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Unsafe at Any Deed: Porn, Condoms, & HIV

Unsafe at Any Deed: Porn, Condoms, & HIV In the days since an unnamed porn performer was reported to have tested positive for HIV, there’s been a great deal of discussion about the state of America’s porn industry -- and, more specifically, about the state of safer sex within that industry. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation released a press statement calling for mandatory condom use in porn. CAL-OSHA threatened to cite Porn Valley for endangering the health of employees. Companies released statements about their testing policies, porn stars posted personal statements about the issue, bloggers blogged about condoms and porn -- and, of course, the mainstream media had a field day. But in all the discussion, no one really touched on the biggest question of all: why the majority of heterosexual porn studios do not require their performers to use condoms.

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