Tag: testing
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The Miami Report: A Safe Place for Sex
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 weekend, and…
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Planned Parenthood and Feminist Porn Awards
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 peeps…
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PORN INSIDERS SPEAK OUT ABOUT AIM CLINIC’S CLOSING
[Editorial Note: WARNING! Serious article ahead!] As of late last week, AIM Healthcare Foundation’s flagship clinic in Sherman Oaks, California, has been temporarily shuttered due to a “business-related issues.” AIM (Adult Industry Medical) and LA County health officials both seem to be holding the line that a license issue popped up in the paperwork, but…
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HIV HULLABALOO — The Latest on the Lunacy
Details have been trickling in since last week’s ball-busting and buzz-killing announcement that a porn performer had tested positive for HIV at AIM Healthcare in Sherman Oaks. While not much is yet known, it’s been made clear by the industry that despite the mainstream media’s doom-mongering and AIDS Healthcare Foundation hysteria, the jizz biz has…
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NINA HARTLEY — “It’s exciting to…get out of the ‘nipple ghetto.’”
” The push for condom use is strictly driven by PC bullshit, tainted by old-fashioned Puritanism, by people with a political agenda who are skeeved out by porn.”
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WICKED PICTURES – No Penetration Without Latex Representation!
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 something about it. As mentioned in an AVN article early last…
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Adult Industry Healthcare: Feasible? Or Fantasy…
(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 through the travails of the stock market…