It appealed the California OSHA regulation, claiming its actors are "independent contractors" not employees. One San Francisco, CA production company called Treasure Island Media specializes in depicting only sex without condoms in its all-male porn films.
It is not yet clear how well the law is being followed or enforced, though the state has a web site urging actors to report violations.Įlsewhere, performers remain under pressure from the makers of some of these films to perform sex acts without condoms. Under that law, condoms and other barriers like dental dams are considered protective equiptment to prevent exposure to blood-borne pathogens and are mandatory.
Those should include the use of PrEP, in addition to consistent and regular use of condoms.Ĭondom use is mandatory for adult film workers under a local law in Los Angeles County, CA.Ĭalifornia's state OSHA enacted such a law last year. “The adult film industry is well suited for implementation of combination HIV prevention strategies, including biomedical and regulatory interventions,” they wrote. The authors argue that federal OSHA should enact tougher regulations. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not specifically require these performers to take precautions regarding exposure to HIV, despite the risks they are exposed to in their work. In addition to the public health issues illustrated by the case, workplace safety is also a concern, Wilken wrote. None of the sex partners the CDC interviewed in contact tracing were practicing PrEP, the authors said. The states involved were California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Texas.
The work-related incidents involved two film production companies in different states. The sexual encounters occurred in seven US states and four foreign countries. During those 22 days, the patient had condom-less sex with a total of 12 male performers, five other sex partners whom he was able to name, and “additional partners for which no locating information was provided.” “This is the first well-documented work-related HIV transmission among male adult film performers,” Wilken wrote in his report. Though he was regularly tested for HIV, he had unknowingly become infected and in a 22-day period before an HIV test turned up positive, he passed the virus on to another performer and a second sex partner outside the workplace. In an investigation detailed today in a CDC report, Jason Wilken, PhD, and colleagues report on a 25-year-old man who works in adult films. One infected actor could easily become a “patient zero”, spreading HIV infection to many sex partners across the globe. The drug has been shown to prevent HIV infection when taken regularly.īut practicing such pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is far from the norm in the adult film industry, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report finds-even though these actors often do not use condoms. The checker found no problems in this document.If anyone should be taking emtricitabine/ tenofovir (Truvada/Gilead) it would seem to be porn stars. Acrobat Accessibility Report Accessibility Report Filename: meeting_minutes_6-29-10.pdf Report created by: Organization: