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Trust this woman. (Nina Hartley image from WrestlingForum.com) I’ve been reading up on the recent HIV outbreak in the porn industry and trying to wrap my head around what’s going on in a way that’s helpful. I’ve been drafting blog posts, erasing them, reading more, drafting [...continue...]

The HIV crisis in the porn industry continues, with rumors of up to four performers now being infected (these rumors are NOT confirmed), all of whom were active in the Kink.com community. This is scary news. Very scary news. I don’t know if this has anything to do with the fact that condoms [...continue...]

For those who don’t know: Measure B will appear on Los Angeles County ballots in tomorrow’s election, and if passed would require adult performers to use condoms, gloves, and/or dental dams in all porn shoots filmed in LA County. It would also require the funding and deployment of LA [...continue...]

This might sound trite and very duh-inducing, but I was just looking through my pictures from Miami and watching the interview I did with Sarah Vandella for WHACK! and it got me thinking. Sarah was at the LA Direct Models booth right across the thoroughfare from the WHACK! booth for most of the [...continue...]

I just got back from a long overdue visit to genderqueer porn star Jiz Lee’s blog, which is fabulous, and it got me thinking about a few things: 1) I’m going to the Feminist Porn Awards, too! Yes, dearies, I will be in Toronto from April 14-16, geeking out about all my favorite porn [...continue...]

Wicked Pictures is fighting the good fight. As the only major adult studio to feature exclusively condom-mandatory scenes (while still raking in cash and putting out high quality stroke material), Wicked still recognizes the importance of freedom to not use condoms, and they’re doing [...continue...]

(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two part series discussing health care for adult performers. The previous part can be found in last week’s issue.) The smut biz used to be called “the recession proof industry” because in past epochs of economic turmoil, porn has sailed [...continue...]