Another Porn Performer Tests Positive for HIV Forces Temporary Shut Down in Porn Production in Los Angeles

Just found out another porn actor/actress has tested positive for the AIDS virus. This has caused a mandatory shut down in porn filming in the Los Angeles. Porn rakes in upwards of $14 Billion dollars in profits. Big Business has agendas. Porn is a destructive force pushing more than unprotected sex and risky behavior but that is another story that I will write on later.
If the performer who has contracted the virus, worked or had sex with a partner or multiple partners in another state or several or even in another country/countries while being infected, how would he or she or anyone know? Due to the nature of the situation, the health authorities can not name the person. It is slightly confusing who is responsible for the testing and notification of the performers due to AIM Medical Associates being shut down and embroiled in a law suit. AIM used to be responsible for testing and maintaining a data base for porn performers in the industry. Now the FSC (Free Speech Coalition- a porn industry/adult industry trade association) is in the mix as well. It seems a little dumb to have the Porn Industry (executives) at the helm of an organization that is suppose to make sure sex workers/performers will be safe and healthy. It would seem more logical to have an outside Health Authority making sure that porn performers were STD free and clear to work. By the way, many performers are clear to work if they have multiple STDs. It seems they only have mandatory shut downs if a performer tests positive for HIV. I guess when one looks deeply at the problem the only person who is responsible, is the person not wearing a condom.
A group of activists including FAIR (For Adult Industry Responsibility) and The Aids Healthcare Foundation have joined together to put an initiative on the California ballot in 2012 to force mandatory condom use in adult films.
Here is a look back at Derrick Burts announcement last year about contacting HIV

Derrick Burts Proves The Price of Porn Is Too High

After trying to do some further research on Derrick Burts (aka Cameron Reid and Derek Chambers his porn aliases), I was surprised how hard it was to find pictures of him or more information on the net. I did find a video on youtube where he talks about being a bottom on a gay porn shoot. Comments for that video were disabled. I wanted to know more than what was available at that time. On further investigation, I found out about his press conference. I decided to go because I thought the story was so important. Side note, I was invited to cover an event with Josyln James this past Friday but was unable to attend because I was at another event where Stevie Wonder and Jon B. were in attendance. But I wanted a chance to ask Josyln James a porn actress as well as widely known for being one of Tiger Wood’s mistresses who did not use condoms with the golf star, if she was worried about sexually transmitted diseases. I wanted a real conversation. With Derrick Burts speaking at the AIDS Health Care Foundation press conference, I was touched by his honesty and his genuine sadness.


Imagine being 24 years old and finding out you have HIV. Many people easily judge and say well what do you expect? If you work in the porn industry and you do both straight and gay porn you are bound to wind up with something. Burts did. He admits to getting chlamydia, gonorrhea, and herpes during his short career as a porn actor before testing positive in October 2010 for HIV.
Derrick Burts talked about the slippery slope of wanting more money. The lure of the fast buck led him to an ad on Craigslist for a solo act masturbation video. From there, Derrick found additional contacts that took him on a path that he is on now. From solo acts, to straight porn and when he realized the money was not as high as he wanted him ventured into gay which pays more.
Derrick also broke his silence in regard to the Porn Industry’s financed AIM Clinic. He alleges that they told him to keep working when he contracted chlamydia, gonorrhea, and herpes because most performers at one time or another are infected with STDs. We will assume they also told him to get treatment. Although AIM tested Burts, he alleges that they told him when he was HIV infected to keep his mouth shut. Derrick Burts also said he waited for 6 weeks for follow up care. It seems clear that AIM’s job is to do testing and fulfill the minimum requirements of a clinic. There main objective is to give the appearance that the Porn Industry is safe and that they do HIV testing. Follow up care is not their forte.

