Within Two Years Will All TS Porn Be Bareback?

[GroobySteven]

Would you knowingly work with someone who had herpes if it didn't seem like they were having an outbreak?

With people carrying the herpes virus running around the 1 in 3 mark, if you're having sex with anyone, sex worker or not, protected or not, if you're not carrying the virus yourself then you have a 33% chance of having sex with someone who has.

[Willie Escalade]

When doctors perfect sex packets, condoms - and intercourse in general - wont be needed.

[Ms.Stepford]

I want it to be known that I liked Willie Escalade's post.

[Wendy Summers]

With people carrying the herpes virus running around the 1 in 3 mark, if you're having sex with anyone, sex worker or not, protected or not, if you're not carrying the virus yourself then you have a 33% chance of having sex with someone who has.

THIS.

It amazes me that folks who are actively in porn don't get this fact. The risk of STDs are part and parcel of what we all sign up for. We can and should practice safe sex both on and off screen - all common sense rules apply.

If you aren't comfortable with this risk, then don't shoot hardcore.

[Sulka_bewitched_me]

The Dutch are on to a potential cure for HIV/AIDS so if their research turns out to be a cure then I GUARANTEE that the porn industry and its performers will go back to being condom free regardless of the STD thing. So....to answer the original OP's question: yes TS porn as will all porn will most likely be bareback. As to if it's in two years well that depends on how long the medical trials for efficacy take.

[MacShreach]

The Dutch are on to a potential cure for HIV/AIDS so if their research turns out to be a cure then I GUARANTEE that the porn industry and its performers will go back to being condom free regardless of the STD thing. So....to answer the original OP's question: yes TS porn as will all porn will most likely be bareback. As to if it's in two years well that depends on how long the medical trials for efficacy take.

I'm not having a go at you but honestly, in what other industry would 'oh there's a cure now' equate to 'it's all right to get people sick from formerly incurable diseases.' I can't think of one.

Don't get me wrong, I like to bareback in my personal life (as long as the circumstances are apporpriate) and in porn I admit I do like to see it. Furthermore I respect Christian's pov both as an actor and as a man--bareback is definitely more enjoyable and much, much more intimate.

I'm just pointing out that porn is an industry, not some backyard DIY business as it might have been 25 years ago. Essentially, the fact that there is a cure is--or should be--irrelevant to the working conditions of professionals in that industry, not a 'hey we can forget all that shit now' get-out-of-jail-free card for anyone.

So all the checks and balances, the routine testing, the quarantine for non-aids STDs and all the other safety measures should stay in place even if there is a cure. Very welcome, but should be seen as the never-to-be-used-but-it's-good-to-know-it's-there backstop.

[Westheangelino]

Christian, thank you for all your insights! I think I said "relative" cheapness of NAAT/PCR, if I didn't let me clarify that now. I get regular tests at the L.A. GLBT center, which gives FREE NAAT! Now, obviously this would not count as a cert for a porn producer, but even at $120, it is relatively cheap compared to the huge costs it used to entail.

As per the poster talking "cures", well, don't hold your breath. We are probably closer now than even since the first know US cases of AIDS to an HIV cure, BUT we are AT LEAST ten years away from anything hitting the market, and that is being very optimistic. In the meantime I hope that the medical industrial complex will respond to the demand for a cheap and rapid testing method. We have seen oraquick hit the market, but that is basically an at home version of the outdated antibody tests. Imagine how awesome an affordable, at home NAAT would be??? Pass the poppers!

[dakota87]

"Worse than AIDS"....
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100685883

An antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea—now considered a superbug—has some analysts saying that the bacteria's effects could match those of AIDS.

"This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly," said Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine.
Even though nearly 30 million people have died from AIDS related causes worldwide, Christianson believes the effect of the gonorrhea bacteria is more direct.

"Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days," Christianson said. "This is very dangerous."

"It's an emergency situation," said William Smith, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors. "As time moves on, it's getting more hazardous."
This gonorrhea strain, HO41, was discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker who had been screened in 2009. The bacteria has since been found in Hawaii, California and Norway.

Because it resists current antibiotic treatment, the strain has been placed in the superbug category with other resistant bacteria, such as MRSA and CRE. These superbugs kill about half the people they attack, and nearly one in 20 hospital patients become infected with one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Though no deaths from HO41 have been reported, efforts to combat it must continue, Smith said.
"We have to keep beating the drum on this," he said. "The potential for disaster is great."

According to the CDC, about 20 million a year contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and result in about $16 billion in medical costs. More than 800,000 of STD cases reported are gonorrhea infections, with most occurring in people between the ages of 15 and 24.

(Read More: Superbugs Are a 'Costly War We Can't Win': Doctors)
Gonorrhea is transmitted through unprotected sexual contact. Untreated, the disease can cause a number of health complications in women, including infertility. In men, the disease can be very painful and lead to sterility. It can also trigger other life-threatening illnesses, including heart infections.

Gonorrhea can be hard to detect. It often shows no symptoms in about half of women and in about 5 percent of men. Gonorrhea infection rates were at historic lows until two years ago, according to the CDC.

"That's what's kind of scary about this," Smith said. "We are at lows in terms of infections, but this strain is a very tricky bug and we don't have anything medically to fight it right now."

Since 1998, the Food and Drug Administration has approved only four new antibiotics of any kind, according to the Infectious Disease Society of America. The last approval was in 2010. Only seven antibiotics are in an advanced stage of development—still years away from approval and use.

Recognizing the problem, Congress passed a law last year referred to as the Gain Act (Generating Antibiotics Incentives Now) to help speed antibiotic development.

(Read more: Big Pharma Exit: Who's Fighting the Superbugs?)

But Smith said more needs to be done. In a briefing on Capitol Hill last week, he urged Congress to target nearly $54 million in immediate funding to help find an antibiotic for HO41 and to conduct an education and public awareness campaign.

"I'm hopeful we'll get the additional funds, but I can't say for sure," Smith said. "What I do know is we don't have the resources to fight this as it stands now."

Avoiding the disease completely is the best course, experts said.

"People need to practice safe sex, like always," Christianson said. "Anyone beginning a new relationship should get tested along with their partner. The way gonorrhea works, not everyone knows they have it. And with this new strain it's even more important than ever to find out. "

All superbugs must be dealt with before it's too late, he said.

(Read More: Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' Creep Into Nation's Food Supply)

"This is a disaster just waiting to happen," Christianson said. "It's time to do something about it before it explodes. "These superbugs, including the gonorrhea strain, are a health threat. We need to move now before it gets out of hand."

[christianxxx]

its been 120 bucks since 1999 at the AIM clinic in Van Nuys and now the CET and TTS clinics. thats about 15 years. not exactly a new thing.

[Merkurie]

Having sex is intimate enough with someone you may or may not ever see again in life. I don't need to trade creampies to feel intimate with a fuck partner. Bareback sex is too fucking intimate for me in this day and age -- unless we are at the going to be together when the doctor bills come in.

Bareback ass fucking is a commitment whether you want to believe it or not. I do not expect actors to take that risk just so I can get an extra thrill watching a porno.