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1980’s – In the 1980s, an outbreak of HIV led to 27 deaths among porn stars between 1985 and 1989 to include porn actors and actresses, John Holmes, Wade Nichols, Marc Stevens and Al Parker.
1992 – Female porn star Dusty was infected with HIV. She performed in around 150 original porn films.
1993 – Carrie Morgan was infected with HIV.
1995 – Female porn star Barbara Doll was infected with HIV.
1997 – Nena Cherry was a popular porn actress who performed in over 100 porn films and was infected with HIV. Female porn star Jordan McKnight was infected with HIV. Jordan worked with Marc Wallice who was infected in 1998.
1998 – HIV outbreak which infected an indeterminate number of actors (including Tricia Devereaux, Brooke Ashley, Caroline and Kimberly Jade) who had been working with actor Marc Wallice. Ashley eventually sued Wallice, claiming that she had been infected on the set of The World’s Biggest Anal Gangbang. Marc Wallice had worked with Barbara Doll, Brooke Ashley, Caroline, Delfin, Jordan McKnight, & Tricia Devereaux all in unprotected anal scenes using none of the safe adult practices listed above, and all of these performers tested positive for HIV.
1999 – Male straight porn star Tony Montana and a Florida female performer tested HIV positive.Tony Montana who performed in approximately 500 films prior to going down to Florida. He had performed in scenes with Marc Wallice and ith Misty Dawn (who is better known as Laurie Holmes as she was married to John Holmes shortly before he died of Aids/HIV in 1988. Tony Montana also did a scene with transsexual Caroline who was HIV positive 1998. It is more than likely transs-xual Caroline had infected Tony Montana 1999.
2000 – Female porn star Niki Lae was infected with HIV. She only did ten original porn films.
2001 – Female porn actress Tori Coca Flame was infected with HIV. She did a film with Eric Stone who died from AIDS in 1996. If Eric Stone did infect Tori Coca Flame, it apparently took 5 years for the Aids virus that must have been dormant in her system to become HIV active and show up in the blood test results, or she may not have bothered to get a blood test again until 2001. Eric Stone did both gay porn and straight porn. More straight male performers do gay porn under different names and are called crossovers.
2003 – Straight and gay male performer Mark Anthony was infected with HIV. With Mark Anthony, instead of going from gay to straight, he went from straight to gay. The girls he did straight porn with are lucky he only did gay films and never crossed back over to straight. He was only in about ten gay porn films before he was diagosed with HIV.
2004 – Major HIV Outbreak In April 2004 that rocked the porn industry when male porn star Darren James tested positive for HIV after he had unprotected sex with Brazilian female porn actress Bianca Biaggi who was HIV+. Ater he tested positive on April 12, 2004 he infected Jessica Dee, Lara Roxx, and Miss Arroyo. The same year transsexual Jennifer tested positive for HIV. About sixty actors who had had contact with James or Roxx were barred from working until their next round of HIV testing was completed and they were declared HIV negative. A further estimated 130 actors were tested and also received an HIV-negative result. A total of six actors were diagnosed with the virus by the end of the moratorium: one male and four females, including one transsexual.
2009 – In June 2009, AIM Healthcare Foundation reported that an unnamed female porn performer testec positive for HIV. At the same time Los Angeles County health officials said there have been 16 previously unpublicized confirmed cases of HIV in adult film industry performers since 2004.
2010 – Derrick Burts, male porn star who tested HIV-positive said that he thought he would be protected from infection because he used condoms on gay porn sets and was tested before working in straight productions. Burts, 24, had worked as a “crossover” star in gay and straight films for several months before learning in October that he was HIV-positive.
2011 – Unidentified performer tested positive for HIV. This caused the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation to being campaigning with ex porn stars to get a measure placed on the city’s June 2012 ballot that would require adult film performers to use condoms for porn filmmakers to obtain L.A. city filming permits.In the 2012 election voters in Los Angeles were presented with Measure B (“Safer Sex In the Adult Film Industry Act”) which require porn performers to use condoms while engaged in sex acts, to provide proof of blood borne pathogen training course, to post permit and notices to performers, and making violations of the ordinance subject to civil fines and criminal charges.The measure passed with 57% voting for and 43% voting against. Vivid Entertainment and California Productions as well as performers Kayden Kross and Logan Pierce sued the county in January to prevent the new law, the Los Angeles County Safer Sex in the Adult Industry Act, from being enacted. On Friday, August 16, 2013 the porn industry lost their fight when U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson wrote that the requirement to wear condoms was not unconstitutional, as claimed by plaintiffs.
2012 –  Veteran male porn star Rocco Siffredi told XBIZ Friday that there are “89 to 100” adult performers currently infected with syphilis in three different Eastern European cities where porn is regularly shot — Budapest, Hungary; Prague, Czech Republic; and St. Petersburg, Russia. With so much competition in the U.S., popular American porn stars fly to Europe to get work and often bring back diseases into the US. Hungarian Porn actress Aletta Ocean who worked five months in 2009 in the US divulged she was one of the infected stars who contracted syphilis in Hungary.
Male porn star Mr. Marcus was the central person in an outbreak of syphilis among porn-performers leading to a hold on filming. Marcus was first diagnosed with syphilis on July 12 2012, by his personal doctor and received a shot of penicillin the next day. On July 14, 2012, Marcus went for another routine medical test with Talent Testing Services (TTS), which had added syphilis to its standard tests two weeks previously. This test was positive but was only a day after the injection. He waited the recommended ten days from the initial test and was retested by TTS on July 21. The test was still positive but his doctor informed him that it was safe, he was not contagious and that his body would always show a base level reading for the infection.
Marcus returned to work on July 24, and due to his history and reputation in the industry he was not asked for the full test and just showed the producer a copy on his cellphone, enabling him to hide the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) section relevant to syphilis. For a different production, Marcus faked paper documentation by folding the page of the original to hide the RPR results and making a photocopy.
On June 4, 2013, Marcus was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 36 month probation for “knowingly exposing at least two co-stars to syphilis after testing positive for the disease days earlier.” Also he is currently being sued by fellow performer Lylith LaVey because of the outbreak.
2013 – In June 2013, a gay male performer tested positive for HIV in one of the routine, pre-shooting blood tests for Men.com. The anonymous performer had only worked on condom-only movies.
In August 2013, female porn actress Cameran Bay tested positive for HIV. Porn industry halted production AGAIN while sex partners of the performer are now undergoing tests. Cameron Bay told AVN: “I don’t sleep around, I don’t do anything crazy, and I keep track of the people that I’ve worked with.” Yet she has several escort ads posted offering services such as Girlfriend Experience, Porn Star Experience and couples.


