However, Acworth said, "Everybody performed with has since tested negative several times. In his interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Acworth said, "I shouldn't speculate as to how the two of them became infected. The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Acworth as saying, "The strong indication is that Rod contracted it and transmitted it" to Bay.
He said that among other concerns, "My fear about making condoms mandatory on the straight side would be it might force the productions underground." "How would mandatory condoms on the straight side have affected either case? It wasn't transmitted on set," said Acworth. He said Daily appeared only in gay and transsexual porn when working with Kink and used condoms in his scenes. Acworth said performers "on the straight side of the industry" have to get tested, with negative results, every 28 days. Kink already mandates condoms for its gay porn. Referring to the industry in general, Acworth said, "There hasn't been an on-set transmission of HIV since 2004, so it seems to me the testing approach works." Peter Acworth, 's founder, is critical of Hall's proposal. Terry Schanz, Hall's chief of staff, didn’t respond to a request for comment Friday afternoon. Politicians tried to use concern about HIV to push through a mandate opposed by both performers and producers.
“Three performers did test positive for HIV in the past month, but none of them contracted it on an adult set. €œThankfully, science won over scare tactics,†Diane Duke, the coalition's CEO, said in a statement.
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: AB 640 rested in the Senate Rules Committee as this year's Senate session closed just after midnight Friday and won't make it to the governor, the Free Speech Coalition, the national trade organization for adult entertainers, announced Friday. If the governor signs the bill, it would take effect immediately. It would then go to Governor Jerry Brown.
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The full Senate is expected to vote on the latter bill and then send it to the Assembly for a vote by the end of Thursday. Assemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Los Angeles) originally made the proposal via AB 332, but eventually amended his AB 640 to include the language. On September 12, state lawmakers are expected to vote on Assembly Bill 640, which would require condom use for commercially filmed sexual acts.
That person apparently hasn't publicly come forward. Acute HIV, which means I recently was infected."įriday, September 6, it was announced that another performer had tested positive for HIV. In a message on Twitter posted September 3, the actor known as Rod Daily, who's been in a relationship with Bay, said, "Drumroll please!! I'm 32 years old and I'm HIV positive. After another screening August 20, she revealed that she had tested positive. The actress known as Cameron Bay performed at Kink July 31, after testing negative July 27. Three porn actors have tested positive for HIV in recent weeks as a bill that would mandate condom use in the industry heads toward the governor, keeping alive debate over whether condoms should be mandatory.Īs numerous media outlets have reported, two of the performers have worked with San Francisco's.