Thank you to Sam who sent me this!
http://docs.google.com/www.nswp.org/pdf/CAL-ADULTFILM.PDF
Lets take a close look at the testimony given to the State Assembly of California after the 2004 HIV outbreak. This is from June, 2004.
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?AIM?s HIV statistics show that in over 80,000 tests performed on talent only 16 cases of HIV have been found in nearly seven years. Additionally, six were found positive who never worked in porn due to the fact that the protocols of negative status were followed by producers?
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While this may sound impressive, 80,000 tests, what it doesn?t say is how many individual were tested. 16 positives out of 80,000 seems rather low, but the actual number of people tested is much lower. Any performer who is in the industry for a year has 12 tests done. Any performer who has been around for four or five years have 40 to 60 tests done. AIM will never tell anybody how many individuals have been tested over the years, lest the real percentage of positive performers would be known, and this is the biggest and most closely kept secret the industry has.
http://www.avert.org/usa-states-cities.htm
AIM reports 16 positives out of who know how many total performers. The link above shows that most states have anywhere from two to 25 HIV infections per 100,000. Considering AIM has 16 out of, and I will make a very high estimate of 10,000 individual performers, it is plain to see that the HIV rate in porn is astronomically higher than the general public.
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??many performers were concerned about their privacy and felt that their records were not private.?
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Of course they felt that way. At AIM you sign a waiver that allows them to give your results to third parties. All you have to do is call AIM, and if you know the performers real name they will fax you a copy of their results. The HIPPA violations here are too many to list. There must be an individual waiver for every single disclosure of results that includes the name of the third party to whom the results are being given.
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?Dr. Mitchell then testified about what has been done since the the HIV infections to improve the system. All records kept at AIM regarding HIV and monthly STD screening can be accessed by producers and directors?
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So much for that privacy issue they keep trying to hide behind. As stated above, access to patient records is not limited to directors and producers. ANYBODY who knows a performers real name can simply call AIM and get their HIV medical records.
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?AIM has also contacted the non-condom companies to push the testing window period to two weeks, and PAY for testing. All travelers and new talent will test, wait two weeks, and then have an additional test at the end of two weeks. They must either use condoms during the two week period, or refrain from working.?
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The push for two week testing lasted just about that long, two weeks, and we all know that performers pay for their own tests (the vast, vast majority). And the two week waiting period for newbies, we all know that is a joke and this policy was never implemented or followed by any company.
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?AIM has also been given the donation of ADULTDAT, software which allows production managers to input the individual encounters in each scene they have shot that day. With this technology AIM can make a quarantine list in a matter of minutes, rather than the typical four hours.?
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This system was NEVER put into use. But this is why the authorities think AIM has this information. AIM has never told OSHA or County Health that this system was NEVER put into place.
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?The industry culture, according to Dr. Mitchell, is becoming more and more condom compliant every day. She believes it will not help to legislate. Dr, Mitchell closed her testimony by saying that the industry?s system works very well and with the new improvements and more and more producers moving towards safer sex and condom use, it is costing no government money at this time.?
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Is this a joke. More and more condom compliant every day. This appears, at least to me, to be intentionally misleading, if not an outright lie.
In summation, virtually everything Dr. Mitchell testified about regarding the testing protocols since the April 2004 outbreak is FALSE.
There is no two week testing, no companies paying for tests, no waiting period for newbies, no quarantine of traveling performers, no ADULTDAT system, and certainly no more condom usage in the industry. And now AIM is footing the legal bills to keep the identity of producers confidential. It seems like the privacy of producers is more important than the performers.
Thanks Darrah,
SAM