*First Published: Mar 27, 2014, 3:44 pm CDT

Posted on Mar 27, 2014   Updated on May 31, 2021, 1:51 pm CDT

Unless you’re an established adult performer like James Deen or Sasha Grey, porn actors tend to have fairly brief careers before fading into obscurity. That was the case with Snow Bunni, aka. 24-year-old Justin Washington, an adult performer who shot for Flavaworks, a company that specializes in “blacks barebacking, interracial lovers, [and] Latinos banging hard,” from 2008 to 2010.

Curious about what became of Snow Bunni, the gay porn blog The Luckey Star (NSFW) reached out to him late last year for a “where are they now?” feature. Justin responded with a heartbreaking video update from his hospital bed, where he says he is in his fourth day of treatment for complications related to HIV/AIDS.

In the video, Justin details his promiscuous past and his life leading up to his contracting HIV, which he says has developed into full-blown AIDS.

“I just wanna be the first to say to those young up-and-coming homosexuals that think being gay is one big party and all about having fun: Not everything that looks great is good at all,” he says while fighting back tears. He also urges young gay men to “be cautious and be mindful, because if you don’t take care of yourself you can end up like this.”

Justin has been blogging for the past few months on The Luckey Star, sharing more details about his life prior to and during his time in the porn industry. He was a college student in Arkansas when he started shooting for Flavaworks, traveling to Miami during breaks. He says he contracted HIV at the age of 18 but was not diagnosed until six years later, at which point the virus had already spread. Since then, he seems to have found religion, and is currently managing a restaurant in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

It should be noted that Justin doesn’t mention how he contracted the virus, and his story is by no means representative of the gay porn industry or the adult film industry in general. But his decision to share his story with the world is extremely commendable, and it sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect of the adult industry: What happens to performers after the cameras are turned off.

