Karma, I hope Sam investigates TRPWL’s report. If it is true Mr. Nixon needs to be outed, castrated, castigated, reamed up the ass with a lead pipe and castrated. It is pretty hard for an eunuch (a castrated male without a dick and also without balls) to work in adult as male talent unless he takes dick up his ass and down his throat for TIM or Falcon. TIM actively courts HIV positive talent and Falcon doesn’t test for HIV. If he is lying it is likely an HIV infection (I wish I could say for sure but that is a common sense read of the situation), after the Mr. Syphilis situation where Mr. Marcus did 30 days of jail time (and more on top of that for a DUI) including nightly ten man gangbang ass rapes with him as the rape victim in the LA County Ass Fuck Jail for trying to hide an active syphilis infection on set no one with a brain will try to hide a curable infection where he can take a shot or a bottle of pills, wait 21 days, retest and probably go back to work. $1000 for a scene isn’t worth 30 days of LA County Jail likely including being raped nightly as part of his punishment.

Group insurance would only cover the minimum they can get away with paying for. They would pay one HIV Elisa or Antigen annually same with HVC hep B etc unless they need to diagnose symptoms.

Some way is a shared costing approach but the powers that be aren’t interested. Some agents were charging $20 extra per scene if they required 14 day tests. Too many producers opted to accept 30 day tests rather than pay the fee.

Am Dazed, if CET offers such a program that is fine. That system would also likely be HIPAA compliant as the patient is specifically authorizing disclosure to each person and not using some sort of database. I don’t agree with the HIPAA on banning blanket database access for producers even with the patient’s consent but that is what we have to work with.

In the US testing costs are too high both for industry and non-industry.

Unless there is a significant group of performers who refuse to work for companies unless they pay for tests, it won’t change. If Director X suddenly can’t hire girls who will make him money, hes going to add that money into his production costs.

I wonder why the agents don\t band together and demand this. I mean, if you just take the rosters of the top three agents alone that is massive clout and most of the girls that give you a chance of making money are right there. They would bend if that group were refusing to book until they get paid testing.

And I think the days of faking HIV tests for those infected is over until they add an additional test that can’t be passed while taking HIV medication.

It’s also telling of the industry that performers are faking tests because they can’t afford a current one. Most performers are living scene to scene and straight male performers often don’t make enough in one scene to cover their tests. Most producers don’t earn enough to cover testing, and most, if not all, of those who’ve tried prepaying for their talent’s tests have been burned with performers getting tested, then not showing up for shoots causing their thin margins to get even thinner.

Would that be considered bullying (we seem to be sensitive to this now since August Ames”, or is the act worthy of all the attacks this person will get?