Thanks for the reply Mike, (By the way I really appreciate your site and these opportunities you provide for discussion),
I understand your sentiment which goes to show that there is a problem in this area being that we are assumed/rumored have a 60%+ infected rate higher than the general US population. This would mean at least 3 of 4 performers that come in without it leave with it. One issue is that until a few years ago it was nearly impossible due to the sketchy testing methods available for herpes 2. Now there is better test which Cutting Edge already offers as a cheap add-on. Some producers and performers are taking advantage of it. Many more would like too including myself; as a producer I would prefer to pair up performers based on their status. The fact that talent testing doesn’t offer this test makes it more difficult. Nobody needs to end up out of work for herpes 2 but I do think testing and making an effort to limit the spread is the responsible thing do. I also think it is essential if we want people to continue to believe we self-regulate.

That being said, at the very least I think all new performers need to be informed we are not testing for herpes 2 and that they are more likely than not going to get it in this industry, something that I would prefer come from a union as part of new performer entrance counseling.

To stop the rampant spread of these infections it is essential to always require testing if sexual contact is involved. Many “fetish producers” are using mixed talent (tested and untested) for “fetish” scenes that involve sexual contact (at much lower pay rates I might add). A few agents and producers are saying that testing isn’t needed for oral sex and claim Talent Testing backs them up on this. Phyllisha, you agreed the union would never support such a dangerous measure(which is encouraging) but where is your alternative solution to this problem?

Karma, I am sorry that you lost a leg. I hope you are able to use an artificial leg so you can at least walk a moderate distance without using a wheelchair. I have to agree that MRSA is no joke. Regular staph infections are bad enough, I can’t even begin to imagine what a MRSA infection can do to people.

I will say this…you are right BUT and this is a big but…if we started testing for Herpes 2 80% of performers are out of a job, over night. because of the testing/std policies in porn almost everyone has Herpes, the people who don’t are the ones that require condoms and the ones who got out early. It really is that simple.

Are the handing out Viagra too? 100 Mgs are the bomb!

They musst be MDs that got their degree in Costa Rica, Grenada, or some other shithole with a so called Medical School.

@BT

The licensed MD on the FSC medical advisory board cover their ass with the inclusion of non-licensed people on the board. This method isn’t unique to porn it was copied from other industries with massive lobby influence. The boards medical recommendations, suggestions or outright mandates for industry participants amount to mostly smoke & mirrors if/when lawsuits or regulatory agencies seek accountability.

MD’s who sit on these boards and allow their name to lend credibility to mandates then say they aren’t working for the organization when performers/workers seek out their services….nor are they working in their patients best interests. Using the chemical industry as an example docs used privacy laws to shield patient records…the patients not the companies paid for those services and the docs had no obligation to submit or track data related to specific conditions. They also had no obligation or incentive to inform their patients they suspected their work as a causative factor. When confronted with their participation on medical advisory boards they didn’t make the suggestions, recommendations, mandates….always adding a wish that minutes of those meetings were available to show their opposition. The company had to buy every property in the town and compensate every resident but the docs asses were covered.

Yes, and when caught they lose their license and, in the case of Michael Jackson’s doc, risk jail. And, those are one offs and anonymous. In this case, it would be a doctor working for an organization with a public face that is openly saying that this is what it wants to do. If you’re a doctor, you can’t prescribe medicine that isn’t indicated just because. But …. this is porn, so who knows.

@Karma

Wasn’t joking, truth is often stranger than fiction.

FSC responded to the 2012 syphilis outbreak with an indefinite moratorium until performers got a ‘vaccine’ which was prophylactic antibiotics. Many will recall the syphilis letters and industry adoption of a second syphilis test to determine if the antibodies were from treated syphilis or current episode.

Imagine that! is roflmao at FSC suggested language and OSHA response especially to stuff like not wanting to provide vaccines for curable infections and ‘harm reduction’ language.

Septemer 2012 put up 250K for a performer subsidy fund to cover the cost of prophylactic antibiotics and adding syphilis testing to the panel. FSC asked for more money in January 2013 and Fabian said NO cuz Mike South pissed me off.

What was never publicized is the performer subsidy fund intent to attract more performers to participate in the FSC-PASS database and utilize CET. History repeats itself this week with FSC adherents bashing TTS and FSC pushing prophylactic antibiotic use as preferred alternatives to condoms as STI prophylactics.

Doctors routinely prescribe oxys and sleeping pills to celebrities when they don’t really need them. Just look at Michael Jackson, Prince, or any other celeb that ODed.