@Nick – great points. That’s why I don’t know how Lylith Lavey could win her case against Marcus. They supposedly shot the scene before the industry began testing for syphillis so there was no test for Marcus to fake at that time. So it’s very possible he didn’t know what he had exactly and obviously didn’t much care. Lylith will claim that the white lesions on his genitals should’ve indicated to him that he had something bad going on down there. Well if that’s the case, then why didn’t she say something once she herself saw the lesions? As you smartly pointed out, nobody on that set said a damn word and they all just went on with the shoot and collected their paychecks. She later admitted that she never contracted syphillis from Marcus.

Lylith is rightfully embarassed about working with a performer who exhibited obvious signs of what was later determined to be stage 2 syphillis. Those still shots of Marcus’ infected penis in her mouth will FOREVER be on the web for people to see so I can understand her frustration. Although I’m not sure she’ll gain anything from her lawsuit nor will it undo the embarrasing decision she made which was caught on video.

Billy,
Marcus showed up on SEVERAL sets with MULTIPLE visible syphilis sores and was NEVER sent home by a single priducer or director. On one gang bang set there was one girl who complained, and guess who got sent home,, she did. Guess who stayed and did the shoot, Marcus and about 7 other performers, along with both the director and producer to whom the girl complained.

You can call bullshit, but after the facts are reviewed your bullshit objection is overruled, the facts speak for themselves, and in the case of Mr Marcus there were several producers and directors who saw the exact same thing on his penis that this one female did, and not a single one sent marcus packing, not one!

1. I didn’t actually catch herpes. So, no, performers don’t automatically get herpes. Why did the powers that be choose to not test for herpes? Because it would divide the business concerning who could work with whom, plain and simple! And since they conned the talent into paying for these tests, they had to make them economical too.
2. Where are the performers who you’re speaking of who “absolutely do NOT wanna work with condoms”? The only performers who feel that way are mediocre performers who can’t do the job wearing a condom, period! it is actually the producers who absolutely do NOT want to work with condoms because they don’t make as much money. that is the ONLY reason they hate condoms.
3. Dr. Riggs is the ‘go-to’ doctor since the mid nineties! 18 year old boys go there to get prescriptions to viagra (sorry to throw you under the bus, Dr. Riggs, but you could have done more to help the talent and you know it!) and EVERYBODY goes there to get treated for STD’s because if they went to AIM (in the day, now it’s APHHS?), they’d not be allowed to work again until they tested clean (a test they pay for and it gives them a ‘mark’ on their reports. Ya see, what happens is that guys like (and including) James Deen keep a portfolio of STD/HIV paperwork, and when they show the girl their test, they also show her their history (like a carfax but manipulatable -is that a word?) to show how careful they’ve been on choosing only jobs with stellar co-stars and ever so carefully steered clear of catching anything EVER! It also makes their significant other feel more comfortable having unprotected sex with them (until they catch something themselves and see through the lie).
4. War stories? I know where the bodies are buried, you betcha! But please understand that when I started in the industry it was COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, but then it morphed into the skanky shell of itself that it’s become. With condoms and accountablility will come respect and mainstreamification (again, is that a word?) and the quality of the talent will increase, leading to large corporations taking over the San Fernando Valley just like they did to Las Vegas! Talent will make more money, get residuals, and be respectable for a change.
That isn’t a prediction. That is an inevitablility!
Happy Cinco de Mayo, everybody!!!

Wow, I’ve never even heard of Moscullum and I had to google it. It sounds like some nasty stuff–but then again, what STD isn’t nasty? There are so many STDs out there and I’ve always wondered why the industry only tested for three for so many years. I mean, syphillis has been around a long time but they just started testing for the disease in the summer of 2012!!!?? Really??? And they still don’t test for herpes but I guess nobody would be able to work if they did.

There’s a lot of folks in the biz who absolutely do NOT wanna work with condoms despite the high STD rates. So I often wonder if porn could ever be split into two factions: a “condom-only” side and a “bareback” side with no performers being permitted to crossover into the other.

Yeah, being that performers are only required to test once every 30 days, I think it would be damn near impossible not to catch an STD from another performer at some point considering the large number of partners people fuck (on and off camera) and length of time somebody like Deen has been in the industry.

Who is Dr. Riggs? Each performer has an STD report!!??? Sorta like a CarFax?? Is this report public?

It seems like you have more than a few war stories to tell about STDs in the XXX industry I’m sure you could write an interesting tell-all book.

@KV814. I was a performer. I cared about my health. I got sick and tired of catching STD’s so I quit performing. The mitigating factors involved in the production of an adult film have too many traps a performer can fall into, up to and including what to do when a performer shows up with an obvious problem (STD).
For instance, I was shooting a still photography scene for Scott Preston with a new girl (can’t think of her name right now, I wanna say Crystal Gold or something like that) and Brandon Iron. Brandon’s penis looked like a glazed donut!!!! HE ACTUALLY SHOWED UP TO WORK WITH A GLAZED PENIS!!!
The girl gave me a horrified look and motioned for me to look at his member myself. When I did, I stopped the shoot. Talk about an ordeal, though!!!! The girl wanted me to do the dirty work, Scott wondered if there was a way to continue (he was gonna lose money), and ultimately I never got the chance to work for Scott again! That may be because he quit shooting, I don’t know about that one.
Either way, a day later Brandon called me on the phone to tell me that I had nothing to worry about, since the glazing on his penis was nothing more than MOLLUSCUM! And he was okay with going to work looking like that!!! IT’S THE RISK SHE TAKES, SO WORK ANYWAY!
So to answer your question,,, nobody in this industry should HAVE to trust others when it comes to their sexual health. Condoms are the ONLY answer that makes ANY sense, plain and simple.
The question to pose to performers is this…
“Have you ever had to cancel a shoot because you felt funny down there, and if so, what happened?” I think that if performers answered that question honestly, it would open an entirely new can of worms.
James Deen brags that he hasn’t caught an STD since he’s been in the business. If he didn’t already prove himself to be a complete liar, I’d bother to point out that he is lying about that statement. But the problem is that people sneak to DR. Riggs to keep a squeeky clean STD report so that more girls want to work with them! “Hey, look, I’m clean and safe!” wouldn’t mean as much if EVERYONE was!

In Marcus’ case, there were at least 2 companies who didn’t care enough to analyze his altered test with serious scrutiny, which is why he was able to perform after being diagnosed as “reactive” for syphillis after his penicilin shot. I mean, if everyone’s motivated by money, including the crew, director, and performers–then how could any performer who truly cares about their health really trust anybody in the business???

And I never said producers would shoot someone with a known bad test. Please defend the producers and directors all you wish, but do not put words in my mouth.
With everything seeming on the up and up legal wise (again, didn’t say the producer knew the test was bad), the shoot happened. Are you trying to say the director didn’t watch the monitor, or even care enough to look at his talent’s penis while DIRECTING? And are you going to say the cameraman didn’t notice? AND YET THE SHOOT HAPPENED. I did the math, Billy. I did the math since 1991! It don’t add up anymore and I call bullshit on people who think the industry can police itself with regards to the talents health issues! Why? They simply do not care!

Shawn Ricks used to direct movies. I told him I couldn’t do the scene because I had just started feeling ‘funny’ down there. He pulled me aside, and said, “look, Nick. That’s the risk she takes! Just do the scene, she’ll never know.” I didn’t do the scene, and I didn’t work for Shawn Ricks again after that (his choice). Why? I cost him money!
Another director said, “come here, Nick… Look at this girl!” Are you sure you can’t do the scene? I refused, and I never got a chance to work with that director again, either.
then there is the director who went around making everyone sign a paper saying we didn’t want to use condoms with the explicit instruction that if we didn’t sign it and we wanted to use condoms, we wouldn’t be working for his company again. All of this is true, Billy! And I am not alone in knowing this little skanky tidbit about the industry, either.

Looks like more fire for that bill to pass.

(Producers and directors would rather knowingly give you an infected partner than correcting the situation or cancelling the shoot (which costs THEM money!) Calling Bullshit on that statement.