Thanks BT, glad it charmed…I must make a note to agree with you more often 🙂

Ricco, one of the problems is that the industry has been lying about these issues for so long they wouldnt recognize the truth if it shot a load all over thier faces. They have been preaching to their own choir for so long that some of them actually do beleive the bullshit they have been saying.

Do you need a Rocket scientist to guide them through all that?

Brooke: I just went to your site for the first time. I am charmed! I need to join and see more.

Well put :))

1, There are a lot of “smart” people in the adult industry who just aren’t that smart. We all like to advertise how brilliant we are, usually contradicting ourselves with every other word out of our mouths. Often times insults are gauged as a degree of brilliance…not sure why or how that came about. 2. The industry is already separated into condom only and bareback. Since Wicked wouldn’t hire them, the condom only people all had to get other jobs at fast food restaurants and can’t come out to play anymore.

If you’re a pretty good amateur carpenter and every now and then you want to build a house on spec, you have to get building permits, the construction, wiring and plumbing are going to be inspected to make sure they meet code, and if you’re going to sell that occasional house to someone, you have to have a contract, pay real estate transfer taxes, etc. In other words, you have to act like its a business.

In porn, there are already business reporting requirements that you have to follow, even without the condom law, if you’re going to sell scenes to a production company for distribution. You have to get and maintain model releases. You have to document that the performers are over 18. You should probably have contracts with the performers.

In other words, you have to operate as a business if you want to produce scenes that you’re subsequently going to sell to another business, even if you just do it now and then.

@Nick – I realize a lot of pornstars aren’t Rhodes scholars by any stretch–but shouldn’t they have enough common sense to understand that the porn industry is NOT a safe work environment before they ever enter the biz? I mean, they’ve only ever tested performers once every 30 days which means there will always be a 29-day window in which they or their peers could catch an STD before they’re required to test again. And they only test for 3 STDs which has always been absolutely ridiculous when you consider there are way more than 3 STDs out there. Former pornstar Jesse Rogers is a smart girl, so before she chose to perform in over 60 scenes she had to have known there was a strong chance she could catch herpes from someone in the industry at some point especially considering the industry has never tested for herpes and performers have never been required to announce they had the virus.

Do you think it could be possible that the porn industry could split into 2 factions: a condom-only side and a bareback side with performers on both sides barred from crossing over into the other?