his lawyer, Brian Chase, works with you at AHF. Maybe he can fill you in.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=721217&publicationSubCategoryId=63

Are you on your way to Wisconsin, buck-o?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/us-wisconsin-clinic-idUSTRE77S5WJ20110829

I am and always have been condom optional….I leave it to the performers. That said would I work in the LA talent pool with no condom? not just no but HELL no, no way…too many escorting females, too many crossover males and testing protocols that would pass an HIV positive person on anti-virals and way too many chances for multiple exposures between tests.

I shoot in a VERY closed loop, I’m way more comfy with that than I am with LA based talent. This bullshit about “I’d rather do an LA performer than some random person in a bar is stupid, it is a FACT that STDS are WAY more common within the LA Talent pool than they are in the standard population, specially here in Atlanta.

HIV gets all the attention but in reality its only the most visible of a LOT of STDs that do long term damage or kill you, most of which we don’t even test for…

Testing is NOT merely surveillance, as you well know — testing also acts as a barrier which prevents infected people from entering the talent pool in the first place.

Hey, since I have your attention, why didn’t you guys mention at your last LA press conference that your boy Derrick “RentBoy” Burts was recently (THIS MONTH) in JAILED in California? Or that he was arrested in March of last year as well?

Do you want to make the announcement of the reasons for his jailing, or should I? Maybe you want to talk to his bail bondsman?

May I remind you that Derrick Burts *claims* he was infected on a CONDOM shoot. So, naturally, that’s a great system to propose for the entire industry, because it worked so well in his case.

Oh, and what’s the failure rate on condoms again, Whitney?

You write: “As for Michael Weinstein, AHF treats and cares for 180,000 people in 26 countries” —

Yep, and you and Weinstein have PROFITED off of every damn one of them.

You close with, “No one needed to be infected. It is a real shame.” WE DON’T KNOW THAT ANYONE WAS INFECTED ON SET, SCHMUCK. All we have heard is that someone who has shot scenes has now tested positive for HIV. We do NOT have any evidence that anything as transmitted to any other performer. We do not have ANY evidence that this person got it on set. Are you hoping that there was an on-set transmission? Of course you are.

Save the rhetoric for your girl Molly at the LA Times. She’s buying, we’re not.

No one needed to be infected. It is a real shame.

Initial reports/rumors at this time are that this new case (and all its supposed potential exposures) occurred in Florida. Does it not strike anyone as odd that, although the 2009 case (which took place in Nevada) and the 2010 Derrick Burts case (Florida) were not California-based productions, AHF’s response has been to demand mandatory condoms in California, along with a Los Angeles-based ballot initiative?

Even if enacted, these measures would have done NOTHING to prevent these cases of HIV exposures within the adult industry.

If anything, AHF’s relentless attacks on the California adult production industry will lead to MORE risk for performers, because someone, somewhere will always be willing to take risks that California workers would be prevented from taking.

These are the people who DESTROYED the health clinic for adult industry performers, helped drive adult production out of state, and, in the process, fractured adult industry health and safety protocols designed to prevent and mitigate such incidents. Why? So that condom Nazi Michael Weinstein could assert that now that the industry’s protocols have been compromised, “the responsible thing for the industry to do” is require condom use on all adult film sets.

The problem isn’t porn, and the problem isn’t porn in California — the problem is fanatics like Michael Weinstein.