Harris… I can tell when someone is being sarcastic or funny and when someone is pretending to be sarcastic or funny… You were pretending. You meant every word
You have serious issues dude..

Common, look at the smilie behind the comment. It was said in jest, humor is an exception to the slander/libel and threat laws. The court case Falwell v. Flynt Supreme Court decision cements this exception into law. Peter Acworth is also smart enough to recognize the whole comment as a joke. Besides, where would he get the arsenic? I certainly can’t go to the local Quik-E-Mart and buy it where I live.

Also, Harvey Levin is smart enough to recognize a Photoshopped picture when he sees it, he probably gets ten of them every day from people that actually try to ruin someone’s reputation. Trust me, I can’t alter a photo on my computer and get it past his eagle eyes as authentic. However, getting a picture of Izzy getting fucked by Weinfuck published in Hustler would be hilarious (and Larry Flynt might just go for it), especially with a heading over it saying “Preacher-Man Isadore Hall getting his daily dose of AIDS from Michael Weinstein” (Weinstein has HIV and has had it for over two decades now, that is what spurred him to start AHF in the first place as a hospice for terminal AIDS patients). Maybe ol’ Larry will even call Weinfuck and Izzy out in his monthly “Asshole of the Month” column.

Also Common, you are the sick fuck here going after me with both barrels — this comment was six months old. You had to specifically search to find it. If you think the humor I use on this blog is sick you should hear me uninhibited. I promised Mike a long time ago that I would keep a lid on my crude sense of humor, trust me — I can get a lot sicker.

Wow, Harris! Another one of your lunatic rantings? So you call Weinstein .. Weinfuck? Nice ..serve him a cup of coffee with a full ounce of arsenic in it? Wow! It looks like you made a death threat against Weinstein. Get him out of the picture, huh? Sounds like threats to me. Hopefully mr Weinstein will see this. making threats to Isadore hall too, huh? who you refer to as izzy? Wow. I can see why you love and plug kink so much because you are one sick fuck!

Peter Acworth letter to Weinstein…compromise or hot air?

Look at the interview Peter Acworth did last week, also check out the articles (referenced with screen time but not verbally) at Salon, Reuters and Peter Acworth Blog….it’s absolutely clear that he not only isn’t willing to pony up for Truvada use but wants it to be used by straight performers as part of the CURRENT testing works no onset transmission since 2004 party line.

Acworth is joined by Diane Duke on behalf of the FSC in the Salon article in suggesting Truvada will bring hopeful advantages to the industry as an addition to their (FSC) current methods of self-regulation.

I’m a bit skeptical as to the extent of what those advantages might be given the only study Gilead did on female sex workers had to be discontinued when Truvada proved no more effective than the placebo. Does the FSC think the female performer pool here would be more consistent in daily Truvada (and condoms off set) use than those in the study who received the drug, condoms and testing free of charge from Gilead as part of the study?

Gilead surmised that inconsistent use undermined the study based on the number of participant pregnancies but also had concerns that the drugs effectiveness might be hindered in the vaginal environment. At the time (2012) they placed hope in a vaginal gel that has since been abandoned. Since then Gilead has moved on to pursue a quarterly Truvada delivery system to address inconsistent use treatment failures but hasn’t offered anything to discount their alternate theory about the vaginal environment with respect to the Female Sex Worker study. To me that’s significant because the drug maker not only raised this alternate theory but was working on a drug delivery to defeat the issue.

The extent and timing of Peter Acworth and the FSC media efforts to promote Truvada coupled with the “no onset transmissions since 2004” party line is a transparent effort to maintain an industry status quo against looming regulations that would shift the fiscal burden for performer safety to producers aka FSC and it’s stakeholders. Like the multi-pronged looming regulations they have taken a multi-pronged media defense including the high HIV rates in AB1576 sponsor Assemblyman Hall’s district with the kicker that Measure B, AB1576 and pending policy changes at Cal/OSHA would have had no effect at preventing past industry HIV incidents.

The use of LACPH data comes across as disingenuous at best given the long history of the industry stance that LACPH data is unreliable. The blatant omission of the data related to other STDs distinguishing LA county for its number one position is consistent with the industry stance that HIV not sexually transmitted risks are the issue, additionally off set sex is where the risk exists because current testing protocols act as a door aka barrier keeping those risks off set.

The continued push back against any regulations or evidence of compliance with their self-regulation by an industry screaming from roof tops that not only society but its industries should be regulated to accommodate them isn’t a productive methodology to peaceful existence in that society.

I really think there is a larger issue of whether:

Doctors in good conscience would prescribe Truvada to porn performers because they are going to willfully forgo other forms of disease prevention.