H/T Queerty | Photo via Justin Washington/Facebook
EJ Dickson is a writer and editor who primarily covers sex, dating, and relationships, with a special focus on the intersection of intimacy and technology. She served as the Daily Dot’s IRL editor from January 2014 to July 2015. Her work has since appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mic, Bustle, Romper, and Men’s Health.
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June 12, 2009 / 2:20 PM
/ CBS News

But these days, says Devereaux, who has worked behind the cameras since testing positive in 1998, her industry has become so aggressive at policing itself that she believes a porn star has less risk of acquiring the AIDS virus than a member of the general public.
"I think because of what happened in 1998 the industry immediately looked at itself and found ways to really, really minimize the risk factors by switching to more foolproof tests and doing it more often," she said.
Adult filmmakers in the U.S. now require that actors prove they have tested negative for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases within 30 days of going to work on a film.

Still, the tests aren't foolproof, as was revealed this week when an actress who had passed an HIV test before making a film tested positive immediately afterward.
That positive result was reported by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation . Known in the industry as AIM, the organization tests hundreds of actors each month in the San Fernando Valley, where the U.S. porn industry is headquartered. It grants those who pass certificates allowing them to work.
Although the woman's co-stars have tested negative, they have been quarantined from acting for the time being and advised to be retested in two weeks because medical experts say it takes almost that long for a person to show signs of infection.
That means the woman's case should be a wake-up call to the adult film industry that it isn't doing enough to protect its performers, said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health.
He said the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health requires that safe sex be practiced on all adult movie sets.
"But we have persistent reports that that is not the case," he said, adding his department receives an average of 15 reports a week from the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation of actors testing positive for other sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea and chlamydia.
4007630"That's obviously very disturbing," Fielding said. "I don't know of any other industry where people are subjected to that kind of risk."
He called for the use of condoms on all adult films as one means of providing necessary worker safety.
After an HIV outbreak in 2004 spread panic through the industry and briefly shut down production at several studios, many producers did indeed begin making condoms a requirement. But they said both actors and audiences quickly rebelled.
"What happened was the talent didn't want to use condoms," said Steven Hirsch, co-Chief Executive of Vivid Entertainment Group, one of the multibillion-dollar industry's largest filmmakers. "They came to us and said repeatedly, 'Could we have choice?' ... As a result, we decided to go condom optional. We're very comfortable with what AIM is doing with the 30-day testing."
Late Thursday, county heath officials released data indicating that there were 16 previously unpublicized confirmed cases of HIV in adult film industry performers since 2004.
That brings the number of known HIV cases in adult performers to 22 since 2004, according to the data requested and reported by The Los Angeles Times.
AIM, founded by former porn star Sharon Mitchell, who left adult movies to earn a doctorate in human sexuality, maintains a computer database that film producers can check to determine that actors have passed their tests. Devereaux said this has reduced the forging of test certificates, something she said was more common during the '90s, a time when tests were required only every 90 days.
The woman who tested positive hasn't been identified by AIM officials, but Fielding said he expected the foundation would turn her name over to county authorities soon and when it did they would counsel her and any of her sexual contacts.
Mark Kernes, senior editor at the Adult Video News media network, said word in the industry is that she is an older woman who only acts occasionally in films targeted to young men's fantasies and thus is believed to have acquired the virus from a non-actor. He, like others, hopes it will spread no further.
Like other businesses, the porn industry has been affected by the recession and the increasing availability of its product for free on the Internet. But it is still an enterprise that Kernes estimates generated $8 billion in revenue last year.
With so much at stake, Hirsch said it makes sense that the industry would do everything it could to police itself.
"People in our industry have sex for a living so they are hypersensitive when it comes to disease," he said. "If they're unable to work they are not making any money."
He considered it significant that there has been only one confirmed case of HIV in the industry in the past five years, a period during which he estimated the business churned out as many as 100,000 films.
"Look," he said, "I wish it would be zero. But it was only one and it was dealt with immediately. I believe it just proves the system works."

First published on June 12, 2009 / 2:20 PM


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