Granted, her use of the “f” word and her over all demeanor were not exactly professional but when she pointed out that EVERY performer she’s know over the years has had some kind of STD, and that doesnt seem to jive with the 2.8% cited by the panel, she was silenced and removed by security.

And I dont know if you remember the Labdat system that AIM used to use. With a password you could see EVERY single test AIM performed for about a 5 year period(tests covered the the waiver..HIV gonn/chlam). As reportred by th L.A. county Health Dept. between Jan,2003 and March 2005. 976 individuals were reproted by AIM with either gonn, chalm, or both. During that same time AIM tested a total of 2212 indivduals(according to labdat). That means that in two years, almost 50% of performers were infected. And that includes several hundred performers whose entire ‘careeres” consisted of one or two scenes. Thaking those one or two timers out of the equation you get abound 75 to 80% of performers getting either gonn, chalm or both.
(astronomicaly higher than the genereal public).

And when citing industry stats you must also take into account the number of “repeat” patients. AIM tests about 1200 performers a month. But every month about 80 to 90% are repeat patients. AIM also likes to pad their stats by basing their percentage of positives compared to the total number of “TESTS’ performed. But every perfomer gets at least 3 tests (HIV,gonn/chlam). Next time you talk to someone about the stats you claim come from AIM ask them what percentage of individual PERFORMERS were positive,not what percentage of ‘tests’ were positive.(HUGE DIFFERENCE)

And while I may also think Shelly is somewhat of a kook, I dont think she is any more inaccurate than yourself regarding these industry issues. And while you cite the reletively few number of girls Shelly has helped, rest assured she gets dozens of calls every single day. The ones you read about on her sites are those who agree to tell their stories “publicly.” She helped many others, and many who continue to work in the biz, but you never hear about them because they ask that their “stories” not be made public. I have a feeling you are aware of this, but it doesnt fit your argument against Shelly to mention this in your rants.

And like you said in your posts regarding where your information comes from, I will repeat again, you are very good at repeating the ‘standard’ industry ‘lines’ about these issues. These are the same ‘lines’ that have been repeated so many times that people actually believe they are fact.

Short list of industry ‘lines”

1. Porn is a 12-24 billion dollar industry in the U.S.(DID you ever see the thing AVN did about 3 years ago to show how they came up with that number, It was hilarious)

2. It is safer to have sex with a tested porn performer than someone you meet in a bar.

3. The porn industry “polices” itself.(who are these porn police and who have they ever sanctioned in any whay at all)

4. Porn perfomers are independent contractors.

And just for good measure,,,

ANd about the STD’s…Everyone in the idustry knows that if you get that little itching feeling in between test you go DR. Ri… at West Coast Urgent care, to get your presctiption. That way you can keep right on working with your ‘clean” AIM test. (see layla jade article from AVN INSIDER about 4 years ago addressing this exact issue). I wonder what that 976 number reported by the LA County Health Dept. would have been if they had cross referenced the AIM reports with West Coast Urgent Care? And then their alot of the veteran perforners who know to ‘take their meds” 5 or 6 days before their monthly tests so as to avoid that pesky word “DETECTED”

People often follow emotion rather than reason, even juries in a court of law, or politicians determining new taxes. If the only side of the story they hear is from anti-porn campaigners, whether they’re Jesus freaks like Shelley, or radical feminists like Gail Dines (who claims that every performer is raped on set), it’ll be no surprise when they do everything they can to fuck over the porn biz.

Shelley may not be worth caring about on her own, but she’s a useful tool against the porn industry. Call me paranoid if you like, but the proposed porn tax and the Evil Angel obscenity trial aren’t figments of the imagination.

When that happens, I’ll once again be visiting every day in expectation of something more than non-essential statistical banter and what you’ve been lately passing off as a blog post: The endless back and forth with people who wouldn’t know what fascism was if it bit them in the ass (which it will).

Besides, it’s kind of a pain in the ass to comment when I keep losing my password. 🙂

Those who are swayed, shouldn’t be in it in the first place.

People like her become a “threat” when other people give her lots of…you know…attention.