Crossover male performers are an issue because they are often working with untested talent. It seems within that segment of the market, testing is not only not done, but it is actively avoided. Some of the first timer / twink style productions are using participants who have never been tested in any fashion, fresh off the street. Let’s not forget too that bareback anal sex is one of the easiest ways to get the sorts of lesions on a cock or an ass that makes it easy for blood to blood transmission. You don’t have to be bleeding, rubbed raw is more than good enough.

In the end, crossover male performers are just a subset of risk takers. If someone is off hooking, they need to get re-tested just like a newbie before they can shoot again. Performers who work “outside the system” need to be treated as infected, quarantined, and then tested back into being able to work. The crossover world is a real issue because you can work out of the system tonight, and work back in the system tomorrow without anyone knowing where you have been.

When you look at all of the HIV issues in the porn world in the last 10-15 years, almost all of them have come from either gay performers, pay for gay crossover performers, or performers who have shot “out of market”. The whole Lara Roxx issue is based on that sort of situation – plus incredibly risky play. Understanding where the problems are, and how they occur is key to one day finding a real solution.

I wouldn’t sweat that too much, Steve. As a woman, I know we spend far more time checking out the women in porn than we do checking out the guys. Of course that could be because most of the straight males exited the porn industry way back in the 80’s…..wherefore art thou, John Leslie????

Like it or not that’s a problem and it makes transmission orders of magnitude more likely…yes you can say girl/girl is gay porn but the likelihood of transmitting HIV via girl/girl is so low as to be essentially non existent.

Yes there are many other STDs but gay males crossing over and not being forthright about doing gay porn is every bit as much of a problem as anything else…even more so in some regards.

Maybe what this biz needs to do is go back to paying male talent 100-200 bucks a scene…gay porn guys wont work for those rates and that solves several problems…

But in all honesty it’s a moot point…..condoms are going to be mandatory now in Cali. Take that to the bank. Truth is that solves a LOT of problems.

…but I have some fears that the truth shall set me free..to have my
head bashed in by certain people who wouldn’t understand or be so
“accepting” of the words that I wanted to post/share.

I didn’t even want to comment on the semi-controversial gay/straight porn angles.
I wanted to comment on the intravenous drug user part of what stevelick added
onto what he was writing about…and how it directly relates to certain
higher ups within the testing side of the industry.