More importantly, are insurance companies going to cover the cost in this instance? Example: I’m a nearly 60 year old guy, still very physically active, who thinks he’s in his 20’s. A few months ago, I over extended myself exercising and injured my hip. I had to have an xray and then an MRI. BlueCross is now reconsidering whether to cover the cost of the Xray and MRI because the injury wasn’t an accident – it was my fault. So ….. is the same insurance company that says – hey, you’re a 58 year old guy; you should’ve been smart enough not to do what you did on the elliptical machine going to cover the cost of Truvada so that porn performers can engage in high risk behavior? That’s like asking a life insurance company to give you a low premium if you decide sky dive without a parachute or ride a motorcycle drunk, smoking cigarettes and without a helmet on a dark, icy night in New Hampshire.

It’s fine for Peter Acworth to advocate for Truvada for performers. Let’s see if the highest risk producer in California is willing to put his money where his mouth is and bear the burden of the cost? Or is his position that performers should pay this additional fee for the right to get electrocuted, pissed on and publicly humiliated by his company?

@Mikestabile

Till this statement I’ve never doubted your credibility…now I’m calling outright bullshit! You were not only present but quoted by Ricky Cavileri in the 5/16/14 HuffPoLive event where he asked about Truvada overturning Measure B and was responded to by Peter Acworth. Spin it anyway you want but I’m willing to post a verbatim transcript of that event to prove Truvada isn’t being promoted merely as a personal choice but as a method to “protect the entire pool” along with the misleading stats being used and promoted.

Condoms 70% effective rate is exactly why they aren’t FDA or CDC approved. That stat is in large part due to inconsistent use and minimally due to breakage/failure. Now tell me how a population that can’t/won’t use condoms consistently is going to have better success with a daily pill carrying a $33 price tag? The comparisons to Birth Control are great until the data related to unintended pregnancy come into play.

So tell me are there plans to treat Truvada like Viagra/Cialis offering the active ingredients as health supplements to skirt the USA FDA requirements and pharmaceutical costs? Will FSC lawyers get on board to defend those criminal cases too?

To be effective Truvada must be taken everyday, along with condoms.

And just a little more industry hypocrisy. Truvada is inteneded for people at HIGH RISK for HIV,,,,,But for years the industry has said that they are at lower risk, with no HIV transmissions in over ten years,,,,,,of course they are convineatly leaving the entire gay industry out of this argument.

In order to advocate the use of Truvada means that you are admitting that performers are a HIGH RISK group, which is exactly the opposite of what we have all heard from the industry for years.

So which is it,,,are performers safer than the average joe at the bar, as the industry has claimed for years, or are performers HIGH RISK individuals who should be taking Truvada?

And can the porn industry, producers and performers alike, please stop this bullshit that we all care about eachother. Anybody willing to have unprotected sex with multiple partners, then turn around the next day and continue to put OTHERS at such risk does NOT CARE about anybody but themselves. You cannot claim to be so concerned about others and continue to put them at risk, or hire them to put others at risk.

Actions speak much louder than words, And the actions of perromers and producers alike make it crystal clear that none of them care about the risk they are willing to put others at. Give me a fucking break,,,”I care about the industry, and I care about health and safety, but I will continue to put you at risk,,,,,,,*****Please!!!!

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding about what risk level means. “Sex workers who themselves cn decide what their risk level is…..” Its NOT about what level of risk you are willing to take, its about what level of risk you are willing to put your partner at. And the fact is, no performer knows what their partner was doing yesterday, or the day before. And we all know that performers are all too willing to put their partners at extreme high risk.

Truvada protects the peron who takes it,,,,condoms protect the person who wears it AND the person they are having contact with. Funny how all the porners now talking about Truvada seem to be leaving out the biggest part of what makes Truvada effective, and that is using Truvada WITH condoms. Read the link above to the Truvada website,,,,alll of the studies that show how effective it is ALL included the use of condoms, why do the porn apoplogists seem to convieniently leave that part out?

For a performer to know what risk level is right for them would mean that they know what their partner has been doing, which of course they do NOT! Without knowing what your partner has been doing you have no idea what level of risk you are taking. It has been shown time and time again that porn performers have no problems with putting thier partners at extreme risk.

The porn industry has YEARS AND YEARS of testing to show exactly how bad the std situation is, but they will NEVER release any stats, because it shows just how much of a cesspool this industry is. Having personally handled tens of thousand of performers std tests I can attest to the cesspool that is the porn industry. Stabile here says, “We need to talk about whats being transmitted,,,” The industry has YEARS of statistics that theywill never talk about.