So easy to judge someone in his situation but I can’t help but think how many of the people who would never do porn, WATCH IT! We feed the need for more films and more exploitation. Sometimes I wonder what kind of people do certain acts and then I have to check myself and say, “why are you watching it?” I don’t have any answers. I just hope that we all learn something from Derrick Burts story. Maybe we will have second thoughts about having unsafe sex without a condom, maybe we will get tested, maybe we will make better choices, maybe someone will decide that getting into the porn business is not a wise decision if you don’t know the risks, maybe we will all take more responsibility for our sexual actions. Maybe we will think before we go after that fast buck or fuck? There is a price to be paid for our collective and individual actions. The price of infection is too high for the risk. In a world where nothing seems to be off limits in the porn industry and jaw dropping unsafe sex practices are the norm, how many people have to be infected with STDs and HIV before we take a closer look at ourselves? The questions are unsettling. Is mandatory condom use and dental dams needed in all porn? Is condom usage in porn unsexy which in turns influences the general population? What is the number of porn stars with STDs affecting the general population? Is mandatory usage of condoms/dental dams in Porn against individual rights and/or freedom of expression? These are questions to think about. It comes down to the fact that each individual is responsible for her/his safety. In other words, don’t let anyone trick, manipulate or goad you into having unsafe sex or sex in general if you don’t want it. You are responsible not the government, not your partner but YOU! Unfortunately it doesn’t matter if you are young or old, naive or not, you are the one that will be living with the consequences of your actions. So think before you spread your legs or your butt cheeks. *Update a spokesperson from AIM has refuted Derrick Burts claim that the clinic staff didn’t help him with follow up treatment.

Shauna Sand the New Porn Star?

File this under I'm a little shocked but then again anything is possible in a Shauna Sand's world. In my dealings with Shauna Sand, I found her to be a beguiling mix of contradictions. On one hand, some may say she comes off as dumb but she is actually very clever and speaks French fluently. Sand has the ability to get men from hair dressers to clothiers to give their services for free for her and her three daughters. Shauna is a attentive mom who wears Lucite stripper heels almost everywhere she goes even on the sandy beach. Looking sexy at any age and at any cost seems Shauna's claim to fame. Every time I see Shauna she is either with some stud or in the process of trying to find one. One extremely attractive ex-actor with a 6 pack to die for who was helping Shauna around the house and even had a key, eventually disappeared. Sand told me he had a history of drug addiction and probably went back on the hard stuff. With a revolving door of men coming in and out of her residence, and her pre-teen daughters in the middle, is not something that I condone but that is her business.
I think this step into the Porn Industry is a calculative mood. Shauna Sand's most recent ex husband Romain Chavent allegedly hit her and they had and on and off again restraining order relationship. And everyone knows Shauna was married to Lorenzo Lamas who has a thing for Playboy Type Blonds when he is still married to someone else. So it figures that with all the chaos and drama in Shauna Sand's life that she would become a star in porn. Maybe she did it to lash back at her husbands, to get more attention and to of course make more money. One thing about Shauna Sand I would never underestimate her or her ability to drive men nuts.

Porn Legend Ron Jeremy Goes Hollywood

I was running errands today. I thought I was going to take a day off of shooting. I'm feeling under the weather. So I was driving on Hollywood blvd when I spied Ron Jeremy. I parked my car after u-turning and grabbed my camera and started shooting. To be honest, I have experience watching porn especially since going through bouts of celibacy in HelLA. Quality men are good and hard to fine. Not wanting to catch anything except eye strain, at times I have turned to porn. It is a strange fascination. I love the freedom some people have on one hand and I'm shocked at times of the duality of watching and not doing. I digress. Ron Jeremy has been in the porn game for decades. I remember watching one of his movies in where he self gratifies himself. In another movie or maybe it was the same, I saw him give oral sex to a porn starlet like nobodies business.
I grew to appreciate his talents. He seem to really enjoy giving pleasure which is definitely a turn on. Anyway, I asked him what he was doing and he told me that he promised the girl he was with out on a tour of Hollywood. They went on a Starline Tour Bus after I finished chatting with him. Jeremy is scheduled to be at Erotic LA Convention this weekend. He is also opening a new swinger's club in Oregon.